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Newspaper
Charlottetown Guardian
Location
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Date
Dec 10, 1920
Page
2
Public auction announced for Thursday December 16 at 0 o'clock offering spruce and fir lumber from Holman’s Edward Summerside yard. Stormy weather invites the first fine day following for sale. Melville Baker notified of stock and sale details.
Mrs Dunn hosts a mid day auction at the Dunn Hotel on Kent Street starting Wednesday at 1.30 PM. Items include furniture bedding blankets of laws dishes stoves and other good things. Auctioneer Benj Carter 2152-12.10-41.
Local ads announce Sterns Bros Ltd Souris selling mens wool underwear silk ties and mufflers at reduced prices plus ladies and mens sweaters and oats flour and feeds from M C McGowan Kilmuir. Matthew McLean Ltd offers discounted dry goods boots and clothing. St George Lodge No 4 A F and A M elects officers for 1921 and plans a banquet January 27. St Peters Baptist church cancels December 12 service due to minister illness.
Harvard hockey coach announced the team will face McGill and Toronto Universities this season. Dates are not finalized, per the Harvard A C statement issued last night. In New York, two indictments were handed up against John A. Philbrick and Joseph Penny in the building trust probe. Bail set at $1000 each, pleas postponed until next Tuesday.
Winl ery H. McCredie, manager of the Portland team, said negotiations are under way for the New York Giants to buy George Maisel, Portland outfielder, with Maisel himself handling the talks.
A catalog of machinery includes a 50 HP boiler tested to 135 percent cold water pressure with a 40 ft smoke stack and full fittings, a 50 HP Corliss engine with steam and exhaust pipe, a combined lath machine and boiler with saws, all from Robb make and noted as nearly seven in quantity.
Experts say Jay Gould, court tennis champion, showed form at the National Squash Association New York Open that warrants championship consideration this season. The image above was captured during the New York tournament.
In Brocton Massachusetts on December 8 Earl Willard, a crime, volunteered to repeat a painful skin graft sacrifice to restore the right hand of George Chesmut who suffered severe skin loss after a factory accident. Doctors say Chesmut faced potential hand loss without grafts. Willard previously had his own right leg amputated in childhood.
Eastern Europe uses vast barbed wire leftovers as Riga works on stamping nails from wire to relieve Baltic storage. Inventors in Riga hope to convert entanglements around roads lakes and streams into usable nails, with piers at the port stacked high with wire suitable for nail making.
Advertising announces NOXA-COLD for healing lungs throat and chest endorsed by doctors and suitable for adults or children. It promotes NOXA-COLD TABLETS at 25c a box and NOXA-COLD liquid at 35c a bottle. Claims state the pair works to break up any kind of cold in a few hours and notes drug stores carry the products.
A December market report notes a steady stock decline, small receipts, and firm demand for supplies. Prices edge up for select cold storage eggs and selected stock, with wholesale and jobbing figures cited. Poultry, potatoes, and cheese values show stability amid active buying for holiday needs.
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