Canada sees record low death rate in 1950
Canada recorded the lowest death rate in history for 1950, about 9.1 per 1,000, with declines in tuberculosis and diseases of childhood and smaller maternal and infant mortality. However motor vehicle fatalities rose, and occupational deaths increased despite offsetting drops in other accidents.
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Canada
Dublin
Louis Dublin
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Perth
Dubike
Hat Tricks and Busy Benders In Early N.H.L. Season
As two thirds of the 1950-51 N H L season passes there have been only four hat tricks. Gordie Howe twice and Nick Mickoski Maurice Richard each once. Thirty five players have played every game this season. Shutouts total twenty eight with Boston most often shut out seven times. Ex-Chicago Hawks players appear on five teams.
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N.hl
Gordie Howe
Detroit
Nick Mickoski
Rangers
Maurice Richard
Canadiens
N.H.L
National Hockey League
Boston
Bruins
Toronto
Monterery N.hl
Boston Bruins
New York Rangers
Detroit Red Wings
Montreal Canadiens
Chicago
Chicago Black Hawks
Hawks
Bert Olmstead
Max Bentley
Alex Kaleta
Pete Horeck
Bob Goldham
Metro Crystal
Leo Reise
Gaye Stewart
George Gee
Vic Stasiukreal
Publicity urged for Manitoba swine breeders
Brandon Manitoba A R Tolton Oak Lake urged greater publicity for Manitoba swine breeding stock at the Manitoba Swine Breeders Association annual meeting. He cited the Royal Show wins and other fair success to prove Manitoba has top Yorkshire stock and noted rising interest from American breeders.
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Brandon
Man
Manitoba
A. R. Tolton
Oak Lake
Gems Of Thought Quotes On Education And Character
A collection of aphorisms on education manners and character from Voltaire Greville Mary Baker Eddy Mary Hewitt H W Beecher George Eliot and a note on wren species. The lines emphasize delicacy generosity humility courage devotion and humane conduct in daily life.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Hewitt
H. W. Beecher
Oddities In The News Collage Of Strangeness
Marie Ratterman faces shoplifting charges after X rays show a diamond ring lodged in her stomach. The bizarre report includes H L Wykle losing a cork leg swathed in ashes after sleeping while smoking in bed. Fred Thomas regrows hair after a blackout in hospital, and a British expert notes overfeeding in married men as a risk factor. Billy Church kills a rattlesnake with a hoe after mistaking a root for a handhold.
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Marie Ratterman
New York
H. L. Wykle
Brunswick, Ga
Fred Thomas
Sydney
Australia
Thomas
Wife Is Mainstay Of Eskimo Family
Montreal report recalls Mrs J A Bildfell’s two years on Baffin Island with her husband, a government medical officer. She describes the Eskimo family chiefly governed by survival needs, the wife handling care, sewing, tanning, and patience while the hunter provides. She and her husband valued lessons learned from the Inuit and spoke fondly of their acquaintances.
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Montreal
J. A. Bildfell
Far North
Do you know anything about those detectors we hear so much about
A speaker asks about detectors while noting a twenty year marriage to someone named oime. The line suggests a casual discussion or remark rather than a formal report.
Helpful Home Hints for Fashion and Finishing
Practical tips cover protecting costume jewelry with colorless nail polish and using creamy wax emulsions on light furniture porcelain and enameled surfaces. Also advice on storing cretonne porch pillow covers to protect hats, and airing wool blankets for freshness.
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Cretonne Porch
Streetcars and Buses Carry Vast Passenger Load Compared to Rails
In the United States streetcars and buses transport about twenty five times as many passengers as railways, highlighting the dominance of urban and suburban surface transit in daily mobility.
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United States
Pie Recipes and Molasses Prune Pie Instructions
A nostalgic slice of home baking outlines pie varieties from juicy fruit to pumpkin and a Molasses Prune Pie recipe. It includes ingredients, mixing steps, oven temperature, bake time, and serving suggestions with a cheese accompaniment.
United Church Of Canada Plans 1.5 Million Fund Drive
Rev. Dr. Malcolm C. Macdonald announced a nationwide campaign to raise 1.5 million dollars for building 150 new churches and 50 manses across Canada. The drive targets cities including Toronto Montreal Halifax Ottawa Vancouver and Winnipeg with support from Home Mission Missionary and Maintenance funds and local church campaigns.
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United Church of Canada
Malcolm C. Macdonald
National Committee For
Home Mission
United Church
Halifax
Moncton
Montreal
Ottawa
Toronto
Hamilton
London
Windsor
Winnipeg
Regina
Saskatoon
Calgary
Edmonton
Vancouver
Toronto Home Missions Council
Canada
Macdonald
Board of Home Missions
Army Plans New Reserve Training This Summer
Ottawa reports a trial program to train about 650 reserve force soldiers in eight weeks this summer. Recruits aged 17 to 20 will receive the same basic training as active force members at summer camp schools nationwide. Another 16,000 reservists are expected to attend the standard two week sessions.
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Ottawa
Army
B C Takes Big Step In Penal Reform
Vancouver report details British Columbia launching a youth offender unit at Oakalla Prison Farm. The program emphasizes rehabilitation over punishment with a 95-bed facility, pre release dormitory, and individualized treatment plans. Officials say it leads Canada in penal reform.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Onakalla
Oakalla
Tom Camm
Camm
B.C
Canada
Pineapple design needlework pattern 7257 advert
Advertisement for 4 bedset motifs and scarf designs offering Pineapple pattern 7257 with embroidery. Instructions note sending twenty five cents for pattern and catalogue copy, plus astrations of crocheting knitting and more.
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Alice Brooks
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N.H.L. Sport Notes
Black Hawk
Order of the “Soeurs Augustines de L’hotel Dieu
Cathedral of
Notre Dame
Paris
France
Monsignor
Feltin
Hotel Dieu
Central Press
Voltaire
Greville
George Eliot
A. H. Douthwaite
Billy Church
Middlesboro
Pine Mountain
Church
Oime
Vice Brokers
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