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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 25, 1946
Page
5
A British plan proposes using returned servicemen as male nurses to address a nursing shortage. Veterans with overseas orderly experience and first aid skills could begin training for civilian nursing, with a goal of expanding male nurses from six hundred to sixty thousand and balancing hospital staffing by gender.
A 45-inch actress named Miss Helen Magna was found living in a telephone booth in a Broadway theater lobby. She kept an alarm clock a tiny stove bread milk and salmon in the compact shelter. The apparent stunt ended with her being forced to move again.
In a tense photo finish of a sensational case, Kay Todd and Tom face murder charges after Mr. Thomas Todd is found strangled at about 6 PM. The only clue is $400 missing, with witnesses contradicting each other on Kay and Tom’s behavior. Police arrest Jake Smith for the murder and theft as the town reels.
The article notes how old grocery and coal bills reveal higher postwar costs, compares living costs after the First World War and post Second World War wage gains, and observes that many items once luxuries are now deemed necessary. It cites civic laborers earning 25 cents an hour in 1911 versus 60 cents today.
The London Times suggests Grosvenor Square, site of the U S embassy, as the location for a Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial statue. The editorial urges placing the monument in the square’s center with the surrounding garden to preserve the memory of wartime fraternal bonds formed there.
A collage of light humor and pun filled lines. It features conversations about locomotives. It includes a gardener joke about weeds versus vegetables and a banking quip about lending money. A child’s spelling misstep and a sailor joke appear among the light sketches.
Hundreds of ballots were spoiled as Japanese voters wrote Gen. MacArthur as a write-in for a seat in the Japanese diet. Many ballots were invalidated due to the unusual write-in.
A car horn near Chicago police headquarters blew for nearly two hours provoking anger among residents. Sgt. John Moroney and officers failed to silence it by normal means until Cleveland Andrew, a local resident, walked to the vehicle and kicked a front wheel, after which the horn stopped.
A fashion pattern notice invites orders for Pattern 4562 a feminine frock with keyhole neckline side waist insets and shoulder yokes in sizes 12 through 20 and 40. Size 16 requires 2% yards of 39 inch fabric and orders to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave. E. Winnipeg with 20 cents in coins.
The Premier announced a softwood mace built in 1769 and used at the first Upper Canada assembly will be placed in the Ontario Legislature Chamber for final ceremonies before prorogation. The relic, captured during the War of 1812 and returned recently on Roosevelt’s suggestion, will sit in a glass case to mark Ontario’s growth since the 1792 Newark assembly.
The article touts Moone's Emerald Oil as a clean stainless antiseptic cure for Barber's itch, salt rheum, itching, feet and other eruptions. It claims the oil relieves long standing skin troubles, selling through druggists with satisfaction or money back.
A compact recipe page item describes a topping using Grape-Nuts Flakes with butter and grated Canadian cheese, optional onion, and possible additions like bacon. It also provides a potato cheese ball preparation with Lyoden cheese, onion, and crushed cereal coating, baked until golden for six servings.
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