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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 27, 1951
Page
3
Editor recounts a busy year of negotiating reviews and personal adjustments in 1951. Notes new Main Street apartment block, limited home building, many improvements, and widespread frost damage to harvests. Reflects on life, inflation, and a cautious motto to invest wisely as 1952 approaches.
Joyce Clinton of the Dauph in Figure Skating Club offers Saturday afternoon classes at Roblin if enough interest. A meeting at the town office on Thursday Jan 3 discusses forming a club with Clinton as instructor. Parents of children six and up are urged to attend or leave names at the Review.
The report notes extreme cold remaining despite expectations of moderation. Temperatures around 21 below zero this morning with a northeast wind, little snow and ground cracks two to three inches deep. Local water systems endure ongoing hardship while the Manitoba winter continues with coal deliveries anticipated.
For the first time in Collegiate history a Roblin student rink competes in the Winnipeg high school bonspiel. Team members include Lee Fisher Gregory Mitchell Archie Cameron and Doug Goodbun. They left Christmas day under supervision of Principal S Wright and progress will be followed with interest.
Holiday locals from Winnipeg and surrounding towns share festive travels. Winnipeg residents A C Hamilton Betty Glutek Morrison Steven Edwards and many others visit family in Dauphin Nesbit Souris Russell and Brandon while university students and RCaf members return home for Christmas.
A mixed compilation shows Manitoba population rising from 729 744 in 1941 to 771 815 in 1951, Saskatchewan dropping from 895 992 to 828 for 1951, Calgary's high elevation, tax changes from four to eleven dollars weekly, net migration in 1950, Newsprint output at 54 percent of world supply, British Columbia sparsest density, Mt. Logan noted as Canada's highest peak, and a country store joke about Abe with an alligator found mowing a lawn.
A fragment notes Lumpo Soap does not lather nor bubble and remains a company entry with unclear context. The terse line implies consumer or product testing remarks but lacks full details or outcomes.
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