Fossils Unearth 35 Million-Year-Old Life in Cypress Hills
Saskatchewan Provincial Museum staff report rich fossil finds from the Cypress Hills formation dating to the Oligocene era. Discoveries include Mesohippus teeth, Entelodon jaws, Hyrachodon skull fragments, and a Titanothere skull, with over 600 small teeth from allied species. The site near Hazel Hunter Quarry, north west of Eastend, is yielding ongoing insights into ancient mammals and their dominance before man.
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Saskatchewan Provincial Museum of Natural History
Saskatchewan
Canada
Cypress Hills
Hazel Hunter
Royal Ontario Museum
Provincial Museum
National Museum At
Ottawa
Russell
Eastend
Sask
Bruce McCorquodale
Eskimo Rat Sunday Ends Fur Harvest In June
Calgary reporter Miss Beth Riddoch notes Aklavik marks the Eskimo Thanksgiving at end of fur season on the third Sunday in June. The event centers on a church collection piled with furs and includes a Brownie trapping six animals with top prices offered for the furs. She sold four and placed two in the collection plate.
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Calgary
Aklavik
Beth Riddoch
Northwest Territories
Miss Riddoch
Alberta
Canadian Girl Guides Association
Needlework Pattern Advertisement for Towels and Book
An ad promotes Pattern 7253 with six embroidery motifs 5x11 inches for towels. It invites readers to mail twenty five cents to obtain the pattern with name and address. Also touts the 1952 Alice Brooks Needlework Book with ninety one illustrations and six ready patterns for twenty five cents.
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Alice Brooks
Answers to Quick Quiz Facts from Canada
Answers to Quick Quiz answers include less than 43, from Asia, Montreal, in Sherbrooke Quebec in 184 percent, seven per cent. Material supplied by the editors of Quick Canadian Facts, the handbook of facts about Canada.
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Asia
Montreal
Sherbrooke
Que
Canada
Quick Home Tips From A Bygone Era
Practical household hints cover cleaning patent leather with orange juice and fresh breath aid from licorice, plus a simple emergency ham bite with mustard and baked beans. It warns against shaking rugs to dust as snapping may break yarns in the backing.
Fire Burns 40 Acres of Dumais Grain in Sask Farm Loss
Fire destroyed about 40 acres of swathed grain on Joseph Dumais farm near Debden Sask causing an estimated loss of $1,000. Dumais was forced to leave the grain in the fields all winter due to severe weather last autumn.
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Debden
Sask
Joseph Dumais
Safety device to rescue from dugout drownings urged
The article urges every unsupervised farm dugout or swimming hole to have a low cost illustrated rescue device. It explains a 60 foot rope attached to an airtight one gallon can used as a buoy and a long light pole for guiding a plank. It emphasizes fencing, supervision, and practice use to save lives.
Garden Notes on Plant Support and Fast Garden Start
Garden notes describe staking techniques for tall plants such as delphiniums and peonies with hoops and raffia. It explains using old branches near young shrubs for support and discusses soil improvement, sowing green manures, and staggered planting to extend harvests into mid summer.
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Kew Gardens
London
Oddities In The NewsReaders report a hospital scare and odd cases
A New York woman was hospitalized after a tenpin crashed through a third floor window and struck her on a street walk. Dan Bulkin of Detroit admits letting his Eskimo Husky roam to “build relationships” with other dogs. Judge Schwaba grants a divorce and lets Mrs Sezezypta keep a bed from their apartment. Bradford fire crews respond to a sparrow dropping a lit cigarette into a roof nest. A Highland Park rookie officer witnesses veteran officers confessing to a warehouse robbery on his first night.
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Clara Nieditch
New York
Dan Bulkin
Detroit
Bulkin
Peter Schwaba
Chicago
Karol Sezezypta
Wladyslawa
Cezezypta
Sezezypta
Highland Park
Mich
Ducks Unlimited Plans $300000 Budget Expansion
Winnipeg reports a budget exceeding $300,000 for Ducks Unlimited Canada, funded by Ducks Unlimited Inc. through U S contributions. Funds will expand current projects and publicize the group's work. Col W F W Hancock of Edmonton elected president, replacing Judge L T McKim of Melfort who becomes board chairman.
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Winnipeg
Ducks Unlimited
Canada
Parents
Ducks Unlimited Inc
United States
W. F. W. Hancock
Edmonton
L. T. McKim
Melfort, Sask
Harvest of Canadian Tomatoes Reaches 702740 Pounds in 1951
Canadian growers produced 702740 pounds of tomatoes in 1951 averaging 13500 pounds per acre across fields. The output reflects the season's yields and farm scale in the province.
Quick Canadi Quiz Quick Canadi Quiz
Five largest city in North America by population is Mexico City not in Canada. Canadian daily newspapers use a portion of the country’s newsprint production but the question lacks a precise figure. Eskimos are believed to have originated from Siberia via the Bering Strait. Canada’s first cotton company was established in Montreal in the 19th century. Population density: Canada has about 1.5 people per square mile.
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North America
Canada
U.S
Alberta Holds Largest Coal Reserves in Canada
Alberta contains the largest coal reserves in Canada representing about 87 percent of the country's total.
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Alberta
Canada
Appetizing Recipes for Cheesy Vegetable Bake
A vintage recipe describes scalding milk and blending it with bread crumbs and butter, then seasoning with salt paprika pepper and monosodium glutamate. It adds grated Canadian cheddar cheese, beaten yolks and peas, folds in stiff egg whites, bakes 350 degrees for 45 minutes yields four servings.
Many Tins Of B C Salmon Packed In Half Century
Vancouver delegates to the Fisheries Council of Canada convention report BC salmon packing has grown from expert tinsmith work in 12 hours for a few dozen cans to high speed plants producing about 400 cans a minute. The industry currently yields about 60 million dollars annually and supports provincial economy. The Titania’s 1889 voyage marked a long history of BC salmon exports.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Fisheries Council of Canada
Ethiopia
G. W. Henderson
American Can Company
B.C. Salmon Packers
Titania
Cape Horn
Britain
Henderson
Walnut butt rifle humor in drill sergeant anecdote
A sergeant answers recruits about why walnut is used for rifle butts. Recruits offer reasons about resistance elasticity appearance, but the sergeant dismisses them and explains the choice is simply because regulations specify it.
Wheat Blight Spreads in British Columbia Fields
In the Vanderhoof district west of Prince George a rapidly spreading wheat blight has ruined more than 40 acres of fall wheat. It has appeared in a Pineview Dominion experimental station plot as well. Officials classify it as a snow blight with a grain expert suggesting a possibly new North American species. The blackish fungus may halt fall wheat planting west of here if unchecked. A Dominion agriculture scientist may be called in to investigate.
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Prince George
B.C
Vanderhoof
Pineview Dominion
Department of Agriculture
North America
Here
Dominion Agriculture Department
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