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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 16, 1946
Page
5
A lighthearted column recalls a sign painter bungling spaces in a pork and beans window display. The writer shares jokes about Adam’s innocence with gal talk and sharpens memory of days when Canada’s weather surprised with late snow.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. P. Zarechanski on a baby boy. Elma resident G. McKinnon and family return from Jacobs Ontario. J. H. Leegus recovering after Grace Hospital operation. Visitors include Mrs. G Hall of Lewis Manitoba and several Winnipeg guests. Julius Misiurka heads to Kenora for future home. Olga Nowicki visits home, S Piurko visits from Whitby Ontario.
Pine Falls reports a busy April 8 at the Mercantile Store as about 180 pairs of nylons sold during an eight o clock rush. Shoppers lined the sidewalk and crowded through aisles with Miss Viola Simonson directing the hosiery counter and E Frayne offering a fitting stool in the hardware dept. Local residents note the event drew both women and curious men into a lively scene.
Two grade ten students Audrey Perry and Geraldine Gretsinger visited Winnipeg for spring wardrobe shopping and plan to be ready for the Easter parade. Joan Frederick, grade ten, has been in hospital since Monday April 8 with pleurisy. her condition is improving after a serious start to the week.
Simple home care tips for laundering shirts emphasize mend on sight, detergent, and wax-like starch to prevent sticking. A step by step ironing routine and folding method are given. A 1946 Easter dinner menu features roast stuffed veal with rhubarb juice, parsnips, scalloped corn, gingerbread with honey meringue, and a nutty roasting method.
Joan may be able to write her examinations though not definite and visitors are limited to relatives. Pine Falls students finish exams with tired expressions while planning Easter holidays. Some will visit Winnipeg or guests from out of town, others enjoy spring weather. The weather is hoped to stay dry. Last weekend May Miller and Edith Bayly hosted parties as cameras clicked and students joked about photos.
A retro style recipe describes gingerbread cake with spices and a honey meringue topping. It lists baking soda cloves cinnamon ginger salt hot water and eggs with a 325 F oven bake 50 to 55 minutes yields an 8 by 8 by 2 1/2 inch cake and serves warm with a honey meringue topping of honey and egg whites.
A Wartime Prices and Trades Board column answers readers on church fair rent disputes not regulated by the board, May 24 Meatless Friday hot dog sales, invalidation of numbered butter coupons after Feb 28, and the validity of unnumbered purple beaver butter coupons for butter purchases. A serviceman asks about maple syrup by mail requiring two sugar coupons.
The column explains exchanging sugar coupons for vouchers at the Ration Board, how to address rent ceiling concerns with the War time Prices and Trade Board, and what suspension of price ceilings implies for goods and services with potential reimposition if prices rise too high.
The H-11 glandular extract developed by a UK scientist is under British Medical Research Council review. London Daily Express cites 200 plus hospitals reporting good results, 1000 cancer victims saved, about 70 percent showing benefit, with some over five years disease-free. No cure claims are made.
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