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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 09, 1948
Page
4
The text presents a shattered collection of phrases and garbled names related to historical topics. It references fires, laws, beer, and insurance, with scattered mentions of Canadian beer, Kansas City Star, and a Missouri finance dispute. The readable content is inconsistent and lacks a clear single event or person.
At the Second Western Weed Control Conference in Winnipeg Dr P F J Greaney reviews 1948 trials with 2,4 D in Western Canada. The report highlights low cost broadleaf weed control, reduced seed production, and recommended lower 1949 dosages with Amine and Ester forms. Experts urge farmers to seek local Agricultural advice or consult Line Elevators Farm Service Winnipeg.
An 11 year old farmer remained in custody for eight days after appearing in Nanaimo on a murder charge. Details tie the alleged slaying to an incident during a late November period, with investigators tracing key clues to Gaboria and other local figures. The case has unsettled the community amid grim news from a region already battered by storms and social strain.
A Toronto barber was fined 25 for shaving a man before nine in the morning. The piece questions how ancestors would view a law that bans barber shops from opening until half the morning is past, joking that any man not shaved by nine might as well leave whiskers on for the day.
The Halifax Herald urges emphasis on speech in public schools as communication remains vital and a potential loss of intelligibility could endanger conversation, warning that without focus on spoken language the "lost art" of dialogue may prevail.
Canadian Education Association offers $100 travel bursaries to teachers seeking inter provincial exchanges for the 1949-50 school year. 85 teachers are on exchange this year, 19 overseas. bursaries cover travel only for inter provincial exchanges. Ottawa Journal stresses parties must address common people's welfare to endure.
BE. E. Eisenhauer deputy minister of public works in Saskatchewan announced in Saskatoon that construction will resume immediately on wing 6 of the University hospital building. The $7,000,000 structure had been halted about two months ago.
John C. Broadfoot of Winnipeg is appointed assistant deputy provincial treasurer for Manitoba. The post, vacant for 21 months after S. W. Christie was promoted to deputy provincial treasurer, was announced in Winnipeg.
The Manitoba court of appeal reviews a conviction and death sentence for 69 year old George Hrynyk of Vita Manitoba after a jury found him guilty of stabbing his son John Rynyk on August 11. He was sentenced to be hanged January 21.
KE M. Ashworth, general manager of the Toronto hydro electric system, said in Toronto he will consider an offer from a United States diesel firm to supply equipment capable of generating 2,400,000 kilowatt hours daily.
Fire of undetermined origin caused damage estimated at $80,000 at the Bestwood Shingle mills plant located at Port Moody on Burrard Inlet, 18 miles east of Vancouver.
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