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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 11, 1921
Page
1
The piece defends the home paper as essential to childhood learning. It argues children benefit by reading about familiar people and places, building lifelong reading habits and becoming informed about the world as it is today.
The Salvation Army Band of Brandon will perform in Rivers on Wednesday evening, August 17, as part of the annual appeal. The concert, weather permitting, will be held on the square near the former Chautauqua tent, and donations of any size are welcomed with thanks and a blessing.
A Swift Current Herald reprint argues cash sales beat credit as mail order rivals draw customers away. It calls for a cash basis in retailing, credit discipline, and notes the backbone of the country are steady workers, not weekend holidaymakers.
A strike vote of the running and associated trades and clerical employees on Canadian National Railways is likely within days after demands for a board of conciliation were sent from Toronto. A vote will determine willingness to strike. it does not guarantee one. Peremptory wage cuts of 12 to 24 dollars per month were ordered by A E Warren to western clerical offices pending negotiations.
Ten years ago C Howard and R Wilkinson led the score at the Gun Club Shoot on Tuesday evening with 17 points. Rev Fee and family have arrived to join Mr Fee. Mr J H Couch of Saskatoon opens a local law office. William Bros build a butcher shop west of Grummett's store.
The drought hits Canada with early harvests and Britains crops suffering while Europe and parts of Russia endure parch. The British Meteorological Office gathers global data to uncover drought causes as experts warn of worsening global economic strains.
When you pull down the town you live in you pull down yourself and when you build up you build up your self and neighbor. Banishing the idea that all good things lie elsewhere strengthens local effort. Patronize your home institutions including the printing office.
Verses describe cleaning and grooming farm animals with antiseptics and scents. Mentions bathed bullock tootsies cleaned rooster ears but hints at washing the hired man next week. Notes Manitoba school text lists and local rail/bridge work, plus weather and Heligoland petition to League of Nations.
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