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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 17, 1899
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows mall schedules and pickup days for Cranbrook Post Office. Mentions weekly days such as Monday Tuesday Thursday and Saturday with scattered place names and times, but text is heavily garbled and contains many unreadable segments.
Local notes show a busy Cranbrook Moyie region with visits from Fernie Wardner Fort Steele and Kimberley. Snow falls months later reports indicate bridge completion and bustling circus activity with notable figures including Druggist Hope and Rev Procunier.
Cramped notices report hospital visit for Joel, travel to Lethbridge, church meeting set at 5 30 pm and a Baptist missionary addressing Christian questions. Business activity notes bridge work plans, coal distribution talks, deer hunting concerns, new porcelain bath tub at Mearlane's, and a long list of visiting names and towns from across the region.
A long hotel arrivals roster lists travelers and guests including W J Illiott M W Chilcot J A Keller J A Kennill I Neece Chas A Morris Dave Warren M Nubius Chas Thomas Chas Fales A Abrams CE Brown E O'Neil D J Fitzgerald Main's Circus W H Rutherford Brockville G A Beck en John Lundy J J H Bernite Creston St Pollard i Smith Modee W A Whitmore Wim Kubrey J R Pollock J Duffy D Grant N Roach G Liumph ne D McDonald Jas Joyce Miss M Williams Fernie Harry Morgan Bis setts M Gilliese Horton Peter Rabi chand Yahk Peter Lund Lund's Camp W J Smith Nelson R G Shier For Steele J F Boyce Calgary T Cristal J Kennedy St John F Steele Winnipeg Fred Stoughton Calahagie A Les ser Webbwood S Hammond Nelson J B Goff Dominion City J Carson and wife Edmonton A Hall Moyelle J C Courtermanche Wardner Edgar Stal lard Mission Ed Stubbs Cumbermere J Ross Neil McQuarry McNabb's Camp W C Williams Murray Killips Sullivan Mine
A compiled fragment lists numerous individuals and families connected to towns including Fort Steele Kimberley Cranbrook Cranbrook and Victoria as well as cities Seattle Montreal Toronto San Francisco Wasa Cranbrook and Crows Nest. Entries include Mrs Soper Miss Stella Soper Miss Anna Durick Geo Shier J Gillmore J W Gordon H H McVittie Ralph Harron and J Frantz among others.
A torn lyric fragment tells of a blighted tree near a shadowed shore where two youthful lovers vow eternal faith. The couple’s parted hopes, illness, and fate loom as birds sing of an impossible reunion beyond time. The piece laments doomed romance under a wilted tree.
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