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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 07, 1950
Page
3
Stratford Ontario proceedings discuss use of obscene language and a defense remark about a man unable to hit his thumb with a hammer at home. The filing alleges Nanagim FBC-Mre and Banford involved in unrelated actions, including a chicken stew incident and a diamond lost from a ring setting two years prior.
Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department at Ottawa a community weekly newspaper established in July 140s by T W Offen issued on Thursday at The Gazette Olce 200 211 Main Street Rivers Manitoba subscription rates 200 a year in Canada 250 a year elsewhere payable in advance G F Barker
Poststrike return to routine as first incoming train horns, mail dispatches resume. Gazette office rushed to print in nine hours, some items omitted in haste. Belated greetings extend to numerous residents during this adjustment period as social items await inclusion in upcoming editions.
A Montreal Star item discusses alleged Soviet sabotage aims against the United Nations and a January withdrawal by the USSR. It claims evidence shows the withdrawal was a strategic move to protest nationalist presence at Lass Sheress and to mislead observers about Moscow’s intentions.
The Kamloops Sentinel notes the end of the British Columbia provincial police as it merges into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The move closes a chapter in provincial history and is viewed as beneficial from a material standpoint, despite loss of local identity.
Pioneers drained swamps for farmland but modern farmers view remaining swamps as assets. Conservation efforts protect wildlife, reduce soil erosion, and prevent floods. Swamp shrubbery provides nesting habitat and, with streams, offers fishing and natural flood control.
The piece contrasts spring floods not sweeping valuable topsoil with the value of rich swamp soil left by nature. It then veers to whimsical social satire, urging a society for protecting mothers-in-law and hiring a clever PR man to sell the idea, as noted by Humboldt Journal.
A biblical proverb cautions readers to avoid forming friendships with angry or furious individuals, warning of potential harm. The concise verse implies social and moral risk in aligning with volatile temperaments.
The piece humorously notes a weekly editor’s view on husbands wearing old shoes to force wife shopping for new ones. Dialogues include a commuter preferring to read editorials later, a passenger hint about not slamming cardgoers, a theater patron comparing two B class films, and a weather bureau’s note on the first freeze l.
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