Harmful weed killer drift prompts caution in prairie gardens
A Canadian United States survey shows selective herbicides like 2 4 D cause damage to vegetables fruits and ornamentals. Officials urge safer application methods and wind drift controls as states move to regulate volatile formulations to protect home gardens and shelterbelts.
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Sunetan Tae
A. Sardercor
Uemmittes
Vegetatie
Masitete Department of Agrculture
Recen
Canada
United States
Ulan
Sandercock
Alberta
North Dakota
Winnipeg
Prairies
Edmonton Parks
Arkansas
California
Idaho
Louisana
Mississippi
Oregon
Texas
Warm weather halter top pattern 7192
Alice Brooks promotes a light halter top pattern 7192 for misses sizes 12 14 and 16 18. Includes embroidery transfer and directions with a 35 cent price for pattern. Also offers 25 cent book order for ALICE BROOKS Needlecraft designs and other patterns.
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Alice Brooks
IN THE HOME WORKSHOP Jig-Saw Novelties
Novelty patterns for a jig-saw owner feature ten cut-outs mostly from quarter inch plywood. Patterns are traced directly to wood with saw and paint lines filled in as shown. Finished pieces serve as gifts. pattern 76 costs 35 cents, included in the Jig-Saw Packet priced at $1.50 postpaid.
Bird Bath Pattern and Bird House Designs Offered
A cement birth bath may be made with a mould of lath and lumber. Pattern 227 shows each step and gives concrete formulas and will be mailed for 35c. A Bird House Pattern Packet with 10 different designs is available for $1.50.
Run-Away Car Damages Five Vehicles on Crescent
Late Friday a car escaped control in front of Modern Groceteria and struck Dr. A M Grant's new car near Whitefield's Drug Store on the Crescent. Five vehicles were damaged but no injuries reported. Constantine the Great noted as the first Christian emperor of Rome.
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Crescent
Constantine the Great
Rome
How to Reduce Swollen Painful Piles
An advertisement claims relief from swollen painful piles with Hem-Roid Tablets taken with water two to three times daily. It promises internal action to relieve constipation, reduce pain, shrink piles, and promote healing with low cost and money back guarantee.
Western seeding intentions from March 1 1957
The Herald Spiritwood Sask reports farmers’ seeding plans in Western Canada favoring special crops and freer of quota. Durum wheat up to 30 percent and Ramsey variety fields in Manitoba. flax up 16 percent. barley up 12 percent with most growth in mold resistant varieties. rapeseed up as much as 70 percent. oats stable and spring wheat up to 12 percent. Seeding plans reflect March 1 intentions with many factors may alter.
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Don o_ Bureau of Statistica
Manitoba
Ramsey
Canada
Herald
Spiritwood
Sask
Mission Board of Trade Accepts 30 New Members
Vice-President R L Fletcher led a drive adding 30 members at Mission city and District Board of Trade meeting. Ten new members attended as President Percy Buckle welcomed them. Fletcher reported 90 percent completion in the outskirts and 50 percent in the city with at least 50 more expected. Revenue already topped $400.
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R. L “Bob”Fletcher
Mission City
Local plant shifts milk to Shaunavon after fire
The Saskatchewan Co-Operative Creamery plant at Shaunavon burned for 60,000 dollars on Sunday. Milk supplies will be sent to the Swift Current plant for processing, with a shuttle service between Shaunavon and Swift Current to keep local milk and milk products flowing. Local manager Fred Hawkins says Shaunavon’s surplus milk will be shipped to Swift Current, and service to Shaunavon residents remains uninterrupted. The Sun, Swift Current, Sask April 1957.
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Saskatchewan Co-Operative Creamery
Shaunavon
Swift Current
Fred Hawkins
the Sun
Hawkins
Sask
Alberta Safety Council aims for farm safety contests at Camrose Fair
Secretary Stuart reported a proposal to hold Alberta Safety Council farm safety competitions during the Camrose Fair. The plan, already tested in Edmonton and Calgary, would stage local fairs this year and build toward a provincial championship, with details to be worked out by the Executive.
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Stuart
Alberta Safety Council
Edmonton
Calgary
Camrose
Alta
Quick Household Tips From Frugal Era Pantry
This collection offers diverse kitchen hacks and craft pointers. It covers drying potatoes after boiling with a mealy potato, stiffening garment edges with liquid starch, infusing garlic into vinegar for dressings, adding spinach to salads with soy flavored French dressing, making putty with linseed oil and wax paper to keep oils from drying, and lightly toasting almonds in butter to serve with greens or cottage cheese.
A Person’s Skin Lives Five Days After Death
A fragment notes a claim that a person’s skin remained intact for five days after death. The text provides no corroborating details about identity, location, or context.
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Munetvatuntetes
Pratt
Western Canadian Society
Mercart Eetevan
Saskatchewan Clay Products
Estevan
Gordon Knight
Alice Brookes
Household Arts Department
P.P.L
Front Street
Toronto
Iflties
Department P.P.L
West Std Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Orway
New
Ndings
Board OF Trade
Fleischmann
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