Town Council Clash Over Park Funds Sparks Rainy Controversy
Marcia Hunt faces council member Green over using loan funds for Central Park. Green pushes a grandstand while neglecting a highway sidewalk, prompting petition drives and public nerves as a convention is delayed by rain and a minor accident involving sawhorses and a lantern.
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Arcia Hunt
Phineas Green
Sam Samsor
Marcia
Central Park
Green
Samson
Bruin Entangled in Fishing Tackle Near Quesnel Lake
Fisherman Harry Bourne hooked a 400 pound bear with light trout line while fishing on Quesnel Lake. The bear swam ashore and escaped into the woods still entangled, later freeing itself after the line wound around a tree. Bourne and companions retrieved the line and resumed fishing, later spotting the bear nearby.
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Quesnel
B.C
Harry Bourne
Vancouver
Quesnel Lake
Bruin
Bourne
Custom Built Car in Edmonton Sets Size Record
The Juchli brothers unveil a hybrid convertible in Edmonton claiming a 4635 pound weight and 16 foot length. The seven foot two inch wide vehicle seats five in the front and took five months to build at an estimated cost of $1300.
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Edmonton
Juchli Brothers
Juchli’s
Haircut price hits one dollar in New Westminster
Western brief notes the high cost of living with haircuts rising to $1 in New Westminster. Other Canadian items include cowboy Bob Duce earning $1,435.50 this year at provincial rodeos and Assiniboia holding a grain and vegetable show with a harvest queen crowning on Oct 5 6 7. An Saskatoon meeting warns of potential hatchery egg shortages while Allan H Morrish wins a $2500 NSRC fellowship for physics at Bristol University. Bar-U Ranch sale expands Alberta holdings and Cranbrook Sawmills buys Parson lumber. A stage show titled Asylum of Horrors nearly causes a panic when a screen ignites but is contained by staff.
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Assiniboia
Sask
Assiniboia Agricultural Society
Saskatchewan Promotes Hudson Bay Route For British Imports
Regina reports the Saskatchewan trade services division will study import cases from Britain via Churchill port to demonstrate benefits of the Hudson Bay route. Director W. J. Hansen aims to finish the case studies by mid winter as part of a push to boost usage of the Bay route.
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Regina
Saskatchewan Trade Services Division
Hudson Bay
W. J. Hansen
Britain
Churchill
Man
Employment Service Reports Ten Million Jobs Found
Ottawa reports almost ten million jobs found in nine years of national employment service operations. Labor Minister Milton F. Gregg notes unemployment insurance benefits totaling 289.384 million have been paid from a fund that stood at 593.265 million at July’s end.
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Ottawa
National Employment Service
Milton F. Gregg
Tired Aching Tender Feet Relief Claim
An old advertisement touts Moone's Emerald Oil as a cure for tired aching tender feet with hot bath use and claims pain relief within 15 minutes. It urges readers to buy a bottle at any drug store.
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Moone
Air letters reach navy on Magnificent and destroyers cruise
The navy urged air mail or Canada air letters for mail to personnel aboard H M C S Magnificent and destroyers Micmac and Huron on a three month training cruise to European waters. Deadlines from Montreal to reach ships at Rosyth Oslo Goteborg Copenhagen Amsterdam Antwerp Cherbourg Lisbon Gibraltar Bermuda list port call dates. Mail must show rank and name H M C S ship care of port postmaster. No parcels accepted.
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Ottawa
Canada
Magnificent
Micmac
Huron
Halifax
Rosyth
Oslo
Gotenberg
Copenhagen
Amsterdam
Antwerp
Cherbourg
Lisbon
Gibraltar
Bermuda
Montreal
H.M.C.S
Doughnut Twists Cut With Orthodox Cutter Frying
Doughnut twists prepared with an orthodox doughnut cutter are fried along with the holes. The process uses standard doughnut dough portions cut into shapes then fried to golden.
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Ruth K. Kent
Mr. Roth
Mrs. Hunt
Mr. Green
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Carter
Jane Ashley
Crown
The
Canada Starch Company Limited
P.O. Box
P. Q
Carr
Dieppe
England
Eastbourne
Sussex
G. A. Turcot
Western Briefs
New Westminster
Weyburn
Bob Duce
Cardston
Alta
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Winnipeg
Allan H. Morrish
University of Manitoba
National Research Council
Morrish
University of Bristol
Wales
High River
J. Allen Baker
Bar-U
Patrick Burns
Alberta
Cranbrook
Cranbrook Sawmills Ltd
Thomas Alton and Sons Lumber Co
Parson
Columbia River
Navy
Lee
iSr
Fleischmhann
Fleischmann
Peggy
Doris
Chuck Thurston
Pappy
Hiram
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