Fire safety tips for quick self rescue during a house fire
Provincial Fire Commissioner Foss Switzer outlines ten steps to escape safely and reduce burns. Key guidance includes exiting immediately on smoke or fire, testing doors, blocking hot doors with wet items, staying low to the floor, calling for help, avoiding upper windows unless necessary, not reentering, using extinguishers only for small fires, planning multiple escape routes, and seeking prompt medical care for burns or smoke exposure.
Highways Hazard Prompts Call for Self Enforced Traffic Rules
Quote urges voluntary observance of traffic laws as a remedy for dangerous driving. Points out that police cannot catch every violator and emphasizes driver responsibility to prevent hazards on the road.
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Inehy
Traffc Iswe
Rejuvenating Clothes Pressing Tips from Alberta Expert
Alberta agricultural expert Miss H. Moseson offers practical guidance on garment pressing. Emphasizing a lower lift motion, avoiding overpressing, and testing heat, the advice covers padding under hems, pressing from right to left, and using damp cloths or steam. Careful handling prevents shine and preserves texture.
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H. Moseson
Alberta Department of Agriculture
Hand to Hold and Conqueror's Hand in Trials
A reflection links a general's farewell handshake to faith, noting God assigns hard tasks yet provides a conquering hand to hold throughout. The piece cites the promise Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. It ends with imagery of blue ice layered within icebergs.
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Wellington
Masonry paint on nails helps keep basement dry
Fall is fix up time as basements flood in many areas with waterproofing surges. Homeowners convert spaces into workshops and recreation rooms, painting walls with masonry paint in varied colors to create usable, attractive basements.
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Michigan
Martin Kennedy
Kennedy
Politicians Compared To Windy Football Metaphor
A brief critique likens politicians to football players who are full of wind, suggesting empty rhetoric and lack of substance. The remark emphasizes public frustration with rhetorical bravado over concrete policy.
Mink rancher Ausland leads northern Saskatchewan operation
Halvor Ausland, a 54 year old buffalo Narrows area rancher, runs about 2,000 mink on the Macbeth Channel near Ile a la Crosse. He built a 12-building compound valued around 150000 and uses advanced gear to feed and breed, aiming to expand mutations like sapphires and topaz.
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Halvor Ausland
North Country
Saskatchewan
Macbeth Channel
Buffalo Narrows
Ile A la Crosse
Ausland Sagain
CNR ferry Canora saves two from wreck off Trial Island
The Canora on a Vancouver Island run spotted a distress signal from a small trawler near Trial Island and stood by as Air-Sea Rescue dispatched a Victoria pilot boat. Tragedy averted as the boat towed the trawler to safety with captain John Land praising the crew for vigilant watchkeeping, coordination, and swift action.
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CNR
Trial Island
Victoria
Vancouver Island
Port Mann
Vancouver
John Land
Victoria Colonist
Susan
Canora
Snow Fields and Glaciers in Iceland and Greenland
Iceland has ice covers about 13 percent of its area while Greenland shows an ice cap covering roughly 85 percent of its surface. The contrast highlights Greenland’s vast remaining ice sheet compared with Iceland’s smaller ice presence.
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Iceland
Greenland
Sickness as a beneficial force in human progress
Dr. Antonio Lecours, Ottawa surgeon and professor, told the Ottawa Hull Richelieu Club that sickness has a bad rep but can lead to health and development. He argued sickness drives intellectual and moral growth and once warned socialized medicine risks failure, urging medicine as a temple like a calling.
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Antonio Lecours
Ottawa and
Hull Richelieu Club
Lecours
Ottawa
Penny the hero dog competes for top award in 1956
German shepherd Penny from Elmore Minnesota is a runner up for the most heroic dog of 1956. She chased a 547 pound boar away from her master Tom Dahl Jr. and protected him. Other finalists include a sheep dog, mongrel, mutt and retriever who aided people in peril.
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Penny
Elmore
Minn
Tom Dahl, Jr
Dahl
Chicago
Christian Science Monitor
The Division of Peony Plants
Peonies need not be divided often but division can boost bloom size if neglected. Do it in September after lifting clumps, wash soil from roots, divide into small sections with four to six eyes, and plant with eyes within one inch of the soil surface.
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Christian Science Monitor
Washington State Patrol
Roy F. Carlson
State Patrol
Arthur B. Langlie
D. B. Rigg
Recipe stash tucked in cook book cover envelope
A handy repository for favorites is a heavy envelope pasted inside the cover of your cookbook. The tip preserves recipes you have not yet copied for quick reference and future use.
Square Dance two-patch quilt pattern promotion
The Household Arts Department at 60 Front Street W Toronto offers pattern 7395 for a two-patch quilt titled Square Dance. Includes charts and directions plus yardage for single and double beds. price twenty five cents. Also advertises two free patterns from the Alice Brooks Needle craft book and a book with dozens of easy hand-work designs. requires 25 cents per copy.
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Household Arts Department
Department P.P.L
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks
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Foss Switzer
Daddy
Paris
France
Vincennes Zoo
Elvis Presley
Ila Paris
Papa Polar
Ausland
North America
Buffalo
Montreal
Marie France
Irene
Dunkerque
Suez Canal
Africa
the Pattern Shop
AUTO
Wyeth Spears
Patter
By Yedce Brock
Anne Adams
Child's Room Designs
West Ltd Avenue
B.C
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