Love and security clash in a woman's choice on Fifth Avenue
Linda faces a life choice between Steven and Rod as they ride a bus along Fifth Avenue. He asks for commitment, she weighs security against love and money, while memories of Red linger. The dialogue reveals a pivotal price to pay for happiness.
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Fifth Avenue
Linda
Steven
Rod
Reacy
Hart
Steve
Jess
Red
Wheeter Newspaper Syndicate
Amy Vanderbilt Praises Blue Bonnet Margarine Flavor
The note extols Blue Bonnet Margarine as a favorite spread with rich nutrition and economy. It compares it to other margarine brands and highlights new packaging options and cooking uses.
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Amy Vanderbilt
New Yorker
Buee Bonner
Canada
de Biren Bonner
Canada’s 1951 population nears 13.9 million
Ottawa reports preliminary census totals show Canada at 13,893,208, up from 11,506,655 in 1941. Ontario adds the largest gain to 4,562,354. Saskatchewan declines. Northwest Territories rises modestly. Provisional figures list province totals with 1941 figures in parentheses and include Newfoundland at 357,762.
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Ottawa
Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Bureau
Saskatchewan
Ontario
Northwest Territories
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Manitoba
Alberta
British Columbia
Yukon
Newfoundland
Oddities in the News From Across North America
A roundup features Nova Scotia’s 93 year old Henry Hall still driving with a clean record except for a hub cap loss 35 years ago in a narrow road incident. Also noted are a Waterbury sergeant collecting beers with fines, a rabbit collision in Kenyon Minnesota, a 54 year old Icelandic pony in Copenhagen and a Paris housewife fined for killing a cat. Ottawa reports 12 000 Dutch immigrants arriving next year with 4000 to 6000 destined for farm work.
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Nova Scotia
Henry Hall
Sheet Harbor
N.S
Address satute . Nurber 7 send orders to Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 68 Front Street W Toronto issues a directive to Anne Adams in the Pattern Department. The notice references a date in November and requests action on filing or processing orders.
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Nurber
Anne Adams
Winnipeg
Potatoes Shipped To Saskatchewan To Meet Shortage
Manitoba potatoes are being sent to Saskatchewan to ease a growing shortage in Regina. A Winnipeg wholesaler notes ample local stocks for Manitoba, while U S and North Dakota imports fill the gap after frost damaged Alberta crops. Imported spuds will likely cost about the same as Manitoba varieties with no tariff on U S imports.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
United States
Regina
Alberta
North Dakota
U.S
Last Resident of Phoenix BC Buried on Hillside
Phoenix BC witnesses the burial of William Henry Bambury, the town’s final inhabitant who arrived from Portsmouth to work on the Canadian Pacific. Once Canada’s highest city with 32,500 residents and multiple institutions, Phoenix declined after copper ore depletion. Bambury died in 1942 and was laid to rest Oct 25 in a hillside cemetery as snow falls on the crumbling town.
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Phoenix
William Henry Bambury
Canada
Adolf Sercu
4 Paw
Paw
Bambury
British Columbia
Portsmouth
England
Imm
Greenwood
Trail
Grandby Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company
Phoenix’ Mountains
U.S
Vancouver
Gas Flow From Brock No 2 Well Reported
Husky Phillips Oil officials announce a steam test on the Brock No 2 well indicates a gas potential of 10 million cubic feet daily with further testing planned. Brock lies between Kindersley and Rosetown in Saskatchewan, about 100 miles southwest of Saskatoon. The note about Formosa references historical cession to Japan in 1895 and later reversion after World War II.
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Saskatoon
Husky-Phillips Oil Company
Husky-Phillips
Brock No. 2
Brock
Kindersley
Rosetown
Sask
Flax Crop Grading High in 1951 Manitoba Output
The 1951 flax crop in Western Canada shows above average oil content but a high proportion of tough damp grades. Oil content is 42.6 percent, iodine value 192, protein in the meal 44.1 percent. Western production is estimated over 1000000 bushels, about double 1950.
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Winnipeg
The
Board of Grain Commissioners
Saskatoon Plans Three Short Courses In 1952
The University of Saskatchewan extension department announced three short courses in agricultural engineering for early 1952. A gasoline and diesel engine course runs January 15 to February 9, a blacksmithing and welding course February 11 to 23, and a farm mindings course February 25 to 29. Details and applications are from L. C. Paul, Extension Department, Saskatoon.
Manitoba student named 1952 Rhodes scholar
James Ross Francis, 21, a history honors student at the University of Manitoba, has been named the province’s Rhodes scholar for 1952. The report notes James Francis’s selection amid provincial pride and the path to a distinguished academic future.
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Winnipsg
James Ross Francis
University of Manitoba
Vancogover
C. P
Tavilor
Vancouver
British Columbia
Cattle Drowned In Webb Slough Loss Reported
Webb district farmer Leroy Nelson lost six head of cattle when the herd broke through ice on a slough and drowned. The animals included some purebred Jersey dairy cattle across the Western briefs.
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Webb, Sask
Leroy Nelson
Webb District
Jersey
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Isabel M. Reekie
Ramsay Company
Bank Street
Eugene F. Doherty
Waterbury, Conn
Glen Albright
Kenyon
Minn
Glen
Copenhagen
Paris
Jeanne Mether
Netherlands
Helos
Cnowto
Man Bentley
Max
Delisle
Chicago Black Hawks
Toronto Maple Leafs
B.C
Hidahea
Formosa
Dodd
Dodds
Les Carroll
Rhodes
Western Briefs
E. J. Marshall
Bureau of Publications
Brandon
Prince Albert
A. Johnson
Melfort
Gladstone
Man
Gladstone Seed Club
Town Hall
Exeter
Brandon Flying Club
B. F. Burbridge
Department of Transport
R. W. Brown
J. H. Coburn
J. A. Chandler
Didsbury
Alta
H. C. Freeman
Fleming
M. M. Hammond
Dand
D. A. Morton
Stettler
Corselette
Brassieres
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