Rural Electrification Prospects in Canadian Farms
The article notes slow rural power rollout across Canada due to postwar shortages and power conservation. It cites 1941 farm electrification rates by province, highlights Alberta self generation costs, and credits the Royal Bank of Canada analysis for explaining regional differences. It emphasizes electricity as a key factor in farm improvement and calls for resumed expansion when conditions allow.
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Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Ontario
Quebec
Royal Bank of Canada
New Uses for Electricity Boost Farm Work Efficiency
The piece notesBritain extended rural electrification to raise agricultural output with less farm labor. The US Rural Electrification Administration cites 300 farm electricity uses, calling a farm a miniature factory and residence. It urges broad community support for rural electrification.
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Britain
United States Rural Electrification Administration
Price Control And Rationing Information From Wartime Board
A wartime guidance column explains sugar prices will not rise in Canada. Instructions cover obtaining a ration book for newcomers, updating addresses, and store delivery rules. Readers are urged to request pamphlets Consumers' News or the Blue Book and contact the Wartime Prices and Trade Board in their province.
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Canada
the Prices Board
Prices and Trade Board
Consumers’ News
Ancient games and scents linked in quirky notes
The article traces checkers to 4000 years ago and places chess 2000 years earlier. It mentions Saskatoon muskrat glands as a potential scent basis under negotiation with a New York firm offering five dollars per quart if enough glands are available. It also notes windows sparkling with added vinegar.
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Saskatchewan
Fred Mullins
Provincial Natural Resources Branch
New York
Valuable Roosevelt Souvenir Envelope Sells at Auction
Eight envelopes addressed to Franklin D. Roosevelt mailed from the royal train during the 1939 North American visit sold for 100 dollars. Only one envelope was mailed in Canada though all items were mailed from the royal train. A Canadian item, a Vancouver to Seattle first flight on Feb 17 1919, sold for 30 dollars. The crocodile note follows.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Canada
Vancouver
Seattle
Wash
Manitoba pledges huge land settlement for veterans
The Manitoba government launches a major land settlement project aimed at opening 40 000 acres for farming in the Birch River area within three years. Mines and Natural Resources Minister McDiarmid says initial 1946 funding is 100000 dollars and that 10000 acres will be ready for settlers this year. The plan envisions supplying about quarter and half section farms to veterans.
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Manitoba
Birch River
Saskatchewan Oil: Lloydminster Area Drills New Well
Oil well the first of 1946 in the Lloydminster area struck at 1 863 feet. It is the eighth well in the area for Community Services Ltd, which plans nine more wells this year. The company has three producing oil wells and two capped gas wells awaiting a pipeline. Bata Petroleum in Unity district will start 40 new wells on April 1 after last year drilling ten wells.
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Lioydminster
Sesk
J. L. Phelps
Community Services, Ltd
Phelps
Lloydminster
Unity Gas District
Bata Petroleums, Ltd
Story Teller Robert Louis Stevenson Early Start
The young Robert Louis Stevenson faced a corner time for mischief. A nurse scolded him and allowed freedom once he promised to reform. The five year old murmured he was writing a story to himself.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert
Stevenson
Gems of Thought Meditation and Mindful Ruminations
A compilation of aphorisms on meditation and thought from various authors. It contrasts meditation with reading, notes the ease of valuing inner contemplation, and highlights how mindful reflection strengthens faith and wisdom. The collection evokes quiet, spiritual ascent through disciplined thought.
Cauliflower With Egg Sauce Bake Recipe
A recipe for cauliflower baked with a creamy egg sauce. It instructs parboiling the cauliflower, making a butter flour roux with salt pepper and Worcestershire, adding milk and eggs, pouring over the cauliflower, topping with buttered cornflake crumbs, and baking until browned for 4 to 6 servings.
Tea Prices Persist in England Through Late Eighteenth Century
The fragment notes high tea costs in England extending into the last quarter of the eighteenth century. It mentions the poor buying used tea leaves from the wealthy, indicating economic inequality in access to tea.
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England
British scientists unveil water softening method using zeolites
Researchers describe a process where zeolites remove lime and magnesium from water replacing them with harmless sodium compounds. Additional methods reclaim nicotine from tobacco curing and extract pectin from citrus waste. Snowflakes are largely six sided, matching honey bee cells.
Los Angeles Council Approves Grazing Contract for Baldwin Hills
The Los Angeles Board of Public Works approves a contract allowing a herd to graze in Baldwin Hills to prevent erosion. Sheep must not nibble grass shorter than two inches. The piece notes early printing used only black ink and color was added by hand lettering.
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Board of Public Works At
Los Angeles
Baldwin Hills
Quick Relief for Sore Painful Piles Advertised
An ad promotes Hem-Roid as a home remedy for hemorrhoids. It claims internal treatment relieves constipation, itching, irritation, and soreness in the lower bowel within five days. The offer includes a money back guarantee and a three to four decade long selling history in Canada.
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Canada
Crossword Puzzle Clues and Answers Mixed
A grid of crossword hints and solutions ranges across multiple numbered entries including vegetable dish succinet astute city in Chaldea betrayer European fish corded cloth saltpeter Stone heroine salts Bulgarian coin birds network Austrian botanist tree-snake gaseous element civil head of a Moslem state tidy tropical fruit Malay gibbon man s name part of to be hebrew prophet to obtain low note coerces toward to stupefy shows amusement list of candidates large knives concerning answer to last week s puzzle Icelandic literary works to fasten man s name entry bishop nightfall took illegally to worship silkworm to yield coolness written official agreement lock german poet besmears to stagger facing the direction whence glacier moves domicile cry of sorrow to sever heavenly body symbol for sodium earth goddess
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