Ghostly Marigold fountain tale ends in tragedy aboard ship
A Montrealer recounts a sailor captain's tale of Tanya a soda fountain worker who killed six patrons over months of watching cigarette ash. The jury acquitted her as temporarily insane and she vanished after a midnight farewell aboard the Marigold, feared wandering riverbanks at night.
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Omy
Tountain
Montreal
Tanya
Oda
Law
Brown Star Line
Mount Thom
Evein
Humanity
Truro
Lucy Gray
The Marigold Sailor and the Lucy Gray Mystery at Night
A damaged sea tale set on a strange central Nova Scotia ship, The Marigold, last trip of the day on Salmon River toward Truro from Kemptown. A blackout storm, electric eels powering the vessel, and a bartender from Montreal discuss sightings of Tanya and Lucy Gray as the ship shatters near willows, with a bewitching bar tale unfolding.
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Nova Scotia
Truro
Kemptown
Montreal
Bill
Lucy Gray
Tanya
Cnme
Cora Flake Jumbles Holiday Cookie Recipe
Gather the cre s around the young crowd and the not so young crowd trim the tree. The experts on tree decorations enjoy a crisp crunchy cookie served with punch or hot chocolate. Cora Flake Jumbles mix shortening sugar egg milk vanilla dates nut meals corn flakes roll in corn flakes bake 12 minutes yields 32 cookies.
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Cora
How To Play Better Hockey Booklet Promoted
A new free hockey coaching booklet from Sports College, praised by NHL figures, offers 50 pages of tips for players and coaches. Lloyd Percival leads the project with CBC and YMCA backing, urging rural and western regions to join for free access to improved sport skills across Canada.
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Sports College
Canada
Jack Adams
Detroit Red Wings
NHL
Adams
C-0 Ymca
Box
Toronto
Lloyd Percival
CBC
Tional Council
Ymca of Canada
Atness
Percival
Sports Colle
Western Canada
Fas Percival
Knute Rockne
Notre Dame
Crown Jewels Return To View At Edinburgh Castle
The Scottish Crown Jewels are back on display in the Crown Room at Edinburgh Castle after safe storage during the war. Among the items is the Jewel of St Andrew with a miniature of Maria Clementina Sobieski on its reverse, a sovereign’s badge used by past and present monarchs at Holyroodhouse. The intrinsic value of the jewels and metal was never fully computed, but was valued at about £5,000 years ago according to the Scotsman.
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Edinburgh Castle
St. Andrew
Maria Clementina Sobieski
Prince Charlie
Order of the Thistle
George V
Holyroodhouse
Far North Canada gleanings and Arctic notes
Bits from Canadian scenes include a 10-foot sun grown at Fort Laird NWT and a Nova Scotia style forward on black currants aiding colds. Reports cover recovery, farming, community changes, and a Wingdon edition of Canadian life with towns like Lanark Ontario Deloraine Manitoba Weyburn Saskatchewan and Powell River British Columbia.
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Canada
Fort Laird
Nwt
Col. T. 4
Kennedy
Ontario
Lanark County
Charlie MacIntosh
RCAF
Powell River
Vennard
Radville
Sask
Deloraine
Man
Hockey Farm
Jack Adams
Detroit Red Wings
Melville
John Gask
Springside
Yorkton
Huge Six Million Dollar Palomar Telescope Resumes Work
California institute workers resume construction of the six million dollar Palomar Observatory telescope after wartime pause. Supervisor Dr John A Anderson states the mirror has shed four and a half tons since grinding began and will reach full concavity to peer into galaxies over one billion light years away within eighteen months.
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California Observatory
Mount Palomar
Palomar Observatory
John A. Anderson
Anderson
California Institute of Techno Optical Shop
Forestry policy urged to aid Canada's pulp and paper needs
A study for the Canadian Geographical Society by economist F T Webb recommends a national forestry policy to ensure Canada can meet rising world demands for pulp and paper. The report, released in Ottawa after months of expert input, says Canada is best positioned to adapt to postwar changes and new uses for pulp and paper.
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Canada
Canadian Geographical Society
F T. Webb
Society At
Ottawa
Fine Fitting Apron Pattern 1938 for all sizes
Pattern 1938 promotes a cheerful daytime apron with ric h actrim or embroidery. Sizes small through ex large are listed with yardage and a 20 cent price. Orders to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 115 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot’ Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Heelis Bequest Gives 250 Lake District Farms to Nation
The will of William Heelis, husband of Beatrix Potter, transfers two hundred fifty Ambleside farmland plots in the Lake District to the nation. Potter, famed author of Peter Rabbit, is the creator associated with the landomholdings.
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Britain
Lake District
Ambleside
England
William Heelis
Beatrix Potter
Peter Rabbit
Eres
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