Canada’s first Red Cross flag flown during Riel Rebellion
The article recounts the improvised Red Cross flag used in Canada during the North West Rebellion in 1885. Surgeon-General Sterling Ryerson and Dr Everson helped carry wounded from Fish Creek and Batoche, with a flour sack flag stitched in Turkey red marking Canada’s initial Red Cross symbol. Maurice Richard nets hat tricks in the NHL, including four goals in a game.
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Canada
Riel
Sterling Beerwnaid
Casgrain
E E King
Grenadiers
Geneva
Ross Robertson
Toronto
Ontario
Sterling Ryerson, MD
North West Territory
Fish Creek
Batoche
Webb
Everson
Bosnia
Queen's Own
Canadian Red Cross
Dominion
Ryerson
Pattern advertisement for Anne Adams Jr Miss dress
A vintage advertisement promotes a joyous Anne Adams pattern 4781 for Jr Miss sizes 11 to 17. It highlights a lowered princess waist over a whirly skirt and requires 4 1/2 yards of 39 inch fabric for size 13 with illustrated easy instructions. Send 35 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Toronto.
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Lucky
Lucky Jrs
No danger even with evil intent at Brantford plant
D. B. Williams in charge of purification at the Brantford Filtration Plant states that four tons of sodium fluoride per million gallons could cause nausea, but such a amount is never present. He adds that even if all chemical feed machines were converted to apply a highly poisonous chemical, the dilution would prevent any public health danger.
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D. B. Williams
Brantford
Walrus tagging program aims to track Arctic populations
Canada’s wildlife service partners with Eskimos to tag 30 walruses off Coats Island Hudson Bay using a harpoon head dart and stainless steel tags. Two tags returned from Southampton Island suggest limited data but indicate potential success.
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Canadian Wildlife Service
Coats Island
Hudson Bay
Northern Affairs Department
Southampton Island
Painless Injections Through Hydrocortisone Weal
Dr Theodore Cornbleet of the University of Illinois Medical College reports a method to ease injections by creating a skin wheal with hydrocortisone. The resulting painless island lasts 10 to 14 months and can support insulin delivery for diabetics with four sites. Emigration from the Hebrides to Canada the US and Australia appears to slow as life at home seems less hard.
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Theodore Cornbleet
Chicago
University of Illnois College of Medicine
Canada
United States
Australia
Hebrides
Crescent Rolls and Variations from Dough Preparations
Instructions describe making four dough based rolls including fan tans and crescent shapes. Steps include shaping dough into balls or strips, brushing with melted butter or margarine, arranging on greased sheets, proofing until doubled, and baking at a hot oven about 400 degrees for roughly 12 minutes. Produces multiple rolls per batch.
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Otee
Beth
Kitchen Meditations By Jane Dale
A reflective piece on worry and daily burdens using gentle, comforting imagery. It recalls past frugality and gratitude for daily bread while urging calm through a quiet, guiding voice. The text notes a historical fact about liquor sale restrictions to Indians being removed in 1953.
Red Cross Blood Transfusions Save Larry's Life
A Saskatchewan five year old, Larry, receives one of 211 blood and plasma transfusions in 1954. Hemophilia requires ongoing donations to cover about 1000 dollars yearly to maintain free blood services for him and other patients. The campaign urges broader financial support to sustain these lifesaving Red Cross programs.
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Larry
Regina
Sask
Red Cross
The
Saskatchewan
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