Community Weekly Newspaper note and rates
Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department at Ottawa. A community weekly established in July 1905 by T. W. Offen and issued on Thursdays from The Gazette Office, 200 211 Main Street, Rivers, Manitoba. Subscription rates are $2.00 a year in Canada and $2.50 a year elsewhere, payable in advance. G. F. Barker
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Post Office Department
Ottawa
T. W. Offen
Gazette Office
Main Street
Rivers
Manitoba
Canada
G. F. Barker
The National Emblem Train Whistle Canada S Song
The train whistle is described as Canada’s national anthem that echoes from the Rockies to the industrial east. It is a symbol of confederacy and national greatness, heard wherever Canadians are, marking the country’s growth and unity as it sings its evolving identity.
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Canada
Rockies
Ada
Dominion Train Anthem Guides Canada From East to West
The passage traces a cross country train journey from Halifax through Nova Scotia Quebec Ontario to the Prairies and coast. It evokes progress against indigenous resistance and celebrates railroads linking cities from Salmon Arm to the Fraser River while highlighting tourism's economic ripple for small towns and local businesses.
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Maritimes
Halifax
Nova Scotia
New Bruswick
Quebec
Ontario
Prairies
Rockie
Fraser River
Dominion
Depart from Evil and Do Good for Evermore
A brief biblical quotation from Psalms urges readers to shun evil and pursue good, promising lasting peace for the upright. It highlights the value of a righteous path and the outcome of a peaceful end.
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Mark
City wary of circuses and carnivals as assets
The Rouyn Noranda Press notes circuses and carnivals bring work but argue they drain city finances, asserting the money they take out would benefit the entertainment picture more if redirected locally.
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Rouyn- Noranda
Australia to make cork from paper tea tree bark
Canberra reports Australia may soon produce its own cork from paper tea tree bark cutting imports and saving about 1,000,000 dollars annually. European cork trees nearby have grown but have not been tapped to harvest cork yet.
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Canberra
Australia
No-Needs My Boy Car Lesson From The Parent
A Calgary parent argues that children must learn to work for what they want even with ample means. He emphasizes earning a car through effort, not stealing or sponging, to teach responsibility and self-reliance.
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Calgary
Cartoon notes and local tidbits across papers
The snippet blends humorous panels, workplace chatter, and social quips from several papers. It mentions a Christian Science Monitor cartoon about a boy and cake, a Russell Banner item on two citizens driving to Calgary in 25 hours in a Model A, a Souris Plaindealer jab about a local beauty spot facelift, the Minneodosa district hospital treating 388 patients in two and a half months with 50 births, and a Campbellton Tribune critique arguing that education elevates economic and political life while the ignorant are left behind.
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Russell
Bob
Sill Thom
Calgary
Britain to deploy Samson stripper coal machine nationwide
Fuel Minister Philip Noel-Baker announced Britain will widely use the all-British Samson stripper mining machine able to dig 100,000 tons annually with five workers at the face. A Foreign Office spokesman said no pledge to assist Formosa defense was made to the United States.
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Philip Noel-Baker
Britain
National Coal Board
British
Foreign Office
United States
Formosa
Ernest Davies
House of Commons
W. L. Wyatt
Labor
M.P
Island retreat praised as world’s finest destination
London Daily Graphic extols Cur own island as premier destination for modern life. A tale recalls Englishmen in Rome who could not appreciate local wonders. Meanwhile, search operations at Lake Minnewanka northwest of Banff continue for Joseph Jones of Calgary believed drowned with Mrs Irmgart Humble.
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London Daily Graphic
Rome
Lake Minnewanka
Banff
Joseph Joneas
Calgary
Irmgart Humble
Australia to Levy Wool Fees for 1940 51 Season
Australia to impose a seven and a half percent fee on wool for the 1940 51 Australian wool season. The levy, effective August 24, will be the foundation for a reserve price of four dollars per pound.
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Australia
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Rivers, Gazette
Matt, Bill and
John Wareham
IH Harvest
G. E. Jeldliff
CNR
Continental Limited
Omnes
Salmon Arm
Gazette Azings
Christian Science Monitor
T.L
Minnedosa District
the Tribune
The
Campbellton Tribune
Montreal
National Employment Service
Hamilton
Int
Toronto
Treasury Department
London
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
10 Downing Street
Attlee
Maurice Webb
Thomas Moore
British Columbia
Ernest William Cody
Ont
Cody Family Association of America
Red Deer
Willam
Buffalo ~ Bill) Cody
Woolly West
Mls
Dr. C. &. Baizley
Ejicith Street
Princess Avenue
Brandon, Manitoba
Soto
Leckie
Heinz Baby Foods
Campbell's
California
Sunbeam Electric
Marshall- Wells Stores
the Rivers Drug Store
Sunbeam
Rumford
G. M. Setter
NYAL
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