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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 05, 1924
Page
6
Vancouver reports Terminal Dock & Warehouse Company, Ltd. begins a quay and warehouse on Burrard Inlet aimed at flour handling. A large blending plant will be installed to blend flour from interior mills and load it onto ships, with costs around 400000 dollars.
The article praises the Fraser Valley milk for its fine quality and satisfaction, highlighting Pacific Milk Co. Ltd. as the head office in Vancouver with factories at Abbotsford and Ladner. It emphasizes milk's versatile use and dependable customer satisfaction.
The rink is in the home stretch as flooding begins and ice formation depends on favorable weather. Coasting is popular with Lumberton residents. Rev. B C Freeman led Methodist services in Cranbrook at the Lumberton Club rooms and Mrs. R B Mitchell sang a vocal solo.
Walter Walters and William Radcliff of Cranbrook, former L D Cafe residents, traveled from Revelstoke toward the coast. They encountered a log barricade and armed U S liquor inspectors near the border but were allowed to proceed after a frisking. They praised the courteous treatment at hotels and eateries on their journey back to Nelson and the Hast Kootenay boat.
Christmas card orders to distant points have come in freely during the past few days. Order now while selection is good. A wide variety of samples and many orders can be executed from stock forthwith. No delays and satisfaction assured.
A dialogue in a medical setting leads to a money saving subscription pitch for The Cranbrook Herald and the Family Herald and Weekly Star of Montreal. The ad promotes a special combination price with a premium picture at 3.25 dollars and provides contact details.
Traveling scout Stub, the round the world equestrian, remained in Princeton as he plans a new attempt from here to Hope. He will ride skis this time replacing a horse due to the earlier trip over rough terrain. He recalled heavy snow near the summit on November 18 and said his dog was frozen but survived.
Indian farmers on the Blood Indian Reserve near Cardston report average yields over thirty bushels per acre. About six thousand acres are under crop this season.
The Family Herald and Weekly Star of Montreal promotes a simple $10,000 prize contest. Readers enter by subscribing for two dollars a year and receive a free estimate and a large color calendar plus fifty two issues. Full details and a rewards catalogue are mailed free to applicants.
Canada reached one telephone for every nine people in 1928 with 1 009 203 lines nationwide or 11 08 per hundred population. In 1922 total telephones were 944 020, equal to 10 58 per hundred. Provincial rates vary from 15 457 per hundred in British Columbia to 6 08 in Prince Edward Island.
John G. Cummings acting for William Myers, Free Miners Certificate holder, intends after sixty days to apply for a Certificate of Improvements to obtain a Crown Grant for the Watson and Kootenay King mineral claims in East Kootenay District near Victoria Creek headwaters. Action under Section 85 must be started before certificate issuance. dated October 5, 1924.
Canadian mothers shift from dosing children to using Vicks VapoRub applied to the throat and chest. The medicated vapors ease breathing and loosen phlegm while skin absorption provides additional relief, with jars sold in drug stores. A free test package offer is available from Vick Chemical Co., Montreal.
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