Virden Farmer Plans Oil Riches Yet Stays on The Farm
Virden farmer Bill Skinner will keep farm duties despite three free flowing oil wells on his 320 acres in the Virden Roselea field. He retains a 12 percent royalty and a 6 percent share after selling half to Virden businessmen. The family, living on the farm since 1927, expects royalties to boost daily income while remaining rooted to agriculture.
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Virden
Bill Skinner
Manitoba
Bil
Bill
California
Florida
Provincial Conservation Board
Skinner
Virden-Roselea
Winnipeg
Daly
Home Workshop Desk and Pattern Set for Student Rooms
Desk design for a student room uses plywood pieces shown in the sketch. Patterns 224 204 401 301 and a 35c price each yield five copies for 1.50 postpaid. Includes directions for magazine rack waste basket bookends and letter napkin holder plus optional initials in Lucite copper brass or aluminum.
Times Christmas issue omits Rabinovitch ad
The Morden Times explains a grave error in its Christmas issue by omitting the Rabinovitch Brothers advertisement. The paper notes Milton Rabinovitch is a forgiving local figure and cautions editors about ad omissions in future editions.
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Times
Rabinovitch Bros
Milton Rabinovitch
Morden Times
Stained Glass Coloring Processes Highlighted in Metal Oxide Tinting
A description explains how glass employed in stained glass windows gains color during the melting pot stage by tinting with various metallic oxides.
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Lass
Sweet and Sour Spareribs Recipe Card
A dated home recipe for spareribs with pineapple and peppers. Instructions cover roasting spareribs, preparing a sweet sour sauce with garlic, soy sauce MSG and vinegar, then coating ribs and serving six. Includes a tip to adapt for frank steak.
Five Pedigree Ayrshires For Alberta
Five pedigree Ayrshire cattle from Darland Hall Denbighshire owned by Dudley Beck sail from Glasgow to Chestermere Farms Forest Lawn Alberta. The bull Lessnessock Certified leads a trio with two daughters from the same sire. the other two heifers descend from Lessnessock Leo. Beck previously sent Darling Highland Challenge to Alberta in 1951, a bull with numerous honors including the 1953 Calgary and Edmonton grand championship.
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Ayrshire
Glasgow
Alberta
Dudley Beck
Darland Hall
Denbigshire
Breed Society
Chestermere Farms
Forest Lawn
Lessnessock Certified
Lessnessock Leo
Beck
Calgary
Large Canadian Contract For Metropolitan Vickers
A contract exceeding 1.5 million dollars was awarded to a U K firm by Calgary Power Company for a 66 000 kW 3 600 rpm steam turbo generating set. Manufactured in Manchester the two cylinder turbine will drive a 13 800 volt hydrogen cooled AC generator and power a new station at Wahamun near Edmonton.
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U.K
Calgary Power Company
Canada
Manchester
Wahamun
Edmonton
Opossum Plays Dead In Nervous Response
The opossum’s habit of playing dead is a nervous reaction beyond the animal’s control as its heartbeat slows sharply.
More Than 4 000 Drivers Suspended In Manitoba In 1953
Manitoba records show 4 162 drivers suspended by year end 1953, up from 2 708 in 1952. Of the 1953 total 2 167 faced suspensions for serious convictions, 1 384 for no insurance, 215 as accident prone or repeat offenders, 65 for unpaid judgments, and 324 for failing driving tests. The breakdown includes 729 for impaired driving and 452 for intoxication, with Winnipeg area housing the majority. Reports originated 1 565 from the RCMP and 1 390 from Winnipeg police, plus smaller numbers from St Boniface, Brandon, and suburbs.
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Manitoba
R. B. Baillie
M. V
Winnipeg
R.C.M.P
St. Boniface
Brandon
Cypress Hills Gets Modern Tourist Cabins In 1954
A. Campbell of the Saskatchewan Parks Branch announced Cypress Hills Provincial Park will gain 18 modern light housekeeping cabins by 1954. Eleven cabins and four duplexes are under construction, with plans to modernize three nearby cabins. The site already includes 23 non modern cabins and a lodge with 16 sleeping rooms, all electric.
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Cypress Hills Provincial Park
A. Campbell
Parks Branch
Saskatchewan
Cypress Hills
Parks
Yorkton Receives First B C Apples By Truck
Yorkton Sask on December 31 wholesale firm received the first shipment of apples from British Columbia sent by truck. The 740 boxes traveled non stop from Kelowna leaving Monday afternoon and arrived Wednesday evening in excellent condition. Early transport was by raft.
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Yorkton, Sask
Yorkton
British Columbia
Kelowna
B.C
How To Save Money and Get Fast Cough Relief
An advertisement touts a homemade cough syrup using two cups of sugar and one of water, with optional maple syrup or honey, plus 243 ounces of Pinex concentrate in a 16 ounce bottle. It promises fast acting relief for the whole family and money back if not helped.
Funny and Otherwise and Other Jests Yet Told
A collection of light humor about farmers actors dancers and golf misadventures. Jokes feature a bootblack farmer son a would be actor a ballet dancer and a florist. A Scottish golf mis cue and a riverside bungalow mix with wry exchanges and prizewinners at a social gathering. Ends with a note of a Korean civilization.
Veteran Alberta printer Tom Clarke remembered
The Macleod Gazette recalls the life of Tom Clarke a veteran Fort Macleod printer who died Sunday in Camrose at an old age. He set type by hand before Linotype worked daily and weekly papers. Clarke edited and printed The Macleod Advance with his late brother and kept active past 80 turning out orders. He served five years in the North West Mounted Police and helped print Calgary Herald’s first issues in a tent. He played in a local band until 1945 and contributed stories to the Lethbridge Herald about life in early Alberta.
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Macleod Advance
North-West Mounted Police
Calgary Herald
Lethbridge Herald
Alberta
Ipswich
Suffolk County
England
Meaford
Ont
H.T.H
The
Macleod Gazette
Textile Craft Iron-On Designs for Home Decor
Vivid orange and rich brown patterns with glossy green leaves appear on linens. Create glamorous gifts and decorate towels sheets and aprons with Jiffy Washable patterns 7336. Six iron-out designs measure four by four inches and four by three inches for budget friendly home crafts.
Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book Patterns Offer
Household Arts Department at Prairie Publishers promotes 60 Front Street address patterns for sewing embroidery and crochet printed in the Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book. Includes gift ideas bazaar money makers toys fashions. Send 25 cents now.
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Prairie Publishers Limited
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks
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CW. Keng Pharmacal Corp. Ltd
Walkerville, Ont
Dodd
Home Workshop Pattern Service
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
Metropolitan Vickers
Ture
Pegcy
Cosy
Chuck Thurston
Giles
London
St. Andrews
Scotland
Brown
Alta
Fort Macleod
Tom Clarke
Camrose
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