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64 pages. Features: A Selection of Label Only Bottles - lovely photos with article; Pets and Patent Medicines - many great vintage illustrations with article; Irish Whisky Bottles - photos and article; Many ads; Indy Fruit Jar Show; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - Winternational 1994; Kaukauna Klub Cheese Crocks; Commercial Packing Jars - Canton Domestic Fruit Jar; My First Outhouse Dig, by Tony Charlton. Some soiling to front cover. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Palmer Story - Palmer Perfumer, the First American Perfumer; Trade Cards - article with reprints of amazing vintage cards; Jar Talk - fruit jar wrenches and more canning information; Bottle-Dose - The Heckler - Skinner - Keene Show; British Bottle Bits - What was in those tooth pastes? - a fascinating article!; Extra Special Deliveries; Northwestern Show; Up-Dates; Messages; Auction Directory; Miniature Bottle Show - San Francisco Bay area; Chinese Gold Mining Camp - an account of our find during the drought of '76-'77, by Seth Simpson. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
80 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Schramm Glass Manufacturing Company of St. Louis, 1905-1925; Jar Talk - Killer Fruit Jars; Hair Raising Stories - Tricopherous for the Hair; British Bottle Bits - Unlisted Poison Bottle - John Southerst Patent, fantastic ads for vintage machines; Great illustrated two-page ad for a Western Glass Auctions event; Extra Special Deliveries; S.L.O.B.S. - The San Louis Obisbo Bottle Society; Bottle Network News - The Pioneer Drug Store, by David Bethman; Auctions; Bottle Displays welcome new collectors; Up-Dates; Golden Gate Show; My Little Brown Jug - Charlie Horn digs up a M.& M.Co. Island City, Oregon jug; Extraordinaire - Potomac Show & Slick's Auction, including photo of Vaseline jar collection. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Fare You Well, Mr. Mooney - Dale Mooney, of Tracy, CA, and The Bottle Mine is moving to the east coast - great photo-illustrated article by John Walker; Advertising Stoneware - "The Origins", by Jack Sullivan; Hair Raising Stories - San Francisco Hair Restorers, by Don Fadely; Extra Special Deliveries; Auction Directory; Bottle Network News; Torquay Advertising, by Rob Goodacre; The Label Space - Putnum's Closures - Lightning Fruit Jars, by Tom Caniff; Up-Dates; Mary & The Italian Bitters Bottle, by John Cooper. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Rubbing to covers. A sound copy. Book
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photos of operators at work in Haney, Nanaimo and Port Moody; $35 million improvement and expansion programme; Rotation billing will be inaugurated in March; Ed Tomer terminates 44-year career; Victoria says good-bye to George Gaetz; Daniel G. Houston - he installed phones in the horse-and-wagon days; Retirement of Thomas (Tom) Smith; photos of W.J. Jefree's clothing store and W.J. Pendray soap works, both in Victoria - the first commercial firms in British Columbia to be linked by a telephone line, in 1880; Photo of Nanaimo's first telephone office in 1887 at the fruit store of Mr. and Mrs. E.G. Cavalsky; Photo of splicer's school; Annual report reveals record demand for service as result of great growth of province; World telephone network is operating again; A farewell to Dave Falconer; The telephone situation as we see it today; Hammond-Haney toll charges eliminated; From Office Boy to District Plant Chief - Lindsay Morrison; High school visitors to the Hasting's operator area; New Building Commemorates Name of First Company President, William Farrell - article with photos; A Report on the telephone situation in B.C.; Thirty-Four Years of Phone Service at Parksville; First commercial VHF circuits now in service here; Toll Chief Operator weds Chief Engineer - A.H. Lemmon and Lila Boden; advertising slogans; Wirephoto service comes to Vancouver; Telephony made great Strides during Labelle Career - Eugene P. LaBelle retires after 44 years in telephony *THIS APPEARS TO BE THE PERSONAL COPY OF MR. LABELLE AS HIS NAME IS STAMPED ON TOP EDGE OF TEXT*; A.C. Bull Elected Federation President; Photo of lovely twin sister operators in Vancouver; Photos behind the scenes at the Victoria Plant Building; New Dial Offic, 'Cedar', Now in Service; 800,000 phone calls per day in Vancouver; Wage increases for 1,000 plant