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Fragmentary OCR text includes poetry lines, ads about silo filing, anecdotes, and a Robert Service poem. No coherent event or reportable incident emerges beyond scattered notices and literary content.
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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 02, 1920
Page
8
Fragmentary OCR text includes poetry lines, ads about silo filing, anecdotes, and a Robert Service poem. No coherent event or reportable incident emerges beyond scattered notices and literary content.
Bradwardine Miss Ada White of Rivers and Mrs M A Archibald of Brandon visited town last week. Miss Mildred White stayed at her home while A Johnston and Mr McDonald of Decker were in town at the start of the week.
Carnegie Miss M. French of Winnipeg visits relatives Mr. and Mrs. T. Neville. Mrs. Gooden of Moose Jaw stays with sister Mrs. Ed. Hodson. C W Miller of Truro and W I Miller of Edmonton visit brother J H Miller. Tid Hodson family guests at Souris last Sunday. Robinville School remains closed awaiting a teacher.
Wheatland Sunday School at 10 a.m. and church service at 11 a.m. Dick Dyer remains ill but improving. Elsie Batty visits Miss Madge Rutherford. Mrs. Bell reports Mr. Bell's health improvement after a trip to Ninetti. Miss Jane Holt leaves for China mission work with J Holt accompanying to Brandon. Richard Bell returns with his bride amid a village charivart.
The article discusses Jolin Shell of Kentucky touted as possibly the oldest man alive at age 134. It mentions a poll tax record for a son named Bail age 5, birth around 1776, Civil War draft board denial, a first wife who died at 107, and a son who died at 8. The piece contains garbled phrasing and unclear details.
A Copenhagen study by the Society for Studying the Social Consequences of the War estimates ten European nations lost 35,320,000 people since 1914. End of 1973 population was 400,850,000, with projected mid 1919 population at 426,210,000. Causes include 9,819,009 war deaths, 5,301,000 epidemic and blockade deaths, and 20,200,900 birth-rate declines from mobilization of 36 million men.
The article discusses Freemasonry as a universal fraternal platform linking men across classes and creeds since the eighteenth century. It cites the Grand Secretary’s letter asserting Masonry requires belief in the Supreme Being and frames the craft as a nonsectarian association that transcends politics and religion. Euclid is noted with honor in Masonry’s origins.
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