An EyeforBeauty in a Mexican Welcome
A narrator meets a wary hacienda owner near Mexico City. The man boasts of beauty, offers his daughter Isabella to guide him for ten dollars, and introduces Estralia his first wife’s daughter as a companion. The plan swiftly turns awkward as the girl is pulled toward the narrator’s car.
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Mexico City
Isabella
Amigo
Mexico
Buenos Diaz
Senor
Siesta
Estralita
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Mother's Delight Easy sewing pattern for jumper and dress
Anne Adams Pattern 4735 offers a sun dress or jumper with one main pattern piece. Sizes 2 4 6 8 10 priced 25 cents, eyelet edging optional. Send orders with name address style number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
One egg enough at Harry Hearns farm outside Regina
In Saskatchewan rural news a hen laid an egg with four yolks at Harry Hearns farm near Regina. The egg was brought to Mrs. Richard Hearn, 2108 Atkinson Street, who said there would be plenty for supper. Other briefs note the mass X ray survey reaching its millionth examinee in Watson and regional notes on federation leaders and forest closures.
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Regina
Harry Hearns
Richard Hearn
Atkinson Street
Mrs. Hearn
Watson
Sask
Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League
Vacationers to Tour Northwest by Ship Train Route
A Vancouver report notes an ocean vessel will carry automobiles to Skagway this summer. From Skagway cars travel by train to Whitehorse for a return trip down the Alaska Highway.
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Vancouver
Northwest
Skagway
Whitehorse
Alaska Highway
Sugar beet acreage at risk in Manitoba due to labor shortage
The Farm Help Service Office reports a labor shortage may reduce Manitoba sugar beet acreage. Farmers struggle to hire workers for weeding and thinning, threatening part of the beet plantings in the province.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Farm Help Service Office
Chocolate Gelatine and Strawberry Berry Pie Delights
A two part dessert recipe combines a chocolate gelatine cream filling with a strawberry berry tart. It details making a gelatine custard, folding in egg whites, adding cocoa, then chilling, filling a pie shell and topping with whipped cream. Also includes a strawberry lattice pie with cracker crumbs and rosebud cream finish.
Stumping tackle and pulley system to clear tree stumps
The article explains using a bull dozer or stumping tackle to remove stumps, with pulleys increasing pulling power. It details cable sizes, choker options, and safety notes on hitch placement and travel distance when multiple pulleys are used.
Manitoba Drilling Gets Oil Showing
Souris Valley Oil Co reports four showings from 10 test wells in southwest Manitoba. At one well near Lyleton the 4,406 to 4,424 ft interval yielded light oil with 60 ft fluid rise in 25 minutes and gas detected. Plans call for drilling to 5,000 ft.
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Winnipeg
Souris Valley Oil Co
Manitoba
O. Kinsley
Kinsley
Lyleton
Nutria Confounds B C Game Officials
In Courtenay British Columbia a trapper killed a creature that looked like a beaver with a rat tail, prompting officials to identify it as a nutria or myopotamus coypus. Nutria, South American rodents, were introduced in the province years ago for fur.
Home Grown Tomatoes and Strawberries Rich in Vitamin C
The article notes tomatoes as a good home grown source of vitamin C and adds strawberries are a pleasant way to obtain the same nutrient.
Large Sums Being Spent On Highways
Expenditure exceeding 157 million dollars on Canadian roads this year yields gradual improvements rather than dramatic changes. Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan and British Columbia report record spending with maintenance and gradual upgrades dominating. Road work includes grading 160 miles and surfacing 65 miles with asphalt and concrete across provinces.
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Canada
Financial Post
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Nother
Winnipeg
Emerson
Brandon
Peace Gardens
Feed Grain Shortage Hits Alberta Farmers Warned
Edmonton officials warned Alberta farmers to arrange purchase of feed grain as drought threatens coarse grain and pasture crops. Deputy Minister O S Longman cautioned light crop yields and urged early rains to protect livestock, noting a possible feed grain shortage by early fall after coarse grain markets came under the Canadian Wheat Board on August 1.
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Edmonton
Alberta
O. S. Longman
Canadian Wheat Board
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By Wesley Firth
Carter
Ome Carver
Gite Sons
Western Briefs
Saskatoon
FE. E. Morton
Vegreville
Alta
Federated Women's Institutes of Canada
J. H. East
Keremeos
B.C
Forest
Victoria
B.C. Forest Service
Sayward Forest
Campbell River
Dominion Immigration Hall
United Keno Mill Mines
Keno
Yukon
Horse Hills
Chas. Borgwardt
Cable
Peggy
Chuck Thurston
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