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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 23, 1906
Page
8
A note lists dozens of competitions at the Cranbrook fair including floats from unions and merchants, horse and pony races, Indian contests, wrestling on horseback, teepee building, sawing and drilling contests, various track events, and girls and boys races. Prizes are mentioned, with a $30 set aside for the Gun Club shoot.
Reader letters publish a long list of pointed queries directed at Hawthornthwaite MPP asking about land grants taxes and labor policy. The piece recounts his evasive answers and the writer’s accusation of disloyalty to labor alongside broader political critique.
A comic dental narrative centers on a dentist and a patient struggling with a difficult cavity. The exchange blends irritation and humor as the cavity extends deeper and the dental effort grows into a notable effort.
Ottawa reports for July 1906 the foreign trade at 12 million dollars, up 9 million from a year earlier while imports reached 23.5 million, up 1 million. The railway board rejects complaints against transcontinental rate ceilings, citing US competition and Panama and Cape Horn routes as factors.
Mrs. A Hatton and her son Merrill plan a visit to Fort William EB Peiper brakeman to fish near Michel P Attwood station agent and family to Winnipeg and Nelson R A McBurney to Medicine Hat to meet his fiance and marry then Cranbrook home R M Reid transfers to Creston Caven heads to Calgary to visit his ill mother L A Duncan recalled to Creston after his mother s death R W Morgan and wife from London Ontario become Cranbrook residents as train dispatcher J T Sage arrives from Lethbridge to be chief clerk in freight The Crow line paving and heavy tracklaying visible in Cranbrook yard first week of September under Roadmaster Sinclair and Foreman Newlams with rails relaid at over a mile per day
Chief Justice Wetherbee and Justice Russell ruled the parliamentary seat for Queens-Shelburne vacant after a Liverpool trial cited corruption by agents and personal charges. The decision nullifies the minister of finance Wood Fielding's election, with proceedings ongoing amid a heated dispute.
Take notice that sixty days from date one intends to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works at Victoria for permission to purchase lands described as: Southeast Kootenay starting at a post at the southwest corner of lot 2598, marked Pugh Mellagh, west 40 chains north 10 chains east 40 chains south to start, containing 160 acres, High Mellugh. Wornie, B.C. Aug 11, 1921.
Sixty days after dates apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works at Victoria BC for permission to purchase lands in South East Kootenay described as commencing at a post at the north east corner of Lot 825 then east 80 chains, north 40 chains, west 80 chains, south 10 chains totaling 820 acres Waroll Darling Wardner BC July 1 1908 VT
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