Innisfail Oll Boom Draws Great Interest
Innisfail Ontario August weather and oil boom rumor mill fuel a rush for leases with prices quoted up to several thousand dollars. Residents discuss pay dirt estimates from 40 to 340 feet as new arrivals flood town and housing strains rise amid jokes about drowned cattle and oil on roads. The tremor of oil wealth reshapes the community with officials slow to confirm details.
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Innisfail
Olty
Wilf Edgar
Harry Scott
Jack Kemp
Alberta
Funny and Otherwise Jumbled Anecdotes From a Humorous Page
A pasted string of comic vignettes and gags features an actress with a monkey, a telegram delivered to a monkey, a guest conductor praising a missing violinist, misheard family introductions at golf, a boy probing his father, a farm sign warning hunters, and roughing up a man over his wallet. The fragmentary text mixes punchlines with incomplete lines and stray lines.
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Reader's Digest
Pattern 7390 apron jumper or sundress sale ad
Advertisement for Simplicity pattern 7390 offering apron jumper or sundress options with belt, tulip pocket, and sizes small to large. Includes order instructions, price 35 cents, and mailing address in Toronto. Promotes free patterns and a 1957 needlecraft book with a 25 cent copy price.
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Household Arts Department
Department P.P.L
Front Street
Toronto
Alice Brooks
Plans for a sunflower hulling plant in Red River valley
Plans are under way for a 62000 sunflower hulling plant in the Red River valley with tentative sites at Altona Plum Coulee or Morden. George Letkeman and son Bill lead the project with British and American financiers. The plant would require about four million pounds of seeds annually for shelling and export to Europe and the United States, with potential savings cutting shipping costs by one third. Farmers would contract about 4000 acres yearly to supply seeds, and the venture may expand to peas soybeans and beans for soup factories later.
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Red River Valley
Echo
Altona
Plum Coules
Morden
George Letkeman
Bill
Gnadenthal
The
Europe
United States
Mr Letkeman
Souris Council OKs Water Softening Plant Plan
Souris town council after a four hour session approved building a water softening plant and finalized the year’s street paving program. A referendum among water customers showed 208 in favor and 97 against, with aldermen noting about 70 percent voter participation.
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Souris
Man
Manitoba towns in Red Cross swim instructor school
Seventeen Manitoba towns are represented as 33 aspiring Red Cross swim instructors train in Souris under Royal Life Saving Society supervision. The weeklong program, sponsored by the Souris BPO Elks Lodge and the Souris Red Cross branch, aims to boost Manitoba swimming instruction and lifeguard readiness. The group includes many senior award holders and will culminate with a bonfire and weiner roast hosted by the Souris Legion.
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Manitoba
Red Cross
Spuris
Royal Life Saving Society
Bruce McIntosh
W. A. le Blanc
Red Cross Water Safety Services
MclIntosh
C. I. Rothery
R.L.S.S
Souris
Souris B.P.O. Elks Lodge
Canadian Red Cross Society
Russell
Winnipeg
Canada
Royal Canadian Air Force
Canadian Legion
Weiner
Bill Wilkins
Killarney
Robert J. Johannson
Langruth
Margaret Dunn
Marilyn Gail Munson
Garry Munson
Newdale
Wayne Hammond
Pilot Mound
John Clint
Barrie Diehl
Walter Lee
Frank Sanderson
Orval Stocks
Margaret Munson
Strathclair
Roberta McIntosh
Norwood
Maynard Whitlaw Deloraine
Jimmie McPhail
Arlene Mathers
Belmont
Warren Thompson
Binscorth
Gail McCall
Barbara Mitchell
April More
Birtle
Betty Anne Aitkens
Dale Marriott
Judy Newton
Boissevain
Phyllis Rogers
Brandon
Patricia Argue
Mather
Barrie Kinley
Gale Marsh
David Muldrew
Carol Anne Waldie
Cartwright
Deanna Joisthead
Pat McBride
Sally McKee
Dauphin
Bob McGillivray
the Plaindealer
East to West goodwill crop tour on the CNR
A 110 member Ontario Goodwill Crop Tour travels from East to West aboard the CNR’s Super Continental. Progressive farmers and rural teachers visit the Okanagan Valley ranches orchards and packing plants, then proceed to Chilliwack Frazer Valley and Vancouver. Many participants have joined four previous tours.
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CNR
Ontario
Pacific Coast
Okanagan Valley
Chilliwack
Frazer Valley
Vancouver
First Yellow Fever Outbreak Appears in North America
In 1668 yellow fever marked its first recorded North American appearance triggering severe epidemics in New York and Philadelphia, signaling a harsh beginning to the disease’s colonial era presence.
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North America
New York
Philadelphia
Premier Douglas lauds CGRA accomplishments in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan will host the CGRA convention at The Bessborough Hotel from September 25 to 28. Premier T C Douglas praised CGRA for contributing to better roads, public education, and safer technical practices, inviting about 1000 members and friends to attend and enjoy prairie hospitality.
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Saskatchewan
Canada
Regina
T. C. Douglas
CGRA
Canadian Good Roads Association
S'G Department
Bessborough Hotel
Civil Service Strike Ends After Government Concession
In British Columbia the threatened civil servants strike was called off after cabinet talks with the workers. The government promised a 7 percent raise and established a board of reference to review bargaining. Chief Justice Gordon McG. Sloan will head the board. The civil servants had sought 13 percent while the government offered six.
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British Columbia
Board of Reference
Gordon McG. Sloan
Revelstoke
B.C
Bones of the Great Auk Forwarded to Saskatchewan Museum
The Great Auk bones from Funk Island, extinct since the early 1800s, were sent to the Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History by D H Pimlott of the Newfoundland Wildlife Service. Richard Fyfe notes human slaughter led to extinction. the tale serves as a warning for species like the Whooping Crane.
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Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History
D. H Pimlott
Newfoundland Wildlife Service
D. H. Pimlott
Funk Island
Newfoundland
Richard Fyfe
Mr. Byte
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G. Breraton
Camp Shilo
Douglas
Civil Service
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