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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 16, 1948
Page
5
Community weekly gazette established in Hai pane av YM Aen and een donThupealavy at The Gagette Office. Manitoba subscription rates listed at 2.08 per veg ta fanna and 2.50 per year elsewhere. Payable in advance. F Harrer publisher.
The piece notes cold weather and blocked roads force abandonment of many motor vehicles while faithful animals retain a clear economic role. It argues horses deserve sympathy and warmth. urban life offers warm shops and social comfort, though horse facilities are lacking.
As homes prep for Yule tide decorations, readers are urged to guard against fires from overheated electric lights and near paper streamers. The piece stresses careful lighting and fire vigilance to insure a safe holiday for families.
Fifty years ago on Christmas Day 1898 Imperial Penny Post was introduced between Canada and Britain. A biographer records Queen Victoria asked the launch date after the Duke of Norfolk proposed a Prince of Wales birthday link. The Duke answered The Prince of Peace on Christmas Day, making the new rate effective December 25 1898.
A Canadian Churchman column notes American churchgoers trends with sermon timing and hymn responses, praising disciplined worship while critiquing disengaged pew seating. It contrasts this with Ottawa Journal observations on homemaking and civil virtue amid urban shifts, and warns about amateur car thieves exploiting unlocked vehicles, stressing driver caution.
In Hamilton Spectator notes the London recorder replaces its tabloid with big pages to mark a transformation. A Recorder writer proposes a prize of 25 pounds to the first Russian who writes Stalin Must Go and has it published in a Soviet paper. The author jokes the sum could be paid to heirs.
The Montreal Star recalls The Manchester Guardian judging Canada’s margarine debate as a shock to the New World lagging behind the Old. Danish farmers trust butter but doubt margarine, while New Zealand farmers face similar questions. Canadian dairy caution, it claims, lacks the national health concern shown by Canadian industry.
A religious verse presents Mary praising the Lord for favor shown to her and her role as the bearer of salvation. The passage highlights humility and divine blessing for generations to come.
Baby son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Ball strays onto a chair and is fatally caught by a sweater in an electric wringer. A doctor in Hamburg Germany recounts performing his own appendix removal with notocaine and no mirror, noting he recovered sufficiently to return to patients the next day.
Private Detective James Craig received a three car sentence in a Toronto prison for perjury arising from divorce actions. He pleaded guilty on December 2 to two charges and pleaded innocent to six others. Audrey Watt, a 16 year old dress model, testified she had accepted money from Craig to fabricate evidence of adultery, with Craig’s role central to the case.
Mrs Riva Mendels a 07 year old woman in Montreal astonishes friends by returning home after a nine day hospital stay for injuries from a fall at Jewish General Hospital doctors call her condition remarkably good and improving with time.
W H Megaffin district treasury officer of the department of national health and welfare told reporters in Winnipeg that about 250 family allowance cheques go missing monthly. He said around 100 cheques are stolen each month from mail boxes.
George Hrynyk a 69 year old Manitoba farmer appeals his conviction and death sentence set for December 21. The Manitoba Court of Appeal will hear the appeal in Winnipeg on December 16.
Jack Marsh, 37, of Calgary, appeared in police court for a preliminary hearing on a charge of attempted murder. He is accused of attempting to murder his wife, Irene, during a shooting affray here on October 3.
A weekend break in Shaughnessy Heights Vancouver saw a burglar steal items valued at 2000. Edwin Irwin reported losses including a 1000 Persian rug a 5600 silverware set a 400 radio and 100 worth of silk shirts watch chains and artistic candlesticks.
A British Columbia survey shows building permits for ten months totalled 71.56 million dollars, with December expected to push the annual total above 100 million. Weather delays a mercy flight to Charron Lake for an injured trapper named Boulanger at Little Grand Rapids, 60 miles away.
