Velvet Sofa and a Second Chance at Love
In a furniture store Martin struggles between saving a costly red velvet sofa for his wedding to Jane and helping a kindly older woman who longs to buy it for her niece and future husband. The woman reveals she will charge the set to Banker Walford and hopes the gamble helps two young lovers wed.
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Martin
Jane
Walford
Jess
Darling
Mr. Warren
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Nursing unit grants for Pangman and Cupar Sask
Ottawa reports new hospital construction grants under federal plan. Pangman and Cupar nursing units each receive 1500 dollars from the federal treasury to aid expansion and care capacity.
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Ottawa
Pangman
Cupar
Sask
Health Department
Federal Treasury
Southern Alberta seeks fee to legalize Sunday baseball
Lethbridge notes the Southern Alberta Baseball Association requests provincial fee to amend the Lord's Day act to legalize Sunday baseball and softball. Crask reports moisture best in years with snow and flooding concerns. Winnipeg says Manitoba Legislature kills daylight time bill 29 to 18. Regina: 2,500,000 pounds of fish handled since 1949. Preeceville plans fall fair after years without one. Riding Mountain park roads seen as poor. two public meetings held.
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Lethbridge
Alta
Southern Alberta Baseball Association
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Regina
Saskatchewan Government
D. Corney
Park Roads
Dauphin
Man
Riding Mountain National Park
PTA delegates urge model school for mental hygiene in province
About 600 parent teacher delegates at a Vancouver convention urged the province to establish a model school to train teachers in mental hygiene and to expand facilities for retarded and mentally ill children. A motion to ban 25 cent sex and crime novels was rejected.
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Vancouver
PTA
Department of Education
Alberta's Cinderella Donna Henderson Named Cinderella
Thirteen year old Donna Henderson from a one room hut in bush country northeast of Edmonton was chosen Alberta's Cinderella by three judges after letters were read in a Calgary newspaper. She arrived in the city wearing blue jeans Sloppy Joes and a mackinaw.
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Calgary
Donna Henderson
Edmonton
Alberta
Boom year for British Columbia grain exports predicted
Vancouver shipping men forecast a record grain export year with totals well above 1949's 535 million bushels. By end of March Vancouver elevators shipped 41 million bushels, up from 28 million last year, while exports expand to Japan Latin America and the Mediterranean. Harbor officials report 82 deep sea vessels left in March carrying 344 thousand tons, 33 thousand more than a year earlier.
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Vancouver
Europe
Japan
Latin America
Mediterranean
Redwater Oil Well Tops Leduc Lead in Wells Count
The Redwater oil field overtook Leduc in total producing wells. Imperial Oil finished three more producers for Redwater bringing its total to 391 vs Leduc's 390. Leduc is three years two months old and Redwater one year eight months. Leduc had 354 wells on Jan 1 1950. Redwater had 294. Since then 97 new Redwater wells and 36 at Leduc have been added.
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Edmonton
Redwater
Leduc
Imperial Oil
Edmonton and Vancouver Trade Board goodwill tour set
Edmonton and its oil districts will join the Vancouver Board of Trade goodwill tour starting May 15 1950. The trip aims to showcase regional industry and business ties across the coast and inland fields.
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Vancouver
Edmonton
Vancouver Board of Trade
Brighter Crop Prospects On Prairies
Winnipeg report notes Western Canada shows a brighter crop outlook as surface moisture improves for a fair seed start. After last summer droughts and extreme dryness in Saskatchewan and Alberta, heavy winter snow relieved fears of a repeat drought cycle seen in the 1930s.
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Winnipeg
Canada
The
Financial Post
Saskatchewan
Alberta
West
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Faith Kurt Tiberio
Gen Humbolt
Tadis
Jane My Warren
Jackson
Caton
Dow
DOW Chemical OF Canada, Limited
Richmond Street
Toronto
Canade
Treherne
Ontario
Anne Adams
Winni Newspaper Union
Front Street W
Western Briefs
CRASK
Preeceville, Sask
Preeceville
Moane
Emerald
Peggy
Reggie
Chuck Thurston
B.C
Pekoe
Ae Eiscumanns
Fleischmann
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