Saskatchewan Plans $20 Million Oil Exploration Drive
Saskatchewan will spend about 20 million dollars on oil exploration this year. Plans call for 30 to 40 standard holes and numerous seismic tests to map productive formations. The move follows a shift from inexpensive preliminary work to intensive seismic drilling, aiming to match or exceed Alberta’s 1947 oil activity.
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Brockelbank
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Leduc
The
Financial Post
Gems of Thought On Victory And Selfovercome
A compact collection of aphorisms and quotes on victory self mastery and moral strength from Milton Bacon Eddy Whittier I Chronicles Beecher and others urging overcoming evil winning through inner resolve and steadfast faith in guiding principles.
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Mary Baker Eddy
God
Whittier
H. W. Beecher
Editors Find Deep Friendship For Britain In U S
British newspaper editors visiting the United States for five weeks say they found a deep friendship for Britain among Americans. Off the beaten track they discovered surprising misapprehensions about Britain and heard remarks from Harold R. Grime of a recently returned party about what Americans learn from firsthand examination.
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Southampton
United States
Britain
Harold R. Grime
Cam Reveal
Answers to Quick Quiz Answer Key Revealed
The note lists quiz results and facts with answers including Bytown Baffin Island Sir John Asesheeds and 29 cents. It cites Quick Canadian Facts as the source and mentions a large figure of 600 million dollars.
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R. Bytown
John Asesheeds
Baffin Island
Quick Canadian Facts
Canada
Oddities From Across The Nation Include Dog Hen Feud
A dog and a hen quarrel over puppies born in a hen house with the hen guarding and sheltering them as a three year old in Illinois shows off false teeth after a rare enamel disease, while a Milwaukee man loses his hat in a course and a judge re arresting a suspect after a plea over mail. A boy survives a 15 story fall with minor injuries as vines and shrubs cushion the impact.
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Dorothy Holman
Horseshoe Lake
Ark
Georgia Kay King
Springfield
Arctic lemmings studied for insights into human cold survival
Miss Margaret Merry of the Defence Research Board investigates lemmings at Fort Churchill to learn their energy use and migration patterns. In a lab with wire cages and pedometers she tracks distance, weight, and diet, hoping to apply findings to human resilience in Arctic conditions amid seasonal migrations and occasional cannibal tendencies.
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Fort Churchill
Man
Arctic
Margaret Merry
Miss Merry
Defence Research Board
Victoria
B.C
Hudson Bay
Southampton Island
R.C.A.F
University of British Columbia
Baby Polar Bear Nanook Sparks Local Concern in Churchill
In Churchill Manitoba residents worry over Nanook a two month old polar bear orphan discovered by pilot Charles Webber near Perly Bay and raised by Father Didier in Repulse Bay. Ottawa refused sale to a Chicago zoo leaving Nanook with uncertain fate near Hudson Bay.
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Churchill
Nanook
Manitoba
Hudson Bay
Charles Webber
Here
Perly Bay
Northwest Territories
Webber
Repulse Bay
Didier
Ottawa
Chicago
Territories
Canada Quiz: Largest Island and Prime Minister’s Roots
Question and trivia prompts ask for Canada’s largest island, Ottawa revenue estimate from a 10 percent sales tax, a poor immigrant’s son who earned five years of schooling to become Prime Minister, and the average profit per dollar of Canadian retail sales. Includes notes about capital name changes and column source.
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Canada
Ottawa
Montreal Largest City in Canada
Montreal is presented as Canada’s largest city with a history from 1642 founding as a church mission post to convert Indigenous peoples. It notes a 1775 American capture and envoy visit by Franklin Chase and Carroll, framing Montreal as a major national center.
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Montreal
Canada
Paris
Montgomery
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Chase
Charles Carroll
Pineapple Curry Chicken with Toast and Asparagus
Split chicken breasts are pan fried then braised in a pineapple and lemon juice sauce with cornstarch and curry. Serve over buttered toast with steamed asparagus and a final butter flavor.
Household Cleaning Remedies From Old Advice
Practical tips explain rust stains on porcelain vanish with lemon juice followed by water rinse and drying. Vinegar reduces onion breath, parsley helps, and oil of sassafras removes gasoline odor from clothes. Cleaning walls uses melted soap bar and ammonia solution brushed on then rinsed and dried.
Smile of the Week Grocer’s Odd Ransom Call
A grocer spares his wife from paying a ransom after mispronouncing a bold claim during a late evening call. He laughs off the misunderstanding as the morning arrives and he realizes the joke.
Canadian Open Golf Prizes Boosted to 15000 Class
Ottawa reports the Canadian Open increases prize money to 15000 with 35 players sharing. Toronto Mississaugua hosts July 3 to 7, winner earns 2250 and Seagram Gold Cup for a year plus a replica. Second at 1400, third at 1200, rest scale down to 50 for 35th, targeting more Canadian and U S players.
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Ottawa
Toronto
Mississaugua
Royal Canadian Golf Association
House of Seagram
RCGA
U.S
Marsh Land Reclamation Planned in British Columbia
Rotterdam based Foundation of the Canadian Commercial Corporation of the Netherlands announced a project to reclaim 6,250 acres of Fraser Valley marshland near Vancouver for Netherlands farmer-immigrants. The $350,000 plan aims to have 3,750 acres cultivable within a year, including dike building and an agricultural school with a model farm.
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Rotterdam
Netherlands
Canadian Commercial Corporation of the Netherlands
Fraser Valley
Vancouver
N. Biezeveld
Drop In Wheat Acreage May Cause Bread Rationing
In Invercargill New Zealand an alarming drop in wheat acreage risks bread rationing for the first time. John Stanley a liaison officer between flour millers and farmers told a meeting that New Zealand is growing 160000 acres of wheat instead of the 400000 needed to feed the country and it is impossible to bring more wheat from overseas.
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Invercargill
New Zealand
John Stanley
Stanley
Canada Outdoes Russia On Wheat
Ottawa Trade Minister D C Howe said Canada has sold India 300000 tons of wheat this year, about 10000000 bushels, in response to opposition over India's famine. He said the figure compares favorably with the United States loan proposal of 2 million tons and with Russia's 50000 tons offered.
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Ottawa
Canada
India
Russia
D. C. Howe
Marked Man Claims Fame in England Gallery
A. E. Tipton, 65, of Birmingham asserts he is England’s most marked man. His art gallery features tattoos of Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, King George V, the Crucifixion, Britannia, his parents’ graves, and a necklace of birds.
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Birmingham
England
A. E. Tipton
Queen Victoria
Edward VII
Queen Alexandra
King George V
Britannia
Crochet pattern and 1951 needlework catalog notice
Qlice Brooks offers a pineapple dress crochet pattern 7159 with sizes 2 4 6 and instructions to mail five cents and a clear name address and pattern number. Also promotes the 1951 Alice Brooks Needlework catalog available for twenty five cents and includes a free pattern. Wheat cultivation note ends the snippet.
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Alice Brooks
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