Bascomb Bets Turn Into Christmas Baby Tale
In a small town a farming family gains attention as last minute bets on Jawn Bascomb’s baby girl stir excitement. The shoe box collects $720 for a winner, but Sally insists she deserves half after learning of the bets and the entire community watches for the stork’s call.
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Jawn
Sally Bascomb
Bobs Cafe
Tree Bascomte
Wells
Bob
Lars
Brother
Sally
Dawn
Stork
Bascomb Farm
Tain
Saly
Anne Adams Spring Pattern Book and 4878 Dress Pattern
Advertisement from the Anne Adams Pattern Dept offering Pattern 4878, sizes 12 through 42, with yardage and easy instructions. Promotes the summer dress under coat look, and notes 35 cents for pattern, 25 cents for the pattern book collection including one-yard patterns and a free handbag pattern. Includes mailing details to Winnipeg Newspaper Union, Toronto.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Front Street W
Toronto
Runaway Car Smashes Into Living Room
In Prince Albert Saskatchewan at 6 am Mr and Mrs M R Fraser woke to a car nose in their living room the vehicle empty minutes later Rev D N Erickson visiting from Alberta saw the runaway car left running while he went in for breakfast the crash damaged shingles pilaster and furniture.
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Prince Albert
M. R. Fraser
D. N. Erickson
Alberta
Fraser Bungalow
Mr. Erickson
Victoria teachers to get yearly pension increase 21 per service year
In British Columbia the Teachers Pensions Act amendments set pensions at 21 dollars annually for each year of service. Education Minister W. T. Straith introduced the measure in the Legislature.
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Victoria
B.C
W. T. Straith
Alberta to buy 14000 pheasant eggs for hatch
The Alberta fish and game branch plans to spend over $2,500 for 14,000 pheasant eggs from the U S. Eggs will be hatched in Brooks incubators and the birds released mainly to the eastern irrigation district to replenish pheasant numbers after heavy blizzards. Egg price ranges from 16 to 25 cents each.
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Alberta Fish and Game Branch
U.S
Brooks
Tea growing in B C may boost industry
Victoria reports Tea growing could become an industry in British Columbia employing hundreds, says Industry Minister Leslie Eyres. A Milner firm in the Fraser Valley is cultivating tea, blending black and green varieties, with 300 bushes now and plans to double this year. The aim is to produce about 2000 pounds in the current season as three years are needed for a bush to mature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
British Columbia
Leslie Eyres
Milner
Fraser Valley
Eyres
First Sugar Beet Seedings Planted in Taber District
Taber Alberta reports the first seeding of southern Alberta's 1951 sugar beet crop of 57 500 acres. Clifford W Bennett planted a five acre plot as beet planting is expected to spread district wide within the next week.
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Taber
Alta
Alberta
Clifford W. Bennett
Appointment of Dr H Karl Rasmussen Chief of Animal Husbandry
Announcement of Dr H Karl Rasmussen as Chief of the Animal Husbandry Division in the Department of Agriculture Ottawa. Rasmussen, former associate superintendent of the Experimental Station at Lethbridge Alberta, succeeds George Muir who retired months ago. He will head all animal husbandry work of the Experimental Farms Service across Canada.
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Civil Service Commission
H. Karl Rasmussen
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Rasmussen
Lethbridge
Alberta
George Muir
Parms
Canada
University fees rise at British Columbia campus
The University of British Columbia announced a $30 increase in student fees for the next term due to higher operating costs and reduced revenue.
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Vancouver
University of British Columbia
Two More Drilling Ventures Start in British Columbia
CALGARY two more drilling ventures were started in north eastern British Columbia by Pacific Petroleums Limited. The oil and gas operations expand searches in the Peace river area where twelve ventures are now drilling. The projects aim as a gas supply source for the West coast gas line to the Pacific coast.
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Calgary
British Columbia
Pacific Petroleums, Limited
Peace River
West Coast
Pacific Coast
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Floyd Lynn
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Jfashions
A. A
Information Service
Western Briefs
Saskatoon
Sask
Winnipeg
Dauphin
H. E. Puttee
National Board of Fire Underwriters
National Fire Protection Association
Harry Kirby
Elkhorn
Weibe Construction Company
Manitoba Red Cross
American Red Cross
Minnesota
Manitoba
Regina
Kroneau
Guy McCall
DR. H. Krakl Rasmussen
Les Carrol
Buck
Mars Paratiuany
Wesco Waterprints
Patrick Street
Montreal
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