Manitoba Walsh Captures Macdonalds Brier Title in 13th Win
The Walsh rink from Fort Rouge Winnipeg clinched the 13th Macdonalds Brier for Manitoba defeating rivals through playoffs without a defeat. Skipper Billy Walsh born 1917 Haileybury Ontario led with steady guards as teammates Allan Langlois James McWilliams and John Watson shared veteran curling records and wartime service.
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Macdonald
Manitoba
Billy Walsh
Fort Rouge
Winnipeg
Billy
Lord Strathcona
North Star Oil Company
Watson
John
Johnny
Johnny Watson
St. James
Man
R.C.E.M.E
World Happenings Briefly Told
The British Standards Institution sets minimum shoe lace strength at 45 pounds. Dr F Douglas Hammond geography professor travels 50 000 miles on 133 Class 1 railroads. Mrs Edward Sullivan of Chicago donates a 60 foot windmill and an old furnace for defence scrap metal. A flat at Market Base England offers great view but high water pressure. Mexico's soldiers travel free on public transport during Soldiers Day with special meals. Canada to issue a steel blue 20 cent stamp for forestry resources. Humane Society in Sault Ste Marie remodels HQ into a modern animal hospital. Atom powered ocean vessels near practical use says Odd Dahl near Oslo.
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Edward Sullivan
Chicago
Defence
Market Base
England
Mexico
May Can Pork For Export
Ottawa reports Canada may expand pork price support to include canned products to counter the U S embargo on livestock and meats. Officials say government intent is to aid exports and ease cold storage pressures while Saskatchewan foot‑and‑mouth disease concerns persist. Details to follow.
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Ottawa
Canada
United States
Saskatchewan
U.S
Kitchen Meditations By Jane Dale
A verse fragment titled Kitchen Meditations explores a boy’s obedience and disobedience through sensory images. It contrasts a child’s duty of washing hands and towel habits with promises made and broken before a sleeping figure, all in a quiet domestic mood.
Makes Suit Of Undies For Prize Chicken
In Harwich Pa 64 year old grandmother Eva Anderson designed a red flannel two piece undies suit to keep her prize chicken Black Minnie warm during a spring snowstorm last summer.
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Harwich
Eva Anderson
Eastern Coal Resources Estimated at Over Six Billion Tons
Coal resources in the Maritime Provinces and eastern Quebec are estimated to exceed 6 billion tons according to a regional assessment.
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Maritime Provinces
Quebec
On The Side 2 and The Charms of Golf and Gossip
A collage of quips on marriage rates in Ireland, Heather Jenner’s matrimonial agency, and social observations. It notes 40 percent of Irish citizens aged 30 to 34 are married, cites Jenner’s London agency with about 440 marriages last year and 4 000 in 13 years, plus humor about black eyes, enunciation tests, moustache pictures in London, and a Clemenceau quip about age and beauty.
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Billy Sunday
Heather Jenner
Miss Jenner
London
Defence ministry to exercise option on Dundurn camp lands
Ottawa reports Defence Minister Brooke Claxton will exercise options on farm lands around the Dundurn Saskatchewan military camp soon. In Boston Massachusetts the highway safety program shows gains with child fatalities down from 134 in 1931 to 16 in 1951 indicating strong program impact.
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Dundurn
Ottawa
Brooke Claxton
Sask
Boston
Massachusetts
Crossword Puzzle Clues and Grid Reference
A vertical list of crossword clues includes items such as To mimic, Six-banded armadillo, Indian mulberry, Heavenly body, Rowed, Kind of turtle, To stroke lightly, American Indians, Symbol for ruthenium, and many more. The puzzle features numbers like 12 14 17 23 24 25 30 32 37 39 a 43 48 51 and ends with Symbol for nickel.
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New Zealand
Welsh Farmers To Continue 200 Year Trial
In Montgomery Wales Welsh farmers plan another spring attempt to seed a grave plot of John Newton hanged for robbery nearly two centuries ago. Newton claimed grass would not grow on his grave to prove his innocence. The plot has resisted planting despite new earth and grass seed, a yearly test continued this year.
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John Newton
Newton
Weekly Tip WINDOW CLEANING
Vinegar and water make an excellent cleaner for windows. The vinegar cuts the grease and helps remove dust topped with splashing rain. Mix one third of a cup of vinegar to two quarts of water.
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Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Army Benevolent Fund
Canadian Legion
Ancient Order of United Workmen
Pine Ridge Golf Club
Bill Walsh
Winnipeg Free Presa
Andy McWilliams
Allan Langlois
British Standards Institution
F. Douglas Hammond
Bryant College
Providence, R.1
Post Office Department
The
Humane Society of
Sault Ste. Marie, Ont
Odd Dahl
Oslo
By Jane Dale
Halo
May Richstone
Woman's Weekly
Eastern Coal
V.bduu
Gerges Clemenceau
Champs Elysees
Clemenceau
By William Ferguson
Tom Hoggatt
Issa
T. M Reg
U.S Pat
Jalalal
Pacific Island
Chaldea
Persia
Princeton
Electronics Laboratory
Central Press
Montgomery
Wales
Virgil
By Les Kleis
Priscilla
Pop
Carlyle
al Vermeer
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