Farm Sale Scheme Sparks Town Move Debate
Uncle Joe tries to push Aunt Martha toward selling the family farm and moving to town. After a tense scene, the farm sells for ten thousand dollars to a buyer who later offers to buy it back at the same price. Aunt Martha secretly pays five hundred dollars to undo the sale, while Uncle Joe hides the truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe
Martha
Jenny
Ralph
Uncle Joe
Quinn
Aunt Martha
Joe Quinn
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Termites Exhibit Head Clash Communication
Termites display a novel head striking behavior that functions as a rudimentary language among workers. They use rapid blows with their heads on a nearby peer to convey messages and coordinate activities.
Saskatchewan Population Gains in 1950 Hit High
Regina report shows Saskatchewan natural increase at 15,303 with 21,546 births and 6,243 deaths. Birth rate 25.9 per 1000, death rate 7.5 per 1000, marriages 6,904, divorces 293. Largest rise since 1930 aside from 1947.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Edmonton Optimist Club ticket fines a live pig
The Edmonton Optimist Club fines nonattending members by keeping a live pig named Butterball II until they attend a meeting with a new member. Eric Sohnile was drawn as the penalty recipient. Officials say membership has risen since the novelty funded activity began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
Eric Sohnile
Butterball
William Masson retires after 44 years at CPR baggage room
Steady worker William Masson of Lethbridge Alberta retires as baggage master after 44 years with the Canadian Pacific Railway. He began in 1909 and spent his entire career in the same baggage room reflecting long service.
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Lethbridge
Alta
William Masson
Canadian Pacific Railway
Lively Street Talk and Schoolboy Humour From An Irish Scene
A collage of quips and vignettes features a Dublin remark about wealth and identity, a landlady and tenant deposit exchange, a revivalist call to arms, a comic misread about a moral awakening, a four year old with a lamp yoking a chick, and a string of schoolboy essays with weather and golf gags.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnnie
John
Four Western Provinces Plan Budgets Over Half a Billion
The four western provinces project total outlays of 535 million dollars for the coming year with deficits totaling about 107 thousand. British Columbia shows a cut in expenditures under a pay-as-you-go plan while Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba rely on surpluses and capital advances to utilities and municipalities to balance the books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Fisher
Buirx Boxer
Canada
Manitoba
B.C
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Social Credit
Edmonton Man 37 Paints Own Roof
H M Wardens has seized the fine spring weather to paint the roof of his Edmonton home. The 97 year old man, born in 1855 in New York state, moved via Brockville Ontario and Vermilion Alta. He says he works always to stay active and healthy.
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Edmonton
H. M. Warden
Mr. Warden
New York State
Brockville
Ont
Vermilion
Alta
Fragrant Buns Bake And Frost Fruit Filled Rolls
Instructions describe shaping brown sugar dough into nine buns with a glaze. Rolls rise in a moderate oven at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes, then cool before turning out. A second batch forms eighteen fruit buns with almond flavored frosting.
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Bath
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M. J. Collins
Fife
Hugh
Coronation
Coronation Stamp Company
Dodd
Fbane
Anne Adams
Prairie Publishers Limited
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Toronto
Berne
Switzerland
Victory Dore
Dore
Montreal
Belgium
Luxembourg
Sask
Dublin
The
Canadian Press
Fleischmann
Scaid
Grodvally
Wei
Gered
SVE
Jim
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Minard
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