Miss Maisie Receives Secret Mail In Odd House Mystery
In a boarding house Miss Maisie Humphries attracts attention with regular letters. Mrs Collins and tenants wonder about possible suitors or scams as Miss Maisie quietly keeps to herself and reads a note from Martha Hampton, matron of Homewood Orphanage, thanking her for sending clothes for a crippled orphan.
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RS. Collins
Mr. Collins
Mrs. Collins
Miss Maisie
George
Mrs Collins
Mer
Miss England
Mr. West
Alf
Mr. Dunlop
Miss Humphries
Susan
Martha Hampton
Homewood Orphanage
St Mary River Dam Set to Open July 16
The $6 million St Mary river dam, Canada’s largest earthen dam, will be officially opened on July 16. Part of a $30 million irrigation project, it will supply water to parched lands between Lethbridge and Medicine Hat in southern Alberta after four years of construction.
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Lethbridge
St Mary River
Canada
St. Mary-Milk
Medicine Hat
Alberta
Dutch Immigrants to Flock West to Canada
About 7 560 Dutch immigrants are expected to come to Canada this year per Sjoord Van Dar Meulen a Dutch travel agency operator. He notes 1 560 more than last year and predicts more settlers will choose western Canada over Ontario.
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Edmonton
Canada
Sjoord van Dar Meulen
van Dar Meulen
Ontario
NHL Statistical Card Offered Free for 1950-51 Season
Hockey fans may obtain the National Hockey League Final Official Statistics card for the 1950-51 Regular Season and Playoffs free by writing to the Information Bureau in Montreal. The notice invites requests from enthusiasts through the league’s Sun Life Building address.
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N.H.L
Information Bureau
National Hockey League
Sun Life Building
Montreal
Quebec
Less Precipitation Reported at Brandon Farm
Experimental farm records show total rainfall to May 28 this year at .99 inches, well below the 2.83 inches recorded by this date in 1950. Last year June alone added 5.2 inches, illustrating a sharp rainfall decline this season.
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Brandon
Butter Stocks Far Below 1950 Figure
Butter stocks in nine Canadian cities totaled 4 249 000 pounds on May 11 down from 18 175 000 a year earlier. The Bureau of Statistics notes declines in all centers except Quebec with Montreal Toronto Winnipeg Regina Saskatoon Edmonton Calgary and Vancouver listed beside year ago figures.
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Bureau of Statistics
Quebec
Montreal
Toronto
Winnipeg
Regina
Saskatoon
Edmonton
Calgary
Vancouver
Fashion Pattern Ad for Anne Adams Spring Line
Casual shirt pattern 4984 shown with upstanding collar and winged cuffs. Sizes 12 to 20 available. size 16 uses 43 and a half yards of 35 inch fabric. Includes illustrated instructions. order by mail with 35 cents.
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Anne Adams
University of Saskatchewan raises pay for professors
The University of Saskatchewan announced a salary increase of 500 dollars a year for deans and full professors, and 400 dollars for associate and assistant professors, effective this year.
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Saskatoon
University of Saskatchewan
Vancouver Labor Council Opposes Immigration Drive
Western Briefs report the Vancouver Labor Council condemning a government plan to import European workers to British Columbia as a move to increase unemployment and depress wages. Other items note highway damage claim changes in Brandon, mixed drinking bans in Alberta, a stone fireplace drive in Flin Flon, a bear shot near Big River, a new bridge opening at Saskatchewan Landing, orphaned coypus in Stanley Park, and Dorothy Greensmith’s death as Saskatchewan’s first female King's Counsel.
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Vancouver
Vancouver Labor Council
C.C.L
British Columbia
Regina
Dorothy Greensmith
King's Counsel
Western Canada
Saskatchewan Public Service
K.C
Saskatchewan
Pulp Mill Likely Soon For B C
Vancouver report says a pulp mill may be built in the Arrow Lakes district of southeast British Columbia as the government tests turbines at the 33 000 horsepower Whatshaw hydro project. Lands Minister Kenney told Nakusp Board of Trade executives that negotiations with a pulp company are under way in timber country.
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Vancouver
Arrow Lakes
B.C
Kenney
Board of Trade
Nakusp
Whatshan
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Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
St. Mary River
N.H.L. Statistical Card
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Doreen Richardson
Aldous Huxsey
John Colicos
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The
Canadian Press
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
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R.cm. Police Subdivision
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Flin Flon
Chamber of Commerce
Here
Big River
Sask
Resources Department
Orval Horne
Jim Cowie
Swift Current
South Saskatchewan River
Saskatchewan Landing
T. C. Douglas
Stanley Park Zoo
Delkicio
Rideau
Ingersoll Rideau
Rideau Chees
Ingersoll Gry
Ngersoul
OL Orford Chee
Rkins
Teri
MR. Dinner
Lei Carroll
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