Turbulent Briefs Covering Policy, Trials, and A Mining Blast
A mixed set of notes reports public policy debate on federal forest aid in Canada, a murder case verdict in Winnipeg, a court sentence for a Canada related case, and a mining explosion near Normanton. The items mention officials such as Hon J S Mrbiarmid and Michael Joseph Tiayes, authorities like North Western Astiities Ltd, and events including a depot theft, a death sentence, and an explosion injuring one.
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Normortuy
D A. Yorath
Northwestern Astiities Ltd
Town of Rivers Tax Arrears Lands Auction Notice
Notice of sale by public auction of lands in Rivers Manitoba for arrears of taxes dated October 32, 1949, listing parcels in lots and blocks including All Lots 16 17 7 6236 All 16 68236 All 20 8S 236 All 35 8 236 All 13 11 236 East Five Fee 18 11 236 All 37 14 236 with sale set for November 26 1949 at 3 00 PM at the Municipal Office.
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Rivers
Manitoba
Province of
Rio
Notice of Tax Sale Daly Rural Municipality Manitoba 1949
Public auction to recover arrears of taxes on parcels in the Rural Municipality of Daly Manitoba. Lands described include blocks with specific acreages and costs. Sale scheduled for November 26, 1943 at 2:00 pm at Rivers Municipal Office. properties may include rail right of ways. dated October 12 1949 and signed by W T Dyer Sec-Treas.
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Daly
Manitoba
Rivers
Province of
W. T. Dyer
Treas
The Colossus of Rhodes and a World War Era Reflection
The piece recounts the Colossus of Rhodes built to mark Rhodes victories, then toppled by an earthquake and looted for bronze. It also cites comments from The Nation and London Free Press on war trauma, racial segregation in South Africa, and a Chamber of Commerce stance on separate hearses for whites and colored people.
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Helios Capaday
Diety
Rhodes
Rhodes Harbor
Aegean Sea
New York
Europe
London Free Press
Chamber of Commerce
Klerksdorp
Transvaal
South Africa
Banquet Season Echoes With Long Speeches
A Kitchener-Waterloo Record item notes banquet crowds endure lengthy talks with little interest. An anecdote tells of two guests sweating through the speech. One asks what comes after, the other replies Thursday.
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Kitchener-Waterloo
The crusader in American journalism era ends
The piece notes a now nearly extinct crusading journalist figure from a time when newspapers were fewer and less encyclopedic, prioritizing news and advocacy over broad entertainment. It contrasts that past with Burke Idaho where train traffic shapes daily life and even awnings must roll up to clear the rail line.
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Washington Post
This Week
Burke
Idaho
U.S
Town
Sugar Beet Boom Turns Alberta's South Into Canada's Sugar Bowl
Stratford Beacon-Herald notes Alberta's deep south shifted from dust bowl risk to a sugar beet industry worth 6 500 000. Dr E Palmer of Lethbridge suggests other crops may suit better, while beet shipments rose 26 percent in 1947 and prairie provinces accounted for 97 percent of exports. Ontario received the rest.
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Stratford
Prairie Provinces
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Ontario
New Bird Discoveries Reported at Ottawa Museum Summer
Ottawa records new avian finds as ICPI A National Museum teams survey the area. Sightings include great blue heron and mallard among others. several rare species and a few previously undocumented birds noted this season.
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Ottawa
Australia House to house 200000 young people
Britain’s Lowlen says Australia House will admit over 200000 unmarried youths for assisted passages to Australia in November and December. The exact number remains uncertain.
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Lowlen
Australia
Australia House
Woman Shortage Alarm From Toronto Welfare Expert
Dr. Charlotte Whitton warned Toronto nurses that Canada faces a disturbing shortage of women and girls. In an address at the University of Toronto School of Nursing she said there are not enough young women to go around, highlighting welfare concerns nationwide.
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Toronto
Charlotte Whitton
Dominion
Canada
Whitton
Theniversity of Toronto School of Nursing
Winnipeg approves daylight savings plan in referendum
Daylight saving gained about 53 percent approval in Winnipeg with 40,384 votes for and 32,969 against. The result falls short of the 1946 referendum where roughly 65 percent favored daylight saving.
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Daylight Savings Plan
Winnipeg
Executioner Walks Prague in Eastern Europe Death Sentences
AP reports across Romania Hungary and Czechoslovakia three nations announced in a single day executions or death sentences for espionage or subversive activity. More than twenty others received prison terms up to life.
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Prague
Europe
Romania
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Lfe
Pacific alliance ideas face practical hurdles says editor
The Victoria Times notes skepticism about a Pacific alliance anchored on Atlantic structures. It finds the Australian proposal impractical and warns Chiang Kai-shek's anti-communist grouping with Syngman Rhee faces greater challenges in real-world application. The piece reflects cautious views on regional security arrangements in the Pacific.
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Victoria
Syngman Rhee
Korea
London football assault case ends with fine
Richard Jackson 37 of Sarnia was fined 25 dollars plus costs in police court after pleading innocent to assault occasioning bodily harm to George Hartwell during a London Falcons Wanderers minor football game in London Ontario on October 15.
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London Falcona-Sarnia Wanderers
London
Ont
Richard Jackson
Sarnia
Jackson
George Hartwell
Old minister, 107, asks when he can do as he likes
A friend’s 107 year old retired minister, visiting a dog house, is found hedge clipping vigorously. His daughter, a woman in her eighties, scolds him for reckless effort. He sulks and asks how old a man must be to do as he pleases locally.
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This Week
Time Savers and Teas on the Wire Less
London Times notes a flood of gadgets that promise to save time yet leave adults with more tasks. Vancouver Province warns that many children treat roads as playgrounds, urging parents to reinforce road safety amid busy modern life.
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London Times
Parents urged to teach children road safety now
A call for immediate parental duty to instill road safety in children highlights that adults struggle to grasp the risks of fast-moving traffic. The piece argues roads should not become playgrounds and notes too many young lives have been lost from driver error and careless behavior.
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Vancouver
South African Fleas Get Life of Luxury
In a back room lab at the South African Institute for Medical Research in Johannesburg three young women tend fleas bed-bugs ticks snails and mites as pampered inhabitants. They feed house and mate the insects and their offspring are carefully nurtured with bodies preserved and filed when they die.
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Johannesburg
South African Institute For Medical Research
South Africa
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