Community Weekly Newspaper Established in Rivers Manitoba
Authorized as Second Class Jail by the Post Office Department at Ottawa. A community weekly newspaper established July 1968 by T. W. Offen, issued Thursdays from The Gazette Office Rivers Manitoba. Subscriptions priced at 20 dollars yearly in Canada and 3 dollars outside Canada, payable in advance. G. F. Barker publisher.
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Post Office Department
Ottawa
T. W. Offen
Gazette Office
Main Street
Rivers
Manitoba
Canada
G. F. Barker
End of Volume 41 Gazette closes its pages
The Gazette ends Volume 41 after serving the community since its July debut. It notes many changes, hundreds of people observed, and a mix of friends and enemies formed through the years. The journal stayed true to its mission to explain the merits of the community and carry the torch alone.
The Gazette and the fate of small town newspapers
The piece reflects on The Gazette from its founder T W Offen era through retirements and storms around press freedom. It discusses declining interest in local affairs, consolidation of papers, rising costs, and the need for community support and constructive criticism to keep a live focal newspaper in Rivers Manitoba.
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Gazette
Rivers
Manitoba
Boissevain Recorder
British bobbies swap helmets for peak caps debated
The Monitor questions a change from tall helmets to peak caps for British police. Officials say helmets are lighter and offer more protection, while officers reportedly resist the shift. A Rapid City clerk illustrates language quirks by noting a customer asking for braces after confusion with galluses.
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Bobby
Rapid City
Verse for Today Proverb Passage on Mercy and Fear of Lord
A devotional verse cites Proverbs 16:24 and 16:6 about mercy and truth purging iniquity. It notes that humans judge themselves as clean, while the Lord weighs spirits and directs people away from evil through reverence. The text frames moral guidance within divine prerogative.
University climbers reach North America’s highest peak
Four University of Alaska students summited King's Peak, the highest unclimbed mountain in North America, on June 6 after a perilous ascent.
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King's Peak
America
University of Alaska
King’s Peak
North America
Summi
Letter to Uncle Herman about a CBC soap hour
Freddie reviews an hour of CBC soap operas, noting grim undercurrents and occasional beauty. He laments overhyped advertising, questions their truth, and analyzes Ma Perkins Whispered romance and Right to Happiness. He wonders if the plays truly reflect life.
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CBC
Marty
Ma Perkins
Mrs. Young
Yahoo
Freddie
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Lon McCallister
Wanda Hendrix
Montana Territory
Macdonald Carey
Captain Horatio Hornblower
Gregory Peck
Virginia Mayo
REX Theatre
Kirk Douglas
Bluebloodp
Bill Williams
Jane Nigh
William Bendix
Eleanor Parker
Doris Day
Denis Morgan
Gene Nelson
Glen Ford
Ben Hogan
Donald O’ Connor
Piper Laurier
Frances
Gene Kelly
Oscar Levant
Technicolor
Paris
Prince of Peace
Jesus
R & Wee
Good Foods
Matt, Bill and
John Wareham
Busi: Nest
Elmet
Roy
Criskay
Watson's
Rivers Cabinet Works
Phonf
Herman
Uncle Herman
China
Guad
Marshall U Forman
BLLS
the Rivers Drug Stores
Rumford's Laundry
G.M
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