Hecla Island Icelandic Roots Still Shape Manitoba Life
Hecla islanders trace a 1876 settlement to Icelandic ancestors who built a fishing community on Lake Winnipeg. The valley grows with two schools and a lodge run by Helgi Jones-Johnsson as winters shift from dog sleds to snow vehicles. The island remains remote with ferry service, a road, and a welcoming culture famed for coffee, fish, and vinirterta.
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Hecla
Fshing
Bombardier
Helgi Jones — Johnsson
Hecla Island
Kenora
Selkirk
Warren
Manitoba Power Commission
Riverton
Cull Harbor
Helgi Jones
Gull Harbor
Helgi
Beggs
Binny
Beggs, Jr
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Red Hat With Feathers Haunts Shopper In Millinery Shop
A woman enters a millinery shop and selects a window hat asking the clerk to remove it. She thanks the clerk and explains the red feathered hat bothers her every time she passes, prompting the store to oblige.
Amsterdam Diamond Plot Ends With Safe Polite Warning
Willem Verhaert the diamond grinder plots a bold theft of the Vijzel diamond and flees to London in disguise. A Havana cigar holds the gem inside a tobacco leaf phony. a vigilant policeman catches no one but warns that smoking near the gasoline dump is forbidden.
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Nieuwe Kade
Amsterdam
London
Willem Verhaert
Vijzel
Verhaert
Wijzel
South Africa
Polgy Verhaert
Emile Verlon
Havana
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Home Workshop Project For Husband And Wife Team
A simple home craft project describes a five frame units kit with cotton batting padding and heavy textured coverings. The plan calls for 32 yards of 36 inch material per unit and suggests options such as chintz or plain plastic.
Megill appointed general officer commanding Prairie Command
Major General William Jemmett Megill has been named general officer commanding Prairie Command with headquarters in Winnipeg, succeeding Major General N E Rodgers as vice chief of the general staff. Megill, born in Ottawa, enlisted at 16 and served in World War II in England and Northwest Europe, becoming commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade in 1944.
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G.O.C
William Jemmett Megill
D.S.O
C.D
General Offier
Prairie Command
Winnipeg
N. E. Rodgers
Megill
Indo-China
Ottawa
Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
England
Europe
Major surgical advance lowers blood pressure during operations
A British surgeon reports a major surgical advance that lowers a patient’s blood pressure by about 50 percent to reduce bleeding during surgery. Sir Archibald McIndoe notes clearer vision and quicker, more successful operations based on 4 500 patients at Queen Victoria Hospital over four years. The technique uses pentolinium tartrate and elevation of the operative area to lower blood pressure.
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Associated Press
Atlantic City
Archibald McIndoe
McIndoe
Queen Victoria Hospital
England
Canadian children still under immunized says doctor
Dr C S Anglin of the Hospital for Sick Children warns in Health Magazine that despite available protection against diphtheria tetanus pertussis measles mumps and polio over 200 Canadians die annually from these diseases. He notes Whooping cough causes the most damage and cites 85 percent of hospitalized cases at Sick Kids had no immunization. Canada marks the 13th National Immunization Week to boost uptake.
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Toronto
C. S. Anglin
Hospital For
Health Magazine
Health League of Canada
Canada
Anglin
Europe
North America
World Health Organization
Pattern 4629 Half Size Sewing Pattern Advertisement
Shorter full figure slimming pattern in crepe faille or cotton with dramatic collar detail. Proportioned to fit with no alterations. pattern 4629 half sizes 14 to 16 requires 4 yards 39 inch fabric. complete illustrated instructions. 35 cents. send size name address and style number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Toronto.
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Simle
Elevators at Rockefeller Center Hit Global Speed Record
Eight of Rockefeller Center’s 166 elevators are among the fastest in the world, racing up 65 floors in 87 seconds. Since their 1932 installation, the complex has carried over a billion passengers, marking a landmark in urban transit.
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New York
Rockefeller Center
Gems of Thought on Prejudice and Ignorance
A collection of brief quotations on prejudice ignorance and bias from Diderot Aubrey de Vere Mary Baker Eddy J Stuart Mill James Boswell and Charlotte Bronte. The lines criticize how prejudice narrows perception and how education can loosen such soil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denis Diderot
Aubrey de Vere
Mary Baker Eddy
J. Stuart Mill
James Boswell
Charlotte Bronte
No Fish Living in the Great Salt Lake
A brief note states no fish can survive in the Great Salt Lake reflecting extreme salinity. The remark underscores the lake's harsh chemical conditions as a barrier to aquatic life.
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Great Salt Lake
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Iceland
Kurt von Fischer
Home Workshop Pattern Service
Department P.P L
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Dodd
P.P.L
Anne Adams
Front Street W
Lyes
Ingersoll
Ingersoll Cheese CO. Ltd
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