Visitors and Travels Highlight Local Notes Amid Holidays
In this fragmentary column, Alberta and Manitoba residents are listed with recent travel and visits. James Mersel returned from Toronto on Tuesday. Larry Knowles plans a Thanksgiving Winnipeg visit. Mrs Potter of Brandon hosted guests including Mr and Mrs Higginson. Jayoe Lee from Winnipeg visits with her parents. Peter Drumheller left Saturday to rejoin family in Whitehorse. T McMannis and family returned from eastern Canada trips. Sgt R Ho and Mrs Balls returned from a Medicine Hat vacation. Mr and Mrs H J Humphries of Brandon hosted relatives at week’s start. Sixteen staff members are noted. further details follow if available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Ho
Mrs. Balls
Medicine Hat
Alta
Ferman Family Attends Dinner at Alexandra Annex
Ferman's hardware and families joined a dinner party at the Alexandra annex Wednesday evening. They toured the new section with manager T B Wright guiding the visit. The Parent Teachers Association held its first meeting of the season at Mrs E Westwood's home. The fall term's first general meeting is planned for October 18 in the school, with a medical representative from Brandon Mental Hospital as guest speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferman’s Hardware
Alexandra Annex
T. B. Wright
Parent Teachers Association
E. Westwood
Brandon
Branches Planned for Institute in Rivers District
About 50 to 60 district women heard Miss Frances McKay of the extension service discuss women’s institutes in the Ukrainian hall last Thursday evening. It was decided to organize a branch of the institute in Rivers and an organizational meeting will be held at Mrs. G. M. Henderson’s home on November 4, inviting all district women to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances McKay
Department of Agriculture
Ukrainian Hall
Rivers
G. M. Henderson
Nylon nets lure more fish in Great Lakes test
Brownell and Co of Moodus Connecticut began making nylon fish nets claiming strength and rot resistance. They built three mile composite gill nets with nylon, cotton and linen sections. Tests in the Great Lakes showed nylon sections captured twelve times more fish. The reasons remain uncertain with theories proposing near invisibility, slime resistance, and lure from sheen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Time Magazine
Brownell and Co
Moodus
Conn
Brownell
Great Lakes
Ontario Driver Realizes After 26 Years He Needed Licence
The Charlottetown Guardian notes Ontario driver who, after 26 years on the road, discovers he was supposed to possess a driver's licence. Authorities reportedly overlooked him for decades, highlighting lax enforcement in certain regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottetown
Ontario
Mews and Veews of Rivers Keen Teeners Meeting
The Been Teeners met Tuesday in a family circle to discuss social activities and entertainments. Girl photographers produced notable enlargements while the group dabbered in the dark room. A floodlight project was proposed and the radio group was advancing, with repairs completed and only volume missing. All interested people are invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co Seo
Tunnel repairs lower St Clair tunnel track at Port Huron
The single track in the St Clair railway tunnel to Port Huron is lowered seven inches by moving the wooden roadbed and placing ties on concrete. Since 1888 the tunnel has seen freight cars become too high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarnia
Ont
St. Clair
Port Huron
Mich
Political parties urged to merge and unite under larger caucus
Montreal Star argues splinter groups should abandon separate organizations and submit to a national party caucus to advance their programs and reduce weakness. Brantford Expositor says hitch hiking should be discouraged and not criminalized, noting its lack of necessity for most travelers. In Bohemia, about 20 leading communists in the Hradec Kralovo district were arrested after arms were found, signaling a potential revolutionary plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal Star
Loase of Commons
Tey
Canada
Ndt
Brantford
Hradec Kralovo
Bohemia
Prague
Fragmentary note on city teams and games
A damaged OCR shows scattered terms about CROWS and MAGPIES plus references to a city and rivers. Many garbled fragments mention players, scores, and a possible Athens event, but details and context are lost.
Argue Over the Height of the Kitchen Table
A fragmented report notes factions debating a kitchen table height with various groups in disagreement. The text references a ministry manual stating three feet and a women's welfare group citing an extra inch, with a final line mentioning a group requesting 208 households.
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Ministry of Tech
Pada Welfare
Thas
Wives Discuss Preference In Brief Stash Whei Talk
A short exchange centers on a light topic about personal choices and imagined measurements, with participants noting differing tastes and expectations. No clear names or places emerged, but the tone suggests casual community chatter in a small gathering.
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Winnipeg
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Peter Drumheller
New Satum
Whitehorse
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Halifax, N.S
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Havlik’s Lunch
Rivers, Man
Wareham’s Meat Market
Jim Rous
Prop
Mac
Government
Shankless
Theatre News
Rockies
Arthur Franz Jean Heather
Ray Collins
Gazette News
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Jeanne Craine
Linda Darnell
and Sothern
Kirk Douglas
Paul Douglas
Dick Powell
Lizabeth Scott Jane Wyatt
Aest
Raphb City
Agasoc
Athens
London
McKenzie
United State
T. E. Wright
Wheatland
New Sarum
McKenzie’s United Store News
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Insul Paca Parkas
Aylmer's
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Fort Garry
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