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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 21, 1919
Page
5
Labor Day on September 1 falls on a Monday. Notes from Brandon area events list ministers, teachers, and residents visiting Winnipeg. Local trains, auctions, threshing, and community visits are noted with several towns and people named.
A Saturday paper reports a 14 year old boy was accidentally killed when his mother, while packing for a holiday, received his revolver in the trunk as the trigger was caught. The incident prompts questions on why a minor had a loaded weapon with parental consent. The page also advertises free medical care for returning soldiers and post service programs from Brandon officials, including vocational training for disabled or underage enlistees.
The piece recalls early Rivers residents and happenings including the Liver pool restaurant the Ideal and St. Louis Cafe. It notes the first Anglican services in a tent and the 1908 Christmas service at St. James church. It mentions J B Thompson, R S McKenzie, the Post Office in Grummetts store, Wheatland mail and freight, and early boarding houses and pool rooms.
Birth announced at Rivers on August 20 for a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Robert Sinclair. A quiet wedding followed Wednesday uniting Miss J M Rea and Llewellyn Davies, noted as a well known couple. Further details promised next week.
A large group of town youths visited the farm of Mrs and Mrs I Consins on a Wednesday evening, sharing an informal outing. The concise report notes a social gathering with residents from town joining the Consins at their rural property.
A defense attorney argued passionately that the charming defendant could not be guilty of larceny. His vivid, if fanciful, rhetoric persuaded the jury to acquit without rising from their seats.
An old detective states that carrying a cane can deter holdup men more effectively than a revolver. He explains criminals fear the cane’s potential to strike faces eyes or mouths and that the threat comes from both light and heavy sticks. Any man can use a cane for defense.
The law states that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force along the line joining them. The force is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of their distance.
A fragment hints at a humorous exchange about a baby crying over a ginger snap in a glass of wine. The odd image prompts curiosity about the child’s grievance and the phrase soft snap.
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