Alameda Marks 70th Anniversary With Town Leaders
Alameda Saskatchewan celebrated its 70th anniversary with an all ages gathering in the new auditorium. Mayors from Frobisher Oxbow Carlyle Extovan and Alameda attended as residents reflected on local history. The event featured reminiscences about early post life transport and the district’s first white births.
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Alameda
Saskatchewan
Moosomin
Arthur Young
Liberal Party
Charlies Boaks
Estevan Mercury
Sub-Arctic Car Rescue Uses Coffee to Cool Radiator
Mrs Ethel Granite's car in a 100 car caravan in Fairbanks Alaska suffered cooling trouble. Northern ingenuity proved coffee can help as thermos bottles were used to pour hot coffee into the radiator to revive the vehicle.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Ethel Granite
Perkin
Alberta conducts highway base tests with soils and rock surface
The Alberta Highways Department tests soil cement and soil asphalt as base courses on a seven mile segment of Highway 50 north of Edmonton. Materials include six inch base with a three quarter inch rock chip surface. In Dubec, George Cleason is ill and cannot work on winter prep. Neighbors in one day cut and sawed wood, stacked hay and feed, and repaired a storm damaged barn.
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Alberta Highways Department
Edmonton
Dubec
Sask
George Cleason
Complete Needlecraft Patterns and Gift Ideas from Alice Stooks Book
Ten complete patterns for sewing embroidery and crochet printed in the Alice Stooks Needlecraft Book. Includes many more patterns and ideas for gifts home accessories toys and fashions. Send 25 cents now. Swordfish believed fastest fish traveling over 60 miles per hour.
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Alice Stooks
Jokes and Misprints Drive Home Quick Laughs
A collection of quick humor and misread lines from everyday life. A dentist, a lawyer, a perfumery teen and more share sharp one liners about manners, engagement, promises, and family. Drive with care.
Next boom seen in Canada’s Northwest Territories oil
Conservation engineer Dr. Arthur B. Irwin reports 40,000,000 acres north of the 60th parallel have been permit leased in three years. He notes optimism among companies with interests in the territories and the Yukon and cites a new regulatory system to hasten exploration and attract pioneering firms.
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Edmonton
Alta
Canada
Northwest
Arthur B. Irwin
Territories
Yukon
Fish Livers Struggle Amid Synthetic Vitamin Competition
Vancouver fishermen earn from fish livers as a vitamin source but face competition from synthetic vitamins and Japanese livers. Prices have fallen since 1945 46, high potency livers now worth 5 30 cents per pound, low grade 5 6 cents. By products like dogfish livers remain profitable amid lower natural feed.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
B.C
Gulf of Georgia
Pacific
Marker Planned for First Oil Find in Saskatchewan
Regina reports that the first commercial discovery of oil and natural gas in Saskatchewan will be commemorated. Fred McGuinness of the Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee Committee said a sub committee on Historic Sites will mark the Lloydminster discovery, with J. D. Herbert coordinating. Lloydminster representatives requested placing the marker on the cairn honoring the Barr Colonists and Bishop G. E. Lloyd.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Fred McGuinness
Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee Committee
McGuinness
Lloydminster
J. D. Herbert
Barr
G. E. Lloyd
Sturgeon Lake Oil Discovery Among Alberta's Top Finds
The Sturgeon Lake discovery in Alberta joins Pembina and Rimber-Homegien as one of three major new fields in 1953. The Financial Post notes oil found in at least two wells with similar oil-water interfaces, suggesting a large pool. Further drilling will reveal the potential size of these Devonian pay zones.
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Sturgeon Lake
Grande Prairie
Io Alberta
Financial Post
Saya
Wolves Slaughter Sled Dogs in Northern Saskatchewan Village
A pack of starving timber wolves attacked a Northern Saskatchewan Indian village near Stony Lake and killed all the tied sled dogs. The loss cripples winter transport for local residents who rely on the dogs for travel and work.
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Stony Lake
Sask
Saskatchewan
Tourist trade booming in Vancouver as U S arrivals rise
British Columbia's Vancouver Tourist Association reports 643,685 visitors entered from the United States in the first nine months of the year, up from 615,292 in the same period last year, signaling a strong tourism upswing.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Vancouver Tourist Association
United States
Accurate Age by Teeth Says Wildlife Painter Tillenius
Clarence Tillenius, wildlife painter, warns that deer antlers do not reveal age. He says the reliable method is to examine the deer’s teeth for aging.
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Winnipeg
Clarence Tillenius
Pioneer Dies Rebuilt B C Town Twice
Sandon British Columbia mournes John Morgan Harris 89 who founded the town in 1892 after moving from Idaho and rebuilding after fires. Harris died in New Denver BC and his body returned to Marshall Virginia. The article recalls Sandons rise and fall with silver and lead prices and population changes including 1700 tons ore and 900000 dollars yield.
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Sandon
B.C
New Denver
John Morgan Harris
Marshall
Hareris
Idaho
Sloca
Great Northern
Canadian Pacific
Spokane Falls
Northern
Harris
Fred T. Kelly
Reco Mining and Milling Co
Reco Mountain
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