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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 23, 1950
Page
1
A report notes widespread worry among Canadians over horsemeat being sold as hamburger sausage and minute steak. It highlights accusations against Otsepa merchants and says many customers allegedly ate what seemed to be genuine beef while uncertain about the meat's origin.
Mrs James Russell returned from a visit to her aid group two months ago. Two top prizes were won in the whist drive hosted by the Evening Branch of St James Church. Consolation prizes went to Mr Harvey Forman and others as winners were announced.
The Revere concert party appeared at Kenton last Friday with a program of miscellaneous numbers. Participants included Mrs Silvia Collins and Gordon Frame, vocalists Alex White and his son Donald, the Razor Blades quartet Robert Melkenzie Walter Colins Mo McGinnis Roy Taylor, and accompanists Mrs Bert Ford and Miss Helen Taylor.
Bert Potter, a Canadian National motive power shops machinist at Transcona and former Grand Trunk Pacific employee at Rivers, recently retired after 35 years with the company. Arriving from England, Potter settled in Rivers in 1914 and moved to Transcona a year later to work as a coal handler.
The Hamilton Spectator notes maple syrup adulteration with unlabelled brands warned by authorities. The St Marys Journal Argus complains Ottawa delays in paying accounts, while Halifax Chronicle Herald cites Mount Allison Founders Day remarks on sticking to principles and the danger of the easy path.
An advertisement touts VIEW-MASTER travel reels offering full color three dimensional views of famous landmarks both at home and abroad. It claims hundreds of reels for adults and children and invites readers to request a free reel list at Gilchrist's drug stores.
Reported incident involves Mrs. Woihesr Ware and Harry Seahern with two other named figures in a Mayan era context at a location described as Caimercc near Stincen.
Provincial police in Walkerton report a murder case involving Howard Eares his wife and their two year old daughter found shot in the kitchen of their home. The beddy is described as double murder and suspect trapped. A separate note: a man jailed four months for stealing a topper. arrest found a hand line in his pocket. Two railway workers injured when a jigger and a truck collided five miles west of arch Hills. driver Upsets Birch THs not in fresh. Vancouver police say $1,000 of a $4,500 Great Northern depot raid loot, in silver, was thrown into the Fraser river.
Farmers near Prince Albert report frost damaged grain and weather delays, while 30 to 50 elk roamed the Cookson farm fields in Saskatoon area causing heavy damage to stocked grain northwest of Prince Albert on the highway to the national park.
Ontario provincial police in St Marys rounded up several teenage boys after Halloween mischief and gave them a guided tour of damaged properties, arranging repairs as a corrective measure. The article notes it as a potential juvenile reform method. The Farmers Advocate observes a decade long shift toward protective foods like eggs milk dairy lean meats fruits and vegetables with about five percent higher consumption.
Mr Seens addressed the legislature urging removal of obstacles in the canal or river to prevent increased flood risk and reduced water flow. He warned that a large flood-control project could raise land levels and harm properties already affected, and argued for addressing current barriers now.
Pearl Plunket reports a mishap after failing a driving examination at New Weekinster Police Station. Inspector HGP Beene drove through a plate glass window of the Motor Vehicle License building, causing damage and a halt to proceedings.
Braith Nerv and officials of the Hrariian air ministry report that Fernanda Memteares Fyfe made a record parachute jump from a plane three feet above the water. The daring act was observed by aviation officials who confirm the unusual height and risky opening.
Bar Thus Menner Ato Forman's nursing scene on New 14, 1940, to Mag HW ami Mrs Jenner, a son.
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