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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 09, 1947
Page
5
Manitoba health officials urge vaccination to prevent smallpox diphtheria and whooping cough during Immunization Week October 9. No smallpox case reported since 1939 though diphtheria caused 13 deaths in 1946. Vaccines and toxoids supplied free to physicians. see your doctor today.
A Canadian editor urges Thanksgiving sharing to aid starving nations and curb tyranny, noting wartime anxieties and the chance to avert conflict. It cites U S sewage pollution concerns raised by Helena Huntington Smith and reflects on rural Sunday visits described in Essex County.
City visitors gorge on vegetables pie and cake with whipped cream then loot the farmer's crops and a side of pork and eyes before rushing back to the city muttering that the country is disgusting.
The British Labour government uses troops as truckers refuse to handle meat at Smithfield Market. Army trucks move meat to prevent spoilage, not to break a strike, per the Ministry of Food. In America, unions decry Cleveland’s railway strike as the U.S. Army shifts mail. A socialist view argues government control edges strikes toward treason. In Prescott, Archbishop Kingston visits, hailed as Prescott’s finest hour by Mayor Lee McKnight.
James Sinclair a private member from North Vancouver plans a bill to legalize margarine manufacture and sale in Canada. Government may block private bills and farm lobbies power remains strong as butter producers have kept margarine out for 24 years.
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