Alberta Beets to Sugar Boost Alberta's beet sugar industry expansion.
Alberta presses ahead with beet sugar, building refineries at Picture Butte Ray mond and Taber near Lethbridge. By 1950 the Taber plant cost 5 000 000 and output nears 120 million pounds annually. Over 1 500 farmers grow over 400 000 tons of beets yearly, with by products used for stock feed and molasses for alcohol.
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Alberta
Jener Krogh
Knight Sugar Company
Picture Butte
M Rez
Winnipeg
Canadian Sugar Factories Limited
Lethbridge
Raymond
Taber
Baby crochet set pattern 7012 jacket cap booties
Instructions describe a two color baby set with long double crochet and single crochet stitches in white and pastel tones. Includes jacket cap and booties as a single piece for easy completion. Pattern 7012 provides directions and requires twenty five cents in coins for obtainment.
Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book 1952 Patterns
Advertisement for the 1952 edition of Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book from Winni News Union Toronto. It promotes twenty five cent price, ninety one illustrations, and six easy to do patterns printed in the neck area. The ad lists Household Arts Department and provides a contact at 60 Front Street West.
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Winni News Union
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks
Vancouver Sun Introduces Three Color Front Page Image
The Vancouver Sun prints a three color picture on its front page claiming a Canadian first. The paper notes new presses enable color images without slowing production, reversing a prior speed loss of 10,000 copies per hour.
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Vancouver
Vancouver Sun
Canada
The
Sun
Answers to Quick Quiz Answers
Facts list shows quiz results with figures for Brazil totals and Canada facts. It cites figures such as two hundred million dollars and over ten million, and ranges from 1 553 to 1603 with year details. Also notes $21 million value last year and a growth from $2 447 million to $10 400 million.
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Brazil
Quick Canadian Facts
Handbook of Facts About
Canada
Mice Fuel Cancer Research At Jackson Laboratory
In Bar Harbor Maine Dr C C Little directs a key U S genetics facility where mice are used to study heredity and disease. The Jackson Laboratory breeds about one million mice annually in 50 strains and supplies 300000 surplus to hundreds of schools and centers for anti cancer drug testing and organ research. Established 1929 the lab aims to reveal how heredity shapes human health and disease.
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Bar Harbor
Jackson Memorial Laboratory
United States
C. C. Little
Jackson Laboratory
Maine
Wedding Gift Prompted Laugh Over Father’s $1000 Check
The wedding presents were displayed with a prominent check for 1000 dollars from the bride’s father. The bridegroom quips about the laughing man, and the bride explains the man is the bank manager.
Sewing Tips and Housekeeping Notes from a Past Page
Useful hints for home repairs and cooking from a historic column. Tearing window shades can be prevented by removing roller tacks and applying adhesive tape. A rule converts baking powder quantities from tartar and soda.
Two Adventurous Women Hitchhike From Calgary to Arctic Circle
Sylvia Taylor of London England and Corrine Young of Hawkes Bay New Zealand left Calgary to hitchhike to Alaska and the Arctic Circle. They aim to skirt the Arctic perimeter and return home after traveling thousands of miles. Both plan further travel including Canada and Australia or England before settling, possibly in Vancouver, the most beautiful city they saw.
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Calgary
Sylvia Taylor
London
England
Corrine Young
Hawkes Bay
New Zealand
Alaska
Arctic Circle
Vancouver
Europe
Iron Curtain
Russia
Corrine
Canada
Africa
Alberta
British Columbia
West
Sylvia
Australia
Pictures Through Eye Of Pig Camera Shown In New York
Ralph P. Creer of Chicago demonstrated a novel camera using an animal eye as the lens at the Biological Photographic Association meeting in New York. He notes the device is an experimental curiosity with limited practical use, able to capture close ups from about four inches, and equivalent in light transmission to f1.9.
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New York
Biological Photographic Association
Ralph P. Creer
Chicago
Creer
American Medical Association
Man Tested Safety Boot By Blocking Bus Wheel
London crowd watches George Denton pin his foot in front of a double decker bus to test a new industrial safety boot specification. The bus passes over his toes and leaves him unharmed as he withdraws his foot.
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London
George Denton
George
New Outlet To Pacific Being Built By Small Community
The Bella Coola Board of Trade advances a local project to connect Kleena Kleene beside One Ere Lake to the coast via a 15 mile wilderness route. It notes historic passes and the 12,000 to 13,000 foot Coast Range barrier, with a primitive road possibly completed by the local group despite government surveys and war delays.
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Pacific
Coast Range
Skeena
Bella Coola
Vancouver
Prince Rupert
Alexander Mackenzie
Western Sea
Burke Channel
Board of Trade
Eskimo Seeks Arctic Winter, Prefers Tuktoyaktuk Trap Life
Nasook of the North and Lawrence Campbell visit Vancouver aboard the Hudson's Bay Company Fort Hearne after a 3500 mile voyage. Nasook plans to return to Tuktoyaktuk to trap muskrat and stay as vessel caretaker, stating he would rather be trapped by ice than by crowds. Campbell, 23, from Fort Chipewyan, accompanies him.
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Vancouver
Nasook
Tuktoyaktuk
Michael Amos
Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Hearne
Arctic Circle
Lawrence Campbell
Fort Chipewyan
Great Slave Lake
Apetizing Recipes For Cake Flour And Molasses Cake
Recipe style notes mix cake flour and molasses with lemon rind and juice then fold in stiff egg whites and bake in a tube pan. Includes a spiced molasses variation with currants and nuts and a baked frosting suggestion.
Rabies Outbreak Reported Near Fort Vermilion
Ottawa warns of a rabies outbreak among foxes and wolves near Fort Vermilion in the Peace River district. Domestic animals including horses cattle swine and dogs have been bitten and infected, though no human cases are reported. All dogs in the area have been vaccinated. affected animals are destroyed and farms quarantined.
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Ottawa
Fort Vermilion
Peace River
Alberta
Agriculture Department
Thomas Childs
Federal Veterinary Services
Childs
Quick Canadian Quiz Answers From Another Column
Canadian coffee supplier question notes the leading country. CRCt costs are cited as four, seven, or ten million dollars. Queen Elizabeth I reigned in the late 16th century. Retail buying in Canada rose between 1939 and 1951 by a notable amount. Investment needed to develop Ungava iron ore is mentioned as a specific figure.
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Queen Elizabeth I
Canada
Ungava
New Zealand Welcomes 588 Immigrants on Hobson
Wellington officials celebrated the arrival of 588 new settlers aboard the immigrant ship Hobson. The newcomers pushed New Zealand's population to just over two million.
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Wellington
N.Z
Hobson
New Zealand
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