Fishing Nets And Threshers Standard Farm Equipment On Many Manitoba Farms
Manitoba farms rely on fishing nets and threshers as essential equipment amid a 1952 era shift. Winnipeg emerges as a grain exchange hub and western Canada fishing center with Lake Winnipeg yielding nearly 19.6 million pounds and other Manitoba lakes adding about 20 million pounds. State-backed fisher ies efforts include eight hatcheries, spawning camps, and radio patrols to stock lakes and regulate harvests, while eggs and fish are traded with North Dakota and Alberta to diversify species.
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Manitoba
Winnipeg
Canada
Lake Winnipeg
Winnipegosis
Dauphin
Waterden
Great Slave Lake
Fisheries Department
North Dakota
Alberta
Mona O Hearns Blue Bonnet endorsement claims finest spread
Mona O'Hearn a Canadian actress says Bios Bonner margarine is outstanding among spreads. It offers delicate flavor for cooking on bread and vegetables and is rich in Vitamin A. Blue Bonnet promotes value and quick coloring in yellow quick bag options.
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Mona O'Hearn
Bonner
Alberta Surpasses 4000 Oil Wells As Production Rises
Alberta crude oil production in June reached 6 499 655 barrels, lifting six month output to 31 721 834 barrels, while June drilling used 132 rigs and 573 182 feet. New wells brought in during June added 72, totaling 432 for the year. Natural gas output in June was 7 384 109 mscf, with six month total 55 733 533 mscf.
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Alberta
Home Workshop The cart that beats a wheel barrow
A home workshop note extols a two wheeled cart with a wide two foot hopper for leaves and yard litter. It praises easy handling versus a barrow, suggests eight inch disk wheels, and explains hanging the cart in winter. Pattern 216 features large construction pictures. Pattern 35c sells for 35 cents and Pattern 312 teaches chair repair and upholstery methods with illustrated steps.
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Pattern
Humorous Vignettes and a Political Remark
A collection of light anecdotes from various settings including a port crew, a forgetful lawyer, and a farmer with a chicken coop that isn’t one. Jokes about marriage, work, and domestic life feature punchlines on forgetfulness, weddings, fast-sleeping children, and nails. A closing note compares the number of British prime ministers and U S presidents in the 20th century.
Blind Kamsack Man Enthusiastic Radio Ham
Tony Caruk a 31 year old blind resident of Kamsack Saskatchewan runs an amateur radio station connects with hams across North America Northern Ireland and Hawaii His hobby funds his life as a drummer and self taught pianist and accordion player suggesting a broad outlook despite blindness.
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Kamsack
Sask
Tony Caruk
Tony
Regina
Ontario School For the Blind
Toronto
North America
Northern Ireland
Hawaii
Diesel Course Offered This Fall at Calgary Institute
A six weeks Diesel engine service and maintenance course will be offered this fall at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art in Calgary. The program provides 120 hours of shop work on cylinder re boring valve inserting injection equipment testing and rebuild starting and electrical systems plus 60 hours of classroom instruction on engines fuel injection cooling lubricating systems and horsepower. No specific education is required though the course targets men with Diesel engine experience. Runs November 9 to December 18 enrollment limited applications encouraged.
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Provincial Institute of Technology and Art
Calgary
Saskatchewan honey crop seen at normal yields in 1953
Saskatchewan's 1953 honey crop is expected to be about normal with production around four million pounds from roughly 33,000 colonies. Average per hive is anticipated at 125 pounds, about 25 pounds more than last year, as high quality honey markets readily absorb the crop by early next year.
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Saskatchewan
J. H. Arnott
Practical Education For Farm Diploma Course Highlights
An excerpt from a Manitoba university agriculture diploma course outlines practical aims. It notes collaboration between the Manitoba Department of Agriculture and the University Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics. Curriculum covers farm machinery welding and blacksmithing, building construction, field and forage crops, livestock and poultry breeding and management, and field trips to breeders. Registration at the Provincial Normal school is expected to reach a 1951 52 record of 425 students.
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University of Manitoba
Manitoba Department of Agriculture
Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics
University
E. H. Lange
Brandon
Provincial Normal School
Helpful Hints for Cleaning and Care
Practical tips cover painting and glass, velvet dress care, tile upkeep, cretonne treatment, and a safety motto. Milk and soap wash glass, velvet dusting then steaming the dress, lemon and salt for dull tiles, rice water to preserve cretonnes, and a firm reminder to drive with care.
Editor’s Wedding and Obituary Rampage in Town
A merchant’s wife bears a son who becomes the town’s celebrated editor renowned for column lengths and generous notices. He covers a debut, a farewell journey, and a wedding bid from distant cities. A misread obituary names the departed as gone to her last roasting place provoking wrath and cancellations.
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Roses of
Sharon
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Mona O’hearn
Home Workshop Pattern Service
Prairie Publishers Limited
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouer, B.C
Fumnynd
Smith
Jenkins
Darling
Board of Examiners
Diplomatic Corps
Sandy
England
Plymouth
Holy Land
Dan
Beersheba
Sodom
Gomorrah
Great Britain
United States
Montreal
Doug Hains
International Game Fish Association
Canadian Pacific Railway
Hains
Soldiers Rip
Wedgeport
N.S
Post Office Department
P. A. Pollock
Peggy
By Chuck Thurston
Prestone
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