Neighbourly News From Across Prairie Towns
A nostalgic roundup of light local items. Farmers report large vegetables and oddities from Saskatchewan and Manitoba towns. Births, birthdays, and public notices mingle with small town humor and memories, ending with a cheerful greeting.
Shuffleboard in the Home Workshop Pattern 408
Pattern 408 provides dimensions and directions for making a permanent indoor shuffleboard court or a canvas rollable court, with disks cues and a score board. It also covers gadgets for two other indoor games and offers a rumpus-room game packet of five patterns priced at $1.75.
Railway crossing crash wrecks car at Bienfait
A derailed box car ripped a switch at a CPR spur level crossing in Bienfait and wrecked a new model automobile. Driver Donald Allen Smith escaped injury as the train pushed the car about 100 feet. brakeman John Todd riding the end car avoided harm by holding the manual brake. Train crew was from M and S Mine. no one was hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bienfait
CPR
M & S Mines
Donald Allen Smith
John Todd
Smith
Mercury
Estevan
Sask
Skyway Shelves Brightened by Luminous Paint Pattern 398
Brightened shelves show luminous paint while an angelic child mounts upward following Pattern 398 guiding actual size cutting directions.
A New Kind of Hallowe'en Unicef Fund Drive
Canadians are urged to shell out for UNICEF on Halloween 1956. Local groups, clubs, and youth teams will collect pennies to dollars and send funds to UNICEF central, supporting health, nutrition, and education for children worldwide. Organizers provide collection boxes, tags, and publicity materials.
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Canada
Unicef
Hallowe'en
United Nations Children’s Fund
United Nations
Unicef Hallowe'en
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Kinistine Post
Cecil Hobbs
Barry Chytyk
Delburne Times
A. Federishen
Esterhazy Observer
A. Ponscok
Stockholm
E. Sletmoen
Rainy River
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Vita
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Carillon News
Walden
Wan Valley
Norman Ediger
Drake
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John R. Friesen
Saskatoon St. Paul's Hospital
Anna Glenn
Naco
James Ramsay
Macgregor
T. E. Pye
Red Deer
Richard Williams
Melita
J. N. Coolidge
Saskatoon
D. A. Shaw
Low
Robert Nurse
Eston, Sask
Janet Wilson
McAuley
J. Sigurdson
Grandview
Humboldt Journal
George Stokes
Old Dobbin
Wakaw Recorder
J. J. Weixel
Brandon
Portage la Prai
Rie Enterprise
Portage la Prairie
Mayrell
Machiniost
Linceeef Toren
Regina
Dimsdale
Yorkton Enterprise
Cecil Straker
Waldron
Straker
James Straker
Abergavenny
Monmouthshire
England
Lloydminster Times
S. T. Phillpots
Lloydminster
British Columbia
Bolton
Lancashire
Patteen
the Times
Wetaskiwin, Alta
Wetaskiwin
50 Avenue
Department P.P.L
West 5Th Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Aerse
Moone
Sedicin
McGee
Bloor Street West
Toronto
Ontario
United Nations Association
Saskatchewan
Unicef Committee
Westgate Ave
Manitoba
Curry Building
Winnipeg
Alberta
Edmonton
Bloor St. West