Unclear OCR fragment hints at government action or prices
Fragmentary text references talk of government measures and prices with garbled names and dates. Content is too damaged to identify persons, places, or events reliably.
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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 23, 1951
Page
1
Fragmentary text references talk of government measures and prices with garbled names and dates. Content is too damaged to identify persons, places, or events reliably.
Found and Out records show Mr and Mrs Alex Whyte and Donald visiting Clear Lake while Ester Kennerley of Park Sask visits friends in town. Numerous named guests from Winnipeg Brandon Edmonton and Oakley join relatives in Rivers for holidays and celebrations. a charity event features a social gathering with Paulies, Hunt, and others.
The Victoria Royal Roads conservatory offered by the Canadian navy to a city park on the west coast is a grand glass palace with nine compartments and a 30 foot square centre under a dome. Built in 1914 by James Dunsmuir, it features iron and steel framing, floodlit splendor, and once housed white orchids from India.
Birth notices list several births with dates Aug 3 5 11 13 17 in 1951 and 1953. Families named Lachuk Snow Smalley Dzaman Ferguson Clark Brown report daughters and a son, detailing parents including Sgt and Cpl ranks and residences in Birtle and Winnipeg region.
Article discusses renaming the National Station at Cut Knife to Poundmaker and mentions a debate among locals, with references to regionally named places, people, and historical context. Details include community opinions, dates, and possible names for the station.
A fragmented page listing various sale items and notices, including farm equipment, a manual desk, studio couch, ticker heater, and small hardware goods. Mentions Rivers, Decker & Sons, and New Sarum with partial contact hints and scattered pricing phrases. The garbled OCR yields few clear details beyond generic sale notices and contact fragments.
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