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Newspaper
Canora Advertiser
Location
Canora, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1914
Page
4
Advice to business owners on allocating a set annual advertising budget and tracking its effect on sales. Encourages measuring yearly gains of 10 20 or 50 percent to gauge advertising efficiency and argues the paper serves local merchants best for reaching the community.
A chaotic plea urges moving advertisements to the office by Tuesday noon each week. The piece extols town pride and neighborliness, praising beautiful homes and enterprise while condemning a critic as useless and urged to be buried far away.
A 19th century critique lists nine types of men who hamper progress: oppose improvement, denounce outsiders, avoid advertising, distrust public spirited men, withhold hospitality, resent others’ earnings, oppose new movements not theirs, frown at new strangers, and resist every public enterprise unless it benefits themselves.
A fragmentary piece describes a school ma am as action and a boy as subject in a compound sentence. It contrasts a school ma am with a boy, noting attire and age expectations, and ends with a claim about cooking duties.
A column lampoons habitual complainers who sow gloom in towns. It contrasts their doom-laden talk with a hopeful future in heaven, urging builders over wreckers as communities seek progress.
Commissioner Sclanders of the Saskatoon board of trade presents figures proving the western livestock industry surged by 159.3 percent. He notes Winnipeg stock yards act as the western marketplace, with supplies flowing from across the country over railways.
Expert graders will be supplied by branch organizations to classify and pack wool for dealers, with no selling role. Western range wool will be graded into three quality levels and lengths, Eastern wool into five grades, washed and unwashed labeled, and bins rejected for impurities. Associations form nationwide to boost uniform quality and aid growers and manufacturers amid a soft Canadian wool market and cheap British imports.
The company will keep employee positions open and pay full salaries to workers who enlist for military service, ensuring continuous compensation during their absence. This policy applies to Lake of the Woods Milling Company and its staff.
Conflicting reports from Washington and New York state that the bureau of navigation officers, after talks with the department of commerce, ruled that commerce may be shipped from the United States into Canada. The decision sent notable comments through commercial circles and prompted optimism about cross border trade.
Fragmentary notes mention Eastern tions quick results Farmetaf Rent Ditching Done Poats Rent Three Percheron and related offers.
The fragment lists CN rail schedules with Mountain Time notation and mixed train details. It references departure and arrival hints at Eastbourne and Kingston routes with weekday timings and variant services, indicating a period timetable snapshot.
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