Uranium Find Aims To Spark Northwest Territories Mining Boom
E Hartley of Yellowknife Volcanic Gold Mines announced a new uranium field near Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. Preliminary assays show an average 1.52 uranium oxide per ton from shallow ore, with high potential and plans to build a supply road from Marion Lake to Great Slave Lake before Christmas. He noted mining costs around 2000 dollars per ton and compared the site to Eldorado in potential.
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Kelowna
B.C
Great Slave Lake
Northwest Territories
Canada
E. Hartley
Yellowknife Volcanic Gold Mines
Marion Lake
Toronto
Ottawa
Hartley
Eldorado
Ted Hartley
Honey crop in Canada drops 31 percent from last year
The 1949 Canadian honey crop totaled 31,286,000 pounds, well below the 1948 figure of 45,145,000 pounds and the 1946 low. Weather blamed, with Western provinces and Ontario showing declines from 1948 outputs in brackets.
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Ottawa
Canada
Bureau of Statistics Reports
Western
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Prices of farm products fall again in August
Ottawa reports farm prices moved downward in August continuing a year long decline. Prices were half a point lower than July with grains dairy products and potatoes down from last year while poultry eggs rose slightly and livestock held steady.
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Ottawa
Statistics Bureau
Barrel House For The Dog Use In Weatherproof Barrel
The design describes converting a well-constructed barrel into a dog house lined with creosote and supported by two by sixes to prevent rolling and dampness. It emphasizes rain and snow proofing, winter warmth, summer cooling, and placing the house facing east or south for best exposure.
Tearing Down an Old Barn by Jane Dale
An old barn is torn down today after years as a landmark across the way. Its roof caves in and doors hang ajar while memories of animals and children linger in the weary, bare loft. Yet sunset and winter scenes once made the barn picturesque before replacement will rise in its place.
New Factory Creates Market for Durum Wheat in Alberta
Catelli Foods opened a $250,600 durum wheat macaroni plant at Lethbridge. Ottawa’s James A. MacKinnon and Edmonton officials officiated. The facility will buy durum grown in Southern Alberta and serve Catelli customers across the prairie and Pacific coast, after closing the Vancouver plant.
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Lethbridge
Catelli Food Products
James A. MacKinnon
Ottawa
Edmonton
Alberta
Catelli
Prairie
Pacific Coast
Vancouver
Crossword Puzzle Scrambles Gobbled by Fragments
A scrambled crossword puzzle list with numerous misspellings and garbled clues. Readable entries include hints like sea eagle and festive but many lines are broken or miswritten. The column shows irregular terms and partial phrases that hinder solution.
Crossword Clue Fragments and Word Pairs
A list of cryptic style hints and partial clues including references to languages prefixes animals celestial terms and descriptors. Items hint at crossword answers such as artificial language dawn goddess silver symbol and others with varying lengths and wordplay.
Butter Stocks Steadily Increase in Canadian Warehouses
Ottawa reports creamery butter stocks at Oct 1 reached 72,222,000 pounds while margarine totaled 2,258,000. Most butter is government held as a price support measure and may be sold in winter when production drops. Margarine production continues year round.
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Ottawa
Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Dominion Provincial Agricultural Conference in Ottawa
The annual conference moves to Ottawa for December 12 to 14. Delegates from Dominion and Provincial Departments of Agriculture and organized agriculture will discuss next year’s prospects and 1949 production reports, aiming to speed up proceedings and expand pre conference commodity data.
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Dominion
Ottawa
Food and Agriculture Organization
Washington
Departments of Agriculture
Organized Agriculture
Estimates For Alberta Crops In 1949 News Release
Alberta's 1949 wheat crop was estimated at 96 million bushels with an average yield of 12.7 bushels per acre. The Alberta Wheat Pool projects 73 percent grade one to three northern and 27 percent Garnet and other grades. Oats 96 million bushels, barley 38.7 million, rye 2.65 million, and flax 315 thousand bushels. A Pennsylvania flying school offers free instruction to anyone over 60 years old.
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Calgary
Alberta
Alberta Wheat Pool
Pennsylvania
Soil and Health A Definite Hope for Mothercraft Link
The article links soil and health through the Mothercraft movement in New Zealand and Canada. It cites Trudy King as a pioneer and notes the Canadian Mothercraft Society plans a Soil and Health Association with Dr F H C Baugh as head. It describes nurse training at Mothercraft Hospital Toronto and calls for information on earth health ties.
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Trudy King
Society For the Health of Woman and Children
New Zealand
Mothercraft
Canadian Mothercraft Society
Albert Howard
Canadian Soil and Health Association
F. H. C. Baugh
Homewood Sanitarium
Guelph
Canada
World
Mothercraft Hospital
Clarendon Avenue
Toronto
Mothercraft Society
Bloor West
Indian ministers cut salaries for relief payments
Indian cabinet ministers voluntarily accept a 15 percent pay cut retroactive to October 1. Global updates report large purchases and refugee project plans, including a Bor vil refugee centre and tollgate changes. Canada posts mixed trade gains while Finland fulfills wartime reparations to Russia.
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Abe
Sccceers
Os Figna
Itm Larsaper
BY Jane Dale
Mohammed
Fis
Bermuda
Fred Piper
Addiscombe
Surrey
England
Finland
Russia
Federal Health Department
New York
Australia
Borvil
India
Cardiff Corporation
Cardiff
Penarth
Wales
Kiwéz. Howen
Reno
Nevada
REG
U. & Pat
Carson City
Little Reggie
Howdy Reggie
Howdy
Uncle Mort
Reggie
Margarita
PRISC
al Vermeer
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