Yellow Goldrush Sparked by Edmonton Miner in East
Edmonton businessman Geo F. Gordon reports a yellowknife district gold rush as drill camps rise. About 35 000 claims staked with 100 formed and 50 financed amid 10 000 miners in the camp. R.C.M.P. restrict entry and a Yellowknife assay plant may be built for rapid reports.
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Geo F. Gordon
Edmonton
Diamond Grill
Yellowknife
Geo. Caywood
Gordon
R.C.M.P
Ottawa
Vangie Returns Upends Dave and Mary in Small Town
A ten year saga ends as Evangeline Clayton returns to claim Dave Thorne from Mary Mills. Mary resumes a quiet life while Evangeline schemes then vanishes, and a blue car becomes the turn of fate. Mary buys a car and cares for a child, while Dave confronts shifting loyalties.
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Dave Thorne
Mary Mills
Dave
Mrs. Thorne
Mary
Evangeline Clayton
Lake Forest Colony
Eve
Vangie
Frieberg
Rocking Chair House
Tummer
Selected Recipes Brown Eyed Susans Cookies
Raisin based cookies with lemon, orange, and cereal crumb dough. Cook raisins with sugar and water, mix shortening with sugar and zest, combine with crushed flakes and flour, roll, cut, fill, bake at 425 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes to yield about 18 cookies. A note states medieval surgeons used wine as an anesthetic to render patients unconscious.
Garden notes on cultivation and soil building
Thorough cultivation by early June keeps weeds down and soil soft. Thin crowded plants like carrots and lettuce for sturdy growth and easier cultivation. Use green manure and compost heaps to improve soil. support tall plants and encourage continuous flowering. Apply sprays after damage signs and keep gardens well weeded and spaced.
Old Opinion Discounted In War Plant Snacks Raise Efficiency
The belief that eating between meals is harmful has faded as efficiency experts in war plants find mid rest snacks improve general well being. Energy foods at mid morning and mid afternoon help workers maintain high production levels.
Nine moons of Jupiter seen with naked eye
The article notes Jupiter has nine moons and mentions four are large enough for naked eye observation. It adds that exceptional eyesight is required for such a sight. It also gives a paint tip about repainting enamel by rubbing the glossy surface with steel wool to remove sheen for better adhesion.
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Jupiter
Amazing Dutch underground network linked villages to central posts
An Amsterdam engineer describes a country wide secret telephone system run by the Dutch underground. The network remained active after German bridges over the Ijssel were destroyed, with lines tapped from German telephones and teleprinters then relayed to the Allies.
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Netherlands
Ijssel
Amsterdam
Hitler
Holland
Walther Rauter
Rauter
Fuehrer
Brussels
Combat sawfly drive cuts wheat pest loss in Saskatchewan
A vigorous campaign against the wheat stem sawfly targets districts with heavy infestation in Saskatchewan. Provincial field crops commissioner S. H. Vigor cites a 1943 loss of 18 million dollars and notes plans began last fall with winter meetings in southwest areas. Experts urge community action, trap strips, and late sowing of wheat after oats and barley to reduce infestations.
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Saskatchewan
S. H. Vigor
Girl's Easy Dirndl Pattern 4751 For Sizes 6-14
Pattern 4751 offers a simple dirndl style with drawstrings at waist neckline and sleeves no buttons placket shoulder seams or armholes. Sizes 6 8 10 12 14 with size 10 needing 2% yards of 35 inch material. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Manitoba for this pattern.
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Anne Adams
Winnipegree Union
McDermot Ave
Man
Bavenda Tribesmen Link Ills to Tilted Moon
A fragment notes Bavenda tribesmen in Africa linking coughs and colds to the earth and the tilted crescent moon, reflecting a traditional belief about illness origins.
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Africa
The Business of Farming film reviews postwar Canadian farming
National Film Board Rural Circuits presents The Business of Farming to explain farm costs and incomes from 1926 onward. It shows how machinery prices, grain and livestock prices, and wartime demand affected farmers after 1929. The film urges understanding of past mistakes to sustain future prosperity and mortgage relief.
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National Film Board
Canada
Values Publicity For Life Insurance Advertising
R Leighton Foster K C of the Canadian Life Insurance Officers Association pressed the value of newspaper advertising at a luncheon of the Underwriters Sales Congress. He noted institutional ads began 25 years ago to explain life insurance as a cooperative national enterprise to Canadians.
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R. Leighton Foster
K.C
Canadian Life Insurance Officers’ Association
Canada
New Industry Hints at Silk Cultivation in Canada
A woman in Chilliwack, B C, reportedly raises silkworms on mulberry trees in her backyard and keeps the family in silk stockings. The Edmonton Journal doubts mulberry and silkworm culture will spread widely in Canada, noting wartime stocking lines are shorter than growing trees and spinning silk.
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Chilliwack
B.C
Canada
Edmonton Journal
Population of the British Empire Exceeds Five Hundred Million
The article states the total population of the British Empire surpasses 500 million, reflecting vast imperial reach. It emphasizes the scale of colonies and dominions under British rule and hints at demographic and economic implications for the era.
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British Empire
Blythe Spirit and Lark in Victoria
The article notes the skylark as the sole American location for the bird near Victoria British Columbia. It compares the skylark to the horned Canadian lark, noting a striped breastband and absence of tufted horns. It also comments on shadowing from overhanging eaves and porches and suggests painting under sides light to reduce it.
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Victoria
B.C
America
Shelley
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Brown-Eyed Susans
Undergreand
MacDonald
EOC
Ogivie
Life Insurance Companies
Blythe Spirit
Wayne
Atlas Canada
Red Lake
Sturgeon River
Little Long Lac
Michipicoten
Opeepeesway
Shebandowan
Sudbury
Steeprock Lake
Midlothian West Porcupine Porcupine
Kirkland Lake
Larder Lake
Rouyn Cadillac
Malartic
Louvicourt
Duparquet
Figuery Mud Lake
Flin Flon
Snow Lake
British Columbia
India Lake
Thompson Lake
Pensive Lake
Continental Securities Co
Bloor Street West
Toronto
Ontario
Bloor
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