Saturday Carnival Rescue of a Starry-Eyed Farmer
In Belivilie a farmer Rafe or Rufe visits the town each Saturday for nails and a shave, dreaming of Katy McCullum at the post office. A carnival night brings a tense confrontation when a stranger tries to threaten Katy with a knife, but Rafe intervenes with a punch, earning Katy’s kiss and a comical line about swallowing tobacco.
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Belivilie
Rafe
Katy McCuan
Bob Mctullum
Katy
Pure
Katy McCullum
Farmer Jones
Oki McCullum
Rufe
Jase
Misses Pattern 4878 Promises Versatile Silk Dress
In an Anne Adams advertisement a Misses pattern 4878 offers a casual yet office ready dress in silk or cotton. Sizes 12 to 20 with 5 percent yardage for size 16. Pattern includes simple instructions and fit tested. Send 35 cents to Department P.P.L. in Toronto for order form.
World's Largest Solar Mirror melts iron in hour
The Reader's Digest describes a vast solar mirror setup in the Pyrenees perched above sea level. A wall of mirrors directs sunlight into a 33 foot concave reflector, concentrating heat to over 5000 degrees Fahrenheit sufficient to melt a 100 pound iron block in an hour.
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Pyrenees
Average Alberta Ranches Spanning 2 000 Acres Owned and 8 000 Leased
The report shows average Alberta ranches cover about 2 000 acres in private ownership with roughly 8 000 acres leased from the provincial government. It notes the scale of individual holdings and the larger leased land portion.
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Alberta
Canadians Relate Grim Souvenirs From Atomic Test
Canadian servicemen at Camp Desert Rock Nevada, with RCN and RCAF personnel, returned from participation in Operation Teapot. Wood name plates etched by heat at 2,000 yards from ground zero and elaborate diplomas signed by Atomic Energy Commission officials mark their involvement in the 1955 atomic test.
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Camp Desert Rock
Nevada
RCN
RCAF
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
Funny and otherwise Laughs at daily humors in small town life
A collection of brief jokes and quips about neighbors, work, family, farming, and military life. Humorous exchanges include a long standing straw hat, a curious laborer, a husband and wife at a movie, a farmer and a know it all, and a Pullman lieutenant with tips and rank mockery.
Bumper Yields Forecast for Alberta Winter Wheat
Predictions of record yields rise with record winter wheat acreage in southern Alberta. Farmers anticipate averages surpassing 50 bushels an acre as conditions and moisture reserves support the crop. Acreage exceeds 250000 acres with some estimates near 200000 acres and harvest to start late July.
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Alberta
Lethbridge
Honeybees as pollinators across crops
The article notes honeybees pollinate about fifty agricultural crops in North America using branched body hairs and long tongues to collect pollen and nectar. It cites Ottawa’s Central Experimental Farm findings on red clover and ongoing Annapolis Valley work on apples, vetch, birdsfoot trefoil, blueberries, cucumbers, and sunflowers, while stressing the need for more field-condition studies.
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Apiculture
Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Ontario
Annapolis Valley
Grass alfalfa mixtures favored over grasses alone on prairies
The federal agriculture department finds grass alfalfa mixtures yield about two to two and a half times more forage than grasses alone. Nitrogen deficiency after the third crop year leads to sod bound conditions in grasses, making mixtures with alfalfa more persistent and easier to handle for hay or pasture. Ladak alfalfa is recommended. sow two pounds per acre for hay and one for pasture.
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Federal Agriculture Department
Federal Department of Agriculture
Swift Current
Sask
Prairie
Prairies
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Jfashions
P.P.L
Anne Adams Pattern Dept
Front Street W
Toronto
Sandy McTavish
Corporal
Manitoba
CWNA
Stanan
Elmwood Herald
George Kroft
McLachlan
Virden Empire Advance
T. E. Wilkins
E. Derksen
Carillion News
Steinbachi
H. P. Friesen
Una Gillespie
Boissevain Recorder
C. F. Janaway
Prairie Enterprise
A. H. Leech
St. Vita
Manitou
Fasc Seikxkirk Enterprise
Voast
Killarney Guide
Winkler Crogs
Portage la Lance
C. Hawkins
Dauphin Herald and Sentinel-Courier
Goodness
Les Carroll
MacDonald
Gol UK
Fairview Chemical Co. Ltd
Ed Chemical CO. Ltd
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