Town and Out Miss Mare! Oakey of Extmon ton visites kin
A collection of neighborhood social notes lists visitors and guests in Oakey of Extmon ton and Winnipeg areas. It mentions Mrs. George Samson’s sister, Mr. and Mrs. Blandford of Fort Garry, J Havlik of Winnipeg with his parents, Lena Lepp returning from Ontario, Mrs. C L Forman and her son visiting relatives, several couples on extended trips to the Pacific coast and Alaska highway, a funeral in Reston, and Vancouver resident Mrs. H E Smith visiting the mayor’s household. The note also traces a Rivers origin and Nakomis move of the late Mr. Smith.
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Miss Mare
Oakey of
Extmonton, Alta
Mrs
George Samson
H. E. Smith
Vancouver
B. C
Grafft
Rivers
Mary Sellar Reflects on Quebec’s Good Old Days
Montreal obituary note recalls Mary Watson Sellar 88 widow of Robert Sellar founder of the Huntingdon Gleaner who wrote a guest editorial for the 85th anniversary of Quebec province weekly. She cites a time when daily wages were $1 and good house servants cost $3 a month. Sellar died in 1919 after 36 years as editor and publisher.
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Montreal
Mary Watson Sellar
Robert Sellar
The
Huntingdon Gleaner
Quebec
Seed Testing Service Offered to Western Canadian Farmers
Seed testing for 1949 sowing is promoted by Line Elevators Farm Service. Tests include germination, smut and seed-borne diseases, weed seed content, purity of variety, and mechanical seed injury. Farmers submit 4 to 6 ounces of clean seed to their local Line Elevator Agent for testing at Winnipeg lab.
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Canada
Farm Service Department
Winnipeg
Mental fatness and press freedom contrasted across papers
Victoria Times laments self-satisfaction and inertia among readers while Kansas City Times notes Bucharest Cominform secrecy over Belgrade youth letters about Tito. Brantford Expositor reports San Marino seeks aid from the European Recovery Plan, a tiny republic with 13,380 residents.
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Victoria Times
Kansas City Times
Bucharest
Romania
Communist -International Information Bureau
Belgrade
Marshal Tito
Brantford
San Marino
From Gay Paree to Portage Plains
Mrs Garrioch, veteran and former Wrens member, became Portage la Prairie Canadian Legion branch head the first woman to lead a western branch. She used a 31500 veterans land loan to fix a dilapidated home now landscaped with lawn, hedges, spruce, and honeysuckle, finding new purpose in Portage after Paris memories.
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Portage LA Dratriel
Fobes Henze
Paris
Mim
Garrioch
Portage
Second counts reshape Alberta riding ballots in CCF defeat
Edmonton Journal notes in two Alberta ridings the CCF candidates were placed low by voters. Nearly 2500 ballots showed most marked no second choice with about 1960 plumpers. Among 6006 CCF supporters who marked full ballots, a majority chose the Social Credit candidate as second. Hostility from CCB leaders to Manning government didn’t reach rank and file.
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Edmonton Journal
Alberta
C.C.F
Social Credit
Liberal
C.B
Manning
Births VEE All Rivers on Sepe 38 Tharter Lehae
Mrs Yule announces the birth of a daughter named Marvia Anni at S27 Fourth aventar. The event records a newborn with given names and family references described in brief, local notice style.
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Tharter Lehae
Wand
Yule
Aventar
iMarvia Anni
London parks cover vast acreage around city
The text notes 18 000 acres of parks near London England and calls out the Mediterranean Sea covering about 815 000 square miles. It mentions a weekend with friends at Goodlands Wood and a short holiday for Erwin Co Erwin and W Bradley at Nokarmis and Stoughton Sask.
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Wood
Erwin
Co Erwin
W Bradley
Nokarmis and
Stoughton, Sask
London
England
Mediterranean Sea
Cards of Thanks for Mr Messel’s illness
Welsh to express thanks to friends and relatives who remembered Mr Messel during illness with flowers fruit and cards James Messel family express gratitude for support from friends and relatives during his illness.
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Messel
James Messel
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Hangier's Bread
Letous
Voi
Havlik’s Lunch
Rivers, Man
Gilchrist
Taylor & Son
Tudor
Wareham’'s Meat Market For
Phone No. 1
Lamb
Dr. Ballard
Macintosh
John H. Blandford
Fort Garry
Bir
C. Blandford
Fourth Avenue
J. Havlik
Windipeg
Joseph Havlik
Lena Lepp
Niagara-on-the Lake
Kitchener
Ont
E. Wonnell
Calgary
Alta
Blueberry
Alaska Highway
A. K.mackay
Third Avenue
Reston
W. R. Fraser
Regina
Sask
J. Greaney
Lina Elevators Farm Service
Manitoba
Brandon
Breden-Savoy Comic Opera Company
Dick Deadeye
Captain Corcoran
Gay Paree
Portage Plains
Bradwardine
Jerrett
Shrivers
Estelle
Main Street
Fire Hall
Sack
Yellow Danvers
Lipton's
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