Community Weekly Newspaper Gazette Navigation Details
Publication details note a second class mail status in Ottawa and identify The Gazette Office Rivers Manitoba as the publisher founded in July 1908 by T. W. Offen. Rates listed: $2.00 per year in Canada and $2.50 elsewhere, payable in advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
Ottawa
T. W. Offen
Gazette
Main Street
Rivers
Manitoba
Canada
United Stars
Two-Dollar Subscriptions and Local Paper Gripes
A diary like rant on annual renewals for a newspaper, subscriber complaints about reminders and missed issues, and the value of local readers. The piece notes cross country mail paths and concludes with a parable about gatekeeping and payback in the afterlife, referencing the Val d Or Star and town beautification efforts.
Busy June Ahead With Exams Picnics and Visitors
June 1951 promises a busy month with midsummer exams, picnics, holidays, and numerous visitors. School tests start soon, holidays follow, and country school events plus summer cottages and river tents add to the bustle. A rare visit arrives in June, a ten year cycle event, while local dances debate language usage in ads.
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Canada
Inflation, printing press, and global tensions in 1930s notes
A jumble of 1930s style snippets covers inflation talk, an airborne printing press for money, U.S. aims to boost army size, and jokes about taxes and watches. It mentions Russia, France, China, and the United Nations building, with assorted quips on consumer costs and distant geopolitics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isue
France
Trussa
Russia
Ottawa Journal Condemns $65 Million Farm Aid Move
The Ottawa Journal argues the Canadian government’s plan to take $65 million from the treasury and hand it to farmers is evil. It contends the aid is unjustified and worsened by the claim it is in response to Britain not honoring an obligation.
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Ottawa Journal
Britain
Moose Visit Delights Small Town Church Area
Canadian press brief notes moose sightings near Barlton after wandering from Elk Lake area marking unusual wildlife activity. The Pas explores starting dial telephones per council discussion as smaller towns already gain this service. Melfort promotes clear railway signs to identify trains for travelers. Cow Head sees a five year old suffer head injuries from a 70 foot cliff fall. hospital reports she is fine. Mt St Vincent college holds baccalaureate ceremonies away from campus due to earlier fire losses. Grand Orange Lodge of Quebec elects Walter Atkins as grand master at 102nd annual meeting in Bury. Rossburn farmers harvest last year’s crop despite late season.
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Twillingate
Midl
Alvin Hamlyn
Cow Head
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G. F. Barker
John Q
Grisserd
Eriber
Treland
England
Quebec
Nova Scotia
Labrador
St. Peter
Dut H
Matt, Bill and
John Wareham
Brandon Federal Liberal Association
Liberal Meeting
Grant
Macewan
Grant Macewan
Barrie Examiner
Uh Collins
Kremlin
China
Sam
United Nations
Lake Success
Sperry Gyroscope Company
Tau
Wy Ties
Repeert Comdaat A
Vulcan
Board of Trade
Can District
Vancouver
Wteck
New Liskeard
Barlton
Elk Lake
Pas
Manitoba Telephone System
Melfort
Sask
Halifax
Mt. St. Vincent College
Sisters of Charity
Bury
Que
Walter E. Atkins
Grand Orange Lodge of
Rossburn
Dad
St. Michael's
Dever
Lee
Libby
Peter Pen
City Dry Cleaners and Dyers
Oe Terre
Atlicide
Marshall- Wells
Forman's
Mda M Elit
the Rivers Drug Store
Rumford
G. M. Setter
Nyal Drugs
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