Old Dutch Paintings On Display In Ottawa After 400 Years
Old Dutch paintings on loan from the Netherlands are shown in Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto as part of a restoration effort. The works, many dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, travel to celebrate wartime recovery and cultural ties, with Rembrandt and other masters featured among sea and shore landscapes.
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Ottawa
Canada
United States
Netherlands
Amresendor
Holland
Hitler
Munich
Berlin
America
Useful Household Hints and Gardening Notes
A collection of practical tips covers gum removal from clothing using ice and scraping, lamp shade care to prevent dust and light loss, and weekly gentle cleaning. It also mentions flower arrangement care with deep-water soaking to extend bloom life and a note on Brazil’s wild heven seeds that germinated at Kew Gardens in 1876.
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Heven
Brazil
London
Kew Gardens
Welcome to the racketeers at Ottawa
Visitors at a Hull Quebec badminton tournament saw a dining room sign reading Bienvenue aux raquetteurs aut laws. They later translated it humorously as Welcome to the racketeers at Ottawa, noted by the Toronto Telegram.
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Hull
Que
Chez Henri
Ottawa
Toronto Telegram
Cat Helps Engineer Finish Big Cable Job
An engineer describes how workers ran 500 feet of cable through a 25 inch drainpipe using a cat tied to a string and a blast of air. The cat pulled the string which pulled a rope that drew the cable to the end, enabling completion of the project.
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Grand Coulee
First Canadian Built Jet Aircraft Ready for Tests in 1949
New York report says Canada's first jet powered transport, the C-102, will be test flown in February or March 1949. Prototype construction is under way with production models due in 1950. The 36 to 40 passenger plane could use four Rolls Royce Derwent engines delivering 3,500 pounds thrust.
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Canada
Aviation Week
The Shortest Sermon by Dean Swift
The Canadian Churchman notes a claimed record shortest sermon by Dean Swift. The twelve words warn that aid to the poor is a loan to the Lord and will be repaid, ending with the plea to discontinue hoarding money.
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Dean Swift
Bank Robbers Loot Windsor Branch Suspect Bank Credit Sparks Church Confusion
Three youths robbed the Royal Bank at Windsor just before closing. A $2,100 haul included church funds from Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church. Rev. George Purdikoff says his deposits were on the right side of the counter and the church will be credited. Father Burdikoff, not in clerical garb, was the only customer present during the hold up.
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Royal Bank
Windsor
Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church
George Purdikoff
Burdikoff
Ordinary Facts That Papers Seldom Print
A collection of seemingly catalogue like statistics on safety and social trends. It states projections for 1948 auto deaths, juvenile delinquency, airline passengers, infantile paralysis risk, train travel, and workers not on strike, highlighting broad social measures rather than events.
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U.S
Verses Snap Up a Railroader's 1910 Message
Chicago report details a poetic distress note from D. Blue, a railroad engineer, to A. B. Quinby in Winona Minnesota after Engine 62 blew a flue. Quinby replies urging to plug the flue and push onward. The exchange sits in centennial railroad archives highlighting early 20th century railroading culture.
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Chicago
Robert Blue
Iowa
Chicago and North Western Railroad
Winona
Minn
A. B. Quinby
North Iowa Division
D. Blue
Limitless Alberta Tar Sands Hold Billions in Oil
Ottawa reports Canada relies on Alberta and Saskatchewan for most crude, with Leduc and Turner Valley as key Western fields. Alberta plans a Bitumont plant to tap Athabaska sands, facing high transport costs and remoteness challenges. Hydrogenation and shale sources are deemed uneconomical.
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Alberta
Athabaska
Canada
Edmonton
Abasand
G. S. Hume
Geological Survey
Department of Mines and Resources
Athabaska Sands
Ontario
Hume
New Brunswick
Albert County
Dominion
No Danger Of The New Look Disappearing In Spring Fashion
A Canadian Press survey finds women in Canada favoring less leg exposure and slimmer waists this spring with silhouettes returning to older feminine lines. Nova Scotia leans toward shorter skirts while Ottawa shoppers pinch pennies and Toronto stores push short waisted ballerina styles priced from fifty to one hundred dollars. Navy dominates color palettes across regions.
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Dominion
Nova Scotia
Montreal
Ottawa
Toronto
Prairies
Gems Of Thought On Work And Labor Echoed By Famous Writers
A compact collection of quotes on work by W M Hunt Ruskin Sir Joshua Reynolds Ramsay MacDonald and Charles Schwab linking effort to achievement and personal fulfillment. The notes emphasize heart in work and the role of disciplined labor in progress and meaning.
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Charles M. Schwab
Webster Springs church fire ends repair debate
Trustees debated repairing Hendrix Memorial Methodist church in Webster Springs West Virginia before a fire destroyed the interior beyond repair, ending any options for rebuilding at the same site.
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Webster Springs
W. Va
Hendrix Memorial Methodist Church
Swiss stamps feature Olympic hockey goalie with rings crest
Canada sports notes report postage stamps for Olympic games and a hockey goalie crest. Riverside club at Rothesay hosts Dominion golf championship Aug 20 28 with interprovincial matches on Aug 20 21 and open Aug 23 28. Edmonton to host next year's high school curling Sifton trophy in February. Third Lanark plans summer visit to BC for coast games. Liverpool schedules eastern Canada games. Saskatchewan Speed Skating records see 23 new marks led by Bill Kasting and sister Babs. Five man bowling team sets claimed world record 4 449 in Regina Senior Bowling League.
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Dominion Stadies
Riverside Club
Rothesay
N.B
George H. Britain
Canadian Ladies’ Golf Union
Edmonton
Nelson
B.C
Calgary
Alberta
Third Lanark
Scottish Football Association
British Columbia
Liverpool
Canada
Saskatchewan Speed Skating Association
Bill Kasting
Babs
Eddie Leskin
Wally Smith
Regina
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Edna Jaques
Central Press
Maple Leafs
Rembrandt
Nicolaes Maes
Juno
Aert van der Neer
Cat
Joan of Arc
Encyclopedia Britannica
New York
Charles J. Woodsworth
Ottawa Citizen
North-West Territories
Norman Wells
Yellowknife
Great Bear Lake
Turner Valley
Imperial Oil Company
Leduc
Prairie Provinces
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Western Canada
Moose Jaw
Brandon
Winnipeg
West
Canal
White Horse
Yukon
Sarnia
Ont
Prairie
Quebec
Bitumont
Athabaska River
New Bunswick
Canadian Press
W. M. Hunt
Ruskin
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Ramsay MacDonald
Mary Baker Eday
Switzerland
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