Local notes from Rivers and area visit Winnipeg and Transcona
Local items report visitors from Winnipeg including Mrs Jessie Murdoch and Mrs J H Maxwell. J H Foreman returns from military hospital to rejoin family. Mosquito estimates alarmingly high with seven million per square yard noted. Teachers and officers of Union Sunday School plan a meeting on September 4. Dr Hughes, Bran don dentist, will be in Rivers every Friday for practice.
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Union Sunday School
Hughes
Brandon
Rivers
Western premiers born in various British provinces
The Toronto Star notes that Premier Oliver of British Columbia was born in Derbyshire, Premier Greenwood of Alberta in Lincolnshire, Premier Duoning of Saskatchewan in Leicestershire, while Manitoba’s new premier hails from Ontario. The piece argues no single region should monopolize Western premierships.
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Oliver
British Columbia
Derbyshire
Greenwood
Alberta
Lincolnshire
Duoning
Saskatchewan
Leicestershire
Manitoba
Ontario
Toronto Star
Order from Confusion Prompted by Classic Word Puzzle
Dugo Munsterberg notes in Youth's Companion on a test assessing leadership by organizing jumbled word cards. Participants arrange five correct names from mixed letters, such as animals or plants, while others struggle to create sensible lists from scrambled terms.
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Dugo Munsterberg
Reasonable Mistrust Among Bride and Groom Plot
A couple on a train schemes to pass as strangers to avoid suspicion about their marriage. They plan to buy magazines and pretend to read them, but miscommunications lead to playful errors and light marital banter as they scheme to keep up the ruse.
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Dearest
George
Brooklys Cagle
Balnagown Baronetcy and Highland Estate Seen Through One Owner
Sir Charles Roan, head of the Ross Rifle Co., holds Balnagown Baronetcy in Easter Ross. The Balnagown lands span about 50 miles westward across Ross-shire with Bonnington on the Clyde. The estate includes deer forests yielding many stags, numerous farms, crofts, and about a dozen shooting lodges. Roan spends winters in Quebec and notes heavy taxation reduces net income, contrasting past intimate laird tenants relations with present formal fixes.
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Givad
Mifie
Tain
Edderton
Kincardine
Elega
Sir Charles
Scotland
Quebec
Highland
Balnagown
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Mra. T. Miners and Son Lyall
Winnipeg
Mis
Jessie R. Murdoch
J. H. Maxwell
H R. Moxley
Second Avenue
Harvey
Alice
Transcona
Wm. Harvey
Union Ladies Aid
J. H. Foreman
Gladys Dansmere
Regina
Melville
Sask
R. W. Sargent
Ganton
Fenwood, Sask
Alf. Richardson
Chrissie Fraser
Mrs
Chrs. Blandford
Thos
Isbell
Chas
Blandford
McLaren
Pranes
Sodas
Jas
A. McKenzie
Earth
Mars
Sydney
B. R
Massey-Harris Implement Co
Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association
Toronto
Canada
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