Frogging and Beasts Move in on Rosa Belle
Shooting Bade creeps toward Rosa Belle under watchful eyes of Frogging Pete and Uncle Bod as bees buzz and frogs croon. Pete taunts with his harmonica while Bade plans a night frogging escape and Black Mame jokes as the trio slips toward the canebrake at dusk.
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Rosa Belle
Pete
Uncle Bod
Prete
Uncle Rod
Mame
Bade
Rosa
Shooting Bade
Black Swamp
Black Mame
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Blue Bonnet Margarine Seen by Housewives
Mrs Harry Conover praises Blue Bonnet margarine for its taste and nutrition. The copy urges model housewives to switch to Canada made brand offering economy options and easy use in cooking and on vegetables with two varieties including water-packed and a color ready Yeron Quix bag.
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Harry Conover
Aera
Canada
New Anne Adams Summer Pattern Book Offered
Adorable toddler and baby garments featured include a scalloped dress with puff sleeves a sunsuit with a one piece cut and a bon net pattern 4524 in sizes 1 through 5 pattern requires 1% to 1% yards of fabric and 35 cent pattern price. Readers are invited to order by mail with size name address and style number.
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Anne Adams
Oddities in the News: Global Miscellany of Oddities
A Manila mayor orders police to curb late night calls for love making. In Canada, two golfers ace the same 125 yard hole at Victoria Golf Club while a third makes a par. In Leeds bread contains dead mouse fragment and bakery fined £200. Rome’s St Peter’s Church holds 35,000 people.
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Victoria
B.C
R. D. Clay
H. F. Hepburn
E. S. Hooper
Leeds
England
Western Briefs Heavy Penalty
EDMONTON Ignoring parking tickets can be expensive. A young man who pleaded guilty to 35 charges paid a total of $167 in fines and costs. Most of the tickets were for parking meter violations since last November. Former Manitoba Doctor Dies TRAIL B C Dr M R Basted 51 Trail doctor and chairman of the medical clinic here died in hospital after a lengthy illness. He was a native of Pierson Manitoba and a graduate of the University of Manitoba on each of two counts. He was charged with tearing sheets of unemployment insurance stamps from another person's book and pasting them in his own and altering figures in his own book. Fined For Altering Book MOOSE JAW In the first case of its kind in Canada in the ten year history of the unemployment insurance commission Joseph Malinsky of Moose Jaw was fined 50 and costs MIDNAPORE Alta What is believed a record price for land in the Calgary district was recorded recently when George Beatty sold his 640 acre stock farm for 83840 or 130 an acre SALTCOATS Sask Thirty three cars took the safety lane test of the department of highways sponsored by the Saltcoats and district board of trade Thursday July 5th Of these only seven cars were pronounced absolutely OK To Change River Flow MINNEDOSA Man Minnedosa council has authorized slight alteration to the Minnedosa river to prevent periodic flooding in the east central part of the town And it will cost about 75 JASPER PLACE Alta Wife beating comes cheap here Kitchener Winter started a two month jail term for beating his wife and six months for hitting policeman William Stranaghan
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Edmonton
Manitoba
Dies Trail
B.C
M. R. Basted
Trail
Pierson
Man
University of Manitoba
Midnapore
Alta
Calgary
George Beatty
Saltcoats, Sask
Department of Highways
Saltcoats and District
Bumper Crop Of Wild Ducks Reported In Western Canada
Ducks Unlimited says waterfowl in Western Canada show bumper crops despite severe spring storms. Field observers number between 220 and 297 indicating more ducks breeding this year than last, signaling strong habitat conditions for the season.
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Edmonton
Ducks Unlimited
Canada
Conservation of
Eggs from Minnesota Reach Vancouver Amid Shortage
A shipment of 180000 eggs arrived in Vancouver as supplies ran low. Another 162000 eggs from Holland expected by mid August. Dealers foresee egg prices rising to $1 a dozen with Grade A large at 82 cents. Shortage traced to Newcastle disease last year and a hot spell that killed over 500000 birds.
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Vancouver
Minnesota
Holland
Newcastle
Ottawa Tax Officials Probe Self Employed Fraud
Ottawa income tax officials launched a year to two year campaign to determine if businessmen and other self employed taxpayers are filing fraudulent tax returns. A revenue department spokesman stated the effort aims to uncover evasion.
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Ottawa
Revenue Department
Uranium City Planned in Northeast Saskatchewan
A new community named Uranium City will rise in the center of Saskatchewan's northern uranium field to serve nearby mines and workers, forming a hub for the region's mining activity.
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Saskatoon
Uranium City
Saskatchewan
Panama Canal Opens to Navigation in 1914
The Panama Canal was opened to navigate on August 15, 1914, marking a major milestone in global maritime routes and trade. Governing authorities celebrated the completion as a feat of engineering and international significance. The event connected oceans and reshaped naval and commercial shipping patterns.
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Panama Canal
YORKTON OPENS THIRD WESTERN DEVELOPMENT MUSEUM
Yorkton Saskatchewan unveils its third western development museum featuring obsolete farm machinery and other appliances that shaped Western Canada’s development.
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Yorkton, Sask
Saskatchewan
Western Development
Western
Canada
Ad Meant Sows Not Thousands Notation Mixup
Sun City Kansas farmer L W Bruner sought correction after a three line notice about a "lot" of pigs stirred dozens of buyers. The ad read two thousand fourteen pigs for sale, though Bruner had only 14 pigs and two sons.
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Sun City
Kan
L. W. Bruner
Bruner
Irrigation Scheme Seen Bringing Great Wealth To Southern Alberta Lands
Canada’s St Mary River dam near Cardston fuels a $30 million irrigation project that will convert 400000 acres to rich farming in southern Alberta. The St Mary Milk River system, started 1946, aims to boost output to $40 million yearly with water from St Mary Reservoir and diversions from Waterton and Bely rivers.
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Alberta
St. Mary
Canada
Magrath
Raymond
New Dayton
Milk River
Lethbridge
Taber
Purple Springs
Grassy Lake
Bow Island
Seven Persons
Medicine Hat
Milk
United States
St. Mary Reservoir
Waterton
Bely
Foss
GOK File Regina
A secretary in the legislation building stores papers that do not fit standard categories in a GOK file sparking a cheeky God Only Know s joke about archiving odd notes.
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Regina
Mrs Dale Carnegie Promotes Blue Bonnet Margarine
A promotional piece features Mrs Dale Carnegie praising Blue Bonnet margarine as a sunlit vegetable spread. The ad compares its delicate flavor to Canada’s quality margarine and markets nutrition, economy, and convenience in two packaging types.
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Dale Carnegie
Comecm
Fathor
Canada
Bnd
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Quezon
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Western Briefs
Moose Jaw
Unemployment Insurance Commission
Joseph Malinsky
Minnedosa
Jasper Place
Kitchener Winter
William Stranaghan
D. D. Ription
Les Carroll
John Dauphinee
Gardiner
St. Mary Milk River
St. Mary-Milk River
St. Mary Dam
Cardston
W. L
Wally) Foss
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration
J. A. Allan
St. Mary- Milk River
Maine
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Iusco
Brandon
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