Noted Playboy Clarence Dunne and His Luxe Life on the Hudson
Bud and Tim read torn newspaper clippings about Clarence Dunne known as Playboy Number One. He bought a motorboat, chased nightlife, traveled the Hudson, stayed at classy hotels, tipped bellhops, entertained pretty women, and enjoyed lavish meals and diamonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bud Meiers
Tim Lafferty
Bud
Clarence Dunne
Hudson
Tim
Clarence
Jim Brady
Clarence Dunne bank robber story echoes in trench life
Two laborers named Bud and Tim discuss a newspaper feature about Clarence Dunne. The article follows his rise from work to wealth and his eventual 20 year sentence for a string of bank robberies. The men return to their ditch work, pondering the irony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann
Clarence Dunne
Bud
Clarence
Tim
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Little Girl Easy Embroider Pattern 7312
Simple needlework pattern targets children with two motifs sized six by six inches. Request requires twenty five cents in coins and mail to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man. Include name address and pattern number clearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Littl
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
Royalite plans $350,000 BC oil bid on Queen Charlotte Islands
Royalite Oil Co plans to spend about 350000 in its first British Columbia venture. The company expects a large scale strike off the Queen Charlotte Islands with prospects favorable, noting prior oil pools and seepages and a geologic structure similar to the California basin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
Royalite Oil Co
British Columbia
B.C
Queen Charlotte Islands
Royalite
S. F. Heard
California
A Portrait of Hometown Ties By Daniel Francis Clancy
A reflective piece about a community where many know each other well and stand ready to help. The author recalls familiar streets Market and Fourth, markets, trains the streets and seasons, and a social fabric of shared history. He ends with the idea that many will mourn when he dies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Market Street
London
Fourth Street
Paris
Holy Russia
Tropics
Daniel Francis Clancy
Western Briefs from Western Canada In Brief
Stories from Watrous Kelowna Viscount Greenwood Flin Flon and Kelowna note animals sent to zoos and a cabin on Moore Mountain. Imperial Oil acquires a 400 acre refinery site near Winnipeg. Fritz sets a mountain record during Labour Day celebrations. Law reform appeals gain support in Flin Flon. Okanagan fruit shipments match 1947 levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelowna
B.C
Moore Mountain
Frank Kellerman
Red River
Winnipeg
Imperial Oil Limited
Toronto
New Freight Plane Tallies Vast Capacity
The article notes a new freight plane with such large capacity that 60 of these aircraft could replace 210 standard Berlin Air Lift planes, signaling a major efficiency gain in air freight operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Cold Storage Chain Across Prairies Planned
Vancouver firm BC Ice & Cold Storage Ltd plans a 4 million investment to build cold storage outlets east of the Rockies for BC fruits and fish. The project aims to extend the selling season by supplying Prairie centers with stabilized storage for the 1950 crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
Prairies
British Columbia
Ice & Cold Storage Ltd
Rockies
Richard J. Grosse
Cattle Legacy: One Cow Creates Global Whiteface Herds
Britain born farmer left a single Hereford cow 250 years ago. Benjamin Tomkins inherited this animal and developed the Whiteface breed into a worldwide lineage now found on every continent. The Arctic Grinnell Land fauna include musk oxen reindeer and foxes.
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Britain
Benjamin Tomkins
Also Mentioned on This Page
Michael Tiff
Carter
Tate
National Institute of Confectionery Reg'd. Delorimier
P.O. Box
Montreal
P.Q
Ted
Ant Weiss
Dolcin Limited
Ontario
Iriecupies
Alexandria Bay
N.Y
Thousand Islands International Bridge
Canada
Vicks VapoRub
Queenie
John Day
Gagetown
N.B
May
Western Briefs
Watrous
Sask
Long Lake
Here
Dublin
Viscount
Beats
Greenwood
Roland Fritz
Flin Flon
Okanagan Fruit Trade
Okanagan Valley
A. K. Lloyd
B.C. Tree Fruits
Aspirinis &F
Homespun
Northland
India
Iesig
Mary Maxim Sifton
Manitoba
Parker House
Fleischmann
Grinnell Land
Arctic
LSC
By Chuck Thurston
Peggy
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