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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 04, 1948
Page
2
By 7.00 p.m. the Bijou, home of the photo play deluxe, was crowded with sweating patrons. By 2.00 p.m. church officials halted the concert to end the show as children pleaded to stay. Mr. Wood opened the Bijou as electricity surged through Rivers on December 13, dusk lights went on. End of 1919.
The story recounts a 76 year old man killed when a wagon loaded with bricks ran away in Daly area. It notes Miss Huby Cobbledick and Alfred Wareham marrying at Rivers, the Anglian church gaining a curate, and multiple deaths and civic leaders entering another term as reeve and councillors as December approached.
At Bradwardine the Lyceum Committee held a social and dance. 3100 attended a house event at the Bowman home for the baseball club. Rivers touted a new picture theatre with Harold Wood's ad promising nothing like it on earth. The program began at 6:30 with a Charlie Chaplin comedy and a Christmas tree supper at St James church, while a church supper started at 6.00 p.m.
In Sydney Dr. B S Morris NSW director general of public health advised overseas cancer sufferers to bide their time pending investigation of the Braund method. A 78 year old Sydney man, John Braund, had attracted wide publicity with claims of a cancer cure now under study by a NSW government committee.
Chancellor Sir Stafford Cripps told the House of Commons he has asked employers within a month to submit plans for price and profit reductions. He urged a voluntary ceiling on prices for goods not under price control to curb excess profits amid Wake policy debate.
Reports from Istanbul say a section of a tunnel failed, sending a train between Malatya and Fevzilpasha off the tracks. Seven people were killed and four cars destroyed by fire.
In Canada, a new rehabilitation oriented policy spreads through seven federal penitentiaries. The penitentiaries commission has started educating inmates rather than punishing them, with 25 veteran officers adopting student roles to learn prisoner recovery methods. Maj Gen R B Gibson notes the program shows promising progress.
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