Roller Canarys Tutor and Singing Traditions
The canary, long a Briton favorite, comes in many varieties led by the Border and Yorkshire. The Roller, dubbed the operatic canary, has a unique throat song and requires careful training under a schoolmaster bird to develop a refined, soft performance.
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England
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Your Life Mine Your Life Mine
A fragment notes a man in the United States who conducted a lifetime study of snowflakes. He captured 6 000 microphotographs showing that no two crystal forms are alike, highlighting uniqueness in each jewel like flake.
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United States
The Master Designer in Every Tiny Detail
Phyllis Mitchell reflects on God's order from snowflakes to the cosmos, urging faith in divine care. She notes how science reveals marvels small and vast, and points to Jesus as the measure of God’s mercy, quoting St. Augustine on divine love.
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Jesus Christ
Jesus
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Mosaic tile patterns and stenciling art revived
A tile splash back pattern 478 and mosaic tile designs for sinks trays and hot dish blocks are shown withBeginner directions. Pattern 350c and four full size patterns in Mosaic Tile Packet No 78 for $1.75. Pattern 298 offers old time tin ware and furniture stencils in gold on black, with over a dozen designs and materials outline.
Costly underwear blamed in impairment charge
A driver charged with impaired driving told the magistrate that broken underwear caused him to stagger after leaving his car. Police evidence that he staggered and smelled of alcohol led to a $100 fine.
Canadians in workforce grow from 4 to 54 percent
The census shows a rise in the work force from 4 percent of 4,955,000 adults in 1911 to 54 percent of 12,010,000 adults in 1961. Despite new machinery, Canadiana presence remains substantial across industries, reflecting broad employment growth over half a century.
Telephoned poles and half finished work humor
A series of dated quips and short anecdotes unfolds with a wary husband traveling past three telephone line workers, a doctor waiting room chat, a Kindersley resident meeting, a refund joke about submerged lots, and a boy delaying work until others begin.
West Coast satire sparks BC jibe from Murray
Regina Leader-Post notes Jim Murray of the Los Angeles Times mocked British Columbia as a rough, lake and mountain land with bears and odd street lions, prompting Canadian anger and a jesting retaliation mood. The column’s dig at L A smog and Hollywood life triggers mixed reactions.
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Jim Murray
Royal Canadian Navy
U.S
Los Angeles Times
Murray
British Columbia
Canada
United States
Los Angeles
L.A
Hollywood
Vine
Gems of thought study compilation from famed authors
A curated line of quotes on study knowledge and wisdom from Cicero Sterne Bacon Goethe Eddy and Pope. The collection suggests that study enriches character, fuels desire for learning, and requires effort to yield understanding and delight.
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Cicero
Lawrence Sterne
Goethe
Mary Baker Eddy
Alexander Pope
Canadian firms report profits and losses in 1961
Seventy thousand entities appeared in the data with 68 090 reporting profit and 38 219 showing a loss. The average profit for the profit group stood at 52 451 dollars while average corporation tax paid was 19 116 dollars.
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