Sharpening Cross Cut Circular Saws and Tools
Instructions on maintaining cross cut circular saw teeth through regular filing. It covers correct tooth shape, gullet rounding, jointing with emery, set checking, and selecting tooth rake for soft or hardwood, with cautions against deep gullets and misalignment.
Dow Chemical Canada launches Product Evaluation Program for plastics
Dow Chemical of Canada Limited announces a Product Evaluation Program to improve understanding of plastics and prevent misapplication. The committee evaluates Styron based items on material suitability, best fit, design, and workmanship, aging products as Evaluated if rated good or excellent, aiming to boost consumer confidence and guide dealers.
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Dow Chemical of Canada Limited
Dow
Canada
Are Your Feet Letting You Down
Health article from Industrial Health warns 85 percent of foot troubles come from faulty footwear and offers practical tips. It urges proper shoe fit leather uppers and soles. daily changes. longer than longest toe. chiropodist care for corns and calluses. foot exercises and rest with elevated feet to prevent pain and lost earning power.
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the Health League of Canada
Canadians Send Most Food Parcels to Britain Postwar
Canadians have sent more food parcels to Britain since the war ended than any other people, a postal survey shows. Bulk gifts in December 1940 to December 1949 total significant sums, highlighting Canada as the leading source of aid.
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London
Britain
Ogi
Nurse Keeps Watch Over Remotest Saskatchewan Outpost
Nurse Myrtle Pierce serves 1 000 residents across Stony Rapids Fond du Lac and Camsell Portage in 7000 square miles. She travels by plane and canoe to administer care from a three bed hospital, with doctors visiting every three months. epidemics and births mark her demanding routine.
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Brush
Lake Athabaska
Cheery
Myrtle Pierce
Saskatchewan Public Health Department
Stony Rapids
Saskatchewan
North West Territories
Pierce
Fond du Lac
Camsell Portage
Prince Albert
Regina
Fort Smith
Fort MacMurray
Alta
Prince, Albert
One Thing Professor Did Not Remember
The Wall Street Journal recounts a 40 year anniversary prank where a forgetful professor presents his wife a box of engraved stationery. She notes the address on the package matches the old home they sold five years earlier, revealing the gift’s improper destination.
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Wall Street Journal
British Boys Munch On B.C. Gift Apples
Eight hundred British schoolboys enjoyed Canadian apples during Premier Byron Johnson of British Columbia's visit to Harrow County School in London. Johnson presented boxes of B C fruit to the pupils while attending the UK timber trade dinner.
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London
Byron Johnson
British Columbia
Harrow
Gems of Thought in Enduring Wisdom
A collection of aphorisms on learning from experience and unlearning, stressing that true knowledge comes from lived practice. It highlights the value of experience over theory, moral certainty from past patterns, and steadfast faith guiding action in adversity.
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James Beattie
Mary Baker Eddy
Ontario Leads As 16 797 Students Prepare For Graduation
Ottawa reports the largest graduating class in history with 16 797 expected to complete university training this spring. Most graduates are veterans with family responsibilities, prompting calls to employers to extend firm consideration. Ontario tops provinces with 6 644 graduates. Quebec 3 174. West 5 312. Maritimes 1 667. Arts and sciences account for 5 561 graduates, engineering 3 661, commerce, and agriculture 807.
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Ottawa
Humphrey Mitchell
Mitchell
Ontario
Quebec
Western Provinces
The
Maritimes
Agricultural Colleges
How Man Solved His Order Problem
A zoo superintendent tries to order mongooses and rewrites the note several times. He settles on sending the singular mongoose and signs the letter. A postscript adds a second animal with it, completing the comic miscommunication.
A Simple Guide for Small Vegetable Gardens
The article outlines growing a productive tiny plot with careful planning. It favors compact crops like beans carrots beets spinach radish lettuce and a few staked tomatoes and cucumbers trained along a boundary. It covers soil improvement drainage composting and practical paths or driveways for a charming low maintenance garden.
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Canada
TRY AND STOP ME By BENNETT CERF
Adolph Benneke is a miner in the Soviet Zone of occupied Germany who has won hatred by exceeding his daily quota. Soviet authorities consider raising the quota for all miners. Associates mock him publicly, while privately they ridicule him. A dentist tale shows his overreaching humor.
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Adolph Benneke
Occupied
Germany
Herr Henneke
Joke Card: Smile of the Week Ha Ha
A husband recalls doctors warning smoking would make him feeble minded and asks why he did not quit. His wife answers with a witty aside about his past behavior.
Helpful Home Hints on Hats Curtains and Dusters
Practical tips cover reshaping hats with steam, curtain securing using a cork and pin, and making a dustless furniture duster. Instructions include soaking a glass jar with furniture polish and a chamois cloth, then washing and reusing when soiled.
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