Farmers See 1950 As Lost Opportunities For Canadian Agriculture
Ottawa reports that 1950 brought frost damage that wiped out millions of bushels of prairie wheat and delayed harvests. Despite gains in paper and oil, wheat shortages threaten export goals as Britain buys from the United States. Canada faces an estimated 175 million bushels available for millable use against a 219 million bushel quota, with initial prices set at 1.40 dollars per bushel for No 1 Northern and anticipated pool payments to aid western farmers.
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Ottawa
Canada
United Kingdom
Halifax
Saint John
N.B
Britain
United States
J.W.A
Wheat Board
McFadden Back To Form In Early Season Push
Detroit center Jimmy McFadden shines like his 1947-48 Calder winner pace with seven goals in six games, including two-goal outings against Boston and December 2 against Montreal. Chicago’s Jackie Miller, Delisle roots, and Bentley brothers also noted. Postponed Detroit-Chicago game rescheduled to January 23 in Chicago. January 16 game moved to January 17.
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McFadden
Jimmy McFadden
Detroit Red Wings
NHL
Boston
Canadiens
Rangers
Chicago
Sharpened fence posts cure haunted garden woes
A jokey exchange recounts a man fearing ghosts perched on fence posts at dusk. The doctor’s deadpan punch line suggests sharpening the post tops to drive away the apparitions, delivering a macabre humor beat typical of the era.
Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union
A plain note lists contact details and instructions to write one’s name address and pattern number for correspondence or submission. No additional context or events are provided in the readable text.
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Winnipeg
Newspaper Union
Front Street W
Toronto
Anne Adams
Carleton Woolen Mills
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Quotes on Beauty and Truth Across Thinkers
A collection of brief aphorisms on beauty honesty virtue and goodness from Eddy Fosdick St Pierre Overstreet Shaftesbury and Stowe. The selections join ideas that beauty reflects virtue and moral truth in human behavior and in God s gifts.
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St. Pierre
Shaftesbury
Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf
Bennett Cerf’s humorous quip about a trousseau is relayed with a family scene noting Jennifer’s question and a mother’s playful, knowing explanation as a bride’s wardrobe is described as lasting years after marriage.
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Bennett Cerf
Jennifer
Handy Household Tips From Everyday Advice Column
Quick home hacks cover shoe lace tips with transparent tape, soaking a new broom in salty water before use, cleaning combs with sudsy detergent plus a stiff brush, and removing rug soot with a thick layer of kitchen salt to avoid smudges.
Canada Sees Traffic Toll Rise With Fatalities Every Four Hours
Ottawa report by Henry James of the Ontario Department of Highways warns traffic deaths average one per four hours and injuries one every 12 minutes. He cites 1950 toll near 2,200 deaths with 45,000 non fatal injuries and $50 million property damage, blaming liquor as a key cause and urging broad safety action.
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Ottawa
Canada
Henry James
Ontario Department of Highways
Ottawa Lions Club
James
Principal Correction Letter About Help After School
In Council Bluffs Iowa a junior high principal wrote to teachers admitting a misprint in a note about students failing due to lack of help after 3 30 p m In red ink he clarified the intended word was help not hell incident noted as a typographical error by his stenographer
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Council Bluffs
Pecan and Peanut Cookies From a Vintage Recipe
Recipe excerpts describe Pecan Cookies with butter sugar egg milk salt baking powder flour vanilla and pecans. process includes chilling rolling cutting or spoon drops and baking. Peanut Cookies folded flour baking soda cream of tartar salt brown sugar eggs peanuts shortening vanilla with optional overnight chill and thin slicing before baking at 400 degrees.
Canada Nears 14 Million Population as 1950 Ends
Population rose to 13,921,000 by Sept 1 with projections to pass 14,000,000 by year end. Immigration policy eased. Germany ban lifted for non Nazi nationals. nine month UK emigration 18,? thousand. Ontario to bring in 17,400 skilled workers for hydro and mining needs.
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Canada
Harris
Frost
Ontario
United Kingdom
Cold Weather Safety Pointers for Winter Travel and Work
The text warns of icy hazards on walks and stairs and urges daily area checks and resanding. It emphasizes using calcium chloride with abrasives to anchor sand, avoiding long engine idling, and packing extra clothing, blankets, a flashlight, first aid kit, compass, and coveralls for trips. It also covers carbon monoxide risks, ventilation, and frostbite protection for workers especially new hires.
Industrial Output Rises In Manitoba
Manitoba industrial production in 1950 is expected to top 525 million dollars, up 18 million from 1949, says Resources Minister J. S. McDiarmid. Despite spring floods, 24 percent of manufacturers expanded facilities and 36 new industries were set up in the province.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
J. S. McDiarmid
McLarnin Named Canada's Top Boxer of Half Century
Vancouver-born Jimmy McLarnin swept the Canadian Press poll as the country's outstanding boxer of the last 50 years. He received 32 of 43 votes, ahead of Tommy Burns, Sam Langford, Larry Gains, and Lionel Conacher. Joe Wright Sr., rowing coach, named Canada's outstanding sportsman of the half century, after his death.
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Toronto
Jimmy McLarnin
Vancouver
United States
Canada
U.S. West Coast
Chicago
New York
Madison Square Garden
Yankee Stadium
Polo Grounds
McLarnin
Arthur King
Joe Wright
Carsgan
Bobby Pearce
Wright
Pearce
King and Queen to visit Australia on March first tour
Buckingham Palace announced that King George and Queen Elizabeth will arrive in Australia on March 1, 1951, to begin their state tour of the Commonwealth. They will reach Wellington, New Zealand, on May 6 and begin the return voyage to Britain on June 7 aboard a commercial ocean liner.
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London
George
Queen Elizabeth
Australia
Buckingham Palace
Wellington
N.Z
Britain
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Chicago Black Hawks
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Sask
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Mary Baker Eddy
Harry Emerson Fosdick
H. A. Overstreet
H. B. Stowe
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Ous Falls
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