Swift Current expert recalls life and landscape in Iceland
Mr Campbell describes Iceland as a vast desert of blowing sand and glaciers with varied occupations from fishing to industry. He notes erosion shrinking pastures, a grass shortage, and hopes for future transformation resembling Saskatchewan. He observes small jails, rehabilitative policy, and a six year public school system with English taught and apprenticeship options.
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Swift Current Agro
Iceland
Campbell
Saskatchewan
Europe
Dutch Designs for Home Workshop Patterns
Early Dutch designs show hearts flowers fruits and hex symbols for cupboards walls and chairs. The lamb crib pattern 357 and others are available 35c each or in a five-pattern packet for $1.50 postpaid from Department P.P.L. Home Workshop Pattern Service Vancouver BC.
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Pennsylvania
Department P.P.L
Home Workshop
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Retirement at 65 scored by doctor
Vancouver reports Dr. Ian Macdonald of Sunnybrook Veterans' hospital and University of Toronto says compulsory retirement at 65 harms individuals and communities. He notes people age at different rates and urges reconsideration of fixed retirement age.
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Vancouver
Ian Macdonald
Toronto
Sunnybrook Veterans’ Hospital
University of Toronto
Motel Boom in Canada Expands Across 3500 Motels
Canada hosts over 3,500 motels averaging 15 to 20 rooms each, reflecting rapid hospitality growth and dispersed regional presence across the country.
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Canada
Three factors govern keeping quality of home grown vegetables
Chas. Walker of the Morden Manitoba Experimental Station notes three key factors for shelf life: maturity at harvest, surface moisture control, and a cool steady storage temperature. He adds practical steps from dry storage post harvest to temp treatments for onions and root vegetables.
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Chas. Walker
Morden
Man
Humorous Vignettes and Puzzles From a Local Page
A collage of light humor and quick quips unfolds from a maid alerting a mistress to a phone call about the master, a Hollywood traveler praising grand productions, a cartoonish dentaly dinner scene, a jibe about family sanity, a love-struck actress, a coach’s gag about death by own action, and a shaggy dog yarn with a powder puff nose at a track.
Canada to build 14 St Laurent class sub chasers for navy
Canada plans a 210 million program to produce 14 St Laurent class destroyer escorts for the Royal Canadian Navy. Lead vessel St Laurent under construction at Canadian Vickers in Montreal with six launched and eight more to come.
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Canada
Defence Production Department
St. Laurent
St Laurent
Canadian Vickers
Montreal
Vickers
Saguenay
Halifax
Skeena
Burrard Drydocks
Vancouver
Ottawa
Fraser, Yarrow
Moone's Emerald Oil Promises Swift Itch Relief
A historical advert praises Moone's Emerald Oil as a penetrating antiseptic treatment for severe skin itching sold in Canada. It claims fast relief and safe use with a one week course, offering money back satisfaction if not fulfilled.
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Canada
Moone
Kitchen Meditations By Jane Dale
The speaker hopes for better minutes each day and prays to keep time shining bright. She asks for fewer blunders and less thoughtlessness so that every hour becomes a star in a lonely night.
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Jane Dale
Jiffy Iron On Strawberry Motifs Pattern 7118
An advertisement by Alice Brookes promotes no embroidery, offering a 10 design strawberry transfer pattern 7118 for household linens and clothing. It details sizes, borders, and the email address to order, asking readers to send 25 cents by mail to Toronto’s Household Arts Department.
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P.L
Household Arts
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks Needlecraft
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