employees; Meet the Executive Assistant's Department - many photos; Nearly 3,800 Bayview phones 'cut' to Cedar; Revenue accounting girls adopt three orphans; replica's of 3 recent billboards, 2 of which include suggestions for party line use; misc. photos of Fraser Valley operators; 1947 was record year despite shortages; *Car phone* service now available - with photo; Leo Griggs, Nanaimo Plant Head, retires; Fifteen years ago; Three blind mice in South America - Kathleen Stephen and Catherine Wilson recall their trip; Ads advise fewer calls, shorter calls - with 2 ads; "Newton" joins our telephone family - story and photos; 1947 progress was offset by record demand annual report points out; 37 years of ups and downs - Percy Turley, cable-splicing foreman; Miss Gertrude Greaves honoured; Photos of Seymour (Vancouver) operators; photo of radiotelephone transmitting station at Lulu Island; various photos inside Kamloops office with staff; article on John (Jack) C. Hemer; Operators learn Human Nature's Queer Quirks; Newspaper columnist visits new William Farrell Building; Trans-Canada phone system construction job resumed - text and photos; photos of staff and facilities at Princeton; Spirit of service triumphs over flood - photos of washed out Mission bridge and more, plus article; PNE float photos; Introducing the company's new business library; New submarine cable links Vancouver and North Shore - photos and text; T. Percy Waters Book
[6], 7-393, [9] ads, pages. Index. Nostalgic ads for local businesses. Compiled for the benefit of the Seattle Fruit & Flower Mission, an all-volunteer organization founded in 1907 which gave "dietary aid to those who were ill or undernourished, irrespective of race or creed." - Foreword. Handwritten note on last page. Average wear to illustrated silver boards. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this charming full-spectrum compilation of Seattle recipes dating back to the roaring twenties. Book
Features: Tender Buttons - a shop dedicated to buttons; Fine Machine Sewing - Hemstitching - Part II; Smocking - Lesson One by Mollie Jane Taylor; Mother's Day - gifts to stitch; French Handsewn Pincushion - pullout pattern and instructions; Canada - Western Style - Calgary's Stampede Fashions; Smock Plate; Linen Handkerchief Case; Summer's Juicy Fruits - an orchard of picks; Elizabeth Garrett's Sampler - a SAGA chapter's project; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Autumn work in the Garden; create a modern arrangement; join a flower arrangement class; Skeleton leaves; Daffodils and Narcissi for autumn planting; Using cane; Cyclamen; Citrus Fruits - for food and flowers; Shrubs for Autumn colour; Fruit and Vegetable Decorations; Dried flowers in churches; Consider the lilies; Wilton; Flowers in metal; Flower arranging in Natal; the pleasure of teaching flower arranging; The Red Rose of Cares and the Opium Lady; Choose your new greenhouse now!; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Lady's visiting toilette; The Feet; The Other Baby - Gail Hamilton; Manners Upon the Road - of sanded sugar; New York Fashions - postilion-basque wrapper, pointed cape walking suit, new colors, Dolly Varden novelties; riding habits; Personal; tidy in Genoese embroidery; tatted collars; embroidered silk emery bag; lady's crochet sleeping net; knotted and bead scissors case; crochet night-cap for girl from 6 to 8 years old; design for cover of bed-quilt - Venetian embroidery; All or Nothing; Paris Gossip; Sayings and Doings; Coiffures for young and elderly ladies; suits for young ladies; black gros grain fichu; ladies' and children's dresses; To the Bitter End - continued; Married Bachelors; "Knocking down the Elephant - illustration; "Catching the Lion" - illustration; Illustration "The Jews' Infant-School Ball at Willis's Rooms, London"; Preparation of Fruit Juices; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Promenade Toilettes; Summer Fruits; Proper Exercise; New York Fashions - Lace Garments, Carriage Wraps, Sea-Side and Yachting Jackets, Traveling Wraps; Personal; illustrations of table cover, crochet tidy, canvas tidy, etc.; Feminine Respectability; Gentlemen's Summer Fashions; Taken by Storm; London Correspondence; The Women of the Day; Nice full-page illustration of Gentlemen's Paris Summer Fashions; French Etiquette of Courtship and Marriage; Three Hours to a Dilemma; Sayings and Doings; Wonderful full-page illustration by Winslow Homer entitled "The Fourth of July in Tompkins Square, New York; Small clipping from page 589; The Household Angel, by Fitz Hugh Ludlow - continued; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
