QUICK CANADIAN Quiz: government totals and lakes
Canadian quiz item lists questions on government totals, Great Lakes area, and per capita national production. It includes fragmented answers noting 1846 to 1996 growth of 19.3 percent, a decline of four percent since then, the 1959 government total 11.2 billion, and Lake Huron holding 13,674 of 23,010 square miles in Canada, plus reference to Ernest Thompson Seton as a naturalist and writer.
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Canada
Great Lakes
Lake Huron
Ernest Thompson Seton
Misses Dress Pattern 4561 Advertisement
An old advertisement offers Anne Adams Printed Pattern 4561 for Misses dress sizes 12 to 20 with a bolero. It includes fabric yardage, pattern directions, and a request to mail cents and the pattern number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept at 60 Front Street, Wo. Foronte.
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Anne Adams
Front Street
Foronte
Red bears in parks provoke paint on posteriors
The Lethbridge Herald notes a poem calling for red paint on bears deemed dangerous. It questions how to identify unkind bears while they run, mockingly pondering the method and its practicality in a tourist age.
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Lethbridge
Saskatchewan hospital tax rates raised in 1961
Saskatchewan Public Health Minister J Walter Erb announced rate hikes for 1961. Singles rise from 17.50 to 24.00 and families from 35.00 to 48.00. The article includes a light aside about noisy neighbors and a tuba joke.
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Saskatchewan
J. Walter Erb
Oscar Hammerstein Dead A Beloved Composer Of Stage And Song
Oscar Hammerstein a renowned American composer known for works like Old Man River and Some Enchanted Evening died. Born July 12, 1884 to Alice Mimmo and William Hammerstein, he learned show business from his uncle Arthur Hammerstein and rose to collaborate on classics such as South Pacific Oklahoma and The King and I with famed writers including Kern Gershwin Rodgers. His life featured a noted ancestral tale of a Berlin-born grandfather who left music for invention, shaping a family history of achievement.
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Alice Mimmo
William Hammerstein
Oxzear
Arthur Hammerstein
Paris
Oklahoma
Juliet
Oscar Hammersteins
Rudolph Friml
Jerome Kern
Vincent Youmans
George Gershwin
Richard Rodgers
Oscar Hammerstein
Foes
Berlin
Germany
America
Pencil Holder From Stamps on Marmalade Jar
An attractive desk pencil holder can be made by gluing foreign stamps to the outside of a china marmalade jar. A coat of shellac provides a shiny protective surface.
Bible House Library Hosts Vast Bible Translations
Visitors to the Bible House on Victoria Street London can view more than 20,000 Scripture volumes weekly from Monday to Friday and by request Saturdays. The display includes Gospels of the Fewer Evangelistes in old Saxon and many language editions. A new English translation of the New Testament is due in 1961.
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Bible House
Victoria Street
London
Aldersgate
Tyndall
Andon
Queen Victoria Street
the Bible House
Dr Adams to Attend UNESCO Conference in Montreal
Dr Nancy Adams of Ethelton Sask area VP for the Associated Country Women of the World and past president of the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada will join about 200 delegates at the UNESCO Conference on Adult Education in Montreal from August 21 to 31. The gathering will review post 1949 work, discuss a world adult education association, and seek to bridge East and West with rural women’s needs highlighted by ACWW among 90 nations and 50 NGOs represented.
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Nancy Adams
Ethelton, Sask
Associated Country
Women of the World
Federated Women's Institutes of Canada
Unesco
Montreal
ACWW
Plump Children Grow Faster Says Ohio Study
A study of over 250 boys and girls by Stanley M. Garn and Joan A. Haskell of the Fels Research Institute finds that plump children generally grow faster and mature earlier than slender peers. Excess calories in childhood appear to accelerate growth despite parental size factors.
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Stanley M. Garn
Joan A. Haskell
Fels Research Institute
Ohio
CARS Appointments Expand Canadian Arthritis Staff
Two appointments to the physiotherapy staff of the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society were announced. Miss Jane Mills of Bristol England is appointed physiotherapist in charge of treatment services in Regina Moose Jaw and Davidson. Miss Kathleen Edwards transfers from Yorkton Melville to Regina Rural Region.
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Canadian
Arthritis and Rheumatism Society
Jane Mills
Bristol
England
Regina
Moose Jaw
Davidson
Mills
Bristol Royal Infirmary
Kathleen Edwards
Yorkton-Melville
Canadian Pacific Wins National Safety Council Award
Canadian Pacific received the National Safety Council public safety activities award for its 1959 program. Howard Pyle, council president, informed N. R. Crump, Canadian Pacific president. This marks the seventh consecutive year the award has been given to Canadian Pacific since its inception seven years ago.
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CPR
Chicago
Canadian Pacific
National Safety Council
Howard Pyle
Council
N. R. Crump
Play Street in New York Gives Children a Right to Play
The Police Athletic League opens Play Street blocks in New York with 60 play zones on streets like Hester between Ludlow and Orchard. Hydrants caper as players use hopscotch and shuffleboard while traffic detours, a civic gift that fosters security and a sense of belonging for city children.
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New York
Police Athletic League
Hester Street
Ludlow
Orchard Streets
Kennedy
East Side
West Side
Health League of Canada urges active voluntary health work
The Health League of Canada stresses that progress in health requires voluntary action and community duty. It warns that many citizens neglect unpaid efforts and that reliance on appeals or chests delays life extension through sustained engagement and funding.
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The
Health League of Canada
Lord Moulton
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