Made in Canada dresses enter competitive export market
Canada launches a new export drive for dresses to Britain and Montreal with mass production. The article explains the need for fast deliveries high quality fabrics and low prices along with modern equipment skilled workers and efficient cutting and sewing. It highlights fabrics like terylene and tricot and notes the importance of the Made in Canada label for prestige.
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Tim
Britain
Montreal
London
England
Canada
Europe
Mennonite Home in Waldheim Receives Grant
Social Welfare Minister A. M. Nicholson announces a provincial grant of 42000 to aid the Mennonite home for the aged at Waldheim. The funding covers about 20 percent of the estimated 210000 project cost for construction and equipment. The single story building will house a central kitchen dining and laundry and two wings for women and men.
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Mennonite Home Social Welfare
A. M. Nicholson
Waldheim
Vacuum cleaner fights hospital infections near London
An inventive ex-seaman and partners near London develop the Climex U V a four wheeled sterilising vacuum with ultraviolet lamps. Frank James Elvy leads Climex Ltd in Orpington Kent which collaborates with Associated Electrical Industries for a hygiene focused machine. Elvy earned the Diesel Medal in Nuremberg for contributions to cleanliness in factories hospitals and public buildings.
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London
Climex U.V
Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd
Cimex
Frank James Elvy
Nuremberg
Germany
Republic
German Institute of Inventors
Nuremburg
Elvy
Brighten basement walls with acrylic paint tips
The article advises wetting concrete walls before applying an acrylic paint coat and using a heavy pile roller or a whitewash brush. It also covers turning socks inside out to hide lint, cleaning silver with warm water and linen, and sealing silver in a tight bag for brilliance, plus using moisture proof packaging for home freezing.
Jack Miner Conservation Program Highlights Refuge Network
The piece recounts Jack Miner’s 1904 advocacy for safe waterfowl havens and notes a growth to 255 U.S. Federal Refuges funded by the Duck Stamp tax. It cites Illinois' $1,250,000 investment in Horse Shoe Lake, contrasts federal grain practices with Miner’s refuge, and mentions plantings of corn rye millet and pasture. A memorial sign proposal honors Miner at federal refuges.
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Jack Miner
Canada
United States
U.S
Horse Shoe Lake
Illinois
New oil sand deposit found on Melville Island
Preliminary analysis suggests a rich oil sand deposit on Melville Island in the Canadian Arctic, with sands higher in gravity than Athabasca crude. Explosives indicate the outcrop runs at least 60 miles, about 80 feet thick with the top 65 feet saturated, and potential conventional oil beneath elsewhere on the island.
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Canada
Melville Island
Canadian Arctic
Athabasca
Grain Elevator Workers Recalled at Lake Head Terminals
Three large terminal elevator companies at the Lake head recalled over 70 seniority men to manage rising grain shipments. Port Arthur elevators employ about 750 to 775 workers, roughly the same as last year.
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Lakehead
Port Arthur
Johnsons win grand championship at Royal Fair Toronto
Don and Marion Johnson of Burrows win the grand steer championship at the Royal Fair in Toronto with Shorty. They take first in three Hereford divisions, marking Saskatchewan's first win over Alberta in four years. The 950 pound champion may be sold in Ontario. The couple also receive the Royal Band of Canada award and the Alexander P. Westervelt Memorial Trophy.
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Don and
Marion Johnson
Burrows
Royal Fair
Toronto
Saskatchewan
Alberta
The
Royal
Ontario
Johnsons
Royal Band of Canada
Alexander P. Westervelt
Don
David Johnson
Davis Brothers
Marion
Wapella Post
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Manyead
Dominion Brewers Association
Metro Winnipeg
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James Wighton
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Department of Fisheries and
Tam
Bing
Manitoba
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H. Rocke Robertson
Montreal Hospital
McGill University
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