Features: Charlevoix - Une Grande Paroisse - nice photos; La Pomme - Fruit Defendu, Gaspille; L'Amour... L'amour... Ils ont Peur De L'Amour!; L'amour... "Epouse la Fille du Voisin"; Une Minorite Irreductible - la secte des Fils de la Liberte, en Columbie-Britannique; La Douceur De La Vie En Nouvelle-France. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Carolyn Sunstein - specializing in the past; Gail Morey's Pedigreed Pets; The Gerry Chadwick Collection; Carol Stewart's fun and fanciful friends; Arto Monaco - Wondermaker; Betty Gottschalk wants to bring miracles to the world; The Gill family ages gracefully in Michigan; Doreen Sinnett - a mother of invention; Walter and Dona Vaughn's quest for challenge; Feature your miniatures at your next backyard barbeque; Gallery of needlepoint miniatures; Joann's Happy Birthday Picasso; Mary Eccher's four pumpkin recipes; Display your fruits, vegetables or toys at the market on these stalls; A Brooke Tucker original - pieces of upholstered furniture; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Shining examples of the Silversmith's Art; Porch Railings; Collectables - Eric Pearson pieces; Daryl McFadden - Food for Thought; Marilee Gardner's Modern Kitchen; Willie Zickrick's Fine Foods; Tess Goodier's Miniature Culinary Magic; Christine and Ray Lincoln - Food, Glorious Food!; The Flavors of America; Mini Fruits and Vegetables from Gail Wise; Mary Eccher's American Cuisine; Mom's Restaurant, by Joann; Kitchen Craft I - Floor Plans and Furniture for a contemporary kitchen; Waffles for Breakfast; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
34 pages. Loaded with great black and white photos. Features: The Morning After the Blitz; Hitler's Spring Offensive - the diary of the war No. 84; Convoy - the Channel Convey is the most highly-organized convey afloat; That Admiral Darlan (of France) - the man who has tried to deceive and injure Britain; Open Air Camp - American girls train at Sergeant Camp in New Hampshire; Foundling Hospital - One of England's most famous schools; Does Backyard Farming Pay? - the Jones family shares their experience. Nice full-page two-colour ad for Batchelor's canned fruits and vegetables on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Conversion to the metric system; globular-cluster stars; the multiple sclerosis problem; nerve cells and behavior; negative viscosity; the love song of the fruit fly; network analysis; population trends in an Indian village. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
12 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Port Arthur's Days Numbered (lead story); Governor for Yukon; Guessing Schemes barred from mails; Germans warned against trusts - US evidence held up as fearful example; Fruit Growing at Kamloops; Northwest Mounted Police prepare for the most extensive system of patrols for the Yukon Territory the coming winter that have ever been maintained in the north; Many towns for men only; Road opens from Dawson to Tanana; Wooden piping now being used in Vancouver, Spokane and other cities; Marine News; Yorkshire Post writer compares Victoria and Vancouver - Victoria Polite and easy going while her mainland rival full of business; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including: an attractive piece from Weiler Bros. which features Brass Kerbs and Coal Scoops. Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Fatigue cracks to central portion of all pages. Book
This listing consists of pages 1-8 and 13-20 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Photo of Japanese, British and U.S. diplomates in England attemtping to replace the old London Naval Treaty; Chuckwalla wrecked on west coast of Vancouver Island; Mayor Leeming will run again; Manchukuo disregarding protests against proposed oil monopoly in state; America wants to lead in removal of barriers against international trade - warns against extreme nationalism; Government passes first market plan under B.C. Statute to protect tree fruit growers; Burnett's Gin ad; Piggly Wiggly ad; Editorial page; nice illustrated ad for Rogers and Majestic "Mystery-Tube" radios; City and District News bits; Social pages; Travel page; Sports page with head photo of Aurel Joliat in story about the 1934-35 Les Canadiens hockey team; Business page; Cartoon page. two pages of classified ads; large fashion ad for David Spencer Limited; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear. Above-average soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
