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Newspaper
Abbotsford Post
Location
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 08, 1913
Page
2
Weekly Abbotsford journal outlines legal advertising charges: 12 cents per line for first insertion and 8 cents per line for each additional consecutive insertion. Includes notice on Shibl-leth-Neither for nox agin the Government.
Friday, Aug. 8, 1913 reports W. W. Price praising London market advances and hopeful sentiment in both commodity and financial sectors. A Sun editorial excerpt stresses a reshaped world economy ready for careful expansion, while local market notes cover poultry prices, eggs, butter, meats, flowers, and vegetables with modest fluctuations.
The passage urges measuring weekly free advertising for concerts or church events. It suggests counting printed lines, multiplying by regular rates, and comparing to actual value of favors from other firms. It notes advertising and circulation are a newspaper's main revenue sources amid rising prices.
The Westminster market Friday morning showed good supplies and a fair sized crowd. Fish were plentiful with crabs at two for a quarter, herrings at the same price, sockeye and white sockeyes and white salmon at 50 cents each, and shad, cod, smelt, and soles also listed.
Reports say the Sushanna river placer diggings yield 75 cents to 5 dollars per pan with two men extracting 2500 dollars daily by crude methods. Hundreds rush to the site from across the territory while pay also appears in the Buanza Eldorado and other tributaries. Beds lie four to five feet deep with rolling hills and promising ground across a wide area.
A poem by A. Hatzicite praises different eye colors and notes a reddened eye winning a prize. It laments the ornament worn by Mickey's eye rather than battlefield valor, describing varied eye styles from blue to hazel before concluding with the critique of a red decoration.
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