Progress Marks In Peace Gardens Showplace Expansion
Visitors note substantial progress at Peace Gardens with a granite ter race wall 314 feet long forming two to eleven foot rises. Stairways curve over 67 feet with granite treads, iron balustrades donated by the LODE, and capstones from a South Dakota quarry. Water for fountains operates from an upper terrace pool. flower plots boosted by Homemaker clubs. picnic kitchen funded by Eastern Star. red Cross era plants thrive.
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Dunseith
N.D
South Dakota
Red Cross Society
America
Eastern Star
More Cars And Trucks On Road In Canada
The Bureau of Statistics reports a 13.5 percent rise in Canadian motor vehicle registrations in 1950 to 2,600,269. Passenger cars reach 1,906,927 and motor trucks 616,071, amid a population ratio of one vehicle per 5.3 people and one car per 7.3 people.
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Ottawa
Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Bureau
Alice Brooks Needlework Catalogue Announcement
The Mc Brooks Household Arts Department at Winner Union 60 Front Street Toronto invites needleworkers to order the 1951 Alice Brooks Needlework Catalogue. Send twenty five cents for a copy featuring crochet knitting embroidery and other handwork patterns. A free pattern is included.
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Household Arts Department
Winner Union
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks
Quick Canadian Quiz from The News Page
The piece poses questions about the Leduc oil discovery timing, investments in capital goods this year, the watchdog of the treasury, Newfoundland fishermen’s main catch, and last year’s social insurance and government pension fund contributions by Canadian workers and employers.
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The
Treasury
Newfoundland
Smile of the Week Graduation Exchange Sparks Salary Talk
A graduate asks for fair pay while an employer counters with a request to do better or start with a small salary. The exchange highlights early career salary expectations and negotiation dynamics.
Large Order For B C Fir Plywood
An order worth 3 million dollars for British Columbia fir plywood will supply 28 million square feet for 2,000 prefabricated army huts. Deliveries to Nova Scotia Quebec Montreal Saskatoon and Calgary under a master contract inform manufacturers in Vancouver.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada
Prairies
B.C
Nova Scotia
Quebec
Montreal
Saskatoon
Calgary
Gems of Thought
A collection of brief moral maxims from various authors. Quotes emphasize brotherly love charity tolerance and law of love. Notable voices include Rev C M Chevasse Rev Minot Simons Mary Baker Eddy Romans and Phillips Brook. The piece links practical fraternity to a divine law and urges boundless neighborliness.
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Rev
C. M. Chevasse
Driftwood artist turns sea junk into art on coast
A 65 year old grandmother on Vancouver Island, Mrs. Emerald Moseley, uses driftwood, shells, and beach finds to create dramatic art pieces. Her Ocean Cave gallery in the Strathcona Hotel basement draws tourists who buy the unique works, some selling for significant sums after a San Francisco buyer earlier paid $1,000 for her first piece.
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Vancouver Island
Emerald Mosley
Strathcona Hotel
Neptune
Emerald
San Francisco
Montreal Daily Star
Canadians Popular With South Koreans
Regina Lt Col J A Hutchins commander of the Saskatchewan area says Canadian troops are the UN's most popular in Korea. He notes Canadians are disciplined and kind to South Koreans who respond well, despite incidents as thousands of troops faced strain away from home. Hutchins defended three Canadians previously convicted by a military court over killings of South Koreans.
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Regina
J. A. Hutchins
Saskatchewan
United Nations
Hutchins
Korea
Col. Hutchins
U.N
British Women Becoming World- Famous Knitters
London reports British women knitters gaining world renown as Miss Ruby Bunson brings Shetland wool to London. In 18 days she knitted a pale grey gown with 1,500,000 stitches, designed by her, featuring a border of Viking longships and Shetland cottages.
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London
Britain
Ruby Bunson
Scotland
Shetland Isles
Shetland
Selected Coffee Cream Puff Recipe
A recipe item describes making cream puffs with coffee fillings and glaze. It lists ingredients like butter water flour and eggs and outlines steps to beat, bake at 425 degrees for 30 minutes until dry and golden, fill with coffee whipped cream and frost with coffee glaze.
Keep Your Ammunition Dry and Safe Storage Tips
Farmers and hunters are urged to store surplus ammunition in a cool dry place to preserve priming and powder ignition. Avoid sunlit garages or cars, protect rimfire lubricants from heat, shield center-fire rounds from solvents, and keep loaded shotgun shells away from heat and humidity to prevent recoil issues.
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K. N. Morris
Ammunition Division
Canadian Industries Limited
Morris
Mouth Cleaning Rules For Pits Seeds And Fish Bones
Instruction advises removing pits or seeds from fruit with the thumb and index finger and also to remove fish bones. It presents a practical habit likely aimed at safe, polite eating and avoiding choking hazards.
Woman Running Farm On 25 Ft Lot In Ontario
TORONTO One of the busiest farms in Ontario sits on a 25 foot by 150 foot city lot. Mrs Irene Taylor of York township manages 100 white leghorn bantams and other poultry plus 400 plants a cherry tree and three rabbits. She has cared for chickens for 20 years and seasons include two 50 egg incubators in spring. At the Canadian National Exhibition their chickens won five first prizes five seconds and four thirds.
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Toronto
Ontario
Irene Taylor
York Township
Windsor Girl Wins Jack Miner Scholarship at Alma College
Miss Margaret Maisey Humphries of Windsor Ontario has been named the 1951 1952 recipient of the Jack Miner Scholarship at Alma College St Thomas Ontario. The award provides 500 dollars per year toward tuition for a girl devoted to bird life nature study and Jack Miner’s conservation work. Humphries long studied birds and regularly visited the Jack Miner Sanctuary.
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Jack Miner
Alma College
St. Thomas
Ontario
P. 8
Dobson
Margaret Maisey Humphries
Maisey
Windsor
John Irwin Humphries
Victoria Avenue
Jack Miner Sanctuary
Humphries
Useful Household Hints From Everyday Practice
A collection of practical tips on ironing rayon blouses with light starch, chilling candles to slow burn, testing table linen with oil to reveal cotton content, and care steps for feather pillows including small corner rips to improve cleaning and prevent matting.
Answers to Quick Quiz Answers
Quick Canadian Facts entry notes five items with figures and names. It lists 268 million dollars as item five and 3 billion as item two, plus Watson Sellar described as Auditor General who reviews government revenue and spending for the House of Commons. It dates item one to February 1947 and mentions Cod as item four.
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Watson Sellar
House of Commons
Quick Canadian Facts
Canada
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Leduc
B.C. Fir Plywood
Man of
Galilee
Independent Forester
Minot Simons
Mary Baker Eddy
Phillips Brook
Elaine Hirth
Endless Endlesry the Watch Dog
Earth
Central Press
Fairway
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