Automatic phone exchange opens in Estevan area
Estevan gains a completely automatic exchange with 1,100 local lines and 140 rural and business lines. Four position toll switchboard replaces six position unit, completing upgrades begun years earlier in Melville Assiniboia Moosomin Biggar Watrous Weyburn Nipawin Tisdale and Kindersley. Total cost exceeds 275000 with Estevan’s system improving access for 1470 subscribers as dialing becomes standard across the area.
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Melville
Assiniboia
Moosomin
Biggar
Watrous
Weyburn
Nipawin
Tisdale
Kindersley
Estevan
Saskatchewan
Estevan Exchange
Kuziak
Areca
Exquisite paisley iron on transfer pattern sale
Price Broyses offers Transfer Pattern 7350 with 14 paisley motifs in red blue and yellow for iron on use on blouses aprons towels pillowcases sheets curtains tablecloths and napkins. Includes two border motifs 65 by 1 inch and 24 x 5 to 44 x 4 inches sizes. Cost 25 cents to Department PPL Toronto.
FunnY and Otherwise Funny Tidbits in a Punchy Page
A collection of light anecdotes and jokes about work, weddings, police work, and speech. A stenographer hears two forbidden words from a boss, a father jokes about his daughter's wedding photo, sausage breakfast mishaps, a job interview motto, a rake-tapped detective, a party guest predicting what follows a speech, a drunk and disorderly man before a JP, and a witty wife and husband banter. The items mix wordplay, irony, and social behavior with concise punchlines.
Home Workshop Patterns for ironing cabinet and dining table
The article promotes Home Workshop patterns including a complete ironing cabinet and board, one to ten second setup for ironing tasks, and a dining table pattern. It details pattern numbers 391 and 392 with large diagrams, simple directions, and mail order pricing 35c per pattern plus small charges for faster delivery. It lists pattern service address in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Department P.P.L
Home Workshop Pattern Service
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Appetizing Recipes for Tomato Meat Patties
Instructions describe combining seven ingredients to shape twelve patties. Fry in fat until browned, then simmer with tomatoes about 45 minutes until thoroughly cooked. Serve hot. Makes six servings with two patties each.
Manitoba 1954 Vital Statistics Summary
Manitoba 1954 statistics show May had most deaths while June saw most weddings and July exceeded 1000 births. Total live births 20 018, marriages 6 237, deaths 6 002, still births 296. infant mortality 28 per 1000, maternal mortality 0.4 per 1000. Heart disease, cancer and vascular CNS diseases led deaths. final births may beat 1953 record.
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E. S. MacInnes
MacInnes
4-H Club winners at Kamloops Fat Stock Show
Jean Pringle 19 wins grand championship with Sonny Boy a 950 pound calf and Dennis Atkinson earns reserve honors with a 915 pound steer at the sixteenth annual Christmas Fat Stock Show and sale in Kamloops British Columbia. Both are leading 4-H members in their communities with Pringle a two time grand champion who left farming for a law office in Kamloops before returning to 4-H.
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4-H
Kamloops
British Columbia
Jean Pringle
Sonny Boy
Dennis Atkinson
Jean
Dennis
Twenty Fourth Annual 4-H Meet Set for Toronto Royal York
The twenty fourth annual meet of the Canadian Council on 4-H Clubs will be held at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto on March 7 8 and 9. Provincial supervisors of 4 H together with representatives of business companies and agricultural organizations who are members of the council will attend. E S Manning Council President will be the general chairman.
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Royal York Hotel
Toronto
E. S. Manning
Manitoba teen wins top prize in North Central Weed Control essay contest
David Remus, 17, of Emerson Manitoba and member of the Emerson 4-H Grain Club, takes first prize in a fourteen state and three province essay contest sponsored by the National Grain Company. The top award includes a $300 scholarship usable at any recognized agricultural college, plus a $25 regional Manitoba prize.
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David Remus
Emerson 4-H Grain Club
Manitoba
North Central Weed Control Conference
United States
Prairie Provinces
Canada
National Grain Company
David
National Grain Company joins Canadian 4-H council
National Grain Company Limited of Winnipeg Manitoba has become a member of the Canadian Council on 4 H clubs. F C Vodrey manager Agricultural Department has named the company's representative to the Council's Board of Directors.
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National Grain Company Limited
Winnipeg
Manitoba
F. C. Vodrey
Agricultural Department
Miriam Stevenson Miss Universe winner from Winnsboro South Carolina
Miriam Stevenson of Winnsboro South Carolina rose from 4-H dairy calf club member in 1943 to Miss Universe. She entered beauty contests from 1952, won Miss United States in 1954, then earned Miss Universe. She declined a Hollywood contract to finish home economics at Lander College.
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Miriam Stevenson
Winnsboro
South Carolina
Miriam
Lander College
S.C
United States
Canadian Women Use About Eleven Pairs Hosiery in 1953
Canadian women averaged just over 11 pairs of full-fashioned hosiery per year in 1953. This reflects widespread use of stylish stockings during the era, with women purchasing hosiery regularly as part of their wardrobe.
Royal Bank of Canada leader calls for strategic trade focus
At the Annual Meeting of Shareholders James Muir, Chairman and President, urged Canada to improve competitiveness rather than expand protection. He warned that high exchange values burden exporters, cited rising foreign competition, and proposed a government backed export credit corporation to extend longer term finance and support trade.
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The
Royal Bank of Canada
Canada
James Muir
Muir
Embryo barley test urged as sole smut detector
Jim Farquharson, president of the Canadian Seed Growers Association, urged using the embryo barley test to determine loose smut prevalence. He said the federal Saskatoon plant pathology lab could run tests if field inspections were removed, noting the lab’s discovery and development of the embryo test.
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Saskatoon
Jim Farquharson
Canadian Seed Growers’ Association
Saskatchewan
Federal Laboratory of Plant Pathology
Year of decision in 1955 urged by Mr Muir
The speech calls 1955 a year of decision with four goals for policy: full employment and activity, efficient allocation of resources to match consumer demand, equitable yet incentivized distribution of national income, and policy consistency with steady growth. It notes 1954 saw inflationary pressures ease but unemployment rise, while competition grows from the UK, Western Europe, and Japan.
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Mr. Muir
United Kingdom
Europe
Japan
Canada’s path to growth through human resources and policy
The speaker argues Canada’s progress hinges on high quality human resources and policy that fully utilize them. It urges immediate action to shape the economic environment for population and capital growth and to guide decisions toward a greater Canada beyond present realities.
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Canada
Royal Bank of Canada assets top three billion in 1954 report
General Manager T. H. Atkinson reports total assets surpass three billion dollars marking a new banking record. Deposits reach nearly 2.798 billion, loans rise to 1.188 billion, and initial steps under the National Housing Act expand residential construction lending. Branch network grows abroad to 74 offices with 15,000-plus staff.
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T. H. Atkinson
Royal Bank of Canada
Mr. Atkinson
Atkinson
Saskatoon professor publishes Endthelium book
Dr. Rudolph Atshcul, anatomy professor at the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine, has had a book titled Endthelium published. The work addresses scientific problems of the thin lining of blood vessels.
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Saskatoon
Rudolph Atshcul
College of Medicine
University of Saskatchewan
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