Regina origins and historic gun myths explored
Questions from readers cover Regina’s name origin tracing to Regina Latin for queen and the Pile of Bones bluff, the Marquis of Lorne and Queen Victoria, plus a remark on pronunciation. Other items discuss the phrase A place in the sun, German temperament, a poem author, Northwest representation, and horse pistol details from Turpin era highwaymen.
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Regina
Qu'Appelle
Queen Victoria
Lorne
Victoria
Straits of
Fuca
Levettatte
Princess Louise
J. Roberteon
Carlyid
Marguerite Grant
Wash Day Unpleasant Yet Modernized by Farm Electric Washers
The article contrasts city and farm washing methods, noting city laundries and machines ease washday. It explains farm homes with electric plants enable wives to start the machine with a switch and wringer with another, reducing manual effort and fatigue. The tone reflects progress and pride in new convenience.
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Maecenas
First Pioneer of Prince Albert Identified
James Isbister, born in the country and descended from an Hudson's Bay Company Orkney employee, is noted as the first settler to take up land near the current Prince Albert town site. He helped Gabriel Dumont in moving Louis Riel from Montana to Saskatchewan in 1884.
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James Isbister
Orkney
Hudson's Bay Company
Prince Albert
Gabriel Dumont
Louis Riel
Montana
Saskatchewan
Peanut Butter Cookies and Mace Roons Note
A recipe describes butter substitute sugar and flour with nuts lemon juice and milk to bake cookies and roons. Instructions cover creaming fat and sugar adding egg and dry ingredients then dropping by teaspoon onto sheets and baking slowly for about fifteen minutes.
Frayed Cleaning Instructions For Hair Care Steps
The misread text offers steps for washing hair with Lux soap: mix a tablespoon into hot water, add cold water until lukewarm, dip the brush through foam, work it, rinse three times in clear lukewarm water, squeeze out water, and dry. The passage is garbled but depicts a basic grooming routine.
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Belf
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Genuime
West
Hamilton Street
Bask
David Barnes
Cowan, Parker, Barnes & Roble
Scarth Street
Canada Victory
Scarth GY
Oteon Et
Big Valve Limited Supply
Caxton Press, Ltd
Scarth St
Canada
Eggos Theor Ser Bonar Bu
Catherine Smith
Pilot Butte
Germany
France
Wall
James Whitcomb Riley
James Smith
Estevan
Ottawas
Nicholas Filoo Davin
Assiniboia
Baskatchewan
Allan Robertson
Ralph.Morton
Moose Jaw
Pionee
C.P.R. Sention South Railway Street
Royal Photo Studio
Woolworths
H. Steffen
Jolly's
Jolly's Cash Drug Store
Dental Investments
Eheollel
G. R. Clarke
Brown Ey
Smith ST. Regina
Arlington Hotel
Reca
Victoria and Albert
OX. Rubber Stamp Works, Ltd
H. Knowlden
Masonic Temple
Bidg
Albert Mathieu
McCallum-Hl
Parker, Wilkin
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Harley Motor Cycle
Cleveland
R' Gina
Albert @t
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