Jet passenger service by 1952 aims for British jet transport
London reports that de Havilland workers at Hatfield assemble 18 Comet airliners for the Ministry of Supply and BOAC. Tests show promising performance with four kerosene jet engines and a 40 mile per hour rate of climb above 40 000 feet. Trials focus on London to Cairo routes and heavy testing for crew training and weather conditions.
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London
Redtess
Be- Thie
Aces Airways Corporation
de Haviland
Hatfield
Ministry of Supply
BOAC
Cairo
England
Australia
Crear
Ain
Manitoba plebiscite details on coarse grain marketing
Manitoba will vote on continuing the present marketing system for oats and barley. The question asks if producers want to keep selling coarse grain as now, with the vote to occur after final 1950 crop payments are announced and a 45 day post proclamation period.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
F. C. Bell
Bell
Douglas Campbell
Canadian Wheat Board
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Prairie Provinces
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manitoba Sets New Record for Telephones in 1950
Manitoba Telephone System installed a record 12.5 percent more telephones in 1950 despite floods and a mid-summer storm. By year end 16,161 applications were unfilled, with 3,013 in Greater Winnipeg and 4,602 from rural locals. Total telephones reached 141,488, rising to 144,000 in early 1951 as rural demand grew.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba Telephone System
Manitoba
Gems of Thought Quotes About Life and Faith
A collection of brief maxims from Emerson Brooks Eddy Wilcox Wilcox Mary Baker Eddy and Longfellow urging living fully in the present. Focuses on God love daily effort and finding happiness today rather than in tomorrow.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Smile of the Week at the Movies Causes Household Gap
Clara and her friend watch a animal film trailer showing a donkey in a manger. Clara exclaims she forgot to prepare her husband’s supper, prompting a quiet domestic comic moment in a theater.
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Clara
Saskatchewan records 4700 driving convictions in 1950
Saskatchewan reports 4700 plus convictions for violations of The Vehicles Act in 1950. Traffic officers secured 17 percent, Regina police 5 percent, Prince Albert 7.3 percent, Saskatoon 6.2 percent, Moose Jaw 3.8 percent, with the rest by smaller towns and RCMP detachments. Major counts include 18 percent for speeding and 15 percent for lost licences.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
J. A. Christie
Highway Traffic Board
Prince Albert
Saskatoon
Moose Jaw
R.C
Canada to Send 190 To Olympics
Toronto. Canada's Olympic association plans to send 140 athletes to the 1952 Helsinki Games and 60 to the Oslo Winter Games. The effort needs about $170,000 with half funded by federal and provincial governments and the remainder from private subscriptions.
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Toronto
Canada
Olympic Association
Helsinki
Oslo
Model of Westminster Abbey by Edmonton Baker
Walter Marchant, a former baker, built a self supporting model of Westminster Abbey in Edmonton. The sugar sculpture measures 24 by 16 inches and 17 inches high and stands without support.
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Westminster Abbey
Edmonton
Walter Marchant
Lady Hermit Sells Controlling Interest in Mine Venture
Kathleen Rice of Wekusko Lake, 80, northern Manitoba, sells International Nickel Co a controlling stake in her company for 20000 dollars. She founded the firm in 1928 after discovering the holdings on her island and once warned diamond drillers off with a shotgun during testing negotiations.
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Pas
Man
Kathleen Rice
Manitoba
Miss Rice
Wekusko Lake
Here
International Nickel Co
International Nickel
Try and Stop Me is a Near-Miss Trade Tale and Jury Joke
Bennett Cerf retells a Maine farmer who makes wooden back-scratchers and is mocked until a Cairo trader orders a thousand. The tale ends with the farmer profiting, then returns home. Cerf notes that Guam natives, though American citizens, are not entitled to jury trials.
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Stanton Griffis
Maine
Boston
Cairo
Guam
Marianas
Sandwich Pinwheel Party Treats with Cream Cheese Frosting
Prepare five fillings using thin white bread to form a stack of six slices per tower. Create two pinwheels from each stack, trim crusts, cut diagonally, and arrange on a platter. Frost tops with colored cream cheese until fluffy, garnish with olives or shrimp, and place a radish rose at each center. Makes fourteen servings.
Manitoba Ships Turkey Poults to U K by Air
Two hundred turkey poults hatched in Winnipeg were sent by air to a farm near London England. The shipment, first of its kind from Manitoba, involved provincial and federal agriculture officials and the University of Manitoba poultry department.
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Winnipeg
London
England
T.C.A
Departments of Agriculture
Poultry Department
University of Manitoba
Manitoba
Britain
Sydney L. Morantz
Miller Hatcheries
William Ripat
Lac du Bonnet
Man
Bingos And Car Raffles Illegal Across Canada
The piece notes that bingos and automobile raffles are illegal under Canada’s criminal code though enforcement varies by province. Quebec bans both, with rare 10 cent bingo exceptions at fairs while car raffles run in summer. Vancouver barred sidewalk ticket sales last year. Ontario delegates prosecutions locally and bans bingos except for certain charitable cases.
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Quebec
Vancouver
Pacific National Exhibition
Ontario
Quick Canadian Quiz on Confederation Provinces and Taxation
The item lists answers to a Quick Canadian Quiz: provinces admitted in 1867 are Ontario Quebec New Brunswick Nova Scotia. Largest coal resources found in Alberta. Canadians’ retail store spending is about 9 billion dollars. Ottawa’s estimated federal spending this year is 3.6 billion dollars. Indirect taxation is entirely the federal government’s domain.
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Argentina
Ontario
Republic
Central Press Canadian
Confederation
Ottawa
B.N.A
N.B
N.S
Alta
Canada
Helpful Home Hints From Damp Days And Velvet Care
Practical tips cover drying curtains on a stretcher with air from a hand lamp, oil painting radiators for heat, soap to ease drawer slides, gum on a stick to blend dirt on wet paint, and steaming velvet to smooth wrinkles. It also notes Maori facial tattoos as fear disguises.
Women May Join Army Reserve Force
In Winnipeg the army authorizes enrolment of ex-Canadian Women's Army Corps members into the supplementary reserve. Lt Col L H Young notes the group will be useful in emergencies and that offices personnel and instructors will be provided. The association, with 125 members, aims to recruit 200 to 300.
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Winnipeg
Army
Supplementary Reserve
Prairie Command
Ottawa
Women’s Army Corps Association
L. H. Young
C.W.A.C. Association
Darling little frock pattern 7159 for young girls
Advertisement describes a crochet dress pattern numbered 7159 for children's sizes 2 4 and 6. It emphasizes an easy pineapple design and uses cotton yarn. The notice asks readers to send twenty five cents in coins to obtain the pattern.
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Mommie
New Alice Brooks Needlework Catalogue Ad
Plain notice urges readers to send name address and pattern number for a new Alice Brooks Needlework Catalogue. It promises illustrations of crafts and hobbies including crochet knitting and embroidery with a free pattern. The item ends with a historical aside about 17th-century New England teachers digging graves.
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Alice Brooks
New England
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British Air Ministry
Grostern
Emerson
Phillips Brooks
Richter
Longfellow
Lady Hermit
Bennett Cerf
Turkey
U.K
Quick
Tan
Army Reserve Force
Qlice Brooks
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
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