Homemade trencher and spiker aid farm water ditching
Bromhead farmer Earl Jaice explains how he built a trenching trencher from a tiller blade and a spiker from an old cultivator shank to lay eight foot deep ditches of plastic pipe for running water. He details digging methods, safety, daily output about 40 feet, and credit to a Saskatchewan farm radio program for the idea.
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Bromhead
Earl Jaice
Jaice
Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
Joice
Egg shaped like a cylinder draws crowd in garden week
Now that the season for freak garden stuffs is over, Ed Gaertner of Leipzig brings in an egg that defies normal shape. It is three inches long and about five inches around the middle, nearly uniform top to bottom. It may be a multiple yolk egg awaiting test.
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Ed Gaertner
Leipzig
Kilpatrick Wins First NHL Photo Contest Title
Detroit News photographer Kilpatrick James R Scotty Kilpatrick won the inaugural National Hockey League photo contest for 1957 58. City prizes ranged from 100 to 50 dollars with three finalists from each NHL city, and a permanent trophy to Kilpatrick.
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James R. i Scotty) Kilpatrick
Detroit News
N.H.L
New York
Associated Press
United Press International
Kilpatrick
Border travel trends show little change from 1957
Motor vehicle traffic across the border to the end of September remained practically unchanged from 1957 as returning Canadian vehicles balanced a decline in foreign cars. Visitors to Canada by rail bus boat and plane through August were slightly fewer than last year, with fewer Canadians returning by these means.
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Canada
Red Cross reports $20000 relief spend at Springhill mine
The Canadian Red Cross said its disaster relief expenditure at Springhill totals 20000, mainly for miners clothing. Volunteers from Nova Scotia New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island aided with food clothing and medical support since the relief effort began October 23.
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Canadian Red Cross
Springhill
Nova Scotia
Halifax
Red Cross
Royal Canadian Navy
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Harvey R. Doane
Patterned Jumper and Blouse Ensemble for Misses
Advertisement for Printed Ed Pattern 4846 offering a Aadlaws Jumper with companion blouse or dress. Includes double-breasted effect and easy-fitting 6gore skirt in Misses' sizes 10 to 20. Fabric yardages listed for 54 inch nap and 39 inch blouse fabric. Send 50 cents to Anne Aviams Pattern Dept. at Front Street, Forento.
Exchange between two town libraries
Indian Head library board met Grenfell library board last Thursday at Grenfell to discuss joint buying of non fiction. A shelf of exchange books was returned after a year and new non fiction and 18 fiction titles were brought in. Grenfell will return a similar number in spring. New adult titles added at Indian Head.
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Indian Head Library Board
Grenfell
Grenfell Exchange
Indian Head
Sask
Wheat and weight anxieties spark bread backed push
A nostalgic discourse argues for more wheat in bread to curb fat trends, urging bakers to boost wheat content and voters to adopt exercise, linking economy, fashion, and nourishment with home baked bread as a morale booster.
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Wheat Board
Honorary life memberships mark Alberta weekly convention
The Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association honored Leonard D. Nesbitt and Rae L. King with life memberships at Edmonton. Nesbitt, former Bassano and Brooks editor, retired in Calgary. King with 53 years in weeklies editors the Camrose Canadian. Both recalled early days and pioneers of weekly journalism.
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Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association
Edmonton
Leonard D. Nesbitt
Rae L. King
Nesbitt
Bassano and
Brooks
Calgary
King
Camrose Canadian
Bob Edwards
A L. Horton
Vegreville
Charles Clark
High River
Charles Willis
Stettler
Mr. King
The Last Turn of the Key on a Summer Lake House
A narrator reflects on closing a lake cottage for winter. Memories linger as the season ends, neighbors fade, and cold winds replace the lake breeze. Summer ends with a mix of sadness and longing for next year.
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Junior
Immigration totals in 1958 half year ahead of 1957
In the first six months of 1958 immigration to Canada reached 67 744, versus 182 426 in January to June 1957. The data also notes Montreal as Canada's leading port by cargo tonnage handled, with Vancouver second and Halifax third.
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Canada
Montreal
Canadas
Vancouver
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Manitoba
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Lakehead
Prairie Command
Germany
Toronto
Anne Aviams Pattern Dept
Front Street
Forento
Globe
Lacombe
Alta
the Stanstead Journal
Rock Islar
Anstead, Quebec
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