Victoria Order of Nurses marks 54th anniversary nationwide
The Victorian Order of Nurses celebrates its fiftieth fourth year in Canada. Founded in 1897 with 12 nurses in four cities, the VON now employs 535 staff servicing 110 communities. The organization provides home visiting nursing, baby clinics, schools, and industrial health services to raise public health standards.
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Canada
V.O.N
Victorian Order of Nurses
Purces
Growing Needs Have Been Met
Canada’s population rise stretches public health services. The V.O.N. charges fees scaled to ability to pay and refuses no help when payment is impossible. Public support funds its work, enabling expanding activities and valuable nationwide service milestones this year.
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Canada
V.O.N
Shipping Rates for Grain Collapse Amid Slump
Canadian grain shipping faces a deep drop with rates at three to four dollars per ton. The Montreal report says the bottom has fallen out of the grain trade due to a world shipping surplus from the Far East lull and improved British and continental conditions. Rates to Europe are 3.75 a ton vs 14 a year ago, and Britain about 4 a ton, with no upturn expected before the St. Lawrence season ends.
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Montreal
Europe
Britain
Far East
St. Lawrence
Real Help for Your Itching Piles
An advertising claim offers Hem-Roid for internal piles with a money back guarantee if not satisfied after 2 or 3 days. A 60 tablet package sells for $1.59 with refunds through all drug stores.
Pineapple and filet crochet chair set patterns
Unusual set offers two crochet designs pineapple and filet. Crochet each design separately then join for chair and dresser sets or place mats. Pattern 7364 includes charts and directions. Send twenty five cents to Household Arts Dept Winni News Toronto with name address and pattern number. 1952 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book features ninety one illustrations and six easy patterns for twenty five cents.
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Winni News Rn Union
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks
Saskatoon Health Plan Seeks U.S. Ambulance Flights
A hearing set on Saskatchewan Public Health's bid to run ambulance planes to U S hospitals and clinics. Civil Aeronautics Board examiner Barron Fredericks said approval is likely as no opposition appeared at the pre hearing. The plan targets flights from Canadian points to Rochester Minnesota Chicago New York and other U S medical centers.
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Washington
Saskatchewan Department of Public Health
United States
Barron Fredericks
Civil Aeronautics Board
Marion MacPherson
Canadian Health Agency
Fredericks
Health Department
Rochester
Minn
Chicago
New York
U.S
Funny ad dialogue snippets and quick wits
A collection of humorous dialogue exchanges featuring a range of characters. Mrs. Murphy recalls a husband dying under a train, while other lines joke about music, quarter offers, testimonies, milk, watches, and a book agent. The absence of a single coherent event links the quips as a humor column fragment.
Cattle Embargo Likely Till Spring 1953 Says Ottawa
Ottawa reports the US cattle embargo linked to the foot and mouth outbreak will extend until spring 1953 at least. The Canadian government urges producers to hold cattle off the market as cabinet discusses the situation. Washington cautions against expecting removal this year.
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Ottawa
United States
Washington
U.S
Canada
Mexico
Bureau of Animal Industry
California
Selected Recipe for Crispy Open Chewy Cookies
A step by step cookie recipe yields about five dozen cookies. It uses rolled oats, Magic Baking Powder, salt, nutmeg, eggs, orange rind, vanilla, sugar, and melted butter or margarine. Roll dough, scoop onto sheets, center with nutmeat, bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes.
Association Elects Its New President
Regina reports Syd Stevens editor of Shaunavon Standard and Assiniboia Times elected president of the Saskatchewan division of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. He succeeds Stirling King of Estevan Mercury at the weekly newsmen convention in Hotel Saskatchewan. Ken Mayhew Yorkton Enterprize is vice president and Walter Ashfield Grenfell Sun returns as secretary manager.
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Regina
Syd Stevens
Shaunavon Standard
Assiniboia Times
Saskatchewan
Stirling King
Estevan Mercury
Stevens
Hotel
Ken Mayhew
Yorkton Enterprize
Walter Ashfield
Grenfell Sun
Peter Dierner
The
Tisdale Recorder
Walter Telfer
Humboldt Journal
John Pinckney
Rosetown Eagle
John Scott
Whitewood Herald
Memorial Scholarship Established by Saskatchewan Pharmacists
Prince Albert Sask The Saskatchewan Pharmaceutical Association announced a Dean Woods memorial scholarship for University of Saskatchewan Pharmacy students. A scholarship committee will decide if the prize becomes an annual graduate or undergraduate award.
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Prince Albert
Sask
Saskatchewan Pharmaceutical Association
Dean Woods
University of Saskatchewan Pharmacy
Still Loves His Craft Old Indian Artist One Of The Last
The Haida carving tradition, once famed across the Pacific Northwest, flourished 1830 to 1899 with totem poles and inlaid boxes. Bear Mother figurine, 1833, exemplifies refined rhythm and detail. Captain Brown continues the craft with patient care.
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Pacific Coast
North America
United States
Brown
Disease mystery puzzles biologists near Round Lake
Winnipeg biologists from the provincial game and fisheries branch say identification of the gull killing disease in the Round Lake district may take two to three years. They rule out botulism and note only young gulls were affected, suggesting higher juvenile mortality.
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Winnipeg
Round Lake District
Brandon
Alex Reeve
Game and Fisheries Branch
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