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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 27, 1952
Page
3
A lively window display peek at BERG'S gowns and fur pieces at McVittie’s sparks crowd interest. Ken Watson curling books at GILCHRIST'S sell fast while Ontario apples and Red & White produce draw shoppers. A Prairie Schooner radio program and Taylor & Son LTD window scene add local flavor. Electric boat lamps promise a stylish living room touch.
French historian Jean Grimod argues Joan was never burned at Rouen and that the English used a masked witch instead. He contends Joan survived, married in 1436, and lived in exile, with alleged evidence including a Luxembourg marriage certificate and city gifts. The thesis, greeted with shock by clerics, challenges centuries of canonization and records.
Army Postal Corps reports parcels home from Europe vary by location. In France, perfumes dominate two to one over other items. in Germany, leather goods from Hannover craftsmen are favored. in the United Kingdom and Canada, few parcels arrive due to austerity and limits on luxury goods. Also, more than 40,000 western farmers will receive patronage dividends on 1951 52 grain deliveries to National Grain Co, at three quarters of a cent per wheat and half a cent per other grains.
In Vancouver's Duke of Connaught's regimental history a cremated veteran Samuel Culpit, died 1913, is kept as ashes in a khaki cannister. Each New Year Armistice and Paardeburg anniversary the sergeants’ mess pour a toast to him, though no living member recalls his life.
Premier T. C. Douglas told reporters in Regina that his government is studying a proposal to establish uniform time across the province during the summer. He hopes a workable approach can be found to present to the next provincial legislature.
Fred Kennedy of the Calgary Herald and Claude Brewater of Banff will compile a book detailing the Calgary Stampede and Banff Indian Days shows. Proceeds from the book will benefit the hospitalized veterans fund.
An American hunter who recently bagged nine geese in one morning in the Kindersley district Saskatchewan told townsfolk in Eston about the feat. The daily bag was five. A game warden was in attendance as the hunter’s gun and automobile were impounded.
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