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A pearl, found in a Prince Edward Island oyster by cafeteria worker in Montreal is valued at $800--a newspaperman ,had offered the finder $2 for it.... The thief who stole a suitcase belonging to Miss J. Nicholson in the CPR Station at Vancouver will have to be able to do a jig or reel, as the suitcase contained a tartan kilt and an Irish peasant costume... . A Winnipeg boy claimed to have bought an 18-foot airplane pontoon for 50 cents which has been valued by the owners at $3,000. Work on the job of supplying Saskatchewan with natural gas will commence in the spring. . About 70,000 U.S. citizens joined the Canadian forces in this war. (Last war's total— 35,000.) .. . The whole city of St. Thomas, Ont., is in a lather over the soap shortage. .. . A $15,000,000 mill and townsite is being planned for Peninsula, on the north shore of Lake Superior. Grim news from Alberta reveals that some 400 bartenders will vote on September 17 whether or not to go on strike. ... More than 40 percent of the vets being discharged in BC are from outside the province... . Legal tangles are still being unravelled, but it looks as if the only way that Yvon Lafontaine will collect the $106.94 owed to him by Norbert Cousineau, Montreal taxi driver, is to sit in Cousineau's cab and collect the fares—which brings up the question of who will taxi the taxi man’s taxi as the taximan takes the taximan's fares? ... Gen. de Gaulle has thanked the Fighting French of Manitoba and the west for their help. . . . Saskatchewan's wheat production in 1945 is estimated at 175,387,000 bushels, about 30 percent below that of last year. It has been reported from Vancouver that David Drummond, Oriental manager of the CPR at Hong Kong, is safe. ... Veterans of the South African war, about 180 strong, are preparing a new home on Jarvis street, Toronto. .. . Sunday sport in North Bay, Ont., will get a 2 yes or no at the December elections. . . . The Alberta government are awaiting a decision on their applica tion for a commercial licence for radio station CKUA. ... Olivier Brault, of Ferme Neuve, Que., claims to have cured his lone prepa raising a family of 19 little Braults—including six sets of twins. Mr. Justice W. F. Carroll is protesting against what he calls red-tape” methods ‘of getting TB sufferers into Nova Scotia sanatoriums. . . . Dorothy Schaefer, 22, of Marion street, is recovering from an injured back following a front somersault dive from the 10-foot board at Toronto's Sunnyside pool. ... Conversion of the Boeing plant to pre-fabricated house produc tion is now being considered in Vancouver. . . . Winnipeg’s Gaiety Theatre was held up by two masked men, who escaped with $1,223. . A Gallup Poll revealed that 51 percent of Canada’s women wanted liquor rationing to be continued... . It has been suggested in Quebec that the Provincial Govern ment extend $50,000,000 credit to France to enable that country to purchase Quebec products. Daylight saving time will end in Canada on September 30. . _. The sale of non-resident fishing permits has hit a new high in Ontario's history. ..A group of 80 BC women are learning the ABC of egg candling and grading in government-sponsored classes. . . The two Montreal women who staged the first jail break in the history of Fullam jail are listed as Eleanor and Marcella Lalonde. ... Eager beavers, Canada's national mascots, will be used to raise the water line on the east slope of the Rockies, thus reducing drought conditions in Alberta.... Manitoba's provincial general election will take place October 15. Vancouver domestic servants are planning a union. Judge Allan Fraser of Ottawa's Domestic Court has expressed alarm at the increasing number of returned vets up on charges of wife-beating and non-support. The Canadian legation at The Hague will soon be raised to embassy status... A masked man’s attempt to kidnap the 16-year-old daughter of Capt. Massey Goolden, of Victoria, was frustrated by the fight put up by the girl... . Cheques totalling $12,000,000 have been mailed to boards of education in Ontario as the final payments of the government's 50 percent share of the overall cost of education. . . The average airman who wore RCAF wings during the war does not want to go into commercial flying . Maj.-Gen. G. R. Turner, inspector -general for western Canada, “reverted” to a private in order to take a trip through the rounds with Regina soldiers headed for “ civvy street.” The Regina trades and labor council are advocating the construction of a dam on Wascana creek near Sedley. . When a youth, busily engaged holding up the United Cigar Store at Yonge and Bloor in Toronto, got the jitters, his victim urged him to keep cool. Thieves looted $5 in nickels from the juke box in Ye Olde Fish and Chip Shop on West Hastings street, Vancouver. . . . The likelihood of an October provincial election is mooted in Nova Scotia political circles. ... A sharp reduction in Alberta's livestock production during the next year is feared by agricultural officials....A three-time evader from jail in Parrsboro, N.S., from the Montreal Police Department and from the St. Hyacinthe, Que., police was finally fenced in by the 75 municipal, Canadian National Rail way police, and Navy shore patrol men who took up the chase. Arrested while trying to peddle 15 stolen dresses, a seven year old boy told St. Catharines, Ont. police that his “girl friend” was waiting for him... . A permit for a $90,000 match plant has been issued at Esquimalt, B.C... . Nova Scotia is facing the coming winter with a $250,000 order for new high way equipment, including 78 snow plows. ... Montreal will make an official bid to be the permanent location of the United Nations’ peace organization. Prefabricated, barrack-type huts that sheltered United States Army soldiers and civilian workers, during the building of the Alaska Highway, will be used to house discharged servicemen in Edmonton, Alta... . Commercial fishing on the south end of Lake Winnipeg with nets of not less than 33-inch mesh will be allowed up to October 27. ... The pop famine in North Bay, Ont., ended temporarily when a truck spiked more than 30 cases on the main street, much to the delight of the local youngsters. Two escaped German PoWs were recaptured while attend ing a Saturday night dance at Elkwater Lake, near Calgary. _«» Mayor Jack Loutet, of North Vancouver, BC., expressed his admiration for the Sea Cadets’ band before expressing his wish that practices would not be held on meeting nights beneath the council's open windows... . For the first time in 140 years St. Thomas, Ont., will be without a blacksmith shop when K. B. Doherty closes his doors. .. . Joly was the favorite month for weddings in Regina with 129 couples doing the Lohengrin lockstep—an increase of 42 over last year’s July figure. ... Negotiations are underway for the purchase of part of the Macdonald Aircraft at Winnipeg by a U.S. com pany. ... Residents of “Goose Village,” Montreal's traditional slaughterhouse district, held their collective noses when fire swept through a packing house on Mill street... . A planned amalgamation of 19 reading fish producers has started with the gale of Smith Fisheries, Ltd., of Lunenburg, N.S. . . . Simcoe, Ont., police are having headaches with customers purchasing shaving lotion—for drinking purposes, ‘
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Maple Leaf UK Edition
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Sep 14, 1945
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