Community Weekly Newspaper Headquarters in Rivers Manitoba
Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department at Ottawa The Gazette Office Rivers Manitoba issue info notes July 1908 founding by T W Offen and Thursday publication The subscription rates 250 a year in Canada 300 a year elsewhere payable in advance
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Post Office Department
Ottawa
T. W. Offen
Gazette Ofice
Main Street
Rivers
Manitoba
Canada
It Is What You Make It The Local Weekly Paper
A community weekly lives by residents' contributions and support. Local readers shape content through telephoned items, letters, and notices, while neglect erodes a paper's relevance. A healthy weekly reflects a growing centre and trading hub, driven by local interest and participation.
New Drugs and Longevity Hope Rise From Medical Advances
Researchers push ahead with rapid discoveries in medicines and uses of existing drugs. Each week brings a new development signaling longer life expectancy and better health prospects, though practical limits and risks remain.
Old-fashioned aches meet new drug promises in medical quest
The piece discusses how physicians struggle to stay current as pharmaceutical samples flood doctors with new drugs like terramicin ACTH cortisone and khellin. While promising cures for diseases from pneumonia to angina may arrive, the average patient still relies on family doctors who weigh value and practicality and manage back pain with cautious optimism.
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Ces
Howler: brutes are imperfect animals and more
A string of witty quips from the Gazette style column notes social absurdities. It mocks brute force, puppy-love myths, and a male’s evolving role in modern society, with light commentary on women at the cinema and money as a labor saver.
Blessed man walks not in counsel of the ungodly
A compact note cites Psalm style guidance about avoiding influence of the wicked and shunning scoffers in daily life, emphasizing moral integrity and separation from sinners. The phrasing mirrors a religious meditation on conduct and virtue.
Aluminum soldering hurdle overcome by ultrasonic method
The New York Herald Tribune reports that aluminum cannot be soldered by ordinary techniques due to an oxide film. A device from England uses ultrasonic vibrations to break the film, with a tin zinc solder preventing later electrolytic action between aluminum and solder. Windsor Star notes Justice Rand urges simpler witness questioning to avoid tangled, multi clause queries.
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New York Herald Tribune
England
Review of
Scientific Instruments
Winnipegger Earns Jump Wings as Third Army Dental Officer
Winnipeg, a recently qualified para chutist at the Canadian Joint Air Training Centre, becomes the third army dental officer in the Canadian army active force to qualify for jump wings. He increases Royal Canadian Army Dental Corps airborne personnel to five, joining two officers and two other ranks with prior parachute training.
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R. B. Jackson
Winnipeg
Canadian Joint Air Training Centre
Royal Canadian Army Dental Corps
Irish and Atlantic pact hints in partition context
Irish politicians imply the Republic would join the Atlantic alliance once partition ends, using Irish bases as leverage to pressure Northern Ireland. Ottawa hopes the dust settles and welfare reforms fail to win public backing, while a warning about driver caps signals police focus on likely offenders. A Wall Street tale ends with a humorous frog metaphor about a truck.
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Montreal
Potato Disease Threatens Manitoba Markets
Horticulturist F. J. Weir warns that bacterial ring rot has affected Manitoba potatoes in recent years and will cut into markets. Some markets in Manitoba, along with parts of British Columbia and Alberta, have been lost. Control relies on disease free seed and isolation from contaminated tubers. a lab circular on symptoms and control is available from the Department of Agriculture in Winnipeg.
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Manitoba
F. J. Weir
Winnipeg
British Columbia
Alberta
Department of Agriculture
Legislaive
Tiny house program grants new unit in Sam Kee area
In Sam Kee area, a tiny house project received approval enabling construction of a compact dwelling. Officials cited housing supply and affordability goals while outlining next steps for permitting and site work.
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G. F. Barker
G. Sas
Bureau OF Travel and Publicity
Department OF Industry and Commerce
Winnipeg Manitor
Rivers Quick Freege Limited
Young Baby Beef
Young Veal
Picaio
Matt, Bill and
John Wareham
Gazette Azings
Ami
Daily Mirror
Brandon Sun
Aus Schulze
Maneproba
Windsor Star
I. C. Rand
Brandon
Man
Gilchrist's Drug Stores
New Sarum
Winnipegger
Army
Fort Erie
Wall Street Journal
Vous
Ont
Sam
C. G. Baizley
Fourth Street
Brandpon, Jeanptora
GHP
Allen's
AML Flavors
Perth
McLary
Washwell
Zenith
Cameron Dishwasher
Marshall- Wells Stores
Forman
the Rivers
Rumford
G. M. Setter
Nyal Drugs
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