What Oil Means to Canada by A W Hanks
A wide survey of western oil, prices at Sarnia, pipeline effects, and Alberta output. It notes how world crude prices set wellhead values, transportation costs shape markets, and oil revenues boost Alberta and prairie provinces. Seismograph work in Leduc field and future prospects for western oil expansion are highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarrisa
Ontario
Sarnia
Western Canada
Illinois
U.S.A
Alberta
Redwater
Prairie Provinces
Leduc
Western States
Great Lakes
Canada
Edmonton
Prairie
Manitoba
English Boy Likes Mounties in Felixstowe
Terry Fry, six, in Felixstowe, writes inviting all the Mounties to a party at home. Insp. P. S. Osborne from Ottawa replies with a mounted trooper photo and RCMP work details. Terry’s mother says he is the happiest lad in Felixstowe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felixstowe
Suffolk
England
Terry Fry
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RCMP
P. S. Osborne
Ottawa
Terry
Felixtowe
Card deck weeks: 52 equals year’s weeks
A standard deck has 52 cards, mirroring the 52 weeks in a year. The suit count aligns with seasons, and the four suits echo quarterly divisions. The analogy links card counts to calendar structure in a concise, mnemonic form.
Rich Wedding Cake and Frosting from Historic Recipe
A detailed vintage recipe outlines ingredients and steps for a rich wedding cake and Snowy Cream Frosting. It lists butter sugar eggs raisins currants citron almonds flour nutmeg grape juice lemon rind cherries and more, with instructions on mixing, coating with flour, baking, and frostings using powdered sugar and egg whites.
Western Canadian highway engineer wins scholarship
Gordon D. Campbell from Winnipeg and Ottawa’s Trans-Canada Highway Division earns a Canadian Good Roads Association fellowship to study for a doctorate in highway engineering at Purdue University next year. The CGRA notes this is the second such Canadian award and cites a distinguished selection committee chaired by the University of Alberta’s dean of engineering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Gordon D. Campbell
Canadian Good Roads Association
United States
National Good Roads Organization
International Road Federation
Washington, D.C
Campbell
Winnipeg
Trans-Canada Highway Division
Department of Public Works
University of Manitoba
Purdue University
Lafayette
Indiana
CGRA
R. M. Hardy
University of Alberta
Alan K. Hay
Federal District Commission
Jacques E. Hurtubise
Ecole Polytechnique
Oddities in the News from Odd Dinners to Hospital Quirks
Tales from the humor column recount a New York man catching a 32 inch northern pike that swallowed a half grown black duck, a Portland man needing an X ray to locate a key trapped in a leg cast after hospital stay, and a Michigan ditch mishap when a wife steered from the back seat causing a motorcycle crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Maroun
Tupper Lake
N.Y
Jenkins Bay
Maroun
Frank J. Cipriano
Portland
Maine
Cipriano
Twin Lake
Mich
Henry Benton
Grace
Benton
Pheasant crashes into Brook’s new home window
Alta George Wilson of Brooks loses a $200 thermopane window after a cock pheasant crashes into it during a morning crash dive. The bird, likely sighting its reflection, died on the lawn, while officer Jerry Pelchat stated it may be contraband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooks
Alta
George Wilson
George
Jerry Pelchat
Prismatic glasses aid polio patients in Edmonton hospitals
Edmonton crippled children council provides prismatic glasses to bed ridden patients enabling reading without strain. A test in a hospital showed 100 percent success as glasses reflect printed text toward the user. Glasses cost about 16 dollars per pair, gifts from the council, distributed through doctors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
Council For
Wilf Barrell
Council
Barrell
New York
Bezaire
Edmonton General Hospital
United States
Paris
Council For Crippled Children
Home Workshop swing and garage patterns for Vancouver pattern service
A nostalgic item describes a familiar swing pattern with metal friction parts and lock nuts, priced at 35c, plus a Lawn Furniture Packet offering five patterns for 1.50 postpaid including chairs and a barbecue set. It also advertises Pattern 393 for a gable hip roof garage with car space, priced 35c, and provides order details from Home Workshop Pattern Service in Vancouver, Canada.
Cougars in British Columbia
The cougars of British Columbia live in caves or dense thickets, but do not hibernate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.C
British Columbia
52 Swiss river vertical 2 Stout cord Assam
A compact note references a 52 Swiss river term vertical 2 stout cord and Assam context. The fragment lists a measurement or code linked to river and textile keywords, indicating a catalog or archival shorthand without a clear narrative. The item appearance suggests indexing in a trade or geographic ledger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assam
Alberta speckled trout champ Stan Reynolds nets 8 11
Stan Reynolds claims Alberta’s speckled trout crown with an eight pound eleven ounce catch from Prairie Creek near Rocky Mountain House. The May issue of Hunting and Fishing in Canada lists Canada wide records and notes Stan’s fish may be the west’s biggest speckled trout, with technical doubt over similar weights in other regions. The trout is being taxidermied in Edmonton.
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Alberta
Stan
Canada
J. Warren
Virginia Falls
Fred Oldfield
Sudbury
West
Alford Creek
Caroline
Donald Lucas
Salisbury
England
Edmonton
Prairie Creek
Rocky Mountain House
Patching Plaster To Create An Inconspicuous Repair
A method for repairing plaster cracks emphasizes removing the crack and surrounding edges, packing patching plaster slightly below the surface, applying a layer of spackle over the patch, sanding until flush, then priming and painting with thin coats to achieve a seamless result. The process aims for an inconspicuous finish.
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. W. Hanks
Weviers
Regina
Prairies
Saskatchewan
Montreal
E. S. Jones
R. W. McColough
Nova Scotia
D. O. Robinson
Canada Cement Company Limited
Toronto
Gordon E. Taylor
Beatrice Pines
P.P.L
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
Peggy
Chuck Thurston
French Island
By Records
Stan Reynolds
Ladeer
Stan Trout
The
Wetaskiwin Times
Sask
EALY
Star Weekly
Star
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