Canada reports high health standards and oil boom notes
Dr. T C Routley tells World Medical association delegates that Canada maintains health standards equal to leading nations. Alberta records 1006 oil wells in operation, a historic first. unemployment insurance fund stands near 550 million dollars with monthly interest over one million. Canada forms its first air cub flight in Sarnia to train youths for the Air Cadet corps and RCAF basics.
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Canada
T. C. Routley
Toronto
World Medical Association
Unemployment Insurance Commission
Sarnia
Ont
Air Cadet Corps
RCAF
Prairie oil prices may drop as Alberta crude expands
W Frank Prendergast of Toronto warned at a Denver meeting that prairie oil prices could fall over the next two years as Alberta crude moves to distant markets. He noted last year's price cuts reduced prairie consumers' annual fuel bills by about 9 million dollars.
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Alberta
W. Frank Prendergast
Toronto
Mr. Prendergast
Imperial Oil, Limited
Fowl Supper A Prairies Tradition Of Community
The fowl supper has grown into a western prairie institution held mainly in October and November after harvest. Women prepare pies and chickens while communities gather in church basements halls or rinks to share food talk and warmth. The event embodies democracy hospitality and a relaxed social spirit.
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The
Prairies
Canadian Prairies
Emily Post
Melville
Village hall fund gathers bricks and pledges in Southgate
The 750 parishioners of Southgate Middlesex England raise 3283 pounds about 10177 dollars and collect 60000 bricks toward building a village hall a community effort with strong local support.
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Southgate
Middlesex
England
Calgary broker buys photo with Barbara Ann for charity
Murray Stephens, a Calgary stock broker, paid $100 for a photograph with Barbara Ann after a show in New Westminster. Barbara Ann agreed to the pose only if Stephens donated $100 to the Community Chest, making it a bargain for a good cause.
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New Westminster
B.C
Barbara Ann
Murray Stephens
Calgary
Stephens
Community Chest
Crossword Puzzle Clue Grid Mixed Language OCR Quirks
A garbled crossword puzzle list presents horizontal and vertical clues with mixed punctuation and OCR errors. Several entries show misprints and unusual symbols, including references to numbers percent signs and partial words, suggesting a scanned page fragment with legible word fragments and unresolved letter counts.
Andy Clarke and His Neighbourly News book release
The late Andy Clarke’s CBC Neighbourly News is collected into a 60 000 word book published by Ryerson Press as a December gift. Vi Dickens Clarke, May Holland Cox and a CBC press team compiled months of Clarke’s Ontario and Quebec stories with Thoreau Macdonald illustrations and Greg Clark biographical intro. The volume includes an index and eight yearly themes, priced at 2.50 dollars for Christmas copies.
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Andy Clarke
CBC
Ryerson Press
Andy
Vi Dickens-Clarke
May Holland Cox
Gillis Purcell
Canadian Press
Dan McArthur
Frank MacIntyre
Dundalk Herald
Greg Clark
Montreal Standard
Lorne Pierce
Thoreau Macdonald
Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association
Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf
A quirky collection of anecdotes about Saki and club life. A tale of servant trouble at home, a comic remark about a wife who proved a gem in domestic service, and a note on a nightclub opening with a near sighted chanteuse.
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Bennett Cerf
Saki
Variety
Gold Nugget Found In Arctic Sparks Biggest Rush Since '98
In Fairbanks Alaska prospector Clifton Carroll arrives at Circle City with pea sized nuggets near the Arctic Circle nine miles south along the Yukon River. The find triggers a tent city, Bush pilots, and a gold rush revival, drawing crowds from Circle City and Fairbanks and drawing comparisons to the Klondike.
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Arctic
Fairbanks
Alaska
Yukon
Arctic Circle
Circle City
Edward Badten
Klondike
Clifton Carroll
U.S
George Carmack
Canadian names honor troops in Bexhill suburb
Bexhill Council named streets Canada Way St. Lawrence Road Edmonton Road and Calgary Road in a northern housing estate to honor ties with Canadian troops billeted there during the war.
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Bexhill
Sussex
Canada Way
St. Lawrence Road
Edmonton Road
Calgary Road
Boy Scouts Membership in Canada Reaches Record high
R C Stevenson chairman of the Boy Scouts Association executive committee said on return from Calgary that membership in Canada ended September at a record 109 270. The figure underscores growing participation nationwide.
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Montreal
Canada
R. C. Stevenson
O.B.E
Boy Scouts Association
Calgary
Expenses Of Farmers Rise In August Costs
Ottawa reports farm costs rose in recent months with the composite price index for commodities and services used by farmers climbing from 191.1 in April to 192.3 in August. Living costs, farm wages, and clothing drove the gain while fuel eased. Eastern and western Canada showed similar trends with rises in machinery fuel and feed prices and declines in building materials and seed.
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Ottawa
Bureau of Statistics
Apri
Canada
Canada as breeding stock source for Italy includes pigs
Canada, as a source of breeding stock for Italy, is reinforced by an order for 10 Yorkshire pigs. The shipment will include two boars and eight sows and arrive in the near future.
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Canada
Italy
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