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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 12, 1945
Page
3
The Rivers Gazette announces weekly publication from the Gazette Office on Main Street Rivers Manitoba. Subscription rate set at $1.50 per year payable in advance.
Rivers merchants report a boom in trade driven by wartime shortages and broad patronage from extended district buyers. Saturday crowds line streets as license plates reveal origins, while locals share scarce goods and foster a spirit of mutual support, promising lasting goodwill dividends.
A letter to the editor urges support for the Princess Alice Foundation Fund as Canada nears the departure of the Governor General and Princess Alice. It asks organizations and individuals to contribute, noting tax exemptions for contributors and providing transfer details to A J Wantson or M C K Newcombe, with signatures from Margared McWilliams Winnipeg.
Dorothy A. Radcliffe editor of Manitoba Power Commission writes to thank readers for the constructive series The A H C of Post war Projects for Rural Canada and confirms the author is Miss Radcliffe The editor notes readers letters should be signed and brief while views are not official endorsements by The Bivens Gazette
Local promotion invites everyone to join a group activity at Rivers Sports this Friday. The notice emphasizes a social, inclusive event with informal participation and a lighthearted community tone.
A cinema listing highlights The Woman in the Window with Edward G Robinson Joan Bennett and Raymond Massey at Four Star on Friday and Saturday. It also promotes For Whom the Bell Tolls starring Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper at Community for two nights only. Rivers Sports on July 13 is noted. Biblical verse closes the notice.
Funeral service held at St Matthew's church Ancrum for youth George Lorne and Gnr Febeart Lyle Post serving with the Canadian Army Overseas. Burial in Ancrum cemetery conducted by Rev W Champness with pallbearers Vernon Brown Wallace McDonald Jack Perrett Mark Lally Elmer Schmaus Robert Riddell.
A Bran don second hand dealer faced an unexpected rash at dawn as 8 a.m. sales totalled 487 dollars. An elderly Manitoba trader quit business over rationing, recalling wartime profits. In Edmonton a shopper observed cashiers mishandling money while awaiting service.
The article outlines postwar laundry operations in small towns, detailing roles from sorters to dyers and stressing a customer friendly service model. It proposes a Rivers area wash house as a model, with pickup delivery, storage, and on the spot pressing as key attractions, and notes the job list now totals 33.
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