Lands open new Peace River lands near Valleyview cutoff
The Grande Prairie Lands and Forests office reports rapid settlement in the Peace River country. Since last April, 108 new homestead filings in two townships south of Valleyview. surveys on two more townships to follow. A draw for leases may come in early 1955, with 25 percent of surveyed land likely unsettled due to drainage and muskeg.
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Peace
Department of Lands and Forest
Grande Prairie
Peace River Country
Valleyview
Whitecourt
Lands and Forests
T. J. Gorman
Bert Watson
Iande Prairie Office
Gorran
Blueberry Mountain
Spirit River
Cherry Point
Edmonton
Grande Prairie Herald Tribune
Saskatchewan jubilee seeks elm lumber for carts
The Saskatchewan golden jubilee committee requests elm lumber for constructing Red River carts to mark historic sites during the 1955 anniversary celebrations.
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Regina
Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee Committee
Red River
Chinchilla Show Champions Crown Fort William Entry
A chinchilla owned by J Fodchuk of Fort William Ontario won the show championship at the Manitoba chinchilla show in Winnipeg. The reserve championship and four other titles went to entries from A Barnabe of Latellier Manitoba. Mohammed founder of Islam was born in Mecca about 570 AD.
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Winnipeg
J. Fodchuk
Fort William
Ont
A.barnabe
Latellier
Mohammed, Founder of
Mecca
Crowbar Swallowed by Pike Becomes Hanna Hero Teaser
George MacLachlan lost his crowbar in thirty feet of icy water at Carolside dam. Doc L. E. Smith hooked a giant pike, hauled it home, and with neighbor help began dissection. The fish proved to have swallowed the crowbar, now displayed at the Hanna Herald office.
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Hanna
Alita
George MacLachlan
Carolside
George
Doc L. E. Smith
Doc
Jack Smith
MaclLachlan
Hanna Herald
Fun in Phone Book Regina Zoo Names in Listing
A Regina phone book mockingly features animal and bird surnames such as Badger Bear Boa Bull Fisher Fox Hogg Jackal Kidd Lamb Lyons Martin Mink Steer Tigar Wolf Crane Dove Duck Eagle Finch Hawke Heron Swift Thrasher Titmuss along with fish names Herring Kippers Pike and Sturgeon. The piece playfully notes the array of cataloged names.
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Regina
Reginas
Zoo
Lyons
Simple Old-Time Grill Work Pattern for Outdoor Ornaments
Home Workshop Pattern 369 offers an authentic grill design for door wings porch rails and ornamental features. Includes actual-size tracings and instructions to trace cut nail or screw in place and paint. Pattern 340 for a miniature New England meeting house nests attracts purple martins swallows on a ten foot post with cat squirrel barrier. Department P.P.L. Home Workshop Pattern Service Vancouver B C.
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New England
Funny Verses and Jests From Everyday Life
A collection of light humor with lines about a vicar and gardener, a wife and widow, a clumsy slap, a crystal gazer and husband, engagement rings, a silver coffee pot gag for a MP, Lincoln as a youth, tax jokes, a teacher and a boy on harness, and a joke about a horse’s harness worn by a father each time.
Alberta to patrol highways with unmarked police cars
Edmonton reports that Alberta will deploy plainclothes patrols starting this summer to curb highway deaths and injuries. The plan, praised by Attorney General Lucien Maynard, adds traffic-safety measures including stricter penalties for alcohol impairment, license suspensions, and harsher penalties for repeat purple gasoline offenses.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Lucien Maynard
Canada
Vancouver
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Ramsay Company
Bank Street
Ottawa
MacDonald
Fleischmann
Ita
Uns
Anu
P.P.L. Home Workshop
West Fifth Avenue
B.C
Providence
Wilks
Crystal Gazer
Abraham Lincoln
Alta
BY Chuck Thurston
Peggy
Pete
Nabisco
Wees Wheel
Syryy
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