While Women Wait in the Mine Town
In a frontier mining community, three wives and a new bride play bridge while a mine blast rattles their nerves. Grace and Mabel counsel Nella as her husband Jimmy works underground with five miners trapped, and Grace herself contemplates the hard life and fear as the storm rages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace
Nella Bentley
Nella
Dot
Jimmy
Mabel
Dottie
Jim
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Heart Trouble Can Be Managed With Careful Living
Many with heart disease fear its fatal outcome yet damaged hearts can allow long, nearly normal lives. Following doctor orders on exercise, diet, and overall lifestyle lets patients avoid invalid status and lead comfortable, productive existences.
Record grain shipment from St Walburg Sask
Grain shipped from St Walburg Saskatchewan August 1952 to July 1953 totalled 1 046 000 bushels. It is an all time record for grain shipments from this point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Walburg
Sask
Venezuela Adds Tractor Training For Food Growth
The National Agricultural Institute in Maracay, Venezuela, started a one year tractor training school for ages 16 to 35. Government funded, graduates are placed as agricultural instructors across the country. Food production rose over 400 percent due to the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
U.S
Venezuela
National Agricultural Institute
Maracay
Record of Char W Venables Longtime Manitoba Printer
The Echo publisher Charles W Venables, 81, claims the title of oldest active printer with nearly seventy years of hand typesetting. Starting as a printer's devil in Norwich in 1884, he later worked in Toronto before moving to Hamiota in 1896. He published The Hamiota Echo and The Herald, then operated with Ed Stone, later with Josey and his son Freddie joining in 1950. He continues to set type by hand in his residence-turned-press site.
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Chas. W. Venables
The
Echo
Hamiota
Manitoba
Venables
Norwich
Ont
Norwich Gazette
T. C. Bartholomew
Toronto
Murray Printing Company
Toronto Globe
Frank Middleton
James Ross
Rapid City
Herald
Hamiota Echo
Jas. Collison
Who
Ed Stone
C. W. Venables
Ed. L. Stone
W. H. Josey
Freddie
Charlie
Saskatchewan Man Elected in Halifax Trustees Meet
W N McCillivray of Gray Saskatchewan was elected president of the Canadian School Trustees Association at its annual meeting in Halifax. Mrs Isabel Ross of Toronto was chosen vice president for Ontario.
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Halifax
W. N. McCillivray
Gray, Sask
Canadian School Trustee’s Association
Isabel Ross
Toronto
Ontario
Gold Rush era mining courses offered in Alaska towns
Old Home Town Ketchikan report notes short courses in mining run for gold-hungry amateurs in Skagway Juneau Wrangell and Ketchikan illustrating renewed interest in frontier prospecting and early training opportunities for new miners.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
Skagway
Juneau
Wrangell and
Gilbert Plains Backs Cash Only In Local Trade Shift
Gilbert Plains Manitoba votes to end credit sales with no exceptions. About 30 business men form the Gilbert Plains Business Men's Association and publish the plan to settle all transactions in cash, aiming to lower prices by cutting costs. Nearby Grandview is warned to consider a similar no credit policy. The community notes a 100 percent participation spirit and references a distant past with a bare knuckle fight in 1889.
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Gilbert Plains
Man
Manitoba
Embroidery Pattern 7311 Offers Daily Motifs for Towels
Colorful one a day embroidery motifs ready for kitchen towels and shower gifts. Pattern 7311 includes seven transfers about 5x7 inches each, offered for twenty five cents to Prairie Publishers Limited in Toronto with name, address, and pattern number. Also promotes TEN COMPLETE PATTERNS and many more patterns from Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book for 25 cents each.
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Household Arts Department
Prairie Publishers Limited
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks
Lost in Arctic Waters Stranded By Fog And Currents
A 30 foot Vancouver fishing craft leaves Reid Island on Aug 12 for Listen Island. Severe currents and a southeast gale push them off course as dense fog obscures land. After days of rough seas they reach a river mouth near Amundsen Gulf west of Coppermine, walk for fuel, survive on caribou and ptarmigan, return to the boat, and are spotted by an RCAF Canso aircraft on Aug 31 delivering aid.
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Vancouver
Reid Island
Listen Island
Lambert Island
Jim Mimmorano
Jack Goose
Amundsen Gulf
Coppermine
Father Tardy
R.C.A.F. Canso
Wild Rice Drives Up Ducks Cost In Manitoba
Wild duck meals in Manitoba rise in price as stuffing requires costly wild rice. Poor weather slashed the wild rice harvest to about one tenth of last year, raising grocery and meal costs for duck eaters in Winnipeg.
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Manitoba
Winnipeg
Flin Flon Aims for City Charter Status
The mining town of Flin Flon on the Manitoba Saskatchewan border plans to apply for a city charter. It has a population well above the 5,000 requirement.
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Flin Flon
Manitoba-Saskatchewan
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Alice Fisher
Dodd
Bomerdans
Anne Adams
Arctic
Murmansk
Russia
Ev Ee
Domingo Gomez
Aldo Gonzalez
Genaro Ruiz
Saskatchewan
Old Home Town
Sullivan
Kilrain
Weee Brooke
Les Carroll
Caribou
Magic Baking
Cass
British Ports
Cunard
Cunard Line
R.M.S
Ascania
Montreal
Liverpool
Quebec
Havre
Champton U
Earl K. Williams
Franconia
Greenockiverpool
Stan Brown
Samaria
Havrerhampton
William E. Snow
Bank Rea Roronto Bidg
Ave
Winnipes
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