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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 16, 1950
Page
2
Classified ads list vehicles and farm items for sale including a 1937 Dodge sedan in good condition and a Delure coupe with heater and winter bed, asking price around 1900, as well as an Oliver Superior 78 DD drill and woven piglets ages three weeks sold by local contacts J. A. Ashley and G Woodhead with phone numbers 303-42 and 306-12.
Fragmentary notice shows Rawleighs ad promising profits for hustlers with household products in Rivers area. Text appears garbled but mentions sales, prices around 28 thousand, and multiple dates or issues.
The Rural Municipality of Daly announces a March 28 1950 meeting at Rivers Manitoba to consider a highway across parts of Section 17 11 21 West. A plan dated January 10 1950 by Roy Alexander McLellan is attached for inspection. The council will hear affected landowners before passing the by law.
The annual School Orchestra Concert will be held in Rivers community hall on Friday March 31 at 8 p.m. featuring local and outside talent and a St Patrick's Tea and Sale of Home Cooking sponsored by Circle I United Church on Saturday March 18 in the Ukrainian Hall. Tickets 35 cents. Elizabeth Marjorie Robins engaged to Jack Peter Antoniak, wedding set April 12 at Rivers United Church with Rev. Dr H Dodds officiating.
A London dispatch reports a British election speaker calmly retorting after a heckler hurled a cabbage. The speaker noted that a listener had “lost his head,” a line likened to a 50 year old quip by Irish figure Tim Healy from a similar platform incident.
Fifty English schoolboys aged 16 to 18 will spend six weeks in Norway's Arctic Circle during the summer. They will map uncharted areas, direct scientific specimens for the British Museum, and conduct short wave radio experiments. The expedition, organized by the British Schools Exploring Society, requires a special interview and aims to test fitness independence and social skills.
A Kingston editor remarks on a perceived factor retarding human progress, noting the distinctive physical design that supposedly predisposes man to sedentary behavior. The comment reflects early 20th century views on evolution and physicality.
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