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Newspaper
Abbotsford Post
Location
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 23, 1918
Page
2
The Abbotsford Post notes Exhibition week with weather and events in the Fraser Valley while Vancouver weighs a fair and New Westminster resists hiring a fair. It questions market duties, debates wartime politics, and forecasts an election with a shifting House of Commons and possible constitutional strains.
Market witnesses varied wholesale shifts across meats poultry and produce. Pork and veal fluctuated while butter and eggs held firm. fish and floral stalls show solid demand. potatoes and apples priced variably with plentiful fruit and gardens, and stock of fish and shellfish reported steady buyers.
A quirky poem wields biblical phrasing to lampoon a Ford with humor about motors, patches, and repairs. The narrator envisions riding through danger while windshield wipers and radiator overflow evoke comic automotive chaos. Concluded as a humorous contributed piece.
A fragment mentions Latcom Morevil traveller who tips the prettiest Walter girl in Nelson dollar when he cata in that city. Wonder if that is our Mis alon friend there in a lovely row up in Crest on in the school.
A vintage junket style ad promotes lemon juice and orchard white as a facial lotion. It instructs squeezing lemon juice into a bottle with orchard white to make a quarter pint mixture for daily application to face neck hands. Claims freckles tan and redness vanish and skin becomes smooth and clear.
A historical draft describes coal mining rights in a dominion territory. It outlines a twenty one year lease at four dollars per acre with a cap of two thousand six hundred acres per applicant. Applications due by August or September in the district of rights, land surveyed by sections, royalty payable on mine output.
The document outlines obligations for the lessee to report and pay royalties on merchantable coal and to furnish sworn returns at least annually. It notes possible surface rights purchases for mine operation at ten dollars per acre and directs inquiries to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior or Dominion Lands deputy minister.
An early 20th century advertorial claims scalp dandruff harms hair with itching and shedding. It touts Knowlton's Danderine as a simple remedy to restore lustre and prevent hair loss, urging readers to buy a small bottle at any drug store to save their hair.
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