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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 05, 1945
Page
1
A flurry of visits and homecomings fills Rivers and nearby towns as residents and relatives from Winnipeg Port Arthur Calgary and other places return for the summer. Notables include Mrs George Wareham Miss Ada Wareham and Sgt James Stevenson among others as locals welcome guests and plan family gatherings.
The Carnegie Red Cross hosted a garden party at Mrs James Bromleys home with a large crowd. Mrs Ernest Johnson attracted strong patronage as a fortune teller and Gary Little won a cosmetic chest. The Robinville School closed Friday due to weather. Mrs A Little of Dauphin visited the Eyres. Canada saw over 23 percent of farm labor move to industry since the war start, while agricultural output rose more than 40 percent.
A clipped playful letter from J. H. Barker laments missing a party and declines sending regrets to a favorite addressee. The tone is humorous, self-deprecating, and lightly literary as the author muses on wording, diction, and the futility of correspondence.
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