Saskatchewan Jubilee invites draw hundreds of replies
Saskatchewan’s Golden Jubilee invitations drew responses from across the continent. Former residents mailed thousands of names and addresses, with notes from Victoria and Toronto indicating plans to visit in 1955. Organizers urge early planning for welcoming visiting families and communities.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Fred McGuinness
Justice E. M. Cullton
Culliton
Victoria
B.C
Swift Current
J. W. Warren
Weyburn
Pine Benches For Plymouth Use In Home Workshop
First Plymouth benches served as seats and small tables. Modern pattern 218 provides actual-size outlines for curved sides and ends in white pine. Order with 35c, part of Early American Reproductions Pack. five patterns cost $1.50.
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Plymouth
Humorous Exchanges and Misadventures in a Salon
A string of jokes and vignettes unfolds around a pompous bore who admits his past wrongness only to justify it with vanity. A quarrel over a diamond ring, a stalled engagement, a belated congratulation from a distant couple, and a doctor with vague handwriting all supply comic misfires and social foibles.
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Brownson
Saskatchewan minister calls crop shock but not panicky
Saskatchewan Municipal Affairs Minister McIntosh says the rusted rain-soaked wheat crop of 1953-54 is shocking yet not panic-inducing. He cites 245 million bushels produced with $1.40 paid, while top grades sold between $1.70 and $2, leaving farmers with equity. 125 million bushels remain stored and yields dropped from 22 to eight bushels per acre.
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Regina
McIntosh
Saskatchewan
Canadian Wheat Board
Roy Marler
Alberta Federation of Agriculture
Nearly all 1953 Saskatchewan fire deaths in homes
Regina report shows 1953 fire deaths largely occurred in homes with 66 percent of fires also in residences. There were 1157 home fires averaging 485 dollars per family loss. Switzer urges no smoking in bed and in contact with flammables, professional rewiring, cleaned chimneys, checked heating appliances, and supervising children at home.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
R. A. W. Switzer
Black Watch to Return Home from Korea
Ottawa reports the 2nd Battalion Royal Highland Regiment known as the Black Watch will sail for Canada within three weeks as the first unit of Canada’s 25th Brigade to return. Canada trims its 6,000-man Korea force by two thirds with about 4,000 personnel moving home. Remaining units include the 2nd Battalion Queen’s Own Rifles, 3rd Field Ambulance RCAMC, and support staff.
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Ottawa
Royal Highland Regiment
Black Watch
Canada
Defence Headquarters
F. A. Clift
Korea
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
3Rd Field Ambulance
RCAMC
Animal quilt pattern from Toronto Needlecraft catalog
An advertised pattern 7209 offers an animal themed quilt all in one with embroidery motifs and patches. The notice directs sending twenty five cents to the Household Arts Department 60 Front Street W Toronto for diagrams and dimensions. It promotes BRIMFUL OF IDEAS the 1954 catalog by Alice Brooks with four patterns included.
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P.L
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks Needlecraft
Durum Wheat Breeding Advances Against Stem Rust
A 1950 report from A B Mason of the Winnipeg cereal breeding lab details durum wheat’s vulnerability to stem rust compared with hard red spring wheats and outlines ongoing breeding efforts. Khapli derivatives and Abyssinian lines show resistance, with multiple sources used to develop superior varieties, though commercial candidates remain under testing for yield and macaroni quality.
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A. B. Mason
Cereal Breeding Laboratory
Winnipeg
Man
North Dakota Agricultural College
Federal workers exceed 326000 in June payrolls
Ottawa reports that over 326000 Canadians were employed in federal departments and crown corporations in June with a payroll above 84 million dollars. The statistics show 181129 workers, up 3210 from May and 11335 from June last year, with earnings near 44 million.
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Ottawa
Bureau of Statistics
Memory Spaniel Traveled Two Miles for Ear Ailment
Mickey the cocker spaniel, once treated for sore ears at a Vancouver pets' surgery a year ago, wandered off and returned two miles away reporting renewed ear trouble at the same clinic.
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Vancouver
Mickey
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