Stepladder Saga of Humpy Skinner and the German Grocer
A boy named Humpy Skinner drags a ten foot stepladder through town upsetting pedestrians including a fat man and a police officer. After clashes with a bakery worker and a widow’s suitor, he is tracked by Officer Sneaky Dick who mistakes the lad for a thief. The grocer vouches for him while warning him to mind his conduct.
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Hhm
Humpy
America
Gillop
Mel
George
Smithers
Iiegale
Himpy
Sud
Ron
Tor
Alexis
Gowentis Canal
Marvin Mo
Ulady
Liddar Nyil
Towart Hunpy
Hump Skinner
Stey
S. Ln
Skinner
Rover Quest Ends as a Tramp Steals Stepladder Tale
A child explains a vanishing item as Humpy chases the rover theme. A tramp admits snatching the object claiming he aims to halt a restless world and advises carrying a stepladder in one’s vest pocket. The scene blends fanciful dialogue with a moral vignette.
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Humpy
Fenve
Agassiz Rifle Range holds year end turkey shoot
January 4 Agassiz reports a successful year end turkey shoot with seventeen birds at stake. Harry Wilson led for the year with an 89 average, followed by brothers Len and Hert Wilson for second and third. The association had 62 members this season.
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Agassiz
Agassiz Rifle Range Association
Harry Wilson
Len
Hert
Ontario farmer leaves large Methodist bequests
Ezra Osterhout of Murray lognation Ontario left a will valued over 80000 dollars with legacies to relatives up to 5000 dollars each and cash gifts of 5000 to the Methodist Missionary Society Educational Society and Superannuation Fund. Wires brothers two of them ministers Hiving Ja Voscongor are named executors.
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Ezra Osterhout
Murray Lognation
Ont
Ontario
Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Educational Society
Methodist Superannuation Fund
Wires Brothers
Canadian Women Serving Abroad Report Highlights Mission Support
The annual report shows raising 427206 for Canadian women overseas with 18,861 life members and 4 815 annual members. It details aid to 55 Chinese teachers and 11 Bible women in China, 35 Canadian women and 140 Japanese teachers in Japan, and 47 factories aiding workers. The president Mrs. M M C Lavell calls homeland service the supreme opportunity amid a global mission reaching 42 centers among Orientals, Indians, Austrians and others. Night-owls rise with early birds.
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China
Japan
Nias
Harde Baid
M. M.C. Lavell
Kingston
Ont
Otto Hapsburg as Child Soldier Sparks European War Fears
A Dec 25 Paris dispatch portrays Otto Hapsburg, age 10, dreaming of royal power as he plays with toy swords. The piece suggests his ambitions, aided by family and Hungarian legitimists, could provoke renewed conflicts across Europe within ten years, with exiled Charles and Zita’s circle shaping Otto’s schooling and fate.
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Europe
Paris
Hoya
Republic
Keine
Bmg
Hapsburg
Otto
Chanlea
Charles of
Givan
Luly
Charles
Hungary
Madeira
Rumania
Jugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Zila
Spain
Hoy Domisello
Lequellio
San S
Imatlan
Gontool Heminaverty
Heme
Kinga
Zita
Canadian Empire trade shows gains and oddities noted
The report describes inter empire canal trade figures with imports and exports totaling millions, peached storage trials in England, and British shipments to Revita Saskatchewan. It notes Canadian victories in fruit and grain shows, a Mount Cartier lookout, and a program to move buffalo from Wainwright.
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inter-Empire
Hinpire
Canada
Fraser Valley Boards of Trade Meet at New Westminster
The Fraser Valley Associated boards of trade will meet at New Westminster City Hall Friday afternoon at Inn 21. Permission has been granted for use of the city corner to accommodate the gathering per an application by secretary N F Kendall Cloverdale.
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Fraser Valley Associated Boards of Trade
New Westminster
City Hall
N. F. Kendall
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A.R. Gosling
A. E. Humphrey
B.c.land Surveyor
Mart
Yarwood & Durrant
LAW Office
Alan M. Brokowski
Valuator
Gquananereh Livestock
P.O
Alex. S. Duncan
Office
J. A. Catherwood
Mission City
J. H. Jones
Mission
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Optimist
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Robinson
Idek
Destiny
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Robingon
Sherman
Methodist. W.nmus
Dominion
Bronher
Milto
Wischever
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Kong
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Appotiyi
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Poland
Austria
Victor Fournehough
Weeks
Morrin
Alberta
Pool
England
Canadian Pacific Railway
Don
Great Britain
Revita
Saskatchewan
Mount Cartier
Atstoke
British Columbia
British Empire
Manchester
Daily Mail
Winnipeg
Head of the Lakes
Theanadian Pacific Railway
Dominion Park
Wainwright
Charles Stewart
London
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