Highway accident toll rolls up in August and half year
Preliminary figures show 344 lives lost in August this year versus 355 in August 1957. The second quarter death toll stands at 740, down from 752, while the first half totals reach 1,276 compared with 1,287 in 1957.
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Gures
Christmas lawn cut-out patterns for fawns and Santas
Coy fawns and fawna flirt over a candy cane as a Christmas decoration idea. The patterns are 40 cents each for two gay inch cut outs, included as items 434 and 435 in packet 65 which also contains two Santa lawn cut-outs for a total price of 1.75.
Dart fishing game pattern from Rumpus Room packet
Pattern 412 shows how to make darts with actual-size painting guides and cut-out rabbits to topple for a toy fishing game. Included in the Rumpus Room Game Packet No 44 which offers seven other games for a total of $1.75.
Pattern advice for sewing two skirts from 1940s ad
By Lirus Halon a tip to look smart daily with two skirts slim and flared to mix with tops. Printed Pattern 4845 suits Misses waist sizes 24 to 32 with 28 sim skirt details and 54 inch fabric needs. Send forty cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Toronto for pattern parts and directions.
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Anne Adams
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Front Street
Toronto
Tin Lizzie remembered as versatile reliable auto
A look back at the Model T Ford, the first universal car begun October 1, 1908, with 15 million built by 1927. It praised simplicity, mass production, and rugged dependability, while detailing owners’ quirky repairs, reverse hill climbs, and global reach from Africa to Egypt and India.
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Henry Ford
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Model T lore and old jokes on sealer wax and tin can mocks
The Times notes on sealing wax stories from the Middle Ages to vaudeville jests about the Model T. It recalls quips about red gas cans, a burial with a Model T, and explains the origin of the name Tin Lizzie and the term flivver as a blend of flopper and fizzler.
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Eric Patridge
Flopper
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Times
Wetaskiwin
Park birds need grain for Island Park flock
Portage la Prairie Man area appeals to farmers to donate grain and alfalfa for a growing flock of ducks geese and other birds at Island Park. Superintendent J C MacInnes says wintering birds may exceed 100 speese and ducks with pheasants also in residence requiring about 40 bushels of barley daily.
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Portage la Prairie
Island Park
Park
J.C Mactinnes
Ontario Leads in Furs Taken from Wild Life
FIRST IN FURS Ontario, the province with the largest population and the largest number of cities and towns, ranks first in furs taken from wild life.
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Ontario
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