Walsh Leads Manitoba To 13th Brier Title In Unbeaten Run
Billy Walsh's Fort Rouge rink from Winnipeg captured the Macdonalds Brier Tankard for Manitoba, going through payoffs undefeated. The four-man lineup Walsh Langlois McWilliams Watson are all veterans with distinguished military service and long curling pedigrees.
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Macdonald
Manitoba
Billy Walsh
Fort Rouge
Winnipeg
Billy
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Army Benevolent Fund
Canadian Legion
The
Ancient Order of United Workmen
Pine Ridge Golf Club
Bill Walsh
Lord Strathcona
North Star Oil Company
Watson
John
Johnny
Johnny Watson
St. James
Man
R.c.e.mle
Provincial Civil Servants Superannuation Fund
Walsh Rink
World Happenings Briefly Told
The British Standards Institution sets shoe lace standards with a minimum breaking point of 45 pounds. Dr. F Douglas Hammond, a Providence geography professor, has traveled 50 000 miles on over half of the nation’s 133 Class 1 railroads. Mrs Edward Sullivan of Chicago donated a 60 foot windmill and an old furnace with a defence strap metal appeal. A Market Base block in England offers a high view but low water pressure for weekly washing. Mexico’s soldiers rode free on buses and streetcars during Soldiers Day with no reveille and special meals. The Post Office will issue a steel blue 20 cent stamp featuring forestry resources of Canada. The Humane Society at Sault Ste Marie remodels into a modern animal hospital with glass brick front and X ray machinery. Odd Dahl of Oslo says atom powered ocean vessels near practical reality as atomic fuel becomes cheaper and abundant.
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F. Douglas Hammond
Bryant College
Providence, R.1
May Can Pork For Export
Ottawa reports Canada may expand pork canning with government support to offset U S embargo on livestock and meats. Cabinet order widens the price support program during the Saskatchewan foot and mouth outbreak. Cold storage shortages push plans to cover canned pork and other long curing products. details forthcoming.
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Ottawa
Canada
United States
Saskatchewan
U.S
Kitchen Meditations Definitions Deaf ear What a little boy Turns to commands
A verse by May Richstone in Woman's Weekly contrasts a boy’s responses to parental commands with the residue of washing hands and the unkept promises. It frames a child’s conduct through symbolic images of dirt, promises, and halo as he sleeps.
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May Richstone
Woman's Weekly
Grandmother Makes Red Flannel Undies For Prize Chicken
In Harwich Pa a 64 year old grandmother Mrs Eva Anderson designed a two piece red flannel suit to protect her prize chicken Black Minnie from the cold and spring snow last summer.
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Harwich
Eva Anderson
Eastern Coal Reserves Estimated at 6 Billion Tons
The Maritime Provinces and eastern Quebec are estimated to hold more than 6 billion tons of coal resources.
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Maritime Provinces
Quebec
On The Side Funny Quips And Social Snippets
A column of humorous asides on marriage trends in Ireland, golf as a mating lure, and matrimonial agency founder Heather Jenner. It cites low marriage rates, a London agency with thousands of marriages, then shifts to light anecdotes about black eyes, enunciation tests, moustache posters in London, and a Clemenceau quip about aging charm.
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Heather Jenner
Miss Jenner
London
Londovers
Crossword Puzzle Clues and Grid From Historic Page
A scanned crossword puzzle appears with horizontal and vertical clues. The grid includes many partial phrases, languages, place names, and descriptors across varied topics, suggesting a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper puzzle. The entries reference Assad, Norse deities, Persian tin symbol, and several numeric positions.
Defence minister considers options on Dundurn farm lands
Ottawa reports Hon. Brooke Claxton says the defence department will exercise options on agricultural land near the Dundurn military camp in Saskatchewan within a short period. In Boston, Massachusetts the highway safety program shows gains with road deaths among school children falling from 134 in 1931 to 16 in 1951.
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Ottawa
Brooke Claxton
Dundurn
Sask
Boston
Massachusetts
Welsh Farmers To Continue 200 Year Trial
In Montgomery Wales Welsh farmers plan another spring attempt to prove John Newtons guilt for robbery by seeding grass on his grave site. Newton claimed grass would not grow on his grave as proof of innocence and farmers have failed to grow grass there for 200 years despite new earth and grass seed.
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John Newton
Newton
Weekly Tip Window Cleaning
Vinegar and water make an excellent cleaner for windows. The vinegar cuts grease and dust washed off by splashing rain. Use about one third cup of vinegar to two quarts of water.
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Free Presa
Andy McWilliams
Allan Langlois
British Standards Institution
Edward Sullivan
Chicago
Market Base
England
Mexico
Post Office Department
Humane Society of
Sault Ste. Marie, Ont
Odd Dahl
Oslo
By Jane Dale
Eastern Coal
Billy Sunday
Cold Stord
Gerges Clemenceau
Champs Elysees
Clemenceau
By William Ferguson
Tom Hoggatt
Issa
Wome. Scient
NEA Service, Inc
de Coll
T. M Reg U. & Pat. Off
Wallena
Jalalal
Pacific Island
Chaldea
Persia
New Zealand
Princeton
Electronics Laboratory
Central Press
Montgomery
Wales
By Les Kleis
Virgil
Priscilla
Pop
Carlyle
GU Questio
al Vermeer
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