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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 21, 1952
Page
5
Rivers Gazette, a community weekly established July 1908 by T. W. Offen, issued Thursdays from 200 211 Main Street Rivers Manitoba. Rates: $2.00 yearly in Canada, $3.00 outside. Publisher G F Barker.
An article argues meetings from clubs to councils drag on without decisive leadership. It urges a firm chair to limit topics, end idle chatter, and keep agendas tight to prevent boredom and wasted time. The piece notes debates rise when one speaker dominates, reducing value.
A partial OCR reads as a fragmentary scene in which a druggist issues a package after a brief exchange. The text mentions a letter, a drug term, and a customer requesting one dollar worth, with garbled surrounding words.
The article notes major municipal expenditures in Morden including waterworks and hospital projects. Canadian Canners plans a canning plant the first in Manitoba, promising increased pea crop production and a push to attract outside industry to Pembina Triangle. Growth hinges on soil, labor, taxes, and utilities.
A humorous collage of quips quotes and jokes from an old newspaper page. It lampoons politics money marriages and daily life with light satire and playful misprints. The brief snippets include a tongue in cheek line about aftershave a wallet joke and a student remark on national debt.
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The piece quotes the poem Man in the Glass about self judgment, urging that the true ruler is the man in the mirror. It notes Julius Caesar as an origin marker and warns that cheating the inner self leads to ruin, ending with a line about quotas in MPC Bulletin and a note that the ferret is native to Africa.
A brief quotation notes that a merry heart brings a cheerful countenance while a broken spirit sours the heart. It cites Proverbs chapter 15 verse 14 and frames the contrast between joy and sorrow as a moral reflection.
The Agriculture Department reports no serious cutworm plague next year after surveys by insect laboratories in Saskatoon and Lethbridge. Infestation area runs from Macklin to Radville and Regina, extending toward the U. S. border, with envelopes of pest activity observed along Georgian Bay.
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