School Daze and Teas Highlight Pine Falls Social Week
Audrey Perry hosted a small Friday party with new square dances and a custom tour dance routine followed by a home made lunch and cookies. The Senior Group of Girls hosted a Mother and Laughter Tea in United Church rooms with a carnation themed setup and teas poured by Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Gretsinger, and Mrs. Booker. Daylight Saving Time caused minor sleepiness among Pine Falls students while Grade eleven toured a mill and pump house for chemistry. Edith Bayley celebrated her fifteenth birthday with a canceled weiner roast and a gold ring gift after dancing with twenty friends.
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Audrey Perry
Audrey
United Church
Kath Roy
Lane
Gretsinger
Booker
Beverly Smith
Hutchison
Witt
Edith Bayley
Edith
Wartime Ration Questions Answered for Winnipeg Readers
Answers under the Woman's Regional Advisory Committee guidance explain ration book distribution begins in September with Local Ration Boards handling. No end of month coupon invalidations. ceiling prices for used and new cars are set by orders. Counterfeit risk in loose coupons. five S-17 to S-21 sugar coupons become valid July 4. Lost books require a seven day waiting period before temporary ration cards issued.
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Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Eileen Sharpe Visits Winnipeg With Brother David
Eileen Sharpe a Grade 8 student spent Wednesday May 15 in Winnipeg while her brother David traveled to the city the following day.
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Eileen Sharpe
Winnipeg
David
Dupont family travels and census notes from St George
St George reports Mr and Mrs Ozias J Dupont visiting Mafeking Manitoba as guests of daughter Mrs Armand Challe. Mr and Mrs Honore Dupont travel to Winnipeg by bus, expecting a few days there. E J Bouvier named Census Enumerator for Pine Falls and St George, census starting June 3. Miss Gabrielle Corriveau learns her father in Ste Marie Quebec is seriously ill and plans immediate travel to Winnipeg en route to the East.
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Ozias J. Dupont
Mafeking Man
Armand Challe
Honore Dupont
Winnipeg
E. J. Bouvier
Pine Falls
St. George
Gabrielle Corriveau
Ste- Marie
P.Q
East
Oats Vary In Weight by B Leslie Emslie
This piece explains how oats differ in weight per bushel based on kernel to hull ratio. It notes Scotland sets 42 pounds per bushel while Canada uses 34, with eastern Canada oats being huskier and ripening faster. Fertilizer tends to raise yield and slightly increase weight per bushel.
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B. Leslie Emslie
Hull
Scotland
Canada
Wheat crop forecasts and European harvest updates
The United States forecasts winter wheat at 742.9 million bushels, down from 830.6 million last month. Spain and Portugal report flood damage, while Greece’s output is 10 to 15 percent below pre war. Canada’s prairie wheat area rises 13 percent to 25.83 million acres. Rains in the Danube Basin ease Bulgarian drought fears. France’s wheat crop remains comparable to pre war yields.
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U.S.A
Spain
Portugal
Greece
Dominion
Danube
Bulgaria
Prairie Provinces Moisture Declines but Still Near Normal
The May 13 1946 report shows moisture at 83 percent of normal for the three prairie provinces with Manitoba at 94 percent and Alberta 79 percent. No crop district is currently severely moisture deficient, and past drought years had similar early conditions with rains beginning around May 21.
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Prairie Provinces
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Prairie
Price Justice And The Former Minister’s Open Letter
The Hon. Humphrey Mitchell, Minister of Labour, released an open letter to Canadian workers arguing that agricultural prices have been kept low to provide cheap food. He points out butter eggs sugar bread and milk now average 46.5 percent below 1920 levels, after the...
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Humphrey Mitchell
Mitchell
Farmers and wages clash over postwar price policy
The minister argues price controls depend on wages, while Mr Mitchell omits that official data show average industrial wages up 30 percent since 1920. Farmers seek price increases for wheat to approach current industrial wage levels amid postwar cost pressures.
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Mitchell
Trout Fishing Adventure Across Falcon Lake
L A Wawryshyn chronicles a dawn canoe trip starting at Bear Lake and ending soaked at Falcon Lake. The duo trolls with copper and silk lines, endures rain and line breakage, and misplaces themselves before returning to shore with resolve for another try.
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Bear Lake
Northern Pike
Falcon Lake
High Lake
Dan
British Agriculture Viewed From Orient
Chinese visitors to Britain praise land settlement parcels of three to five acres with a central farm and packing centre. one estate of 46 settlers reports an average net income of 2450 dollars. They note postwar policy aims and the agricultural advisory service, due October 1, while a Perth bull sale sets a record price of 72000.
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Britain
National Agricultural Advisory Service
China
Perth
Books as True Levellers Said by W E Channing
W. E. Channing declares that books are the true levellers giving everyone access to the society and spiritual presence of the best minds. He argues reading elevates the individual and public life.
Handy Kitchen Ideas for Neat Storage and Easy Use
A Chicago household feature extols orderly kitchen drawers and cupboards. It suggests lining drawers with linoleum, installing partitions and dowel pegs, and creating a vertical filing system for trays. It advises accessible storage near the range and smart drying options while balancing visibility and tidiness.
Manitoba Sugar Beet Prospects Favorable Report
Fieldmen report strong beet acreage in Manitoba for 1946 with about 18 000 contracted acres, up from 10 000 acres harvested in 1945. Prospects improve as growers expand production and sugar beet output is forecast to rise statewide.
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Manitoba
Manitoba Sugar
Government backs sugar beet drive with POW labor
Company officials say the rise in production stems from government requests on beet price and agricultural labor. Seeding is underway with 16 000 acres expected by May 15 if weather holds. The Dominion and Provincial governments again supply German POWs to bolster agricultural work as 15 hostels are set up in Manitoba beet territory.
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Dominion
Manitoba
Prisoners to Aid Agricultural Labour in Manitoba
An advance party of prisoners is expected in the Province within days. Authorities estimate 1500 to 2000 inmates will be employed in all types of agricultural labour in Manitoba this season.
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Manitoba
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