Country doctor and showgirl pursue happiness in New York
A country doctor visits Toledo and New York, courting Doris Gardner with charm and talk of modern life. She weighs love against security as he hints at returning home while she pursues a job and a chance at happiness. Doris chooses a bold move, boarding an earlier train to join him, declaring love at last.
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Stephen Carter
Heavenford
Toledo
New York
Donis Gardner
Doris
Stephen
Flying saucer story and regional briefs
Calgary motorist narrowly escaped when a heavy manhole cover blasted into the air from sewer gas, a strange sight about his car. Winnipeg plans two weeks paid vacation for long-serving workers and Manitoba traps open March 23 to April 24 with early pelts favored. Yorkton reports a 9-pound timber wolf chased and shot east of the city, a southward rarity. Vancouver health officials warn pedestrians about deadly icicles weighing up to five pounds hanging from downtown buildings.
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Calgary
Winnipeg
Manitoba
G. W. Malaher
Game and Fisheries
Yorkton
Harry Swallow
Vancouver
Anne Adams Spring Pattern Book Promotes Shirtdress
Advertisement promotes pattern T4914 for a shirtdress with cuffed pockets shoulder tucks and saddle stitching. Sizes 34 through 50 with transfer included instructions illustrated. Send 25 cents to order and include size name address and style number.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Former Lumsden Curler Plays On Briar Winning Rink
George Hansen, now in Nova Scotia, curled third for the Nova Scotia team that won the MacDonald Briar tankard in Halifax. He spent most of his childhood in Lumsden and learned curling in high school there, proudly recalling his Lumsden roots.
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Nova Scotia
Kentville
Wally Knock
Fred Dyke
George Hanson
Don Oyler
Lumsden
Briar
George Hansen
Halifax
George
Valley
Headingley Receives Official Spelling With Extra E
In Winnipeg the Headingley Manitoba post office bulletin confirms the town will be spelled Headingley with an E before the final Y. The change ends years of dispute over Headingly versus Headingley and other variants.
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Winnipeg
Headingley
Man
Headingly
Post Office Department
Elevator Project Planned Near Prince Albert
Saskatchewan pool elevators announce a $33,000 grain elevator at Davis, 35,000 bushels, southeast of Prince Albert, to be finished in time for the 1951 harvest.
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Prince Albert
Sask
Saskatchewan Pool Elevators
Davis
Record Prospectors to Work Under Northern Saskatchewan Plan
Officials in Prince Albert said a record number of northern Saskatchewan prospectors will work under the government assistance plan this year. The rise in queries prompted the forecast, with 26 parties already dispatched to seek ore finds in the northland since the plan began in 1948.
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Prince Albert
Sask
Department of Natural Resources
Saskatchewan
Northland
Hotels To Run Mountain Tours In Banff Resorts
Banff Springs hotel and Chateau Lake Louise will be operated as all expense tours this year by the Canadian Pacific railway for the first time since 1946. R. A. Mackie announces the two railway summer resorts will be open from June 9 to September 11.
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Banff
Banff Springs
Chateau Lake Louise
Canadian Rockies
Canadian Pacific Railway
R. A. Mackie
One Arm Driver Notches Million Miles in Taxi Service
Victoria British Columbia cabbie Harry Kirby, 57, who lost an arm in a 1920 train accident, has driven taxi for decades and surpassed a million miles without a accident.
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Victoria
B.C
Harry Kirby
Blue-White Diamond Found in South African Mine
A blue white diamond roughly golf ball size was found in a South African diamond mine. The gem is valued at about $225,000.
Saskatchewan outlines 1951 highway program
Regina announces 223 miles to be blacktopped 826 gravelled and 749 graded in the 1951 Saskatchewan highway program as minister J T Douglas calls it the biggest program of work for the province. The Trans Canada highway will see 87 miles hard surfaced 108 miles graded and 131 miles graded on various segments. The plan emphasizes linking main east west routes and extending north south arteries while prioritizing residents needs over tourism. Douglas notes expectations of equipment repairs cost controls and continued federal cost sharing for the Trans-Canada highway.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
J. T. Douglas
Douglas
Wolseley-McLean
Parkbeg-Valjean
Morse-Herbert
Herbert-Rush Lake
Private oil sands to be developed by private enterprise
Premier E. C. Manning told the Alberta legislature that northern Alberta oil sands will be developed by private enterprise with provincial safeguards. Several groups have shown interest, but no proposals have been received. The province runs a pilot plant to study extraction, with high costs in separating oil from sand.
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Edmonton
Alberta
E. C. Manning
Young Scots Farmwoman for Canada Tour
Miss Anne Christie treasurer of Stirling Young Farmers Clubs is chosen for a three month tour of Canada. Promoted by the Scottish Association she specializes in dairy farming and aims to study milk production methods in Canada. Leonard Picot of Hatteville, 20, a Jersey Young Farmers Clubs member, is selected for a four month visit to Canada and the U.S.A.
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Anne Christie
Stirling Young Farmers Clubs
Canada
Scottish Association
Christie
U.S.A
Leonard Picot
Hatteville
Jersey Young Farmers Clubs
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Big City
Showgit
Eid
Maude Norman
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Fleischmann
Western Briefs
Sam Adams
Bens
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Front Street W
Toronto
Ireland
Headingley, Man
James V. Steele
Ottawa
Canadian Navy
Priscilla
al Vermeer
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