Canadian Emigration to the United States impacts population
The article details long running Canadian emigration to the U.S. since 1820, with 250,000 plus Canadians crossing postwar, and 85,000 Americans moving north. It notes peak migrations, returns, and the loss of professionals, plus a humorous note about Canucks influencing U.S. politics and cities like Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
US Immigration Service
Three
Prairie Provinces
Vancouver
Canada
U.S
New England
Boston
Oil business interests women urged for careers in oil
Edna Hurry, newly elected president of the Desk and Derrick Clubs of North America, urges women to join the oil industry. The group has about 9 000 members in 30 states and three Canadian provinces with roles from company presidents to secretaries and clerks. The New Jersey company executive notes many are engineers geologists and chemists and that oil work offers lively opportunities year round.
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New York
Edna Hurry
Desk and
Derrick Clubs
North America
Canadian
Harry
New Jersey
Oil Indust
Copper staking frenzy hits Lac la Ronge area
A copper staking rush sweeps Lac la Ronge with over 1 000 claims in Drinking Keg Trade and Forbes Larocque lakes. Stakers arrive by air as mining activity booms. officials move to record claims while investors eye a Glen Uranium deal and city stores report booming business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Here
Forbes-Larocque Lakes
Flin Flon
Toronto
Glen Uranium
Drinking Falls
Trade Lake
Richard Kenderdine
Robert
Richard Gordon
Lloydminster
Boy with two mouths described as medical rarity
Dr. Hugh G Beatty reported a Canton Ohio boy aged 12 with a rare congenital condition in Atlantic City New Jersey. The extra mouth 14 inches wide had its own tongue and tooth buds but shared a nerve supply with the true mouth. Three operations by age three removed the extra mouth structures and closed the opening.
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Columbus
Atlantic City
American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Hugh G. Beatty
United Press
Carpenter
Beatty
Britain
Teenage dress pattern for back to school wardrobe
Pattern 4831 targets teenage sizes 10 12 14 16 with a long torso flare skirt and back belt. Includes short or three quarter sleeves and smoothed fitted bodice plus illustrated instructions. Send 35 cents in coins to Department PPL Anne Aears Pattern Dept 60 Front Street W Torosto.
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P.P.L
Anne Aears Pattern Dept
Front Street W
Torosto
Old Grey Mare Has Foal At Age 30 In London
Horse breeder Fred Unwin claims his 30 year old mare Stephanie foaled a filly in London. He notes the age is extraordinary and confirms he bought Stephanie as a yearling in 1926, asserting the mare’s documented age.
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London
Fred Unwin
Stephanie
Unwin
Try and Stop Me collection of quips and vignettes
Bennett Cerf presents a string of humorous anecdotes about odd cures, delayed gifts, a mystery in a publisher’s drawer, a Budapest clinic complaint, a cheesecake model appointed honorary police chief, and a Hollywood suburb prankster reveal. The pieces mix jokes, curiosities, and dry wit.
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Hollywood
Churchill vetoes pub sign honor in Buckinghamshire
In Aylesbury Sir Winston Churchill forbids naming a new pub after him. brewers proposed Churchill Arms but he declined, preferring another title. The piece notes Churchill’s fame and pubs named for other great figures like Nelson and Wellington. The article also oddly mentions the two horned white rhinoceros as the second largest land animal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aylesbury
Eng
Sir Winston Churchill
Buckinghamshire
Churchill Arms
Britain
Lord Nelson
Duke of Edinburgh
Churchill
Phone installed despite protest in Beckenham
Mrs Evan Haines told Associated Press that 350000 people are on a waiting list for telephones while the government proceeds with installing a line she does not want. Workmen bored through a garden wall and strung a wire to her flat, prompting her appeal to the local council which said it could not halt the project. A Post Office spokesman noted future tenants may have different views on phone service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckenham
England
Evan Haines
Associated Press
Home Workshop builds a cabinet for a kitchen sink
Pattern 335 offers a variable size cabinet adaptable to any sink and extendable along a kitchen wall. The kit includes large perspective drawings and tracing diagrams for the inside door containers made from quarter inch plywood. To obtain pattern 335 send name and address with 35 cents. The Kitchen Remodeling Packet with the sink pattern costs 1.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Workshop
Department P.P.L
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Smile Of The Week Scene In Friendly Exchange
Mrs Brown asks if scolded her boy for imitating her. Mrs Green confirms and says she told him to stop acting like an idiot.
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Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Green
Saskatchewan Poultry Board Predicts Higher Turkey Prices
A Saskatchewan poultry release forecasts higher turkey prices as the 1955 Canadian crop is 2.5 percent smaller than last year while Saskatchewan’s output remains similar. American hatch is down mainly in light broiler turkeys, prompting expectations of firmer prices in 1955. The notice urges producers to extend marketing to Christmas, finish birds properly, and coordinate with dealers to avoid market congestion and extra feed costs.
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Askatchewan Poultry RaYelease
Saskatchewan
Prediction of fewer Canadian winter jobless days
Trade Minister C. D. Howe predicted fewer unemployed Canadians next winter than last year. He cited high employment in Canada and the U S but warned that winter unemployment cannot be prevented in Canada when Great Lakes freeze and highways cannot be built. He noted March's postwar peak of about 633 000 unemployed seeking National Employment Service jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. D. Howe
Canada
Ottawa
U.S
Great Lakes
National Employment Service
Hem-Roid Tablet Promises Quick Piles Relief
An advertisement touts Hem-Roid Tablets as a simple internal remedy for swollen painful piles. It claims relief from itching soreness and shrinking of the condition with two to three doses daily, offered at drug stores with a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
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United States
Manitoba
Sascatchown
Alberta
George Kitchen
Washington
Confucius
la Ronge
Mirra
Bozo
By Foxo Reardon
Brooklyn Dodgers
New York Yankees
Johnny Podres
Carl Furillo
Dodger
Bennett Cerf
Davy Crockett
Westport
Matt Weinstock
Budapest
Turkey
Ramsay Company
Banig Street
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