In Winnipeg Manitoba reports a postwar industrial surge with 165 new ventures and 130 products, announced by Resources Minister J S McDiarmid in Winnipeg. In Ottawa British Columbia wins a prima facie case for removing mountain differential freight rates, countering railway objections. A Winnipeg River dam blast increases power plant output by 25 000 horsepower. Whittaker Chambers testifies in Washington that Alger Hiss provided restricted government documents to a Russian agent.
A woman identified as a former state department secretary who worked with Alger Hiss was questioned behind closed doors by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in Washington. She told reporters her name as Eunice A. Lincoln and was described as a secretary in 1937 and 1938 in the office of Francis B. Sayre, then assistant secretary of state.
Plans to dismantle and move the ghost village of Port Nelson on Hudson Bay by freight to Mile 25 on the Hudson Bay Railway. The project includes relocating a span bridge to connect mainland with an artificial island berth for deep sea vessels, following harbor abandonment due to drifting silt.
The T Eaton Company Ltd purchases David Spencer Ltd uniting two famed Canadian department store firms, Eaton's long a staple east of the Rockies and Spencer's a Pacific coast icon. Both firms began as dry goods shops in the 19th century and grew into major department stores.
Melville M. Murphy a 49 year old chief engineer of the Canada Steamship Lines freighter Lethbridge was acquitted in Windsor on the wounding of five Canadian seamen's union pickets who boarded the vessel at Point Edward near Windsor on July 14.
President Syngman Rhee authorized South Korea to apply for full United Nations membership. The republic, founded last summer in the U.S. occupation zone, established its government based on an election observed by a U.N. special committee.
Former major league catcher Art Shires was denied a writ of habeas corpus in Dallas Texas regarding the murder death of W H Hi Irwin. Justice of the Peace W L Sterrett dismissed the application saying no hearing was needed since the charge had already been filed. Shires remains free on a $5 000 bond on the murder charge.
A B 50 bomber flew 9.40 miles nonstop from Texas to Hawaii and back using midair refueling tankers. The U S air force said the Dec 7 flight demonstrated a new technique to extend bomber range. Separately Agriculture Department named William C Cameron chief of dairy products division and assistant director of the marketing service. Born in Macdowall Saskatchewan, he later lived in Chilliwack Edmonton and other cities.
In loving memory of our dear mother Mrs Ellen Smith who passed away December 12 1943. Loving and kind in all her ways upright and just to the end of her days. Sincere and true in her heart and mind. Beautiful memories she left behind ever remembered by her sons and daughters.
Lost item notice for a ladies wrist watch described as gold color with a pink dial, black numerals, square dial, and cord bracelet. Reward offered. Contact prone 50-21 with details.
Pickup call Brandon at 4549. Collect National Renderers Brandon. Al49 p
For sale listings include a Williams oak piano 275 with phone 22 Kenton Man ex change plc a Warm Morning heater and Hydro electric stove inquire at Orderly Room Joint Air School Sgt Popiel. Also a pair of ladies black skates size 7 at McKenzie's store through Joyce Bretnall and a Raymond sewing machine in good condition for Mrs W Pettapiece Rapid City 82-5 plc6
Juvenile authorities in San Francisco probed two five year old and four year old boys to uncover the cause of an attack on a three month old infant named Louise Joseph. The infant was taken from her crib and violently beaten, with doctors stating her chance of recovery was slim.
A new porker breed, imported last year from Prince Edward Island and linked to the York site line, appears in Saskatchewan to breeders' optimism. The hogs, noted for long snouts, may resist spine disease and promote high quality fattening. A Dominican diplomat Cesare Rubires was fined 200000 and jailed six months in Athena for attempting to smuggle over 1 million foreign currency from Greece.
Charles Foster alias Herart Strumers, 38, dubbed the Jones Wolf for raids on wealthy Montreal suburb homes, pleaded guilty to seven counts of burglary involving goods valued at a nearby store. Sentence delayed.
A fragment notes a phrase about a man named Heuve Porten and a boastful conceit described as gods gift to men. The text presents a stylistic, possibly humorous line without clarifying context or events. Further context would be needed to identify persons, places, or actions.
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