Canada stored UK wealth in wartime vault saga
Reader's Digest details a bold WW II operation moving over 7 billion in securities and gold aboard ships through Nazi patrols. Two Canadian figures, Mansur and Perkins, oversaw a secret vault under Sun Life in Montreal while gold and securities crossed the Atlantic in a three month convoy era.
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Winston Churchill
Leland Stowe
Reader's Digest
David Mansur
Bank of Canada
Sidney J. Perkins
Foreign Exchange Control Board
Mansur
Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Toronto
Montreal
CNR
Funny and Otherwise Funny and Otherwise
A farmer staying with a parkland owner encounters breakfast questions about tea or coffee and milk with choices of Assam and dairy preferences. A new secretary misreads a back and forth about availability. A crowded church yields a chapel full sign and a bowler hatted man seeking urgent news. The verger relents but warns the man if he prays.
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John Smith
Frugal Hennington couple prove $8.50 weekly diet possible
Seaside California couple Mr and Mrs Lowell Hennington lived on 8.50 per week to test food budgets. They cut cereals, meat sandwiches and coffee, used garden produce and kept exact price records. He lost two pounds, she four ounces. daily average cost about 1.18, well under USDA guidance.
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Seaside
Calif
Lowell
Hennington
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Henningtons
TV valued over husband in Chicago court ruling
A Chicago wife told Judge Fisher that her television and late night movies were worth more to her than her husband. The judge ordered $25 weekly temporary support for the family as the couple pursues divorce on cruelty grounds.
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Chicago
Fisher
Smile Of The Week Elevator Misstep
A reveller staggered toward a shaft and stepped into what he thought was an elevator. He fell three flights, picked himself up, and shouted up the shaft that it should have gone Up.
Bees Make Honey for Themselves and Larvae
Bees produce honey to feed the colony including workers and developing larvae. The process stores nectar in honeycombs and converts it into a concentrated food source during times of scarcity.
Home Workshop Pattern Sales Help with Sewing Cabinets
Home Workshop offers Christmas greeting card motifs and pattern 391 for ironing and pressing boards plus pattern 392 with small boards and ham cushions. Patterns cost 35c each with 2c air mail or 5c air for delivery per order to Home Workshop Pattern Service, Department P.P.L., 4433 West Fifth Avenue, Vancouver, B.C.
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Home Workshop Pattern Service
Department P.P.L
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Philadelphia Scientist Heads Amazon Expedition for River Study
Ruth Patrick curator of limnology at the Academy of Natural Sciences leads a 1948 Amazon expedition to compare tropical river health with North American streams. Sponsored by the Catherwood Foundation, the project uses the Catherwood Diatometer to count diatoms as an index of stream condition.
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Philadelphia
Amazonaga
United Press
Ruth Patrick
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Catherwood Foundation
Cummins Catherwood
Burn Mawr
Academy
Catherwood
Canada
Gems of Thought on Women and Influence
A collection of quotations praising women and the impact of education on families. Notable lines include Dinah M. Mulock on strength and gentleness, John Crumpton Hardy on educating a girl, Richard Whately on the reed, Sir James M. Barrie on the wife’s quiet power, Mary Baker Eddy on this hour of reform, and C N Bovee on addressing a woman as such.
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Dinah M. Mulock
John Crumpton Hardy
Richard Whately
James M. Barrie
Mary Baker Eddy
C. N. Bovee
Two part pattern praises a nipped waist design
Pattern 4898 targets Misses sizes 10 through 20 with a cinched midriff look and crisp contrast collar and bow. It includes illustrated instructions and requires fabric amounts for 45 and 35 inch widths. Send 35 cents to PPL Household Arts Department for Pattern 4898.
Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue Offered By Department
A printed notice from Department P P L and Household Arts at 60 Front Street West Toronto invites readers to order the Alice Brooks Needle craft Catalogue. Plainly provide name, address, and pattern number to receive pages of knitting crochet embroidery toys and novelties. A 25 cent copy price is requested.
