Old Avery Takes On Rainy Day Painting Job
In a rainstorm, aging painter Avery helps with odd jobs at a city street corner. He recruits a young worker from Alabama, offers guidance from memory of university days, and proves his enduring, rugged handiwork as he climbs a cupola and assists Nellie and Mrs. Smith. The scene features humor about bottle green paint and practical advice.
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Old Avery
Dr. Smith
Dr Smith
Avery
Alabama
Haight’s
Doc
Epella
Nellie
Mrs. Smith
Lovie's Fruit-Stand
Wheeler Newspaper Synacate
Thrifty Fashions Week Pattern 4623 for Misses’ sizes
Practical sewing pattern offering full coverage kitchen dress for beginners. Includes embroidery transfer and illustrated instructions. Order form requests size name address and 35 cent payment. Also notes an eight-pound trout caught near Vernon BC by J B McCallum as one of the largest two year old trout on record.
Pulp mill for B C at Kitimat and road project approved
The British Columbia Government conditionally approves a forest development package including a $65 million pulp mill at Kitimat and a road to Terrace. Forests Minister R E Sommers confirms Kitimat Pulp and Paper Co. has an approved forest management licence as a preliminary step toward a newsprint and pulp mill costing about $65 million.
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Victoria
Kitimat
Terrace
British Columbia
R. E. Sommers
First Electric Toaster debut in Canada in 1914
North America saw its first electric turnover toaster produced in Canada during 1914. The device marked a milestone in home kitchen innovation and consumer appliances from that era.
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North America
Canada
Government to aid totally disabled in Saskatchewan plan
The federal and Saskatchewan governments will assist totally disabled residents. Eligibility includes age 18 or over, ten years in Canada, and income limits of 720 dollars for singles or 1200 dollars for married. Disabled applicants over 17 and a half may apply via local Social Welfare or municipal offices. processing delays expected due to high volume.
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Saskatchewan
Canada
Department of Social Welfare
Regina
Moose Jaw
Saskatoon
Yorkton
Prince Albert
North Battleford
Bentley
Two more federal grants for Sask. health services
Ottawa announces two federal grants to Saskatchewan health services. Regina General Hospital will add six beds for chronic polio care in its isolation wing, funded $10,500. A separate grant of $787 supports a Nutrition Institute at Regina to help public health officials learn current nutrition advances.
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Ottawa
Saskatchewan
Paul Martin
National Health and Welfare
Regina General Hospital
Regina
Kitchen Meditations and Wool Shipment Notes
A poetic meditation by Jane Dale speaks of hearing angel song seeing a guiding star and giving the heart. An 1884 Alberta wool shipment marks the first sac wool delivery from local sheep herds totaling about 70 000 pounds.
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Jane Dale
Alberta
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Maple Street
Asteeth
Dodd
Dedd
MacDonald
Ejrandon
Wna
Wi Ortly Ills Co.ltd
Margaret Fisher
P.P.L
Anne Adams
Front Street W
Toronto
B.C
Province
Sask
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Roll
Icken
Les Carroll
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