Local News Highlights from Miniota and District
Notes on store hours and a May banking relief in Birtle. A WM Presbyterial meeting is canceled. Reports of Hungarian Partridge sightings by a farmer across the river. Mrs A Hogg and family visit from Regina. Local choir history, Brandon Citadel Salvation Army Band to assist at Miniota service with Canadian Legion support. evening band service planned and readers asked to watch for details.
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Brandon
Miniota
Remembrance Day observance and railway fare changes noted
Armistice Day will be known as Remembrance Day on November 11. Dominion government amendments approved. C P R weekend fares set at one dollar twenty five between Port Arthur and West stations. Tickets sold Fridays through Sundays with return by Monday. Several prairie fires cause losses and injuries, with firefighters aiding and rain helping containment.
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House
Port Arthur
West
Willoo
CU. Bannings
Two Creeks
H. Russel
W. Sertons
Charles Morton
Geome
Charlie
Mr Lussel
Morton
F Reeves
J. Sarsras
Community Memorial Service Planned for June 1
Arrangements are under way for a Community Memorial Service to be held Sunday June 1 at 3 p.m. An important announcement will be made during the event.
Manitoba Education Funding Should Be Equitably Financed
Editorial advocates a modern, systematic funding reform for Manitoba schools. It argues current taxation is inadequate and unequal, calling for a province wide equalization to guarantee a minimum educational offering for every child, funded according to ability to pay. It notes rising costs and the national shift toward longer, broader schooling with higher returns.
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Manitoba
Alpha Kappa Pi
Caeser
Cicero
Eliot
Advertising Language Shapes Noun Use and Public Speech
A retrospective excerpt discusses how strong advertising campaigns turn brand names into generic terms and how language evolves under media influence. It cites examples like Lipton in sport and Scott's Emulsion as elevated by widespread promotion, noting cultural resistance and reformulation over time.
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Association of Ideas
McCabe
Ottawa Normal School
Regina
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Seem
United Stores, Ltd
Minsota
Clere Ramsay
Birtle
United Church U. P.S
A. Hogg
Low
Grayce Cornish
Marty Cornish
Sirs
Geo, Cornish
Winger
United States, Ltd
United Church of Canada
J. A. Stephen
Arrow River
Church of England
W.P. Mason
St. Wilfrid’s
Beulahbi A.m
Holy Trinity Church
Western
Canada
Lipton
Laumber
Fara
New Avantus
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