Saturday Night Date Rescued by a Last Minute Call
Patsy, a sixteen year old, frets over a possible Saturday night without a date until Jim Raine finally calls after his late shift. She preps in anticipation, endures a quiet evening at home, and learns a last minute, imperfect but real, plan to go out with Jim to a show, restoring her hope for a social night.
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Tsy
Jim Raine
Patsy
Jim
Leila
Dad
Bob
Davy Low
Pat
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Business Opportunity Plastic Ornaments
Complete and up to date instruction by a professional with twenty five years experience. Start a profitable business making and selling plastic ornaments for gift and novelty shops. Kingsway Art Studios supplies all materials. Send $1 today for instructions at 1375 Kingsway Vancouver B C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsway Art Studios
Kingsway
Vancouver
B.c
Devil's Food Cake Recipe from Old Cookbook
Selective recipe for Devil's Food Cake using 2 eggs or 3 yolks, Swans Down flour, chocolate, milk, vanilla. Instructions cover creaming shortening and sugar, beating in eggs, melting chocolate, alternating flour with milk, and baking in deep or regular pans with two frostings.
Chocolate Swirl Pie With Rich Egg Custard
A pastry shell is filled with a custard of eggs and milk flavored with vanilla and sugar. The recipe includes a chocolate glaze made with unsweetened chocolate and hot water, poured over the pie and baked slowly to set, then cooled.
TAGGED WITH GUN Whales Follow Migration Study
Whales are tagged with tracking devices by scientists to study migration patterns. The method mirrors bird tagging and aims to reveal routes, timings, and habitat use across oceans.
Wood-Carver Crafts 3-Year Miniature Church Masterpiece
Philippe Matte a 50 year old electrical appliance salesman from Outremont Quebec spent over three years and 1000 spare hours assembling 1200 wood pieces into a detailed miniature church 36 inches long 49 inches tall 14 inches wide weighing 45 pounds with altar statues flowers pews and lights.
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Montreal
Phillipe Matte
Outremonte
Quebec
Matte
Modest Project Faces Failure
The International Children's Emergency Fund warns that a modest daily meal program for children could be abandoned due to lack of funds. Despite nations spending billions on armaments, the plan to feed 20 million children may reach only 7 million, with calories reduced to about 500.
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International Children’s Emergency Fund
Ottawa Citizen
Millionaire Valued First Dollar Earned
W F Hubbard, official for U S postal money orders, informs a Houston man now living in New York that his 1.00 postal savings dollar left over 20 years ago has grown to 1.40. The New York millionaire plans to claim it as one of his first earnings.
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Houston
Texas
W. F. Hubbard
U.S
New York
Three-wheeled bicycle adapts for blind riders in Canada
The Canadian National Institute for the Blind in Toronto says a new three wheeled two seater bicycle designed for sightless persons will provide full exercise and enjoyment of cycling with a sighted guide. The machine aims to open new fields of healthful exercise and transportation for the blind.
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Toronto
Canadian National Institute For the Blind
Public School Glass Walls Replace 76-Year-Old Building
In Fergus Ontario a new single storey glass walled c shaped school replaces the 76 year old structure. The 400 pupil facility features an outside exit for each classroom to reduce fire hazards and improve safety for students next fall.
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Fergus
Ontario
Pattern 4850 dress for girls sizes 6 through 14
Young girl dress pattern 4850 described as ideal for school or dress up. White graduation version with eyelet ruffles, easy to sew, with illustrated instructions. Sizes 6 to 14 with material details and price 25 cents. orders to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Women Seen as Danger in Cargo Vessel Jobs
The National Union of Seamen conference in London endorses the view that women aboard cargo vessels threaten the future of male employment. A Glasgow delegate warned of a female sergeant at arms of a Grable-bodied seaman as a provocative consequence. The motion protested women in catering departments on cargo vessels.
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London
National Union of Seamen
Glasgow
Special Buses Are Most Luxurious
The Pathfinder notes a chauffeur driven bus for the president of a Texas ice company traveling a 1090 mile plant circuit with Park Avenue style comforts. It features two master staterooms showers a galley refrigeration and air conditioning praised by the Automobile Manufacturers Association. Other converted buses serve a Midwest plastic surgeon for travel and a Detroit auto dealer as a travelling salesroom.
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Texas Ice Company
Park Avenue
Automobile Manufacturers Association
Midwest Plastic
Detroit
Canadian Girl Runs Paper In Yukon
Miss Georgina Murray, a Canadian girl and former WANS member attached to the Canadian Navy PR branch, becomes publisher of the Alaska Highway News at Fort St John. Her print shop had to be flown in, and the weekly serves trappers miners and U.S. prospectors, with reports of a child surviving snowdrifts and bear meat as ham substitute.
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Yorkshire Post
Georgina Murray
W.A.N.S
London
Alaska Highway News
Fort St. John
Yukon Territory
United States
Alaska
Murray
Yorkshire
Silk from British silkworms for Princess Elizabeth gown
Britain plans to use Lullingstone Castle silkworms to weave silk for Princess Elizabeth's wedding dress. A colony of four million silkworms supplied fabric for the Queen and two Princesses at the Coronation, each cocoon yielding two miles of thread. Enough silk has already been set aside for the royal gown.
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Elizabeth
Britain
Lullingstone Castle
Kent
Synthetic Rubber Takes Lots Of Soap
Akron reports that the soap used to produce this year’s 500000 tons of synthetic rubber could form a bar 13000 miles long. Doctor Waldo Semon of B F Goodrich explains the soap creates an emulsion allowing butadiene and styrene to join into usable rubber without a overly sticky mixture.
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Akron
Ohio
Waldo Semon
B. F. Goodrich Company
Expert New York maid delays dessert night in Greenwich
A Greenwich hostess hosts a small dinner party with an apparently expert new maid. Dessert arrives late until the maid presents a Western Union envelope. Inside, a brown wrapped note reads Can’t find fingerbowls, revealing the cause of the delay.
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The
New Yorker
Greenwich
Punch and Judy Show Origins in 1600s
A note cites the original Punch and Judy show dating to the early seventeenth century, with references to its emergence around 1600 and later popularization in Britain. The fragment notes its long-standing place in traditional street performances and puppet theater history.
More Doctors Sought for Far North Frontier Posts
The Health and Welfare Department seeks doctors to serve Canada’s Indian and Eskimo programs. From Pangnirtung to Vanderhoof, officials urge more physicians, offering salaries up to 5400 dollars yearly, full medical supplies, and three year tours with transfers to less remote postings.
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Health and Welfare Department
Indian Services Division
Canada
Pangnirtung
Baffin Island
Cape Dorset
Vanderhoof
British Columbia
Civil Service Commission
North
Department
Safest Way To Insult Umpires
John J. McGraw famed Giants figure known for rough style called Mugegsy. He jeered umpires with blistering lines and could be ejected for back talk. A pregame exchange with Umpire Bob Emslie showed his taunting wit and calculated silence as dodge.
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John J. McGraw
New York Giants
Muggsy
Bob Emslie
Emslie
Bob
Phosphate Rock Shipments Resume From Nauru
Nauru, the Pacific island captured by Japan in 1942 and retaken in 1945, is again shipping phosphate rock to Australia and New Zealand. Re-equipped by Australian interests, annual shipments are expected to reach 500,000 tons this year.
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Nauru
Pacific
Australia
New Zealand
Belgium Congo Supplies Major Share of Uranium Ore
More than half of the world's uranium ore, the source material for radium, comes from the Belgian Congo according to the report.
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Belgian Congo
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