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P.P.L
Household Arts Department
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks
Alberta farm income dips in eight month total
Alberta farm income for the first eight months of 1955 fell nearly three million dollars from the same period in 1954, totaling 212.524 million as grain livestock dairy and poultry sales declined. August 1955 income was 16.109 million, down from 18.309 million in August 1954, with livestock the hardest hit. Dairy and poultry sales rose slightly, with dairy at 17.596 million and poultry at 4.289 million, up from 17.242 million and 4.097 million respectively.
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Alberta
Alberta Bureau of Statistics
Portland man foils grocery stickup in dramatic clash
John W. Williams of Portland and grocer Gaylord W. Shiveley confronted a masked robber in a grocery next door after a stickup demand. Williams tackled the assailant with Shiveley’s help, and Leonard O’Neil Jr., 21, was charged with assault and robbery.
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John W. Williams
Portland
Oregon
Gaylord W. Shiveley
Williams
Shiveley
Leonard O'Neil, Jr
Missing $1,200 Recovered After Calgary Bus Mixup
Miss S. E. Jepson, formerly of Lacombe and Rimbey, traveling for a drug firm, placed an overnight bag with $1,200 on a Lacombe to Calgary bus rack. In Calgary the bag disappeared, but a Red Deer passenger returned it after it was found to be in error.
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S. E
Mickey) Jepson
Lacombe
Rimbey
Calgary
Red Deer
Army to cover Ike hospital medical costs in Denver
The U S Army will pay President Eisenhower s medical expenses while he stayed at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver Colorado. It billed him 1 10 per day for meals, according to Army officials.
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U.S. Army
Eisenhower
Fitzsimons Army Hospital
Denver
Colo
Hatchery Trout Fryed by Native Fish Says Alberta Zoologist
Dr. R B Miller of the University of Alberta argues hatchery trout cannot outcompete native fish for food. He notes less than 1 percent of stocked fry survive to next year, even with larger stock. He favors stocking lakes without resident fish and restocking with fry, plus periodic poisoning to reset populations. He questions spawning season protection and size-based laws as inconsistent across streams.
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Edmonton
R. B. Miller
University of Alberta
Miller
Witty wags wild about wig wags NATO phonetic shift
London reports clever public fascination with a new NATO signals alphabet in civil aviation. Citizens joke with Shakespearean quotes replacing Jig with Juliet and Rogers with Romeo. The humorous misreadings include Hello Romeo and other playful exchanges. The new list uses Alpha to Zulu with some playful terms like Fox trot and Nectar.
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London
NATO
Juliet
Rogers
Romeo
India
Kilo
Lima
Quebec
Experts pick NHL teams for season finish order
In The Hockey News pre season poll experts forecast Montreal Canadiens to win followed by Detroit Red Wings Boston Bruins Toronto Maple Leafs Chicago Black Hawks and New York Rangers in that ranking. The note ends with a public safety reminder about designated driving.
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Hockey
The
Hockey News
N.H.L
Montreal Canadiens
Detroit Red Wings
Boston Bruins
Toronto Maple Leafs
Chicago Black Hawks
New York Rangers
Two New Postage Stamps Issued November Eighth
Canada will release two commemorative stamps on November 8 in panes of 100. A 4c purple stamp honors Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett, prime minister from August 1930 to October 1935, and a 5c blue stamp honors Sir Charles Tupper, prime minister in 1896. Stamps available at principal post offices. orders to Philatelic Section, Ottawa.
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Canada
Richard Bedford Bennett
Sir Charles Tupper
Record 4-H growth hits new Canadian membership high
The 4-H program reports a 1955 national record of 72,784 members across 4,952 clubs, up 4,071 members and 164 clubs from 1954. Saskatchewan shows the largest gain with 2,025 new members, boosting its total from 7,067 in 1953 to 11,966 in 1955, a 69.3 percent rise over two years. Girls clothing clubs lead with 1,083 members, followed by garden 869, beef 656 and dairy 593. average member age is 13.2 and average club size 14.7, with boys outnumbering girls by 640.
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Canada
Saskatchewan
Cheese Topped Dough Bake Rise Instructions
Instructions describe forming dough into rounded spoonfuls on a pan, sprinkling 2 cups shredded cheese, adding the remaining dough atop, greasing the top, covering, letting rise until doubled, then baking in a moderately hot oven at 375 degrees for about 35 minutes.
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