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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 18, 1951
Page
5
Authorized as Second Class mail at Ottawa this community weekly began in 1905 by T. W. Offes and printed at The Gazette Office in Rivers Manitoba. Subscription rates are $2.00 a year in Canada and $2.50 a year elsewhere, payable in advance. G. F. Barker.
A long discussed notion spotlights Rivers hosting a back home week to reunite birthplace residents and celebrate local talent. The plan references Iva Withers and other notable Rivers natives, urging search across the globe to gather former residents for a big yearly event. The Empire Advance notes Virden’s clock habit as a contrast to a missing Rivers landmark.
A carload from Rivers and others traveled to Nipawin Saskatchewan where the curling club offered large prizes, including four new cars, drawing 30 or 40 point rocks and big crowds. Gord Taylor Check Lorne Forman Tim Breed led the Rivers contingent amid foggy delays. Melfort tops low price survey for Saskatchewan towns. merchants praised.
The chairman of the United States children s film library told a Canadian audience she approves of films with happy endings. She said the good guy should beat the bad guy and hearts and flowers appeal to audiences in the United States and Canada. She warned against realistic cynical cinema and suggested children should not face grown up disillusion.
A columnist argues for including unhappy or cautionary stories in children’s reading and film to teach resilience. The piece notes that not all heroes triumph and that exposure to misfortune can prepare youngsters for real life. It cites literature such as Hamlet and Edith Cavell, suggesting future benefits from a broader, sobering movie diet. It ends with a note on a 40 hour workweek benchmark for Canadian railway workers beginning June 1.
Excerpts reflect a Ontario minister recounting freak hunting accidents including a sleeper alarm triggering a gun, a gasoline fire, and a fatality. Other items touch Ottawa’s name origins, furs for flight suits in Seattle, and reflections on doing ordinary work well, with a note on rubber’s historical introduction.
Two marvnes discuss dining over beer while one mocks the other. A teacher is surprised by Little Jack’s clever answer about the word seizure in a sentence. A van passenger’s exchange ends with a mistaken claim and a tug on the ear.
William Scotty Rae, 72, one of Northern Ontario’s early gold prospectors, recalls founding the Golden Gate mine and his heyday from 1910 to 1920. He near-missed death at Swastika shaft, later worked for the Ontario highway department, yet still owns claims at Swastika and hopes for a rich vein.
An assembled syntheses notes caoutchoue origin with 18th century naming and a 1775 English reference to an elastic gum bottle. It cites Charlottetown on canned foods price trends, Ottawa on Attlee with mounted policemen, and Montreal on a myth busting communism.
A fragmented, garbled passage discusses dog breeding myths and a press conference in Ottawa. It mentions male dogs wandering, debunked bait claims, and Bao Dai as a courageous, intelligent leader fighting communism. The text mixes stray names, places, and theories with unclear dates or events.
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