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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 06, 1921
Page
1
A collage of quotes and stray lines appears from multiple newspapers. It includes humorous quips about marriage and divorce, a brief note on a man named Frank Bulgin killed by an auto, census and statistics tidbits, and remarks on kangaroo tendon uses in Australia.
A Buffalo Express reprint mocks sensationalism by describing a man with a twisted leg a cork arm a rubber ear glass eye and a wig as one of those defectives stirring agitation in society.
Electric light installations will have no service tonight due to a breakdown and are expected to be restored by tomorrow evening.
The Annual Meeting of the Parishioners of St James Parish will be held on Monday January 10 at 8 oclock in the Fellows Hall. The agenda includes church activity reports officer elections and an address by Rev H L Roy of Winnipeg. Members of related churches are invited and refreshments plus a music program will follow.
A reflective note cites Tolstoy and Irish freedom seekers, a message of patriotism as sin in the Gospels, and the clash between militant pride and human unity. It invokes Woodrow Wilson and Milestones of labor, urging love and global solidarity against militaristic aims.
Minneapolis agent E I Jacobson joins T R Grieve in a large stock reducing sale at Gents' Furnisher. Price lists and new ad ideas promise attention while bargains on men's wear and accessories appear. One lucky buyer may win a Brunswick gramophone.
Readers remark on unusually pleasant conditions this winter with comments on overall mildness and curiosity about Manitoba's climate discrepancies.
Mrs Dodson, longtime resident, dies in Vancouver. Rivers hockey hosts Brandon on the local ice the 10th. Rivers School reopens Tuesday with Principal McNeil aided by Misses J Swinton and L McRae. Trustees meet first time Wednesday with R N Dansmore chairing, T W Ofen secretary, F W Buggey treasurer.
The excerpt outlines an odd procedure to reach an editor. A visitor must rap three times at the inner door, reveal name and paper debt, then enter the sanctum. The sign demands presenting a ten dollar bill and asking, Were you looking for me? The text ends abruptly with unfinished dialogue.
After years a curfew by-law is reactivated requiring children fifteen and under to be off streets by 9 p m unless accompanied by a guardian according to a Rapid City reporter.
An invitation requests all Rivers and District women to attend a devotional meeting at Mrs. Sallans home Friday at 7 45 pm. Organized by the Anglican Women's Auxiliary and Union Women's Missionary Society, the event seeks united prayer for God's blessing on church work at home and abroad.
The Toronto Mail and Empire praises the Go to Church Campaign for urging a return to Christian values. It notes widespread lapses in decency and moral standards driven by materialism and wealth pursuit, calling for stronger religious influence in society.
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