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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 31, 1951
Page
3
Naples Italy, famed for beauty and chaos, is described as opulent yet dirty, noisy and densely populated. The piece traces its Greek origins, rulers, and survival through plagues, invasions, and eruptions, noting Vesuvius, evolving waterways, and ongoing change while preserving its lively, vibrant character.
Canterbury youths grow bushy beards for Chaucer era pageants as the ship Bounty sails toward London and a Kent artist forms fireproof flowers and trains 6,000 butterflies for the Festival of Britain running May through October.
Plenty Saskatchewan sits between Rosetown and Kerrobert in central Saskatchewan. The 250 permanent residents rely on 640 acre farms with black soil yielding strong wheat crops. In winter 21 farm families join to support curling and skating on two rinks. Farther north soils shift to mixed farming with well treed gardens and well painted buildings.
The Rivers area notices a wave of wooden fences disappearing, repurposed as garden pickets as time moves on. At the Festival of Britain in London, sights include a famed mutinous vessel on display, a country pavilion with plastic flowers, and a Dome of Discovery with a 365 foot span.
A nation wide note states that Canadian National railways run two hundred roundhouses across Canada. The figure highlights CNs extensive workshop network and maintenance capacity for locomotives and rolling stock.
Widespread backing exists for routing the CPR into Nova Scotia via Saint John and Digby. The Bay of Fundy crossing would connect Nova Scotia to both major Canadian railway systems, a feat the province has not previously enjoyed as a main trunk line.
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