Beausejour and Area News Highlights From Easter Week
Local births and marriages noted with Mr and Mrs. G Schryer welcoming a boy. Helen Warkentin returns from United College for summer. Building purchases shift as C H Bethel acquires premises from Fred Rattai. Magisterial court records include a $25 fine for Martin Kisilewski of Garson with bond to keep peace. Easter visits span Beausejour families. Brokenhead Dance draws 600 attendees, raising over 450 dollars. MPs and locals travel for holidays to Saskatchewan and Kelowna. Cpl L E Stebbe returns home on sick leave after three months in Deer Lodge Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. S. Matlin
Brokenhead
Cpl
L. E. Stebbe
Deer Lodge Hospital
British advances cut aircraft undercarriage and brake drag
British engineers unveil a squat tire that halves wheel diameter to reduce drag and weight, boosting high speed airliner and bomber performance. A new cast iron brake lowers landing runs by over 50 percent, enabling higher landing speeds and potential wing area reductions toward transonic goals. An advanced electric iron with controlled heat and a durable sole plate debuts, offering precise temperature control via a dial and a thermostat signal. Under UNARA plans the UK will train Greek nurses, sending instructors to Salonika and hosting twenty five of fifty Greek girls for four years’ rural nursing study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunday Times
United Kingdom
U.N.A.R.A
Greece
Queen's Institute of
Britain
Salonika
Victory Over Mosquitoes Day Rally in War Parody
A satirical piece recalls Army missteps and riffs on an Army Hygiene manual from 1935. It imagines a guerilla struggle against mosquitoes with Laurel and Hardy style skits, proposing a V M Day led by legendary mosquiteers and a mock battlefield in ravines and riverbanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Manual of Hygiene
Laurel and Hardy
Abbot and Costello
Oliver Hardy
Stanley Laurel
Stanley
Pte
Hardy
Laurel
Laurel, Hardy, Abbot, Costello
Wartime ration guidance from the Wartime Prices Board
Answers to readers on canning sugar coupons for preserves and other uses. Explains price controls on pork butter and tobacco, lost priority suits, and ration book coupon rules for returning veterans. Advises veterans to obtain new ration books and notes that only valid coupons prior to issue are detached.
Price ceilings apply to auction goods under wartime rules
If goods are under price ceiling regulations for used items, they stay under the ceiling when sold by auction. Check with the Wartime Prices and Trade Board to identify which goods remain under ceiling rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s
Prices and Trade Board
309 Power Building
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Dates for 1946 National Barley Contest deadlines
Contestants must note four key dates. June 15 closes entries with forms from elevator operators or agricultural offices in Manitoba under N C Mackay Winnipeg. June 29 field judging applications close, then November 15 seed barley sampling closes, and November 30 final ship deadlines for grain judging.
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Card Mother Mettecs and
Adrienne
Mirree
Ey Mirror Pictures
Cabi
Het Mrs
F. Hayes
Beausejour, Man
Istandard Radio Service
Rogers Radios
W. Splett
Beausejour
Horodyski's Furniture
Fred Beal
Mackew Bor
Firestone
A.d.friesen
FORD
Monarch
Imperial Oil Products
Mrs. G Schryer
Helen Warkentin
The
United College
C. H. Bethel
Fred Rattai
Clarence
Fred
Women's Institute
Mrs. L. King
Daphne McAllister
Mrs. McAllister
Mr. and
Mrs. Waddell
Doreen
Leona Englet
Joan Ryplansky
Town
Mrs. A. Eckert
Carlyle, Sask
Mrs. A. Like
F. Spearman
Gus
L. Wenzel
Mrs. L. Selch
Mrs. A. Richter
J. S. Sinnot
M.P
Ottawa
H . He Lippman HY Y Ce
Sangeo
Ha Wong Wecenly
Demedi
Tanhe
Froudhee En General Mediane
Sangeny
Boaurgjeaer
Thone
the Wartime Prices and Trades Board
Information Branch
N. C. MacKay
Dept. of Agriculture
William Renshaw
McAllister
New York City
Mr. McAllister
Renshaw Funeral Home and
Imperial Oi
Bavoiont
O. Russele Sbaneeiour
Bas
M. J. Hoban
Beausejour Haeme Room
Thurs
Johnny Wieemuller
Brenda Joyce
Johnny Sheffield
Acquanetta
Danny Kaye
Wonder Man
Virginia Maye
Vera Ellen
Chryplywy Bros
Ladywood
Man
Mitchell
Electric Beausejour
W. R. Bethel
Sinnott Motors Ltd
Case Machinery Dodge and
de Sete Cars
Dodge Trucks
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