Last Straws and a Mother's Quiet Hope in Wheeler's Garage
Ma Perkins narrates a family scene where Ma scrambles to support her son Phil and daughter in law as they seek work. Pa, absorbed in he-man magazines, misplaces a vital page of Phil's letter, delaying news of Phil's job and their plans to return to the country. Ma steadies the household with meals and preparations, hoping for stability while tensions of work and home life surface.
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Ma Perkins
Ma Betty
Bill
Jane
Eddie
Phil
Wheeler
Tom Wheeler
Max
Terry Brown
Mexico
Milkman
Wttle
Uttic
Simcoe
Ont
Army” Armitage
Maurice Lehnart
Austin
W. A. Smith
Ace
King
Smith Falls
Harry Barker
Rotary Club
Elgie
Square Deal
Alberta
Hanna
Stork
Mra Elgie
Dauphin
Herald Ives
Gormley
Dean Dempster
Frank Geall
Rural building needs ignored in Prairie provinces
A Retail Lumbermen's Association delegation urged Federal Cabinet Ministers to shift building material priority from city centers to rural areas. They argued Wartime Housing concentrates supplies in cities, leaving 65 to 70 percent of Prairies rural residents unable to build homes, especially veterans and farmers. They urged equitable access, early study of city concentration, and sustained material distribution to rural builders.
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Asso
EW Stacey
Beaver Alberta Lumber Limited
Edmonton
H. St. Phorson
American Lumber and Supply Co Ltd
Winnipeg
Housing, Limited
Prairies
Prairie Provinces
Juno Texas Named From Bartender’s Quick Quip
In the Texas town of Juno the name arose from a 1985 incident when the sole bartender casually told curious patrons he had the natives ready. A post office request used the quip, yielding the town’s current name Juno.
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Juno
Texas
Helium Lift Boosts Airliner Payload by 134 Pounds
Business Week notes a lighter than air approach where an airliner will use 26 pounds of helium instead of 180 pounds of air. The net weight savings equal 134 pounds increase payload capacity, with helium's inert properties suggesting long term reliability.
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Peumace
New Shirtwaister Pattern 4529 By Anne Adams
Advertises a trim shirtwaist dress pattern 4529 with cap sleeves and extended yoke in sizes 14 to 42. States 2 3/4 yards fabric and 20 cents for pattern. mail to Winnipeg Pattern Dept. Notes slow mail delivery. Also reports discoveries of great caverns filled with water in Hawaii lava rock. some pools contain eye-less fish.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermott Ave
Winnipeg
Hawaii
Ottawa Citizen editor reaches age eighty five
The Ottawa Citizen notes its weekly newspaper editor has reached 85, remarked as still spry much like younger daily editors. The piece hints at the heavy burdens carried by daily paper editors and the demanding nature of their work.
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The
Ottawa Citizen
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LADA
Wartime Housing Limited
Drumheller
Alta
Holland
Michigan
Port Alberni
Cabri
Sesk
Board of Trade
Penaic
Tes
Lydia E Pinkham i
MacDonald
Carenessad
Quaker Oats Company OF
Canada
United
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