Madam President of Knitting and Literary Club Faces Change
Alice defies a plan to push Mrs Weatherby out as president of the Knitting and Literary Club. Mrs Weatherby admits a wish to resign but decides the club needs modernization with Dorothy Wilson as a guest speaker. Alice proposes hosting the next meeting at her house, choosing to support the longtime leader.
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Lice Duncan
Mra Weatherly
Mace
Martha Adam
Alice
Sally Cooper
Harriet Mason
Lilly
Mr. Weatherby
Mrs. Weatherby
Sally
Mrs
Martha
Wild West themed iron on designs pattern 7194
Alice Brookes Mom advertises colorful iron on designs for son and daughter clothing and home items. Pattern 7194 features 12 iron on designs from 6x3 inches to 1x4 inches in green black and rust. Send 25 cents to obtain pattern and mention name address and pattern number. TEN COMPLETE PATTERNS available in 1953 Alice Brooks Needle Craft Book with more patterns for gifts home accessories and fashions.
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Alice Brooks
Oddities In The News From Around The World
A scattered collection of quirky items: Peta luma California’s sole judge Roland C Webb was jailed in a bar on drunkenness charges as he pondered trying himself. British writer Sir Alan Herbert humor at a Royal Academy banquet. Surrey blacksmith Henry Jelly’s 1,000 year old water trough from Newark Abbey. Auckland child Jimmy Real and his swimming rabbit aboard a duck pond. A London thief’s brick at an Oxford street jeweller shop is repelled by a steel grill aiding quick arrest.
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Henry Jelly
Ripley
England
Surrey
Newark Abbey
Auckland
N.Z
Jimmy Real
London
Oxford Street
Music Should Be A Must In Schools
Toronto Dr Edward Johnson urged Canadian schools to teach music as a must, on a par with arithmetic. The Guelph born former Met Opera executive and Royal Conservatory chair said such a policy could raise national musical taste and perhaps make Canada a great musical centre. He compared cultivating opera enthusiasm to hockey fervor.
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Toronto
Edward Johnson
Johnson
Metropolitan Opera of New York
Royal Conservatory of Music
Rotary Club
Home Workshop Pattern Service Offers DIY Boat and Plate Rack Patterns
The item lists two patterns for crafts: a lightweight boat pattern with full cutting, assembling, finishing details and a sturdy plate rack pattern. Each pattern is sold for 35 cents with instructions and dimensions included. Address orders to Home Workshop Pattern Service in Vancouver, B C.
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Pattern
Pri&ce
Never Use Flammable Liquids to Light Fires
Rural households rely on coal oil and gasoline for many tasks but never use them to kindle a stove. Fires occur when coal oil is poured into the stove with tragic results. Safer methods include waxpaper or candle bits for kindling and keeping gasoline containers far outside the home.
Blind bowler Bill Crawford leads Calgary league scoring
For the second year running Bill Crawford topped all scorers in Calgary's bowling league for the blind with his top three five pin scores 361 334 and 322.
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Calgary
Bill Crawford
Scientists Find Mite Spreading Wheat Disease Virus
Canadian plant pathologist Dr. John T. Slykhuis identified a four legged mite as the carrier of streak mosaic, a virus harming wheat. The discovery in southern Alberta shows the mite transmits leaf discoloration, with winter wheat planting in September and early spring sowing as possible mitigations.
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Lethbridge
Canada
John T. Slykhuis
Dominion Science Service Laboratories
Alberta
Slykhuis
South Dakota State College
Brookings
Kansas
U.S
Carlyle, Sask
Saskatchewan
Toronto
H. H. Keifer
Sacramento
Calif
Stykhuis
Bus Driver Delivers Porcupine By Caesarian
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION Viz A sportsman reports a porcupine born alive after a roadside accident. Bus driver Leonard Hyde performed an on the spot Caesarian with a jackknife to extract the infant. Eugene J Byron Jr, the owner, cares for the animal, bottle feeding it with condensed milk.
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White River Junction
Eugene J. Byron, Jr
Leonard Hyde
Concord
Hyde
Byron
Duck hawk falco peregrinus speeds in dive
A diving duck hawk can reach about 180 miles per hour while striking prey. The falcon known as falco peregrinus achieves extreme velocity in its hunting stoop.
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Falco Peregrinus
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Ruth K. Kent
Harriet
Weatherby
Dodd
Alice Brookes
Prairie Publishers Limited
Front Street W
Petaluma
Roland C. Webb
Webb
Alan Herbert
Pit River Bridge
Redding
San Anselmo
P. M. Querby
Portland
Ore
Home Workshop Pattern Service
West Fifth Ave
Vancouver
B.C
Blue Bonnet Sue
McBrine
Northern Electric
Blue Bonnet
P.O
Ont
Good Housekeeping
Lana
UT Eros
Lei Carol
Boo Hoo
Aymore
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