Community Weekly Newspaper Rates Notice from Rivers Gazette
Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department at Ottawa this community weekly newspaper established July 1908 by T W Offen and issued Thursdays at The Gazette Office Rivers Manitoba subscription rates 200 a year in Canada 250 to the United States payable in advance Ah.
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Post Office Department
Ottawa
T. W. Offen
Gazette Office
Main Street
Rivers
Manitoba
Canada
United States
The Friendly Hum and Armed Forces Day at Rivers
Residents are invited to River’s Joint Air School next Wednesday for Armed Forces Day open house. The event features a mock air battle, displays, softball and baseball games, band music, and dancing, highlighting Canada’s defences and the friendly hum of air transport. The Elmwood Herald notes Canada needs more self-reliant, industrious, ambitious people.
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Armed Forces
Joint Air School
Canada
Viscount Alexander
Elmwood Herald
Exams and the timing of final exams
The piece reflects on exams in spring, noting how favorable weather and outdoor distractions clash with study time. It questions the benefit of traditional final exams and considers whether shifting promotion criteria might better suit students’ spring attitudes and priorities.
Finals Pressure and Street Muddle Fuel Town Frustrations
The piece notes students’ varied efforts as finals approach with some barely passing and others missing the sunlit days. It also reports Melfort Journal observations of drivers stuck on a main street after rain, where clay and sand from the town pit prove a costly and ineffective remedy.
Campbellton youths return to aid hometown progress
The Campbellton Tribune notes that many local graduates stay or return to contribute to the community, with current efforts showing real improvement and continued hope for future generations. The quote from Proverbs contrasts quietness with contention, urging harmony as a path to progress.
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Campbellton Tribune
B C Village Goes Fishing With Mike Olson
Vancouver article notes Mike Olson leads a large BC fishing fleet bound for Rivers Inlet. A floating village of hundreds gathers for the salmon season, with gill netters, floating stores, radiotelephone links, and a mobile shoreless community operating until November.
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B.C. Village
Mike Olson
Vancouver
British Columbia
B.C
Rivers Inlet
Olson
Ad vice to Young Mothers and other witty notes
A quirky montage of dialogue and anecdotes from a newspaper page. Items include a reader’s book choice Ad vice to Young Mothers, a moth and butterfly collecting goal, a neighbor mixing vegetable seeds, a biting quip about Mrs. driving, and light jests about President Coolidge and a barber encounter. The collection also mentions business troubles in Toronto, a west coast writer on Canadian politics, and sailor life with fleet overhauls, concerts, dances, and Swedish Finnish bathhouses for fishermen.
Large rope planned for River Severn bridge cable
A Doncaster rope company will manufacture what is believed to be the world’s largest rope. The 27 inch diameter main cable is destined for the River Severn suspension bridge and will have a breaking load of about 48 000 tons.
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Doncaster
England
River Mouth Secreed Open and Fish Saved
River mouth at Capetown area sees mulet shoals battling to enter the estuary blocked by silt. Mtubatuba and St Lucia residents intervene to sluice and free fish as high tides push some through despite threats.
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Noad
Capetown
Mtubatuba
St. Lucia
Zululand
Social events and races highlight Gazette Friday schedule
The Gazette lists social affairs in Rivers and Brandon with receptions for Liberal candidate Grant MacEwan and Progressive Conservative Walter Dinsdale. A Legion dance tops Friday evening as Pendennis teams play to a weekly schedule, while Rivers and Neepawa contests crown prize winners in square dancing and locals’ age-aggregate awards.
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Walter Dinsdale
Brandon
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Gazette
G. F. Barker
Joint Training Centre
Lfe
North America
Ing
Matt, Bill, and
John Wareham
Morse
Azette Gazines
Atschaolboy
Toronto
Coolidge
Arthur Itis
Tshuary
St. Michael
City Dry Cleaners and Dyers
Aliie
Mivers
Grant MacEwan
Ukrainian Hall
The
Legion's
Pendennis
Kirkham
Zion
St. George
Marshall- Wells
Forman
Mad Smu
the Rivers Drug Store
Rumford's Dry Cleaning
G. M. Setter
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