Ships in Vancouver Port Set New High
A record number of ships in Vancouver harbor signals busy trade as twelve to thirteen vessels were in port while another was loading at New Westminster House. China’s currency hits a new low amid runaway inflation and high black market dollar quotes. Churchill declines United Europe talks. Hague conference scheduled May 7 10. Senate votes to cut Marshall Plan aid to nations failing to boost production. Cripps notes Britain’s US debt at 4.236 billion dollars aside from 1914 18 war liabilities.
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Vancouver
New Westminster House
China
United States
Winston Churchill
Labour Party
United Europe” Movement
Hague
Stafford Cripps
Britain
Make your furniture lovely with Barere chair-set pattern
Learn to crochet a pineapple design chair-set with Pattern 7188. The Household Arts Department at Winnipeg Newspaper Union provides an improved pattern-visual with charts photos and step by step directions. Send twenty five cents in coins to the Winnipeg address with name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Relecting Recipes From the Past for Meat Stews
A historic recipe outlines cooking 3 pounds mutton with 2 quarts water and vegetables, skimming to boil, then adding soaked barley to soften. Leftover meat is repurposed into stews, croquettes, or meat cakes, with batter for griddled cakes later.
Institute Progress in Cancer Care Research Report
Philadelphia brief notes mice immunized against some cancer forms at Lankenau Hospital institute for cancer research. A blood test detected cancer in at least one case after electrophoresis. American Cancer Society funds of 100000 support the cure-focused work using bacterial polysaccharides and teropterin.
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Philadelphia
Lankenau Hospital
Institute For Cancer Research
United States
American Cancer Society
The Days When a Dollar Bought So Much
Grace Lockhart recalls early 1890s life in Belleville with vivid ads and prices. She notes Ball corsets with spring coils, cheap muslin and butter, eggs and tea, a $65 buggy, and a Gladstone carriage, alongside rail excursions and a sense of a peaceful past before later wars and upheavals.
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Grace Lockhart
Vancouver
Sir John A. Macdonald
Belleville Weekly Intelligencer
Sir John
Gladstone
C.P.R
Manitoba
Northwest
China to Obtain Canadian Wheat Under Aid Program
The China aid plan allocates about 420000 bushels of Canadian wheat and 67000000 pounds of Canadian flour. Purchases in Canada start after July 1 due to a world wheat shortage, with most Canadian supplies for July-December and the rest for January through June 30, 1949. Wheat also to be bought in the United States and Australia for a $130 million program.
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Washington
Canada
China
United States
Australia
Man with long sleep will never waken again
Framingham Massachusetts over a year after a February 17 1947 car crash Ralph C Abbott aged 32 remains in a vegetative state doctors say brain damage governing voluntary motion consciousness and emotions is beyond repair with no chance of waking.
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Framingham
Mass
Ralph C. Abbott
Purchase Film of Royal Family by Imperial Order D of E
The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire announces the purchase of Gaumont British film The Royal Wedding for its rural circuits across Canada. This follows an earlier purchase The Royal Tour in South Africa. Prints will be donated to Community Film Libraries and available for rental at nominal rates to groups.
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Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
National Executive Committee
Ryland H. New
C.B.E
Gaumont
South Africa
Commonwealth and Empire
University of Saskatchewan Hikes Fees to Bridge Deficit
Saskatoon University raises student fees by twenty to one hundred dollars to cover a 179595 deficit. Medical and agriculture programs see 100 percent increases, with next fall's charges set at 275 for medical students and 40 for agriculture students. Dr. Thomson cites rising costs of materials, heating, lighting, and salaries as the cause.
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Saskatoon
Board of Governors
University of Saskatchewan
J. S. Thomson
College of Medicine
School of Agriculture
Thomson
Crossword Puzzle Clues Omnibus
Vertical list of crossword clues including Proverb Dipthong Burmese demon and Dantean circles with items like falls to follow sult in cards plural ending perform occupy a seat worm paid notice musical note note of scale and hawk with Hawaiians hawk entries for a puzzle page
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Hell
Sult
Thirty Seismograph Parties To Work In Alberta By Spring
Edmonton reports that up to 30 seismograph parties will operate in Alberta by late spring at about 450 000 dollars monthly. The oil search in 1948 nationwide totals 28 million dollars with Alberta receiving a major share. The program will employ around 800 experts including geologists engineers and drillers. Seismographs record artificial earthquakes to map rock traps by generating shock waves and tracing their reflections.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Dominion
Life Of A Country Editor From Moosomin Speaks Of Printer Trouble
Saskatchewan weekly editor Bert McKay recounts a chaotic paper day at World Spectator in Moosomin. The front page jammed, was washed and reprinted, the folder failed, and workers produced about 1 000 copies by hand before power failed again.
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Saskatchewan
Bert McKay
World Spectator
Moosomin
Seismic Surveys Pinpoint Oil Traps Beneath Surface
Lines on long strips of photographic paper reveal seismic highs that indicate rock traps below the surface. Repeated tests suggest the traps may hold oil, though no guarantee remains.
Sir Thomas More and Beaufort House in Chelsea
English statesman and author Sir Thomas More (1478 1535) resided at Beaufort House in Chelsea London. He is best remembered today for his work Utopia and his political career under Henry VIII.
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Sir Thomas More
Beaufort House
Chelsea
London
Sir Thomas
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