Night Burglary Leads to Capture on Moonlit Street
A would be thief named Jack Haetwen, after stealing five hundred dollars from a hardware store, is chased by a watchman. The scent of rosemary aboard the thief’s coat betrays the crime as he tries to flee through hedges toward a stately home next to the store. The pursuing watchman and a driver corral him, and police seem likely as rosemary clues seal his fate.
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Janie
Jack Haetwen
Jack
Airlnight
Pop
Garden and household patterns from Home Workshop catalog
The notice describes patterns for a fourteen by eighteen inch wheelbarrow miniature and various lawn garden features with tracing patterns on pattern 344 for 35c. It also advertises a Lawn and Garden Figures Packet for 1.50 postpaid and other pattern sets including wall shelves and a modern lamp with tracing diagrams on pattern 387. Order details are given for Department P.P.L. in Vancouver, B.C.
Quotes on Love and Marriage from 19th Century Authors
A compilation of excerpts on love friendship home and marriage from Mary Kimball Morgan Mary Baker Eddy Ruth Lydia Child Oliver Goldsmith and John Selden. The selections emphasize enduring affection selflessness and the quiet sacrifices that sustain married life.
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Mary Kimball Morgan
Mary Baker Eddy
Lydia M. Child
Oliver Goldsmith
John Selden
Capable Diesel Locomotives Promote Extended Rail Range
The diesel locomotive of today’s Canadian railroads can operate over 5 000 miles between major attentions, beyond routine servicing and inspection.
Self surgery and Swedish home assistants headline mixed column
A surgeon in Germany extracts his own appendix using novocaine in a four and a half hour operation. The piece also notes Sweden's dignified term Home Assistants for domestic workers with overtime pay and vacation. It laments gendered hair terminology from toupee to wig and mocks bias against bald men.
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Theodore Herr
Hamdorf
Germany
Sweden
Appetizing Recipes Supper Grill
Cut sauerkraut fine and mix with grated sharp cheese mustard and Worcestershire sauce. Toast bread lightly spread cheese mix on one side. Halve tomatoes dot with butter season. Brush weiners with melted butter and broil with tomatoes and sauerkraut snacks until cheese melts. Serve for six.
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Weiners
Greatest road building year in history for Canada 1955
Ottawa reports Canada will spend over 600 million on road construction across federal provincial and municipal programs in 1955. The effort targets highways streets and winter maintenance with Ontario leading in allocations and the Trans Canada Highway a key federal project.
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Canada
Ottawa
Canadian Good Roads Association
C. W. Gilchrist
Army
CGRA
Ontario
Quebec
United States
Great Britain
France
Stray Divorce Tale and Odd Local Snippets
A Denver man seeks divorce over five years of not being allowed to wear shoes inside and a sofa seating limit. A Walsenburg principal sees a parent asking to excuse a son due to spring fever. Monroe drivers threaten city hall as fines rise to a dollar, risking injuries in license rush. Colorado Springs soldier sleepy in maternity ward ends up jailed by police. 3144 Live right Eat right Feel right.
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Denver
Colo
Walsenburg
Colorado Springs
Easy Two-Pattern Maternity Top Pattern 7301
Two main pattern parts for a feminine maternity top in Misses' sizes 12 through 20. One pattern features embroidery with a two-trim style, the other a colorful squaw-style rack or ruckrack. Tissue pattern with transfer. request by sending twenty five cents in coins to the stated address.
Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue 1955 Order Ad
Department PPL and Household Arts invite readers in Toronto to send 25 cents for the new Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue 1955. The brochure promises wonderful exciting designs and urges securing every pattern with a plain name, address, and pattern number.
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Alice Brooks
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B.C
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ST. Joseph’s
St. Joseph's Oratory
Emile H. Vendette
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Vibuins
Strictly Fresh
Monroe
Wis
City Hall
Rirdu
Vice Brookes
Front Street W
Toronto
Ramsay Company
Bank Street
Dodd
Les Carroll
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