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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 19, 1950
Page
3
Authorized as Seccord Class Mail by the Post Office. The Rivers Manitoba weekly, established in July 1808 by T. W. Offen, issued Thursdays from Gazette Office at 209 211 Main Street. Subscriptions: 2.56 in Canada, 3.00 elsewhere, payable in advance. G. F. Barker.
Edmonton reports two Alberta towns Grimshaw and Minburn heavily damaged by fires yesterday. Grimshaw suffered six buildings gutted and a seventh damaged with five families displaced by the blaze aided by tractors and dynamite to clear paths, while Minburn endured a home fire that left two children unhurt despite measles in bed nearby.
Montreal police director Albert Langlais announced two city police officers are in custody for an armed robbery at an east end grocery store a week earlier. The men, each about 18 months on the force, allegedly entered the Orleans street shop of M A Savaria, held the proprietor, and seized $25 from the till and $100 from Savaria’s pocket.
A man wearing a brown hat robbed a Bank of Toronto branch in downtown Montreal on a Monday, taking 3000 in a bag after handing a cheque to teller Miss Leris Paris who was interrupted as the crowded bank persisted. The robber, about 36, calmly exited, blending with pedestrians. the crime was noticed only after Miss Paris raised the alarm.
Six or seven Chinese gunmen robbed the Hong Kong branch of the Chase National Bank, sprinting away with about 195,400 Hong Kong dollars and 2,000 US dollars. Bank manager Frank A. Howard said the robbery occurred in ten minutes and was insured.
Portage la Prairie Manitoba building permits issued in 1949 totalled 577,185 dollars. The 134 permits covered 134 separate buildings, according to building inspector George H. Spriggs in a report to city council.
A fire at St. Marys hospital in Dawson City Dawson Territory collapsed a three story 73 bed frame building. Sister Mary Gideon died from burns received in the blaze and 77 patients were evacuated. Volunteers braved 30 below zero and wind to rescue a badly burned patient as thirteen tuberculosis patients were flown to Whitehorse.
Montreal police report Edgar Gagnon aged 32 stole a taxi and operated it with three passengers inside. He was arrested for theft last night and confirmed as the driver of the vehicle.
The district endures a long wintry spell with snow and cold from the Pacific coast to the United States. Yet local roads stay open and light grows slightly as February thaw looms, a reminder that this is a good country to live in.
A reflection on ideology as an old yet stubborn concept likened to barbed wire. It contrasts modern reluctance with Christendom’s vision of a universal order guiding private and public life toward a higher purpose, urging alignment with that vision.
The text drifts through religious and national themes, praising Christ and Canadian identity while mentioning suffering, resilience, and a distant sense of historical progress. It references a ten year old patient and a bulky peneth like a fork, with unclear context from a damaged source.
A remarkable case in the current British Medical Journal details a patient, a child, whose toe from an A1 pig was grafted onto the hand to function as a thumb. The report notes the procedure and immediate outcome.
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