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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 21, 1916
Page
3
A self supporting girl, after mother’s death, longs for a silver tea caddy costing 25 dollars. She frets over paying, imagines life with it, and visits the shop repeatedly. The shopwoman senses the girl’s earnest wish and offers hope as the girl decides she must buy it.
A girl saves 60 cents weekly to buy a silver tea caddy on terms from a kind shopwoman. The woman watches the girl’s ideal transform her own life and later meets the couple who marry, grateful for the woman’s influence and the Christmas spirit.
A pale fragment mixes festive talk about family dinners with a Christmas deer legend and a calendar note. It ends with a store clearance stating Dec 22 and 28 pricing, offering 26 percent off all lines and 1 dollar becomes 76 cents, from W. D. Hill the Dry Goods Specialist.
Creston Review weighs political balance in Ontario province with Bruce County native Premier Brewster and a cabinet lineup. It notes the mix of origins, including Macdonald from Lucknow and MacLean from the island, Pattullo from Zorra, Sloan from Huron, and Oliver and Smith as English-born veterans influencing policy, while John Keon becomes speaker.
The report lists perfect attendance recipients at South Ward School including Robert Askey Joseph Belanger Phil Belanger Marie Carr Archie Finley Dorothy Halling Harold Halling Hector Linnell James Malone William McKenzie Kenneth McNeil Samuel Shaw Leslie Sneddon Frank Tito Amy Williams Ethel Williams John Drew and May Ankey Jessie. Honor roll 8rd reader Annie Johnson 2nd reader Ethel Williams Joseph Belanger Archie Finley James Malone 1st reader Ernest Laurie Frank Tito Amy Williams Phil Belanger with attendance percentage 94.79.
John Cleave faces a possible tragedy when his wife Mary is injured in a buggy accident. As she lies between life and death, his selfish past returns to haunt them until she awakens miraculously with no memory of the year they shared, forcing a second chance at marriage and forgiveness.
A fragment lists students Cassells James Drew Bessie Eakin Clara Halling Margaret Malone Frank Malone Edith Johnson Santo Pasenzzo Grace Tito Jessie Tito Bert Laurie Elmer Orr Kathleen Haley. Includes Edith Johnson and Bessie Wakin on honor roll and May Askey. primer line shows Lessie Sainsbury, Willie Taylor, Grace Tito, Bert Laurie and Receiving class names Roy Linnell Kathleen Haley Annie Moore.
A fragmented notice combines comic dialogue from Puck about social remarks with harsh promotional sales language. It touts dramatic discounts on dry goods during Friday and Saturday December 22 and 28, 1888 style, urging readers in Calgary to compare buying power and seek price lists from W. D. Hill at 218 Pith Avenue.
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