Mark Randals perilous voyage ends in rescue
Mark Randals boat battles gale and rain on a mission to Briar Island to marry Jane Ellen. Jed Shelby sabotages his fuel with water, nearly killing him. A rescue by the Bernadine brings him back, and Jed's letter reveals the prank was the cause of his ordeal.
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Bay of Fundy
Mark Randal
Briar Island
Jane Ellen
Jed Shelby
Mark
Rou
Jed
Gloucester
Fellows
Jane Ellen Galbraith
St. Pierre
Shelby
Jane Elsen
Bernadine
Shag Harbor
Mark Randa
Bill Matthews
Grand Manan
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Water use in Winnipeg hits nine billion gallons in 1950
Residents of Greater Winnipeg used 9 202 000 000 gallons of water in 1950. The figure equates to about 80 gallons per day for each resident, highlighting high per capita consumption.
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Winnipeg
Greater
Western Junior Hockey league to add Edmonton Oil Kings
The six team Western Junior Hockey league will expand next season to include the Edmonton Oil Kings following a special junior hockey meeting. Also recommended is keeping the four team northern Saskatchewan Junior league as last year.
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Medicine Hat
Edmonton Oil Kings
Northern Saskatchewan
Wrap Dress Pattern 4520 for Girls Sizes 6–14
Advertisement for Anne Adams pattern 4520 a wrap dress for girls with tulip pocket applique and no shoulder seams. Includes sizing 6 through 14, yardage notes for size 12, scraps for applique, complete illustrated instructions, and a pattern book offer with 35 cent pattern order and 25 cent pattern book collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Diamond Found By Morning Meal Sparks Sask. Search
Nearly six years after Mrs Daniel Webster dropped a diamond in a barn yard north of Southey Sask the stone was found by her husband during breakfast. The couple had long given up hope as the diamond had eluded searches. The discovery ends a long search by the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Webster
Southey
Sask
Webster
Flower seed gift to Britain brightens bomb sites
In London a ceremony marked the handover of 100 pounds worth of British Columbia flower seed to the London Garden Society. W A McAdam accepted the gift from F Q Blake of Vancouver, while Frances Matterson presented a £40 cheque from George Townend of Duncan to cover seed purchases.
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London
British Columbia
W. A. McAdam
London Garden Society
F. Q. Blake
Vancouver
West Coast
George Townend
Duncan
B.C
Britain
Frances Matterson
Duncan Hospital
New Wheat Named Lee To Be Tested In Saskatchewan
Yorkton reports import of eight bushels of Lee wheat valued at $30 a bushel for experimental growing in the Yorkton area. A. M. Thompson of North eastern Seed Co. Ltd. says Lee, developed by the University of Minnesota with the US Department of Agriculture, out yields some standards in leaf rust areas and is being tested amid cautions on licenced seed purity and frost sensitivity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatchewan
Yorkton
Lee
George Dulmage
A. M. Thompson
Northeastern Seed Co. Ltd
Thompson
University of Minnesota
United States Department of Agriculture
Crossing Hope
Timstein
Canada
Redman
Thatcher
Manitoba
Marquis
Dentunion Laboratory of
Winnipeg
Plant Products Division
Fiery Itching Skin Relief Oil Promises Quick Healing
An antiseptic oil marketed as penetrating and fast acting for Eetema Itching Toes and Feet Hashes and general skin troubles. It claims rapid healing of sores wounds ulcers eczema and barbers itch with eruptions drying and scaling within days. Sold as Moone's Emerald Oil at drugstores.
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Moone
Oil Pipeline To Carry 95000 Barrels Daily
Interprovincial Pipe Line Co says when tankers begin full operation on the Great Lakes 95000 barrels of oil will be pumped daily from Edmonton. Of these 95000 barrels 53000 will reach Superior Wisconsin after deliveries to Prairie refineries along the route.
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Louis Arthur Cunningham
Fleischmann
FlEisty
Fastri
Ducks Unlimited
Angus Gavin
Rennie Harley
Alberta
Gavin
Harley
Edmonton
Western Briefs
Vanscoy
O. E. Allen
Torney
Rhodes Smith
Caribou
Churchill
Man
Hudson Bay
Regina
Saskatchewan Fur Marketing Service
A. J. Cooke
Mountain Emergency Squad
R.C.A.F. Search and Rescue Service
Weyburn
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
J Fashions
Dilugee
Anne Adams Pattern Dept
Comereet Union
Front Street W
Toronto
Interprovincial Pipe
America
Fleischmann S
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