Community Weekly Newspaper in Rivers Manitoba Grows Subscriptions
Authorized on Second Class M3i by the Post Office Department at Ottawa. A community weekly newspaper established July 1908 by T. W. Offen, issued Thursdays from The Gazette Office, 29-211 Main Street, Rivers Manitoba. Subscriptions are $2.00 yearly in Canada and $3.00 outside Canada, payable in advance. G. F. Barker see.
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Post Office Department
Ottawa
T. W. Offen
Gazette Office
Main Street
Rivers
Manitoba
Canada
G. F. Barker
Worth-While Effort Improves Rivers Cemetery Grounds
A newspaper column highlights the Rivers cemetery transformation as a community credit despite funding gaps. Volunteers, led by the cemetery committee and residents, improved the grounds. more help and money are needed. Contacts listed for those who wish to assist. Also notes a Rapid City Reporter query about an old neighbor letter and a Winnipeg meeting suggestion from a Derby England connection.
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Rapid City
Sioux City
Town
Winnipeg
Derby
England
It Happens Again A District Lacks Local Hospital
The passage notes recurring accidents in the district tied to the absence of a municipal doctor and hospital facilities. It asserts criticism rises after any injury and implies accidents occur most readily when medical care is unavailable. The tone reflects concern over local health services and safety.
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M. Westwood
Hospital talk prompts local action and funding doubts
The piece discusses the long debate over establishing a local hospital, noting the need for extensive support, equipment, and trained staff. It argues for private practice, municipal nurse leadership, and community willingness to fund and commit, recognizing past shortfalls and the challenge of growing the community before a hospital becomes a reality.
Deaf mute canvassers urged to show chamber cards
Local readers are urged by the Times to demand credentials from Better Business Bureau representatives and itinerant canvassers. The deaf association warns many solicitors have no need to solicit, and asks residents to request a chamber of commerce card to verify legitimacy. If legitimate, the canvasser will have a card.
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Better Business Bureau
Morden Chamber of Commerce
the Times
Association of the Deaf
Chamber of Commerce
Verse on heavens and man in Psalms contemplation
A compact meditation on the heavens and the work of God. It ponders what is man that the Creator minds him, and the son of man that he recalls him, as Psalm 8 echoes.
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Tom
Fragmented Funny Lines From a Grocery Store Note
A collage of light hearted quips and social jabs appears in a consumer facing vignette. The text includes jokes about class status busyness relationships and a holiday card note from The Monitor. The piece weaves humorous observations on life finances love and everyday awkward moments.
Farm safety crusade urged to cut Canadian farm deaths
A national drive is urged to reduce farm accidents and losses in Canada, with emphasis on Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta where mechanized Western farming causes higher injury rates. A Dominion Bureau of Statistics report cites Prairie provinces accounting for 60% of accidents among about one third of the nation’s farmers. The piece warns against complacency and lists character names as cautionary examples, urging immediate safety actions during harvest. A stray note adds a humor-tinged police arrest incident about a coed speeding.
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Canada
Prairie Provinces
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Harry Harry
Joe
Sam
Hap Hazard
United States
Early Railroader Retired at Melville
Mo Ro Sereth, a Canadian National railways engineer, retired on superannuation after forty three years in railroading. Born in Beuff ton Michigan, he began with the Grand Trunk Pacific at Rivers in 1909 as a car repairer, then fireman, then engineer. He was stationed at Melville since 1933 and previously served Watrous and Biggar.
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Melville
Mo Ro Sereth
Canadian National Railways
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Mesdames
M. Henderson
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Dale Robertson
Audie Murphy
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James Cagney
Phyllis Thaxter
James Mason and
Jessica Tandy
Desert Fox
Gazette
Matt, Bill and
John Wareham
Brandon
Portage la Prairie
Morden Times
Azette Gazines
Jone
Jane
Willie Smith
Mr. Sereth Was
Beuff
Heinz
Campbells
Spaghett
Colgates
Lux
ELLS
Rumford'’S
G. M
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