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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 05, 1962
Page
9
A plain printed request advertises pattern number ta from Anne Adam Patterns, department P.9.L, 60 Front St. W., Toronto Ontario. It notes Bend Affy cents 50c in cons cannot be accepted and asks to print plainly name and address.
A tale from the 17th century notes a single Semper Augustus tulip fetching 1400 in guilders or dollars, illustrating the era of tulip mania and extraordinary bulb speculation.
Canadian Industries Limited introduces Poly-Kor a new 12 gauge shotgun slug for 1962 hunting season. The rifled style uses a polythene core to absorb stress and prevent distortion, improving accuracy in full choke guns. Manufactured at Brownsburg Quebec, five slugs per box.
Red Splendor flowering crabapple bears small fruit that provides winter food for waxwings and other birds as the season progresses.
Cattle on pelleted feed usually gain more efficiently than those fed around feed. The note highlights efficiency differences between pelleted and non pelleted rations for cattle performance.
A historical civic guidance piece urges parents to guard children at home and in public, create a loving home, honor teachers, resist royal indulgence, enforce law respect, avoid temptations like money and car privileges, dress modestly, protect morals, set a worthy example, and restrict youth arms to national service.
Micheline Legendre, leader of Les Marionettes de Montreal, created a sophisticated duck from chandelier parts, window screen wings, and plush fabric for Du Pont of Canada Limited. The piece features a glass chandelier necklace and showcases legendre’s shift from marionettes to design, with the troupe touring globally including Paris exhibitions.
Canada’s Prime Minister and wife are noted abstainers who reportedly served coffee and cakes at a 1960s cocktail party for MPs and senators. The article argues he promotes abstinence by personal example rather than speeches, citing a Queen Elizabeth visit with orange juice equivalents and a policy shift toward non alcoholic entertaining.
A minister helps a drunken parishioner home after a sick call but declines to enter. The man insists for a moment so his wife can see who he has been with. A separate telephone quip jokes about a missing husband with a humorous but vague description.
In the Home Workshop presents Rolier chest set to solve storage problems. All three chests fit under a double bed or two under a single bed. Pattern 428 lists materials and construction for 50c, pattern 383 for the bed-head unit at 10c. Both patterns and two others are in Storage Unit Packet No 46 for $1.75.
An advertisement offers Pattern 443 for a barbecue cart with lift out lower tray and drop leaf top as a patio or yard serving table. It is part of four full size patterns in the Aids for Outdoor Dining Packet 58 offered for $1.75 by Home Workshop Patterns, Department P.P.L., Vancouver.
A compact set of crossword style clues includes down and across hints for various word answers. Entries mention a range of topics from geography and language to animals and objects, with several references to European places and historical terms.
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