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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 29, 1929
Page
5
Local and personal items note Ada Wareham visiting relatives in Brandon and Tawra Paddock returning from Winnipeg. Several residents travel to Saskatoon Winnipeg and Edmonton. Tax reminders and upcoming events at the Ukrainian Society and Rivers School are announced along with a prairie fire near Bradwardine and a Labor Day tennis tournament.
The Oak River school building is now completed. Reports note local construction progress as the community updates its facilities.
A humorous exchange of quips and wordplay unfolds in a cheerful apartment with a widow, a jockey, an opera scene, and a child’s definitions. Brief vignettes include misstatements in obituaries, a jockey lightening weight, and a market inquiry for “something more expensive.”
Banff Springs Hotel hosts the Banff Scottish Music Festival from August 30 to September 2 sponsored by the Canadian Pacific Railway. Mary Frances James leads the ballad opera by Dr Healey Willan about Bonnie Prince Charlie and Flora MacDonald with Stanley Hoban and Herbert Hewetson among others. A Highland Gathering of pipers competes for the E W Beatty Trophy while Highland Games feature tossing the caber and other events attracting Scots from Canada and visitors from North America.
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