Birthday Surprise Restores Ada in Coulter Office
Ada Brown, a long serving secretary at Coulter Construction, is surprised by a birthday gathering arranged by Hazel Firth. The event, sparked by Hazel, brings Ada back from isolation after a decade of service and reconciles with her boss Mr. Coulter and colleagues.
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DA Brown
Hazel Firth
Coulter Construction Company
Ada
Old Coulter
Hazel
Coulter
Ava
Miss Brown
Mr. Coulter
Miss Firth
Wheeter Newspaper Syndicate
Pattern Orders for P.P.L. Anne Adams Dept
Plain instruction to send orders listing Size Name Address and Style Number to Department P.P.L. Anne Adams Pattern Dept 60 Front Street W Toronto for completed illustrated instructions pattern.
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Department P.P.L
Anne Adams Pattern Dept
Front Street W
Toronto
Ducks Unlimited reports show improving western duck lands
Reports from Ducks Unlimited indicate good precipitation moved drought threats from the Western Canadian ducklands. Breeding stock declined to 1952 levels, with pintails hit hardest by the 1953 season. Still, ample population remains to push reproduction to a record high if weather stays favorable.
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Ducks Unlimited
Canada
Golden Fish and Patter Heat Test Fryer Recipe
A deep fry guide for Golden Fish and Patter. Cut 1 pound fish fillets, salt lightly, prepare a batter with sifted flour baking powder salt and very cold water, beat until smooth, then dip fish pieces and fry in hot shortening until golden. Drain and keep hot. Makes four servings.
Sailors Embrace Hobbies Aboard Canada’s Far East Destroyers
Canadian destroyers in the Far East foster hobby culture with cooks painting ships and planes, torpedomen crafting models, and communicators leathering gear. HMCS Cayuga’s crew includes 30+ painters, 12 model builders, 6 leather workers, and many photographers. Cmdr. Hayes leads by example with an oil landscape in progress. Photography clubs form at sea and a possible shipwide film project grows from this creative drive. AB Gagnon, G. Smith, Cheese, White pursue landscapes, models, and leatherwork as part of daily duties.
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Hmcs Cayuga
Cmdr
William P. Hayes
Swift Current, Sask
Cdr. Hayes
Joseph Gagnon
Gatineau Point
Que
Clifford G. Smith
Melville, Sask
Robert A. Cheese
Montreal
Keith White
Edmonton
A. L. Halpern
Toronto
Jests and Jabs at a Circus and Street Corner
A string of short jokes features a sword swallower on a diet, a genealogist joking about electrocution for murder, a hat said to be a mere song, and mistaken identity about a famous singer. Other bits include a naughty wall chalking, a youth’s misread youth treatment, a home brew claim, a beggar’s cold, and two boxers flustering a referee.
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Mrs. Penn
Kindergarten Project Aids Disabled Children In Hospital
A group of navy officers wives from HMCS Tecumseh Calgary started the first hospital kindergarten for crippled children. Classes run Thursdays with Mrs. W. J. Collett directing and a rhythm band. Children concentrate intently, with works like elephant crafts and Mother’s Day cards. A new film They Dance Again gains international praise and will tour Red Cross divisions in Canada.
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Hmcs Tecumseh
Calgary
W. J. Collett
Red Cross
Alberta Red Cross Crippled Children's Hospital
League of Red Cross Societies
Geneva
Switzerland
Canadian Red Cross Society
Oslo
League
Board of Governors
Meadow Lake Scout Leader Reaches 50 Years Of Service
At the recent investiture of Scouts Cubs and Brownies in Meadow Lake District Scout Master Jerry Van Masson marked fifty years with the youth movement Reindeer milk noted as the richest animal milk in a brief item accompanying the local report
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Meadow Lake
Jerry van Masson
Crochet Square Pattern 7143 Lets You Create Doily Sets
Price Brookes advertises a fifty-crochet square pattern 7143 for 20 inch squares in No 30 cotton. One square yields a doily or mat a set of four makes a 40 inch luncheon cloth and fifteen forms a pretty spread. Send twenty five cents in coins to obtain the pattern.
Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalog Promotes New Patterns
Department of Household Arts in Toronto offers a 1954 catalog with embroidery crochet sewing and color transfer designs plus 4 book patterns. Request price 25 cents and mail order details. Alaska bears frame a note about 13,000 bears in two national forests.
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Alice Brooks Needlecraft
Alaska
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Victor di Castri
RCAF
Far East
America
McTavish
Alberta
Les Carrol
By Price Brookes
P.P.L
Canadian Northland
Into
Prince of Wales
Hudson's Bay
Churchill
Regina
Saskatoon
C.N.R
W. J. Hansen
Legislative Buildings
Hudson Bay Route Association
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