Features: Carlos Fischer - specially designed for fruit juice; FSA risk-model study completed by Bureau Veritas; Environmental aspects of marine HVAC systems; New era for Hamworthy KSE as part of TTS; New Defcar software for pipes; Propellers and thrusters; CAD/CAM update; Poland. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: What happened to Common Sense? - Calvin D. Linton says not only do we live in the best-educated age in history, it may well also be the most gullible; Doomsday Merchant of the Far Right - Billy James Hargis leads a witch-hunt in pursuit of Communists; People on the Way Up - Comic Dick Shawn, Ross Pritchard, Charlene Curry, Janet Ades, Rochelle Hood; Czar of the Bunny Empire - Hugh Hefner, with color photos; The Bridge of Hope - Topeka's effort to help mental patients return to regular life; Me and my mixed up trees - Frank J. Taylor and 'the confessions of a compulsive grafter who tells backyard (Luther) Burbanks how to turn the tables on nature; Irrepressible Egoist - Dick Stuart, the Pittsburgh Pirates cocky slugger; Hot Weapon in the Cold War - at President Kennedy's urging, the Army is beefing up its Special Forces, who are trained to combat Red guerillas around the globe. Nice color Pepsi ad inside back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
178 pages. Features: Colour Parker Pen ad inside front cover; Douglas aircraft ad featuring the Skyrocket; Nice colour Brach's candy ad; Colour 2-page ad for Studebaker featuring the new 1955 models; Nice 20-page colour ad for Sun-Maid Sunsweet dried fruit products; The Mysterious Doings of CIA - America's Secret Agents - an exclusive report on its methods, how it recruits, how it is funded, and its accomplishments in Guatemala, Iran and behind the Iron Curtain - with photos; Frontier Frenzy, by John Reese; Will China Stay Red? - Joseph Alsop reports some curious and little-known truths about China - article with photos; The Man-Handler, by Williams Forrest; The Luckiest Girl in Hollywood - Grace Kelly - article with wonderful colour photos; Outcast of the Florida Keys, by Frank Skipp; The Truth About Congressmen - by Martin Dies, Congressman at Large, Texas; Confessions of a Football Recruiter - the hilarious adventures of Herman Hickman while hunting athletes - with photos; Tugboat Annie's Long Shot, by Norman Reilly Raine; My Old Man Groucho (Marx), by Arthur Marx (Part 7); The Zone of Sudden Death, by William Chamberlain; A Ten-Day Tiger Hunt costs $1,000 - with a kill guaranteed - Tigers are so plentiful in Central India that there is no limit on the bag! - with photos; Howard Morris has taught over 7,400 tourists to hula aboard the Lurline - with many great colour photos; House of Hate, by Storm Jameson; The Case of the Restless Redhead, by Erle Stanley Gardner - Perry Mason's informant learned the hard way that you can't make deals with criminals; Black and white photo ad by Chrysler Corp. shows their auto stylists at work; Nice colour 2-page photo ad for Admiral televisions; Two-colour ad for Pendleton shirts; Nice two-colour ad for Oliver tractors; Stromberg-Carlson television ad; Interesting 2-page Borg-Warner ad in 'Ripley's Believe it or Not' format; Glamorous colour Philip Morris ad; Two-page ad by REO Motors featuring the new mighty REO V-8 Gold Comet Truck Engine; Buck Skein Joe sport fasion ad; Colour ad by the Philadelphia Electric Company; Nice color Cream of Wheat ad features cartoon characters by Al Capp; Frank Thomas on "The Best Player I Ever Coached" - Dixie Howell; Colour ad for Dictaphone; Coke ad on back cover promotes Eddie Fisher on "Coke Time" NBC television twice each week. Average wear. Ink drops to top edge of last few pages. A sound copy. Book
