Rivers Gazette authorized as Beaumi class mail by post office
A community weekly newspaper established in July 1908 by T. W. Offen, issued Thursdays from The Gazette Office at 200 211 Main Street Rivers Manitoba. Subscription rates listed as 24 a year in Canary and 300 a year elsewhere, payable in advance. G. F. Barker.
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Post Office Department
St Ottawa
T. W. Offen
Gazette Office
Main Street
Rivers
Manitoba
Canary
Autohorn nuisance and Sparrow Chorus Chronicle
A Manitoba style column rails against auto horn noise at weddings, fire safety underplay, and a sparrow swarming scene high in the trees. It notes electors urged to read Hansard, lists retiring school board figures, and remarks on local business credit ratings amid town life notes.
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J.J. McDonald
Daly
Rog. Sureclair
Fof Grant
Seasonal Reflections On Autumn’s Approach In Town
The essay notes winds sighing through bare branches and grey skies signaling fall time. It reflects on shorter days, early twilights, and the year’s aging, observing how mornings occasionally brighten with clearer light.
Interest in Elections Signals Local Political Participation
An observed surge in civic interest occurred Tuesday with visible engagement in local elections. Ward one in Daly will feature a contest, Rivers sees a mayoralty battle, and the town area anticipates multiple candidates for three open posts, signaling a robustNomination Day turnout.
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Daly
Rivers
Town
Amend Your Way Obey the Lord Your God
The passage urges repentance and obedience to God to avert the evil declared by the Lord. It emphasizes returning to right conduct and following divine guidance to avoid punishment foretold in Jeremiah.
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Jeremiah
Picton Clocks Re-Calibrated After Time Error
Picton council fixed a local time discrepancy after daylight time ended on September 24. Clocks were turned back but fell out of sync with neighboring communities, prompting a special meeting that restored standard time within 48 hours.
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Picton
Freshmen Win Battle of the Lily Ponds at UBC
Freshmen at the University of British Columbia defeated the second-year students in a campus clash described as the battle of the lily ponds. The victory shows the freshmen resisting attempts to enforce old restrictive regulations on campus life.
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Vancouver
University of British Columbia
Folke Bernadotte
U.N
Jerusalem
United Nations
Trygve Lie
Ralph Beache
Count Bernadotte
Holy Land
Alexander Cadogan
United Kingdom
Sven Grafstrom
Eof
Sweden
Cost of a Toothache in Rural Papers
The Rainy River Record laments dental access as locals travel to a neighboring town for extractions, while the Carrot River Observer notes farmer dilemmas from couch grass and urges positive identification of underground stalks to prevent crop issues.
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Rainy River
Carrot River
Flying Circus Montreal Trans-Canada Airliner Caper
Trans-Canada agents recall flights where staff ferried a diverse menagerie including dogs cats siamese alley cats skunks cougars beaver lobsters geese ducks chickens poults and even a vulture aboard aircraft portraying an airborne Noahs ark a striking roundup of animal passengers.
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Montreal
Trans-Canada
Trans-Canada Airlines
Daly Weathers a Century’s Severe Storm Tale
An account from Daly describes a historic late summer storm with heat records and a distant electrical display. Wind and lightning caused darkness, uprooted trees, damaged roofs, and scattered debris across rural Daly and Rivers. The scene shifts to calm sunlight the following day as life resumes.
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Canada
Wiord
Daly
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News of the World
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Toronto
Rivers’ Rex
Hallowe'en
Hallowe'en Candies
Matt, Bill and
John Wareham
Flying Circus
Eloi Bess
Freddy
Canada Savings Bonds
Botany
Berg's
the Rivers Drug Store
Restiute
Wampole
G. M. Setter
Oewaitin
Ana Rae Te
the World’s Daily News
THE
Christian Science Monitor
Chagtion Science Publishing Society
Nothoy Street
Boston
Mass
Pleow
Christian Siance Monitor
Nome
State
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