The Table That Set Off a Storeroom Storm
A late night scene at a Gregorys department store unfolds as a dominant shopper demands a missing table. The manager and staff scramble through will call rooms and files to locate it, while the woman insists on payment terms and access. The bill reveals a 1938 date, heightening the tension.
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Plecdy
Grare
Gregory
Bath
Madan
Wepyrigsh' Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Alberta consolidates highway departments under one agency
Alberta merges the Motor Vehicle branch from the Provincial Secretary's department into the Department of Highways. Horace R Clark becomes registrar and retains his Highway Traffic Board chair role. New deputy registrars J Pritchard RB F Tait and C J Kenway lead motor vehicle operator and regulatory divisions respectively. The unified structure will issue licences, register vehicles and drivers, test drivers, and enforce related acts while the Highway Traffic Board remains a separate entity within the regulatory division.
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Alberta
Department of Highways
Highway Traffic Board
Horace R Clark
J. Pritchard
RB. F. Tait
C. J. Kenway
Humorous Vignettes From a Maine Village and Beyond
A quirky mix of short anecdotes unfolds in a Maine village and nearby settings. A museum visit prompts a casual romance line, a shopkeeper declines camel brushes, a boy admits fighting, a mother negotiates cake peace, a misdirected cake outcome occurs, an electric meter inspector discovers low usage, and California trees are noted to reach 3 250 years.
Kitchen Meditations By Jane Dale
Wanda and pihy, Newly and Sue visit grandma for a treat then return home. In grandma's front room a wind up toy plays clear music as Wanda, age three, sits still listening. The piece closes with the line about poor women drivers and their husbands as teachers.
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Wanda
Pihy
Sue
Billy
Kenny
Sale of 12 Million Bushels Canadian Wheat Reported
Winnipeg export grain circles report a Churchill sale of about 12 million bushels of top grade Canadian wheat for mid summer Europe shipment. The export is described as the largest reported Churchill shipment this year though not officially confirmed.
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Winnipeg
Europe
Manitoba
Churchill
Weed control plans for Wild oats in Manitoba
A Winnipeg meeting of 25 leaders from the University of Manitoba, federal and provincial Agriculture departments, and industry outlined 1955 experimental field work to tackle Wild oats on eight infested Manitoba farms. Trials involve soil treatments and germination tests, with L H Shebeski and G Friesen leading university weed research, and MP C plans for brush control along power lines. Churchill wheat export activity and a Churchill government elevator expansion were also noted.
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Manitoba
Legislative
Winnipeg
H. E. Wood
University of Manitoba
Wood
L. H. Shebeski
George Friesen
Friesen
Pulman
Washington
L. Playfair
Manitoba Power Commission
M.P.C
Canada
Moose and game bird harvests in British Columbia 1955
The provincial game commission estimates that over 5,000 moose and 28 000 deer were taken by hunters in 1955. Believed totals include 51 000 pheasants 171 000 willow grouse 143 000 blue grouse 17 000 sharp tailed grouse and 429 000 ducks.
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British Columbia
Provincial Game Commission
Canadian travel bureau handles 97 594 enquiries in eight months
The Canadian Government Travel Bureau reported 97 594 individual enquiries in the first eight months of 1954, up 15.5 percent from the same period in 1953. The article notes that the Irish were the first Europeans to recognize the potato as a staple food.
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Belgium
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