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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 18, 1959
Page
4
Catholic prayerbooks and religious items advertised by Burns Hanley Company at 183 Cornwall Street Regina Sask. Listing includes Artistes codes and catalog request text. Local catalog notice highlights availability and ordering details for religious goods.
Circular from Canadian Correspondence Courses at 1200 Bay Street Toronto advertising lessons in shorthand salesmanship book-keeping and typing. Includes program offerings and contact details for enrollment.
In Altona Manitoba the sewer lagoon runs well with clear water and no odor. Edwin Abel and Ed Kehler released 22 fish including 20 catfish and one carp as an experiment. Health officials note survival depends on sewage load and winter conditions, but the fish themselves show no pollution.
Fatigue may stem from fear distress faulty diet health problems or worries over domestic or business troubles. Lack of sleep is another cause and skipping vacations or holidays can worsen fatigue, signaling a need for a change of scene and activities.
A VIRDEN column notes rapid international travel has broadened access beyond elites, with Canadians and Europeans now mingling in short visits. It questions whether speed enhances goodwill and suggests travelers slow down to truly absorb places like St Pauls, the Louvre, and the Sistine Chapel, citing Saint Exupery’s Little Prince on time.
A community warning urges people to swim only when accompanied by a boat and to keep weekly water safety routines to prevent accidents. Officials emphasize supervision and preparedness for safe water activities all season.
Yard furnishings such as chairs and a folding table are light and graceful with pattern guides and actual-size cutting steps. Patterns include chair Pattern 48 table Pattern S49 and cement flagstones Pattern OOF. The items cost 40c each and are included in Garden Furniture Packet No. 60 for $1.73.
A CPR carman Henry Wiens found a live tarantula in a box-car loaded with bananas in a Swift Current warehouse. He trapped the spider, later placed it in a glass jar for the city museum. The arachnid, Lycosa Tarantula, is venomous but not unusually dangerous.
The piece debunks the Ogopogo myth while noting the creature’s annual revival in June. It argues Ogopogo boosts travel interest to the Okanagan valley, turning curiosity into holiday plans and tourism advertising worth thousands of dollars for interior British Columbia.
Advertisement-like notice urging readers to send thirty five cents for Pattern 7131 pheasant transfers. The design is described as highly vivid, using 6 to the inch cross stitch with an 8 by 21 inch finished size and a color chart. Requires name address and pattern number to be mailed to Household Arts Department at 60 Front Street, W Toronto.
Howard Leyton-Brown, Regina Conservatory director, will perform on July 28 at Saskatchewan House Summer Festival using Louis Riel’s fiddle. The instrument came to the Sumner Festival via Provincial Archives, donated in 1998 by Mrs. Catherine Milne of Victoria. The Milne family links to Willan Milne, a St Laurent ferryman, who received the fiddle from Jerome Rachett, a Metis associate of Gabriel Dumont in 1885. Riel himself was a noted composer and fiddler.
Readers recount frustration with gift premiums in soap packaging. Women describe clutter, waste, and rising prices as brands push bundles of cups towels brushes and cloths. They call for choice between premiums or lower prices and more soap.
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