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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 17, 1949
Page
2
Tenders will be received for the providing of scavenging service for the town of Rivers for the year 19. Latwest or any tender not necessarily accepted. W. T. Dyer, Sec Treasurer.
Mrs FE Johnson of Wheatland expresses grateful thanks to all who remembered her with flowers and cards during her hospital stay and to her friends at Daly for their kindness and support.
In loving memory of Mrs Ro N Dunsmore who died November 17 1938. Loved for kindness and upright character to the end. Sincere and true in heart and mind. Beautiful memories she left behind by her three daughters who honor her memory.
From Sussex England a twelve year old boy named Johnny Williams credited a Birmingham wart charm with curing his long running warts after a London specialist failed to help. His father Limdr Gerald Williams mailed the charm’s instructions and the boy followed them with two sheets bearing his name and wart count. The warts gradually disappeared and the governess also reported improvement.
Metlakatla, a picturesque native village 10 miles west of Prince Rupert, may become the first white Indian village in Canada. An enfranchisement board heard an application on Nov 8, which, if complied with, would make Menakattans white people in all legal and citizenship respect, removing their status as wards of the federal Indian Act.
Loon Lake in northwestern Saskatchewan is incorporated as a village effective January 1 1950. The Saskatchewan Gazette lists lands to form the new village with the official designation and boundaries.
Port Arthur News-Chronicle notes a statistician’s claim that driving 435 miles per hour would add forty minutes per hundred miles while the fatality risk would be one in sixteen, compared with one in six at sixty five mph. The Stratford Beacon-Herald reports a French submarine voyage of 17 days underwater with 25 18, a former German boat, resurfacing only at port.
The Swiss government says owners of a Swiss quarry where uranium traces were found have categorically refused to negotiate with a Russian group. The stance underscores Switzerland's handling of the dispute and the potential implications for regional mining interests.
A 1942 Pontiac coach in good condition partly winterized offered as a bargain. For details contact WO 1 Whitman CJATC or house No T-39.
Three pretty Mormon sisters from Salt Lake City arrived in Lenedon England to find husbands. Joan Baker, Javee Kell, and Joyce Rehi wear rings set with blue and white diamonds and work as telephone operators and clerks. They seek devout, sober partners and bought rings stating diamonds cheaper back home.
A Northwest Territories council report notes Yellowknife, once a boom town, faces slow progress and poor finances despite large federal capital outlays. High living costs and fixed wage incomes hinder revenue needed to maintain and operate municipal services.
A Regina area farmer walked into the YMCA and gave $25 to the Community Chest while declining to identify himself He described his donation as supporting a "feather idea" he had heard about and then departed.
A survey of historical shifts shows British suffragettes winning the vote after world war efforts and women’s rapid entry into professional, industrial, and scientific work. The piece notes women’s pivotal roles from 1914 to 1918 and their continued presence in national life.
Sozial Demokrat reports 70 German miners killed by an explosion blamed on powder in a uranium mine near Zwickau in the Soviet zone. Am erican notes Calvin Crichton of Alameda California reached Amalfi after the first lap of a planned 12 year voyage covering 197 500 miles in a 25 foot sail boat.
Cast John G Crommelin, whose release of confidential United States navy correspondence touched off a congressional probe, was restored to active duty after a sharp reproach in Washington. Harold Hirose of Winnipeg was elected president of the Japanese Canadian Citizens Association at the close of the third national conference in Lethbridge, succeeding Tom Sheyama of Toronto.
Samuel Russell Cooper provincial government clerk is remanded for one week in Winnipeg after appearing in police court on charges of fraudulently obtaining 2245.35 from the Mani...
Dr Cyril Garbett Archbishop of York urged a no party declaration by political leaders to face a British economic crisis. In a York diocesan conference address he warned Britons they faced a crisis comparable with months after Trinkerninue.
A Rive, Canadian High Commissioner to New Zealand, arrived in Auckland and stated Canada remains willing to buy more of New Zealand land’s primary produce than the Dominion could spare. He noted devaluation had little effect on trade between the two countries.
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