Need for Expanded Air Medical Service in Remote Regions
The article argues for government-created air ambulance and flying doctor services to serve isolated districts in North West Australia and prairie provinces. It cites Australia’s seven bases with hospitals and flying doctors as a model to attract settlers and support remote communities lacking rail or highway access. It notes Regina and Prince Albert bases in Saskatchewan already operate two government air ambulances delivering care and patient transport.
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Prairie Provinces
North West Territories
RCAF
Saskatchewan
Regina
Prince Albert
North
Australia
Flying doctors urged to aid isolated northern districts
Rural doctors and Red Cross workers do splendid work but flying doctors could save lives in critical cases. Dr Mary Johnstone urged air medical service in northern Alberta to extend care to isolated communities and attract settlers, benefiting western provinces' residents.
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Red Cross
Mary Johnstone
Alberta
Classic Quick Bread and Salmon Patties From Pantry
A compact recipe note lists a quick bread batter using 2 cups flour 4 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons fat 4 teaspoons baking powder and 1 cup milk with eggs 1 egg and optional berries. Also a salmon bread crumb mixture with canned salmon stale bread crumbs milk butter onion juice lemon and egg whites folded in then baked.
Short-sighted policy criticized in Winnipeg Free Press
The Winnipeg Free Press argues Canada cannot afford a fetish about young workers. Signs show this bias is being abandoned in progressive industries. The piece asserts the need to retain skilled workers over forty to boost total production and insists the policy cannot be justified on selfish grounds.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Canada
Varied Uses for Salt Across Industries
Salt serves many applications from plastics and nylon yarns to dyes drugs synthetic rubber and photographic materials reflecting its wide industrial role.
Humorous exchanges spark playful village reminiscences
A collage of light hearted quips and domestic scenes unfolds from courtship to schooling. Dialogues include misnamed lovers and witty comebacks about headlines breakfasts and family curiosities. The piece weaves humor through everyday life with gentle satire.
Four-Generation Baptism Journey in Winnipeg
Baby Diane Heather Raven received baptism attended by four generations. Parents Richard Raven and spouse joined by maternal grandparents R. F. Howe of Vancouver and great grandparents Dan Lysak of Winnipeg, spanning four generations in one direct line.
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Flinflon, Man
Diane Heather Raven
Richard Raven
R. F. Howe
Vancouver
Dan Lysak
Winnipeg
Police Reporter Becomes Edmonton Officer
Jack Wilce, police reporter for the Edmonton Bulletin, resigns his writer job to join the force. He approves of a 40 hour week and begins on a graveyard shift from 11 p m to 7 a m, dreaming of doors and more doors.
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Edmonton
Jack Wilce
Edmonton Bulletin
Force
Story Of Royal Canadian Mounted Police Bands Is Most Interesting
Winnipeg readers learn of the RCMP band tours in Manitoba as the seventh force band, its youthful beginnings at Swan River barracks in 1876, and the lively history including early performances for Indians, treaty signings, and a notorious 1881 Fort Walsh setback.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Winnipeg
Manitoba
R.C.M.P
Force
R.C.M.P. Quarterly
Swan River Barracks
Mounted Police
Fort Walsh
Lord Roberts
Africa
Fiery Itching Toes Relief Promoted In Ad Copy
An antiseptic claims to quickly stop itching and fiery burning from skin troubles including Barbers itch Salt Rheum and Eczema. The ad touts Moone's Emerald U1 in the original bottle as safe and effective with rare failures.
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Moone
How Grain Can Be Stored Safely
Ottawa urges farmers to store grain with moisture control and insect prevention. Key steps include repairing roofs, cleaning walls and floors, sweeping damp sawdust, and fumigation if insects are found. Use ventilation, avoid filling to the roof, and consult Stored Product Insect Investigations for fumigation details.
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Ottawa
Division of Entomology
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Dominion Public Building
Winnipeg
Man
Shorter speeches spark odd rule idea in Parliament
A Canadian law clerk proposed limiting debate to moments when members stand on one leg. The London Free Press questions if such a rule leaves MPs with no leg to stand on and critiques the practicality and fairness of the notion.
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London Free Press
Import Ban On Vegetables Not To Be Lifted
Ottawa reports that despite forecasts, the import ban on US fruits and vegetables will remain. Growers press for a modified approach arguing long term protection encourages Canadian market gardening, while seasonal tariffs have limited effect and prices remain high after WPT.E ceilings.
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Ottawa
Price Board
Government moves to boost steel for nails in Canada
Ottawa and the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation announce an emergency measure to divert steel rod to nail production. The step aims to aid non priority residential builders unable to obtain nails through normal sources. The increase is small and not meant to meet total needs of any single project.
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Ottawa
Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation
C.M.H.C
Flour Mills Decrease Output in June 1948 Canada
Ottawa dispatch notes June flour mill output fell 22 percent to 1,911,800 barrels from 2,448,800 the prior June. Cumulative first 11 months of the current crop year total 22,429,400 barrels, down 14 percent. Wheat used for flour rose to 8,747,400 bushels in June from 10,981,000 last year.
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Ottawa
Bureau of Statistics
Hope Subsidy Will Stabilize Bread Prices
Ottawa officials announce a 45 cent subsidy to millers of domestic flour to stabilize bread prices at current levels. The subsidy costs about 29.25 million dollars annually, funded by Canadian taxpayers. Removing fats and oils subsidies could save 1.5 to 2 million monthly, offsetting flour subsidy costs. Shortening price pressure may be absorbed by bakers, with ceilings on retail bread prices kept as a last resort.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
Game birds up in Alberta as wolves decline
Prof. J. E. Moore of the University of Alberta reports after a month of research that game birds and rabbits are increasing in Rocky Mountain House Saunders and Bordegg areas of western Alberta while timber wolves decline and field mice nearly disappear.
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Rocky Mountain House
Saunders and
Bordegg
Alberta
J. E. Moore
University of Alberta
Vancouver woman becomes first to work shoe stand
In Vancouver a 25 year old blonde named Jackie Bothwell is believed to be the first woman to work on a shoe shine stand. Her goal is to earn enough to buy a truck and use it to save for a home while Morse’s telegraph invention of 1832 is noted in passing.
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Vancouver
Jackie Bothwell
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