40 pages. Divinely illustrated front cover. Features: Paris in War Time - an impression of 1916, by E.V. Lucas; The Surrender - a story by Mary Gaunt; Russia - The Charm of Old Moscow, by Alan Lethbridge and illustrated by Arthur Watts; The Sculptor of the Madonna and of Countless Angels - the Della Robbia, by Cecil Headlam; Navarino - a battle of the allies - France, Russia, and Britain against the Turks; The Mystery of a Dress Coat, by Shelland Bradley; Several beautiful full-page colour portraits; Colour centerfold portrait entitled The Last Absolution of the Munsters at Rue du Bois, from a painting by F. Matania; How He Proposed - the different ways in which heroes have proposed to heroines in the novels of 1916; Louvain, 1916; Nice full-page colour ad for Eno's 'Fruit Salt'; Fantastic black and white photographic full-page ad for Napier Motor Carriages; Nice black and white photo ad for the Invincible Talbot automobiles, manufactured by Clement Talbot Limited; Smaller attractive black and white ads for Humber Cars, Austin Motor Co. Ltd., Vauxhall Motors Limited, Crossley Motors, and The Sunbeam Motor Car. Original protective advertising outer layer still present and affixed. Prior owner's name and address atop front advertising cover. Prior owner's name atop front cover. Moderate wear. A very beautiful magazine indeed! Book
Features Include: The Fruit Ranch Riddle - An interesting murder investigation at the Morrisey fruit ranch near Selah, Washington, USA; Interviewing an Eruption - Filming a volcano in the Belgian Congo; The "Lion-Men" of Ussure (Part 2) - The amazing story of Tanganyikans posing as "lion-men"; Exploring the "Great Diagonal" - an ambitious attempt to open the interior of Brazil; Stowaway to Spitzbergen; "Book-Keeper Wanted" - a colourful story from Western Australia; The Blind Malik - A Quaint Tale from Waziristan; The Dingo - An amusing story from the outback; The Bull-Gang - a young Englishman finds his way into a dirty pulp mill job in Canada; Ship's Guard; Ramaswamy's Pal - from 'the queer side of things' . Average to above-average wear. Some staining and prior owner's name upon back cover. Chips from spine. Decent copy. Magazine
39 pages. Features: I spent a year waiting to be hanged - twice sentenced to the gallows for the murder of a newsboy, this British Columbia cook survived five execution dates - Charles M. Heathman was accused of the murder of Donald Ottley; Two Young French-Canadians delight Montreal audiences by making a Song and Dance about Separatism - Bernard Sicotte and Gilles Richer; How U.S. First Lady Jacqueline (Jackie) Kennedy conquered the world; Aurel Joliat still thrills over that playoff moment with Howie Morenz; Producer in search of more characters - Norma Springford; A Scaasi suit can cost $7,000 - this Canadian designer soars to fashion's peak in New York - Scaasi was born Arnold Isaacs in Montreal; The Mystery of the Giant Lemon - a dwarf tree in a Vancouver suburb yields fruit that weigh as much as 2.5 pounds each; Simple tests that can avert tragedy - PKU, phenylketonuria; Nipper by Doug Wright. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
47 pages. Features: I Like Hollywood Children - so says Montreal artist Eva Prager, who has painted portraits of leading stars' youngsters; I became a spy for the man I loved - Ethel Gee, Harry Houghton and the Lonsdale Spy Ring; Lovely full-page colour ad for Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles; The Royal Commission on Publications; Salute to the Salmon - mosaic depicting salmon swimming upstream is part of a fountain in Nanaimo, B.C. which was a belated centennial gift from the city's Italo-Canadian community - two nice colour photos with text - great Nanaimo history; Man O' War's farewell drama - $80,000 thrill for Windsor, Ontario; 10 Photos of Canadian MPs exercising; Terry the tricky dog - drives tractors, water skis, and more; Toronto taxis set up their own theatre; They got what they wanted - Gerry and Elspeth Burnett of Matane Air Services, Matane, Quebec; Muscle men rented out for photo shoots; Sunnyview Outdoor Science School on Toronto Island; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Features: The Big Un - a bull named the Laird of Lanark; Sixty-Seven Days around the World - all to prove that Tacoma, Washington lay directly in the path of the quickest route to Europe, Asia, or wherever! - George Francis Train; Fruit Tramps - The James Hatcher Apricot Ranch near Piru Creek; The Death of Mannen Clements; Lost Mine at Sandia; Angel of the Yukon - Miss Emily Morgan and a first-hand account of the famous and dramatic race against time 'carrying the serum to Nome'; Otto Franc - Riddle of the Pitchfork Ranch - Meeteetse, Wyoming; The First Comanche Cowboy - Charley Ross; Untamed Onion Creek, near Driftwood, Texas; A Six-Figure Hermit! - Al Dankel of Colorado; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
