Rivers Gazette Authorized as Secord Class Mall by the Poet Office
The Rivers Gazette, a community weekly newspaper established in July 1908 by T. W. QGffen, is issued on Thursdays from The Gazete Office, Rivers, Manitoba. Subscription rates are $2.00 a year in Canada and $2.50 elsewhere, payable in advance. G. F. Barker.
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Secord
Poet Office Department
2!O
T. W. Qgffen
Gazete
Rivers
Manitoba
Canadas
Bakimo Arctic School Brings Bathing To Far North Youths
A humorous clipped review notes Canada’s Bakimo school opening at Fort Brahm t on Beaufort Sea to teach Eskimo and Indian children practical education in their environment. It remarks on health gains, basic arithmetic, and hints at cultural frictions with wildlife skills and a polemical tone.
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Euklimo
Arctic
Canada
Fort Brahamt
Beaufort Sea
Yellowknife
North West Territories
Aklavik
M “Enzie Delta
Arctic Ocean
Agia
Ottawa
Longevity of a City Horse And Rural Polly’s Dates
The Lachute Watchman notes longevity in horses with Polly of Westwold British Columbia near forty, though birth year uncertain. Polly, once a city horse, moved to hills for air and grass and later met the bus daily as she aged, pulling her owner in a buggy once.
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Lachute
Quebec
Westwold
B.C
Polly
Letters to the Editor on town foliage and cleanliness
A Rivers editor letter criticizes the town’s maintenance of trees and sidewalks. The writer urges trimming overgrown trees and hedges, removing sod and water puddles, and enforcing a weed and cleanliness program. They call for a qualified person to plant new trees and warn against further neglect.
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the Gazette
Dyer
Great Wall of China Description and History
The Great Wall stretches over 1,400 miles, about 20 feet long and 2 feet wide. It was built during the Qin dynasty in the third century HAC, using brick and granite with a hard coating, winding across mountains and valleys. The vast structure inspires awe as a preserved marvel spanning centuries.
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China
Winnipeg
Quebec
Earthquakes Wreak Havoc Across Centuries and Continents
A compendium of historic quakes lists Calabrian and Sicilian devastation in 1783, Madrid in 1755, Valparaiso and San Francisco in 1906 and 1908, with death tolls and fires. It notes Kandhra 1905, St. Thomas Times-Journal coverage, and broader worry over imperial politics and civilian impact.
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Madrid
Calabria
Sicily
Charleston
S.C
Iss
Kangra
India
Valparaiso
Chile
San Francisco
Messina
St. Thomas
Petition to Oust Mayor Rae in Medicine Hat Alberta
A recall petition against Mayor W M Rae failed to meet required electors, with 2378% names on amended recall filing. The effort by the Property Owners association sought a by election for the mayoral term. Also noted are polio cases and school glass replacement costs in Winnipeg and Gladstone man appointed to United Grain Growers board.
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Medicine Hat
Alta
Kpi
W. M. Rae
Atl
Property Owners Association
Bin
Cyun U
W. A. Keith
Keith
IWS
Moion
Rae
Robert M. Wilson
Gladstone, Man
United Grain Growers, Ltd
Winnipeg
KR. S. Law
Poles urged to apply for own land on farms in Brantford
Brantford Ontario migrants from 1946 and 1947 long sheltered as non immigrants with permanent landing deferred until farm contracts were fulfilled. National employment service advised veterans may now apply for land of their own.
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Brantford
Ont
National Employment Service
Longevity Myths and Century-Long Lifespans Debunked
Collier's Magazine notes historians accept many claims of extreme lifespans but authenticated reports of people living beyond a century are rare. An examination of 1,000,000 cases found none over 108 years and only about 30 reaching that age.
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Collier's Magazine
Parr
Agha
Jenkins
Cratten
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the Rivers Gazette
G. F. Barker
The
Gazette
the Times
London
United Kingdom
Brockville Recorder and
Timea
Royal Commission
N.Y
Moscow
Alberta
W. W. Cross
Frenchman's Bayol
Ark
Memphis
Montreal
O.N.R. Bonaventure
Windsor Street
Victoria Bridge
St. Lawrence
Wellington
Verdun
Bonaventure
Central Station
London Daily Graphic
Lord Burnham
Empire Press Union
Britain
Stratford Beacon-Herald
Czechoslovakia
Stalin
Russia
Rotarian Magazine
To &Ie
Astoria
the Rivers
G. M. Setter
Board of Trade
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