Expanded Western Canada Duck Season Sets Longer Dates
Western Canada extends duck seasons this year across Alberta Saskatchewan British Columbia Manitoba and surrounding regions with new rules including powerboat use when motor is detached and lifted motorboat ban in Northwest Territories and Yukon. BC adds a two bird bonus of baldpates or pintails and larger daily bag limits up to 40 ducks with limits on non baldpates or pintails.
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Alberta
Saskatchewan
Quebec
Ontario
British Columbia
B.C
Northwest Territories
Yukon
Resources Department
Western
Canada
Northern
Edmonton
Southern
Manitoba
Wilson
Moone's Emerald Oil Promises Quick Skin Relief
The advertisement touts Moone's Emerald Oil as a universal skin remedy sold by druggists across Canada. It claims prompt relief from itching and eczema, soothing scalp and toe itching, and notes many long standing cases yielded to its antiseptic and penetrating action.
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Canada
Moone
Moonf
Home Workshop Pattern for Flexible Storage Unit
A basic, adaptable storage unit pattern shows how to house clothing, linens, or other items. It explains optional configurations with tie racks, wide trays, shelves, and curved tray sides drawn on wood, plus a cutting list. Orders for pattern number 222 cost 35 cents and mail today.
Children and Fire Safety Tips for Preventing Accidents
The piece urges supervision and education on matches and lighters to reduce fires. It suggests allowing supervised lightings in safe demonstrations and stresses keeping fuels out of reach to protect younger children.
Depth map aids fishermen at Amish Lake for better catches
A depth sounding map of Amish Lake in northeastern Saskatchewan by the department of natural resources will guide anglers to deeper cooler waters where lake trout thrive. The map helps locate bigger fish by indicating depths with more oxygen during hot weather.
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Saskatchewan
Department of Natural Resources
Buckskin suit links to ancient Indian raids in Yukon tale
In Dawson City Yukon Robert M Munro owns a buckskin suit tied to legends of ancient Indian horse raids and tribal conquest. The Antarctic is described as the windiest place on earth in the same report.
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Robert M. Munro
Dawson City
Yukon
The
Antarctic
Funny and Otherwise It Was 2 O'clock in the Morn
A string of lighthearted vignettes about writers wives dreams babies names and daily quirks. Jokes include an author chasing a fictional damsel a mother recalling rules of older generations a dream tale of chalk on stairs and a vicar’s plate misstep. The humor rests on family domestic banter and misreadings. Some lines poke at vanity and missed signals.
Fire Safety During a Burnout
Advice on escaping a smoke filled room urges crawling low under a wet towel to breathe cleaner air. Do not open doors when fire burns outside, keep doors shut and seal gaps with a rug. Civil defence training emphasizes rescuing from unburnt, non smoky rooms.
Canadian National presents lifetime pass to Dauphin man
Ross Walker received a fifty year service lifetime pass or golden pass from the Canadian National railways in a Dauphin roundhouse presentation attended by retired friends and younger workers. G Shipley of CNR Manitoba district made the presentation, and Walker received a Manitoba and North Western Railway relic key unlocking the first locomotive to reach Dauphin. Don ald Gordon, CN president, commended Walker in a letter. Walker, aged 65, plans to travel to the coast and Whitehorse in the Yukon using the pass.
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Canadian National Railways
Dauphin Roundhouse
Ross Walker
Roundhouse
Walker
Canada
G. Shipley
Sup
Manitoba
CNR
Scrap quilt pattern 7042 offered in 1954 catalog
Dice Breekes presents a gay scrap quilt pattern inspired by Grandmother's Fan. The ad offers pattern 7042 with pieces directions and color scheme for easy assembly. To obtain, send twenty five cents in coins to the address provided and include name and address. The 1954 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalog promotes embroidery crochet sewing and color transfer designs with four patterns included.
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Alice Brooks Needlecraft
Drivers Lose Licences in July Reported
A report by the Highway Traffic Board shows 295 drivers had licences revoked or suspended in July. The figure matches July last year’s total.
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Regina
Highway Traffic Board
Canadian airman in Turkey has fascinating assignment
S/L Dickinson, an RCAF supply officer with 19 years’ experience, serves as advisor instructor supply officer banker and diplomat in Turkey under the NATO Mutual Aid program. He helps train Turkish crews on Canadian Sabre fighters while observing Turkish life and economic growth.
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S L Dickinson
Turkey
Canada
Ankara
Eskisehir
L Dickinson
RCAF
Kemal Ataturk
SS Dickinson
Middle East
S/L
Dickinson
NATO
United States
England
S/L Dickinson
Montreal
Bill Starack
Sabre
Canadair Ltd
Bill
Newness
Greece
France
Germany
Langar
Nottingham
North Star
426 Squadron
RCAP
F. D
Dan) Kaye
Vancouver
TAF
Phil Perry
Dan Roy
Ft. Garry
Man
Oddities In The News From A City Bus To A High Way Purses
In Indiana a Bat tle Creek woman left a purse hanging on an ad sign at a filling station. A seven year old found it later with rings watches and other jewelry worth about five thousand dollars. In Buffalo two transit workers saved a stranded boxer dog during a rainstorm and were rewarded five dollar cheques.
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Aaron J. Pearlman
Battle Creek
Mich
Linton
Ind
Buffalo
N.Y
Mathias M. Becker
Daniel Shannon
Shannon
Becker
Erie County Society Against Vivigection
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West Fifth Avenue
Chuck Thurston
Peggy
Magno
Mae
Marilyn
Doris
Betty
Shetty
Heaven
Sye
Nanette
Mary
Dauphin
P.P.L
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Toronto
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