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Newspaper
Abbotsford Post
Location
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 24, 1912
Page
2
Friction with government noted in local weekly Abbotsford Post. Legal advertising costs 12 cents per line for first insertion and additional cents for each next consecutive insertion. General rate details and promotional taglines included.
Victoria Day is celebrated on Friday May 24 1912, a holiday across Canada. The Abbotsford booster column urges civic unity and pride, noting J Bradstock Brown editor of the Huntingdon Star visited town for inspiration. It praises Abbotsford’s growth and the value of open air spring activities.
A young Polish engineer in Crimea, posting under a pseudonym, answered a widow's advertisement and traded letters with her. Both used fake identities, planning marriage nearby. The planned union revealed the ruse: the widow was the mother of the engineer, not a rival.
A French writer examines women criminals noting their exploits reveal a “simplicity of genius” yet are overly complex to escape detection. He argues they blab their secrets, crave sympathy, and often return to the crime scene, unlike male offenders, in a theatrical pattern of tragedy.
A transcription from Irkutsk’s criminal records portrays a city of 120000 crowded into a river bend with 600 murders yearly and few convictions. It recalls nights of excess during the Japanese war, champagne shipments, and moving picture theaters amid vice districts. A Pennsylvania Harvard graduate spent 26000 in three weeks, with 2500 stolen in one day.
A Paris described Riga gathering where Letts Socialists clashed with police and turned to a swimming match to host speakers. Orators spoke from water while the crowd asked questions, creating a damp but notable political event.
Mina Stowe Augusta Stowe Gullen became the first Canadian woman to study and graduate in medicine in the Dominion. She earned a medical degree from Victoria University in 1883, joined the Ontario Medical College for Women in Toronto that same year, and was chosen as demonstrator of Anatomy, a post she held during the college’s early history.
An English judge established a legal precedent in a case where a man found under a young woman’s bed claimed he entered the house while drunk and through a window, arguing no felonious intent. The court rejected the theft claim, noting no clear evidence of felonious intent, a ruling seen as favorable to intruders and cited for future similar cases.
British Columbia fruit crop outlook shows two thirds yield overall with peaches failing except Penticton where some good shipments are possible. Cherries, plums, prunes fair. apricots steady. A Penticton grower earned about 424 dollars net per 100 trees after costs from 5400 pounds of apricots. Okanagan Valley shipments around 400 cars. land under fruit cultivation about 140000 acres valued at forty million dollars with one million acres still available. Remaining cultivation shows 15 percent bearing, suggesting yearly shipments of about 7000 cars as development continues.
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