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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 07, 1913
Page
3
A newspaper notice urges readers to seek proper eyeglasses as defective eyesight causes premature wrinkles. It claims reading becomes hard when brows bunch and advises visiting for the right glasses to ease reading and smooth facial lines.
Tuesday visits to Kingsgate and Yahk noted by F W Swain. Fresh vegetables daily at Food Grocery Store. J G Cummings left for Sand Creek on business. Mrs I Miwell entertained guests for tea. Mrs M A Heale hosted a luncheon. Lifeb Tower lemonade powder advertised. Sheriff Morris called to Moyie on official business. Fishing party reported good catches on Gold Creek. Aug 1 1918 Cranbrook birth notice for WoT Laird. Aug 5 1918 birth for Sadler in this city. Whitehead birth in Moyle July 20 1918. Mrs Cann visiting from Fort Steele. Oyster shell at Cranbrook Trading Co. Jolson the plumber ill last week.
Community chatter lists visits by Mrs Haslam and son Jack from Duluth, births in 1913 including a daughter for Mr and Mrs McKowan, and various local movements. Names include Wardner, Fernie, Cranbrook, Moyie, Grand Forks, and Vancouver with mentions of stores Pure Food Grocery Ward and Harris and local officials. Local business, hospital update on W Matthews, and appointments such as Frank McCabe rescinded.
Fresh corn on the cob at the Fire Food Grocery Store. Multiple local residents and visitors are noted in Cranbrook, with mentions of travels, gatherings, and upcoming events. Funeral, sale, and community notices appear amid a slate of daily happenings and business updates.
A Calgary resident describes long suffering with billiousness sick headache and liver trouble lasting years. After trying various remedies the narrator decides to try an unlisted treatment with hopeful expectations.
Mrs Mary Ellson reports relief from headache after half a box and improved appetite after finishing five boxes. The Fig Pill Go offers 25 and 50 cent boxes with distribution at St Thomas Ont and Cranbrook Drug and Book Co Ltd.
A courier’s sack burst spilling 250 twenty dollar gold pieces along Seattle city hall steps. Clerks chased coins downhill from the police patrol wagon to the Smith building, scrambling to recover about five thousand dollars in treasure.
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