Dead Child Lake renamed Moss Lake for a tragic tale
The former name, rooted in a 50 year old Inuit narrative, honors an orphan adopted by a couple whose blizzard crossing to Fort Pelly ended in the child's freezing death. A rescuer, Peter Brass, recovered the boy in a frozen bundle, inspiring the grim toponym Dead Child Lake. The lake’s current name Moss Lake preserves the memory.
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Fort Pelly
Jake
Peter Brass
Hudson Bay Company
Moss Lake
Quick Canadia Quiz prompts on wool, jobs, housing, and taxes
Five trivia prompts ask which province leads in wool production, which industry doubled its employment since 1939, the 1953 spending on new housing, the location of the St Elias Mountains, and whether individuals or corporations paid more income taxes last year. Answers in Another Column Waste Not Want Not.
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Canada
St. Elias Mountains
Ottawa
Alberta Indian Village at Calgary Stampede Showcased
Alberta Indian tribes at the Calgary Stampede will receive full facilities to display folklore handicrafts and tribal demonstrations. Most activities will be concentrated in the village centered on an elevated circular platform encircling a ceremonial tree. Dolls in ancient Japan were described as living through careful care and feeding.
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Calgary
Alberta
Calgary Stampede
Let George Do It and Other Bits From The Side
A column of quirky notes on women’s housework expectations, zodiacal tropes, age estimation by nails, liver as the seat of love, swim wear terminology, and a tongue in cheek etymology of the phrase Let George do it with light humor and period voice.
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Aquarius
Leo
Win Min Than
Burma
Alberta Tractor Death Toll Prompts Safety Drive
Alberta Safety Council ramps up farm safety after 1953 tractor deaths reach 21 with 17 drivers killed. Many losses from overturns on highways or fields, plus two passengers and two bystanders. The plan includes rodeos, fairs, posters, and a province wide safety essay contest with cash prizes for pupils. SAFETY tips emphasize wheel spread, avoiding soft shoulders, no passengers, proper hitching, low gear on slopes, controlled braking, slow speeds on gravel, and night lights.
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Alberta
Alberta Safety Council
Rural Safety Division
ASC
Edmonton
Kitchen Meditations by Jane Dale
A brief verse recounts a boy named Tommy receiving a hammer and nails from his father with a warning not to hammer on tubs or pails. He builds a push cart and a long train, ends up returning the tools to his sister and earning a smashed thumb and a blister.
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Tommy
Answers to Quick Quiz 5 and noted facts
Answers list tax figures Alberta location and BC Yukon mix manufacturing item and famous historical figures. The material credits Quick Canadian Facts and cites large figures about taxes and a record in one million billions.
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Alberta
British Columbia
Yukon
Quick Canadian Facts
Canada
Odds and Ends from the Newsroom Oddities
A Canadian farmer in England debates a name for a strange hatchling with duck head goose body. In California a truck driver wakes to find 216 sheep scattered after a crash near the San Mateo bridge. six killed. In Montreal a man sleepwalks from a second story window, falls to a shed, then to the ground but survives with facial and hand cuts.
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Channes Franks
Hutton
England
Lloyd L. Schneck
San Mateo
Calif
Schneck
San Mateo Bridge
Dionne Gilbert
Montreal
Que
Gilbert
Sunday Prosecution of Commercial Trucks Begins
Provincial Treasurer C M Fines announced that commercial truckers operating on Sundays will be prosecuted to reduce holiday traffic. He cited safety with children present and noted Saskatchewan’s improving accident record but warned the heavy highway period remains ahead. The Lord's Day Act bans Sunday trucking and RCMP will prosecute offenders across Western Provinces.
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C. M. Fines
RCMP
May 13 1954 Brings Twin Calves And Lambs
In Tawatina Alta farmer Mike Jellich recalls a record day as his cow bore twin calves and his ewe produced twin lambs. A coyote killed three older lambs, marking a remarkable livestock event for the farm.
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Tawatinaw
Alta
Mike Jellich
Multiple crash driving hazard rules urged for motorists
Advisory from C W Gilchrist of the Canadian Good Roads Association explains how to prevent ordinary crashes from becoming multiple wrecks. Steps include staying at the scene, warning traffic, avoiding handling injured persons unless trained, and notifying police with precise location to help responders.
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C. W. Gilchrist
Canadian Good Roads Association
Eastern manufacturers hear about prairie industry
Eastern manufacturers touring the west heard of industry, mining, forestry, oil and gas, real estate, and Saskatoon as a new research center while farming remains the buying power. Saskatoon grows to 60,000, 200 lots sold in 12 hours, and a $10 million University Hospital to employ 1,000, with 550 beds.
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Saskatoon
University Hospital
University of Saskatchewan
University
Prairie
Research Council of Canada
S. N. MacEachern
Board of Trade
Muscle bulk over fat wins in athletic weight gain plans
The piece urges athletes to gain lean muscle rather than fat, warns underweight individuals to seek medical guidance, and outlines a weight gain program with four to five weekly lifting sessions and a calorie rich diet. It also emphasizes safety in swimming, advising never to swim alone and to have a capable observer or support.
Mustard Seed Faith Moves Mountains in Biblical Reflection
Weekly Bible Comment reflects on Jesus words about faith. It asks what the disciples understood and how faith could empower them to preach to all nations despite a vast Roman Empire. The author notes faith's power to move mountains is evidenced by history and urges readers to seek that faith today.
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Jesus
Roman Empire
Goslings Hatch At Four Acre Sanctuary In Regina
Nine Canada geese goslings hatched on Wascana Marsh after two pairs nested there. Six young emerged June 3 and three more on June 5. Eggs were kept in Fred Bard's basement to prevent freezing during cold spring. The four acre sanctuary hosts mallards, blackbirds, kildeers, coots and grebes.
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Regina
Wascana Marsh
Fred Bard
Mr. Bard
Cocoa stain removal tip for linen tablecloth
A practical stain removal tip suggests sprinkling cocoa stains with borax and soaking the fabric in cold water to lift the marks from a white linen tablecloth.
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E. V. Darling
Gumpert
Orginal
George
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Louis
D’ambroise
Georges le Faire
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Carl K. Marshall
Fort Worth
Tex
Post Office Claims
Jane Dale
Jesus Christ
Abraham Lincoln
Napoleon Bonaparte
Virgil
By Len Kleis
Priscilla
al Vermeer
MacEachern
D. H. F. Black
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T. C. Douglas
Lioyd
Percival
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