Pioneer Printer Shot At Buffalo On Wild Prairie Train
Alberta pioneer printer Thomas Clarke recalls taking part in one of the country’s last wild buffalo hunts aboard a Medicine Hat to Calgary train. Amid shouted shots, none hit the buffalo. Clarke later worked for the Macleod Gazette and helped start the Macleod Advance and Southern Alberta Advertiser. Now aged, he keeps old type equipment at home but finds handling a type stick difficult.
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Macleod
Alta
Thomas Clarke
Alberta
Clarke
Calgary Herald
Prairies
Quebec
Suffolk
England
Owen Sound
Ont
Meaford
Winnipeg Sun
Maple Creek
Sask
Calgary
Medicine Hat
Buffalo
Macleod Gazette
Fred
Macleod Advance
Southern Alberta
Spring 8 loveliest blossoms linen transfer pattern
Ace Crookes describes a transfer pattern TO11 featuring 16 motifs in sunlit yellow pink and green. It promises to brighten linens curtains and towels when ironed onto fabric and requires twenty five cents in coins to obtain.
1952 Alice Brooks Needlework Book debut
The notice advertises the 1952 edition of the Alice Brooks Needlework Book priced at twenty five cents. It promises ninety one illustrations of needlecraft patterns and six ready to use patterns printed inside.
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Alice Brooks
Quick Canadian Quiz From a Forest Fire Fiscal Year
A brief item questions Canada’s annual dollar impact from forest fires and identifies its top purchaser of farm products. It also asks where Unis country reaches its wartime per capita peak.
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Canada
Unis
Oddities In The News Highlight Curious Local and Global Incidents
A Berkeley woman finds 11700 dollars in an envelope at her door. A Mexico City tile factory with 11 workers earned 552000 pesos in a lottery before closing. An elephant triggers an emergency brake in Gothenburg. A Boston motorist blocks Sumner tunnel traffic during a tire change. In Michigan a girl and her twin both end up in sling casts within days. A Nuoro train wreck prompts passengers to walk to the next station. Huntsville bricks from slave labor era unearthed in a new home reveal pre civil war history.
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Boston Sumner Tunnel
Nicholas Smith
Huntsville
Ala
Smith
Lethbridge Welcomes Woman Pilot as Club Instructor
Lethbridge Alberta reports Miss Vera Strodl named new flying instructor for the Lethbridge Flying Club. She holds Canadian British American Swedish commercial licences and top Canadian instrument and aerobatics instructor certications. Strodl flew fighters and bombers with the Air Transport Auxiliary in World War II and remains a member of the Women Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. She will coach the RC A F instructor refresher course at Kenkon Field in September.
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Lethbridge
Alta
Lethbridge Flying Club
Canada
Vera Strodl
England
Ottawa
Flying Club
Department of Transport
Air Transport Auxiliary
Women's Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Miss Strodl
RC A.F
Kenkon Field
Garden Notes on Cultivation and Plant Protection
Garden notes emphasize cultivation as the main method to loosen soil and promote growth, with weekly passes during the growing season. It covers soil texture improvement, moisture conservation after showers, and the need for fertilization and humus. It also outlines pest defense through observation, dusters, and specific treatments like DDT and tobacco solutions.
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A&k
Sally
Canada
Water safety tips for small wooden boats and life buoys
Advice on keeping passengers balanced in upset conditions, wearing life jackets for non-swimmers, and equipping boats with homemade life buoys made from airtight cans. The Red Cross offers free waterproof transfers for boats and encourages dealers and owners to join the drownings prevention campaign by submitting transfer requests.
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Red Cross Water Safety Division
Regina
Two Headed Pig Born on Finch Farm
A two headed pig born near Finch, Ontario on Sylvia Lachapelle's farm joins a litter of eight normal piglets. The creature has four eyes and two mouths and is fed cow's milk from a spoon. A local vet will supply a diet to sustain it. Finch lies about 50 miles southeast of Ottawa.
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Finch
Sylvia Lachapelle
Smile Of The Week Cartoon Bystander Joke
A light hearted caption contrasts a wife prompting her husband to tickle her chin in earlier married life with a playful quip about noses and dogs. The cartoon caption uses humor on marital memory and uniqueness of dogs noses.
Window Screens Need Attention
A Spring chore for homeowners is repairing painting and installing window and door screens. Brush kerosene on the mesh to loosen dirt then wash out with a garden hose. Copper and brass resist rust but screens may discolor light trim and walls from rain. Coat mesh with thin varnish to prevent staining. Use screen enamel on iron wire screens.
Beggar Family Claim in China Sparks Historic Silence
A claim circulates that in some famed Chinese beggar lineages no member has held a job for 4000 years, a statement reflecting legend, not verifiable history, and drawing skepticism from scholars.
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China
Appetizing Raisin Coffee Cake Recipe From A Vintage Page
Readable recipe lists ingredients and steps for a raisin coffee cake. Includes raisins coffee cinnamon shortening sugar eggs flour baking powder baking soda salt and a glaze. Describes combining, creaming, mixing, spreading in a jelly roll pan and baking at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
Manitoba Underwriters Cut Hail Insurance Premiums
Manitoba hail insurance premiums are reduced by as much as one third after seven years of excess losses. Rates are now set per township with deductible options lowering the effective rate. overall historical losses have varied, with 1951 premiums $622,203 and losses $173,205. The shift follows analysis of hail incidence across areas and replaces the old flat provincial rate system.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Hai Financial Post
Helpful Home Hints From Daily Tips On Care
Practical advice covers cleaning windows with ammonia and whiting followed by chamois polish. A shoe tip suggests placing chamois inside the heel to prevent rubbing. Also advises stitching sweater buttons to avoid stretching and using soap and a damp cloth to remove grease from hot pans.
Bachelor Farmers Marry To Cut Taxes
Ottawa reports parliamentary assistant James Sinclair urged in the Commons that bachelor farmers could reduce taxes by marrying their housekeepers. He noted bachelors face heavier rates and suggested marriage as a social and fiscal remedy, while Robert Fair proposed deducting housekeeper wages as a farm expense.
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Ottawa
James Sinclair
Abbott
Commons
Sinclair
Robert Fair
SC Battle River
Canadian fur parade showcases champagne squirrel coat
The Canadian fur industry presents a fur parade item featuring a champagne squirrel coat with an ermine-like look, a sun-burst back and adjustable sleeves among 15 furs showcased.
English Bull Baiting Banned in 1835
The practice of bull baiting was popular in England for many years but was prohibited by law in 1835.
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England
Answers to Quick Quiz Answers One Third Five Million Dollars
Five quiz items list answers: 5 is one third, 3 location is Chatham Ontario with 3000 tons per day capacity, 1 value about five million dollars, 4 about $300, 2 country is the United Kingdom. The note cites Quick Canadian Facts as the source.
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Central Press
Lake Huron
Bruce Goderich
Ont
Stokes Bay
Chatham
United Kingdom
Canada
Greeks Brand Slaves with Delta Sign, Historical Practice
Historical accounts describe Greek slave owners marking slaves with a Delta shaped symbol. The detail highlights harsh practices in ancient servitude and the social status attached to enslaved people.
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Set
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Mich
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