Icelandic sheep touted for Canadian Arctic farming
Mr Eylands proposes importing hardy Icelandic sheep to northern Canada to boost Eskimo living standards by improving wool and mutton yields. He notes Icelandic stock thrived in Greenland for 40 years and discusses winter feeding grasses, potential eiderdown industry, and forestation plans with Canadian officials.
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Eylands
Iceland
Canada
Greenland
United Kingdom
Ungava Bay
Quebec
Washington
Petawawa
Ont
North Atlantic
Arctic
Health greatest worry producer
Health worries many people, with concerns about finances or business, but health remains the top fear. They brood over symptoms, often delay seeing a doctor, risking worsening illness. Early diagnosis and treatment can ease or cure most diseases, reducing fatigue and stress.
Kitchen Meditations By Jane Dale
A verse meditation on teaching a girl practical skills like reading writing knitting and sewing while questioning who can teach grace, charm, and discernment. The poem suggests life alone imparts guidance about friendship love and avoiding harm.
Funny Anecdotes and Barbershop Chatter Reel
A collection of brief comic exchanges including a new father joke about Mr Smith, a patient praising kindness paid by cheque, money order or cash, and a barber chair escape with a mistaken identity. It includes Levinsky’s sharp bill dispute letter and a runaway race after a fire alarm.
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Deetor
Christmas Angel Figure Paper Pattern for Decorations
Brightly painted stiff paper angel figures for Christmas use including table tree and card decorations. The pattern covers tracing outlines to painting with watercolors, offers six inch high standees, and is available separately for 350 or in a packet of five patterns for $1.50 postpaid from Home Workshop Pattern Service Vancouver BC.
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Department P.P.L
Home Workshop
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Manitoba to Open London Office for Industrial Development
Manitoba will establish an industrial development office in London England at the start of the new year announced by Hon. R D Turner minister of Industry and Commerce. He told Dauphin delegates the move is a lean businesslike operation to fit Manitoba’s needs and that Canada agencies in London will lend support.
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Manitoba
London
England
R. D. Turner
Industry and Commerce
Dauphin
Manitoba Chambers of Commerce
Fifty Rabies Cases Reported in Alberta
The Alberta rabies control committee warns the danger remains with about 50 confirmed cases since September 1953. Half are in Athabasca area, the rest scattered in northern Alberta. Closest to Edmonton are two cases in Westlock, 50 miles north. The outbreak spread from the Northwest Territories in 1952.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Athabasca
Westlock
Northwest Territories
Manitoba Sask Hospital Aid Totals 76700 From National Program
Ottawa announced federal grants under the National Health Program amounting to more than 75 600 for Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Birtle District Hospital will receive 26 313 to replace an obsolete building with 16 beds a six bassinet nursery and updated facilities. A 24 227 grant funds x ray equipment for St Boniface General Hospital to improve diagnostic capability.
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Ottawa
Paul Martin
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Birtle District Hospital
Birtle
St. Boniface General Hospital
Speeding Dangers on Open Roads
Speeding cars are risky and unsafe for drivers and pedestrians. High speeds reduce control and make stopping in time to avoid accidents unlikely. Roadside speed limit signs exist to protect all road users and encourage safe driving.
Saskatchewan Grants Fund X-Ray Facility Rehab Centers
Saskatchewan receives a $25,150 grant to strengthen rehabilitation programs at the Regina and Saskatoon Physical Restoration Centres. The centres provide rehabilitation facilities for disabled persons under provincial health authority care.
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Saskatchewan
Regina
Saskatoon
BC Factory Output Doubles Since War End
Since the end of the war British Columbia has seen factory output rise by more than 100 percent in value, signaling a strong postwar industrial rebound across the province.
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British Columbia
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Canadian Arctic
Edoren
Pickwood Pharmacal CO
I Og Milton
Onta
PINEX
Jane Dale
Paris
Europe
Peggy
Marge
Chuck Thursion
L.aid
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