New School Printing Course to Start in Saskatchewan
Education Minister W. Lloyd announces a new part time student printing course for Grades Nine and Ten in 82 Saskatchewan towns and villages. The program pairs students with local printers for two hours weekly, earns one credit upon passing tests, and is supported by the Saskatchewan Division of the Sadain Weekly Newspapers Association. It does not run in cities with daily newspapers and aims to spark interest in the printing trade.
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Rdegina
Saskatchewan
W. 5. Lloyd
Ith
Sadain
Assation
Vincial
C.w.wn.a
Allied Printing Trades Union
Provincial Education Department
Cleeton and Pitkin
Saskatchewan Government Insurance Office
J. A. Doyle
Doyle
Aneroid
Arcola
Assiniboia
Balcarres
Bruno
Canora
Carlyle
Carnduff
Carrot River
Climax
Craik
Cupar
Wakaw
Watrous
Weyburn
Whitewood
Wilkie
Wolseley
Wynyard
Yorkton
Zealandia
Punnichy
Lana Turner
Jane Russell
Aoung
Saskatchewan Leads Canada in Tuberculosis Death Reduction
Saskatchewan reports the lowest tuberculosis death rate in Canada for 1949 with 13.1 deaths per 100 000 white residents, down five per 100 000 from 1948. Ontario remains second overall. Swift Current led with a 96.7 percent survey turnout as mass fluoroscope surveys expand.
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Saskatoon
Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League
Saskatchewan
Canada
Ontario
Swift Current
Scar latti delights in piano pieces with double hand crossing
The renowned pianist Domenico Scarlatti enjoyed works demanding hand crossing until his weight prevented further performance.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Riching Men In Aprons And Thrifty Diners
A miscellany column discusses husbands helping with dishes, women valuing their looks, advice on flattering talk, a tale of entrepreneurial luck from a single egg, and a cautionary note about forcing a left handed child to write right handed. The piece ends with a stray line about 2901 miles.
World Happenings Briefly Told
The British ministry of food plans to create and store food reserves against war. Canada faces a flax shortage as linseed producers risk losses. A French foreign ministry spokes man denied rearming the Maginot line. Belgium sees match hoarding due to the Korean conflict. The United States returned 69 flags to Mexico to symbolize friendship. Prairie Farm Assistance paid over 22 million dollars in 1949 for crop losses, while Canadian families on the health department’s family allowances rose by about 615000 since 1945.
Autumn Gift Reflected In Quiet Day
A speaker embraces autumn as a golden day with mellow skies and flaming trees. They leave duties behind to witness autumn’s array and find solace in its living song, treasuring the season’s beauty all day.
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Autumn
Canada’s fifth air force under the R.C.A.F. history
The Royal Canadian Air Force, formed in 1924, is described as Canada’s fifth air force in historical context.
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Canada
Fifth Air Force
R.C.A.F
Governor General Likely to Donate Alexander Cup for Senior Hockey
Ross Munro reports that Governor General Lord Alexander is expected to donate a new trophy named the Alexander Cup for a proposed Super Series. The plan aims to unite champions from the four major Canadian senior leagues, replacing the Allan Cup as emblem of senior hockey supremacy.
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Ross Munro
Lord Alexander
Canada
Western Canada Hockey League
Ontario Hockey Association
Quebec
Lord Stanley of
Preston
Montreal Wanderers
Montagu Allan
Montreal
Largest Alberta grain elevator opens near Lethbridge
The three mile south Alberta facility is the province’s biggest single unit grain elevator. Priced at 80 000 dollars it can store 120 000 bushels. A German musician set a piano playing time record at 123 hours in a separate note.
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Lethbridge
Alta
Alberta
Weekly Tip Remove Rusty Nails
A homemaker asks how to loosen a rusted screw or nail in wood. The answer: apply a small amount of hot paraffin, allow it to soak briefly, and the nail or screw should yield with ease.
Portable hay feeding rack designs for cattle and sheep
The article describes portable hay feeding racks for cattle and lighter racks for sheep, suitable for indoor or outdoor use. It explains feeding grain on the rack floor and provides a rough method to estimate bin capacity in bushels from length, width, and height.
Britain raises farm wages in Britain Central Agricultural Wages Board action
Britain’s Central Agricultural Wages Board boosts male farm laborers to five pounds per week and female workers to three pounds nine shillings, reflecting government policy. The piece also oddly notes an average lifetime heartbeat count of about 2.75 billion.
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London
Britain
Central Agricultural Wages Board
Hundreds of Antelope Sighted Along Fort Peck Lake
Residents in Lewistown Montana report hundreds of antelope bunched along the south bank of Fort Peck Lake on the Missouri River. The herd likely crossed from the north on winter ice and cannot return, prompting ranchers to worry as cattle lose pasture to the crowd.
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Lewistown
Mont
Fort Peck Lake
Missouri River
Crossword Puzzle Minute Challenge
A crossword list with horizontal and vertical clues covering a range of terms from actions to Greek letters. Includes figures like Sun god and Apostles, plus common words such as rodent and limestone. The puzzle references various general terms and archetypal crossword entries.
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Sask
Tex
Marcel Desjardins
Riching
West Indies
Mles
Ministry of Food
Leo Gauer
McCabe Grain Co
Maginot Line
Belgium
Brussels
United States
Mexico
Truman
Health Department
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Mol Olli
Russia
America
Montana
Atterchaos
The
Bahama Islands
Virgil
By Len Kleis
Priscilla
al Vermeer
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