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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 19, 1924
Page
5
Merchants push seasonable sales as Christmas advertising floods Cranbrook and nearby towns. The Herald reports improvements from new plant equipment and notes the Fernie mines may reopen on a limited scale after a brief labor dispute and cooperation between workers and operators. Civilized society endures harsh winter as homes move above ground to escape the cold.
The speaker contrasts California with a nostalgic home, praising orderly lawfulness, soft voices, fragrant flowers, and virtuous women while condemning slang, inflated politics, and greed. A farewell to California, called a land of reversed ethics and dollar-driven deeds.
Promoters describe favorable markets high refinery product prices and low crude freight, asserting Northern Montana crude yields high value products with simple refining. They detail site west of Cranbrook Street four to four and a half acres, initial unit 200–300 barrels daily, expandable, and pledge smallest practicable capitalization.
The first carload of Alberta live cattle arrived in good condition and was sold for profit to the shipper. A second carload for experimental shipment left Vancouver for Ontario. Drapers interests operate for S I claims at Waterways. Part of the material from Petrolia will repair street pavement and enable experimental use at the Draper plant. Canadian cattle shipments through Vancouver to Japan grow with rising meat demand.
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