Canada Wheelchair Athletes Prep for 1958 Paralympics
The Wheelchair Wonders and Wonderettes from Montreal will represent Canada at the 1958 Paralympic Games. Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a German neurosurgeon, founded the annual event for crippled athletes after moving to Britain in 1938 and launching the program in 1944.
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Canada
Montreal
Ludwig Guttmann
Britain
Fourteen New Lots Open North of Memorial Building
Town announces fourteen lots now available in the new subdivision north of the Memorial Building on Main St. J F Cameron reports sixteen applicants for the fourteen lots and expects some may drop out. Lots sold on a first come first served basis with two to three buyers ready to start building soon. The Journal Humbokit Sask September 26 1957. An alloy was first used with gold some centuries before Christ.
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Memorial Building
Main St
J. F. Cameron
Journal, Humbokit, Sask
Trustees Frown On New School Fronting Portage Avenue
St James trustees oppose a proposed school fronting Portage Avenue and discuss whether to obtain immediate title to properties set aside for future school sites in a September 1957 Leader report from St. James Manitoba.
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Portage Avenue
St. James School
St. James, Man
Kerrobert Builds Ahead With Natural Gas Heating
Kerrobert grows into a modern town with natural gas heating a sewerage system and expanded water supply. Over the next few years expect home improvements construction and business property upgrades as vision and energy drive progress. A boost now means a better tomorrow. The Sun. Kerrobert Sask September 23 1957.
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Kerrobert
Kerrobert, Sask
Eight car accidents in one week in North Battleford
Over the past week there were at least eight major traffic accidents around North Battleford. Incidents included a truck struck by a train at Gagne Avenue level crossing injuring none of the yard engine, a September 20 crash at highways 5 and 40 near the city with minor injuries to Bill Spicer, and a bridge collision near Cochin injuring Mrs. Robert Taves and others with fractured ribs.
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North Battleford
Ben Anderson
Gagne Avenue
Austin
Bill Spicer
Prince Albert
Spicer
Robert Taves
Turtleford
Cochin
Taves
News-Optimist
Sask
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