Cunard Announces Mediterranean and North Cape Cruises for 1955
Cunard Line unveils Caronia itineraries for 1955 with a 20 day spring voyage to the Mediterranean from New York and a 42 day summer trip to the North Cape. Baltic Sea calls and visits to capitals of Norway Finland and Denmark highlighted. Rates start at 975 dollars with shore excursions via Thomas Cook. Return aboard Cunard liners includes stopovers in the British Isles and the Continent.
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Cunard Line
Caronje
Conard Line
New York
Mediterranean
Corona
Land of the Midnight Sun
North Cape
Cunard
Baltic Sea
Norway
Finland
Denmark
Funchal
Madeira
Gibraltar
Tangier
Malta
Athens
Greece
Dubrovnik
Yugoslavia
Venice
Naples
Italy
Catania
Messina
Svartisen Glacier
Trondheim
Randalsnes
Ytterdal
Merck
Bergen
Norheimsund
Oslo
Stockholm
Visby
Sweden
Helsinki
Copenhagen
Queens
Poultry Research Drives Shift From Small Flocks to Industry
A 50 year overview credits ongoing poultry research for transforming farming from mother-hen hatchings to a modern commercial flock. Innovations include trap nests, progeny tests, better incubation, year round production, and meat egg strains. Feed efficiency improved from about 4 to under 2.5 pounds per pound gain and eggs per hen reach 250 yearly.
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T. M. MacIntyre
Nappan
Manitoba Normal School Renamed to Teachers College
The Manitoba provincial school formerly named Normal School becomes Manitoba Teachers College. Minister W. C. Miller announced the change to 516 teachers in training, aligning with national and U.S. naming trends adopted by department officials, the Trustees Association, and the Manitoba Teachers Society.
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Manitoba Teachers’ College
W. C. Miller
Manitoba Trustees Association
Manitoba Teachers’ Society
Manitoba
United States
Canada
Cotton Fashion Show Demonstrates Canadian Made Cottons
An all Canadian cotton fashion show showcased Tex made fabrics for Spring 1958 with 60 garments. The display highlighted easy care wash and wear options across menswear ladies and children, ranging from night wear to bathing suits and pastel coordinating outfits. The event ran three days in Dominion Textiles head office auditorium for the garment trade.
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Dominion Textile
Co-operative Film Library reports record year
The Manitoba Federation of Agriculture and Co operation notes 833 films viewed at 273 meetings for 18,000 rural attendees in the year ending September 30 1957. Admission to the Film Federation adds 30 films with 10 more from the National Film Board and five from Shell, totaling 200 films.
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Manitoba Federation of Agriculture and Co-operation
Co-operative Film Library
Hilda Kennedy
Film Federation of Manitoba
National Film Board
Shell Oil Company
Crochet Parasol Planter Pattern for Garden Walls
Crochet directions describe a 15x10 inch planter in heavy jiffy cotton or three strands of string. Send thirty five cents and your name and address to the Household Arts Department in Toronto for pattern 7098. Plus a bonus free patterns and a needlecraft book offer for 1957.
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Household Arts Department
Department P.P.L
Front Street
Toronto
Alice Brooks
Parents show strong turnout at Brunswick Broadway H S meet
Over 100 attendees packed the first Brunswick Broadway Home and School Association meeting last Wednesday. The group will remain as one association uniting Broadway and Brunswick schools with a reduced family fee of 1 dollar, including the Home and School magazine.
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Brunswick Broadway Home and School Association
Broadway
Brunswick
G. T. Anderson
Jack Kyba
Broadway School
Mable Braaten
Miss Braaten
George Newfeld
Fort Frances Times Honors 13 Honor Graduates
The Fort Frances Times notes that while athletics and extracurriculars have merit, scholarship remains paramount and special credit is given to 13 honor graduates who completed their year successfully.
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Fort Frances
Ont
Times
Canada to raise Savings Bond limits to attract cash
The Canadian government plans higher savings bond limits to $10000 per person to boost sales amid looming refunding maturities totaling over 2.0 billion dollars. A Regina dealer notes the move targets large subscriptions, offering high yields that are free of market swings and redeemable on demand.
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Regina
Canada
Surrey to supply White Rock fire protection under agreement
Surrey will handle White Rock fire protection until arbitration is concluded or until the City may need to obtain its own equipment. Council actions aim to avoid delays as White Rock anticipates a year end takeover. A meeting with the new White Rock City Council is planned for early October to discuss the issue.
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Surrey
White Rock
New White Rock
Cloverdale
B.C
Storage of vegetables in winter in northeastern Saskatchewan
Northeastern Saskatchewan yields abundant vegetables that store well for winter. Only certain crops like peas beans cauliflower and broccoli suit canning or freezing. Root crops cabbage pumpkin and potatoes store fresh. harvest when fully mature and disease free.
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Saskatchewan
Will Rogers Jr Lesson on Shirt Tails
The widow Will Rogers recalls in memoirs that as a boy of about ten he failed to tuck in his shirt. Pleading failed, so she devised a simple fix by sewing lace edging around the bottom of his shirts to cure him overnight.
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Will Rogers
Will
Manitobans urged to be fire conscious during Fire Prevention Week
Assistant fire commissioner Gus Thorimbert of the Manitoba department of labor trains volunteers in major centres in modern fire fighting methods. The course includes films on fire chemistry, fog nozzle techniques, extinguishers, knot tying, ladder work, gas masks, and hose laying with a live oil fire demonstration.
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Thorimbert
Greenlay
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