04 Jan 1913
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Newspaper
Charlottetown Guardian
Location
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Date
Jan 04, 1913
Page
1
The column outlines local advertising rates per word with cash in advance and a five percent discount, minimum twenty five cents, for various towns including Charlotte and Prince Edward Island. It promotes a James Callaghan Special Blue Serge Suiting glob priced at 25 dollars and describes indigo fabric and non fading assurances.
A series of notices from Charlottetown announces Rally Day Sunday at Central Christian Church with Rev d Floyd to preach at morning and evening services. The shorthand and statistics department offers extended courses and special speech classes for post graduate study. In Albany five murder cases receive death sentences as Court of Appeals upholds convictions in Ossining, Rensselaer, Patchogue, New York.
The report lists numerous visitors and travelers arriving in Charlottetown from Chilliwack Port Wilford Vancouver New Glasgow Stettler Lake Ainslie Andover Mass and Montreal McGill students. It notes private parties and train arrivals, with several named individuals including W H Badford A T McDonell J W Donohue J O Wilsons and Spurgeon MacKenzie among others.
Moose Lake trader H. P. Lamb reports wolves abound in bands of 30 to 40 in the north country this winter. He urges a special bounty for destruction to protect moose and travelers, notes good fur trade but weak fish trade, and says dog trails between Moose Lake and Le Pas are good but not yet safe for horses.
In Crotona Park New York Maurice Berger drowned after saving two boys from a lake ice hole. A dozen boys near shore broke the ice while retrieving a cap and four reached safety as the ice cracked. Berger, celebrating his 22nd birthday, died attempting to save another boy. Police investigated amid a crowd of onlookers in a grim ice incident.
A Windsor man Kennedy Baker convicted for smuggling six to fifteen Chinese nightly from Windsor to Detroit across the river. Authorities note rail cars and the Detroit river tunnel as favored routes with union involvement suspected. In a separate incident, rescuers found two boys and a man dead after an ice hole incident, with Berger attempting to save them before both perished.
Rhode Island lawmakers and state officials paid their rail fare today on the New York New Haven Hartford line. A new law prohibiting issuing passes to state employees became operative today.
At Frenchfort on December 26, 1912, a daughter was welcomed by George Boswall and his wife Mrs. Boswall following the birth to John and Mrs. McRae of Montague.
Listings announce weddings and a funeral including Trapp and Belt in Charlottetown on January 1 1913, Whean and MacDonald December 27 1912, Bowyer and McMillan January 1, a Johnson funeral January 4, plus Harmony soap advertisement and local business contact details. The item references multiple couples and a death with burial plans.
An obituary fragment recalls Mrs Fawho's passing and religious reflections on eternal life. The text includes verses of consolation, praise for the savior, and hope of reunion. The page also discusses newspaper advertising costs and policy for obituaries and notices.
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