Rivers Gazette Authorized as Second-Class Mail
Rivers Gazette is established as a community weekly newspaper, issued Thursdays from The Gazette Office at 203-211 Main Street in Rivers Manitoba. It began in July 1908 by T. W. Offen with subscription rates of two dollars a year in Canada and three dollars outside, payable in advance. G. F. Barker is listed as publisher.
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Post Office Department
Ottawa
T. W. Offen
Gazette Office
Main Street
Rivers
Manitoba
Canada
G. F. Barker
For Whom the Bell
Scores of little folk begin school this week marking the first step into worldly contacts. Parents share pride and tears as children start their education amid changes in staff and methods. Textbook costs have surged since past eras, often with unused books adding to the headache.
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Junior
Yesteryear
Education Costs Put A Strain On Young Families
A reader laments rising prices and shifting curricula that force parents to repeatedly buy grade one books. The letter argues classrooms push material beyond budgets, risking overeducation while neglecting basic needs. A separate note reports a Vancouver death tied to a misrepresented gin bottle claim.
Playmates Lost At Nechako Site Story Of Boy And Cubs
An Alcan Ingot report recounts a boy who wandered away from his home near the Kenny dam site, wandered through a work settlement, and was found hours later at a garbage dump. He was unconscious from the incident, playing with two bear cubs. The narrative notes the bear cubs and their mother were nearby as authorities investigated the event.
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Nechako
Alcan
Momma Bear
Jokes and quips from a bygone gazette page
Brief clips of humor and wry observations include a wife about her husband’s finances after death, a judge hearing a name change request with a humorous reply, a banker and clerk parable about misfiled money, a joke on marriage as a job, a clerk’s rivalry over encyclopedias, and grasshoppers traveling distances.
Disputed Removal Noted Behind Court Scene
A dim view was taken as she arrived before the court, and with considerable reluctance he was removed from the scene while the proceedings continued.
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Carchere
Hind
Verse on the Year of Release in Deuteronomy
A biblical verse passage cites Deuteronomy chapters fifteen one and two, detailing the seventh year jubilee and the release of debts among neighbors and brothers in accordance with the Lords release.
Smitty's Yacht Club name dispute and prejudice notes
A letter from Freddie argues St Boniface officials should not force changing Smitty's Yacht Club name to obtain a permit for dancing. He links name bias to prejudice and McCarthyism, warning against letting labels drive policy and urging readers to see a rose by any other name.
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Winnipeg
St. Boniface
Smitty’s Yacht Club
Smith
Smitty
McLean
Joe McCarthy
Local Visitors and Social Guests Listed in Tarbolton
Miss Lilian Ramsey returned to Michigan after a visit with her mother Mrs. J Ramsey. Mr. and Mrs. J Harris of Winnipeg spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Wolfe. Mrs. J Wedderburn hosted district ladies on Monday with guests Mrs. J Harris of Winnipeg and Miss Helen K Wedderburn of Vancouver.
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Lilian Ramsey
Michigan
Mrs. J. Ramsey
J Harris
Winnipeg
Emerson Wolfe
J. Wedderburn
J. Harris
Helen K. Wedderburn
Vancouver
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Rivers, Gazette
Reta Lloyd, A.T.C.M
Anne E. Bell, A.M.M
A. W. White, A.T.C.L, A.M.T
Borden Motors Ltd
Boston
Matt, Bill and
John Wareham
Meemier
Ivy
Jackie
Mary
Jors
Morden
the Times
Gazette Azings
Uncle Herman
Nephew
Freddie
Tarbolton
Brockie
Brandon
the Gazette
Chase & Sanborn
Berg's
Mossberg
Harrington & Richards
Hoppe No
Duck Carriers
Imperial
Marshall- Wells Stores
Forman's Hardware Owners
PNT Opt
the Rivers Drug Stores
Rumford's Laundry
G. M
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