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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 29, 1920
Page
8
The notice touts hard and soft coal brands from Nalso Jump to Pembina Peerless for bulk delivery and invites customers to order Ypfield lump by car. It also promotes Beaver Board for attic renovations and asks readers to provide room measurements for pricing. An unrelated colloquial exchange ends with a humorous line about changing opinions.
IPep Says Tis best to W Bailey is building a summer cottage at Sandy Lake. He hauled a load of Chieftain Brand siding from our yard as a cheaper better grade. William values good material and buys Chieftain Brand. Rivers housing pressed for accommodation. call for enterprising citizens with capital to aid town growth. Western Canada coal stocks fall sharply from 250000 tons to 50000 tons year over year.
A historical wartime mint description details staff duties and strict supervision. Workers are weighed before shift end and must obtain written permits to leave. The piece explains automated weighing and packaging lines with a central collector and separate fate paths for perfect and defective coins.
A boy and his father discuss buying a horse and mortgaging a relative, with the father weighing risks as the son pushes for a bold sale. The old man finally shifts strategy, urging a safer path in business rather than risky trading.
A New Age writer in An Englishman in America critiques New Thought isms as superficial and links the American climate to philosophical extremes. He cites American cynicism sentimentalism materialism and the need for outlets as imaginative minds overheat in a charged atmosphere.
A Sunday morning incident details Parson Brownlow diving into cold water to save two youngsters from drowning. After reviving them on the bank, a harsh rebuke from Deacon Jones interrupts the scene, illustrating community tension.
A Manitoba fuel administrator warns in a riverist letter that coal imports from the United States are unreliable and Alberta and British Columbia sources will be strained. He urges a summer coal movement and farmers to buy coal now to cover the first weeks of winter, noting railroad congestion and no fuel controls this year.
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