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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Feb 15, 1924
Page
4
Canada shows a strong motor export year with 12 429 trucks valued at 4 408 000 shipped abroad, up from 2 504 trucks worth 1 094 000 in 1922. Cars also increased with 74 000 automobiles valued at 329 825 000 exported, vs 0 in the prior period.
A fragmentary humor column recounts a charity scene where a woman feeds two tramps who desert with a promise to beat it. Bittersweet anecdotes mix with jokes about editors and daily life, mentioning U.S. and Canada comparisons and local show plans.
An old advertisement pitches Cascarets as a night time remedy for sickness biliousness and constipation. It promises relief with mild laxative action for men women and children with 10 cent 25 cent and 50 cent box sizes and notes bites at drugstores.
Sorrow spread through Elko after the death of Carl McKee. A funeral held at 9 am drew a large crowd, with Rev Bruton leading service, wreaths adorning the casket, and burial beside his mother’s family grave in Elko Cemetery. Community notes report spring hints, water supply hopes, and local social events amid Alberta wool market figures.
A Cranbrook letter urges local farmers to back the Farmers Institute. It highlights gains from past efforts including an opened Agricultural Office, A J Hay’s leadership, a 50 percent tax reduction, and $6000 for Sheep industry extension. It calls for ongoing funding for staff, beetle control, youth clubs, crop competitions, and alfalfa seed initiatives, noting Canada’s farmland expansion and wheat gains.
The Herald invites letters on public interest issues accompanied by the writer’s signature and good faith, though opinions may be exercised by correspondents endorsed by the Herald.
A Denver oil man Courtland Dines is shot by Horace Greer at the end of a New Year celebration. Eva Purviance Malel Norman are pictured aboard a yacht with Dines as Miss Norman and her chauffeur Greer appear in the report.
The article traces Fort Rouge Fort Gibraltar and Fort Douglas at the Red and Assiniboine junction. It notes the Hudson’s Bay and North West Company feuds, 1821 amalgamation, and the evolution from trading post to governmental center. Lower Fort Garry began in 1881 and Upper Fort Garry served for 80 years as the city’s core before its 1882 sale. The remaining gate sits beside the Can d railways hotel.
A collage of dated humor and vignettes. A tavern tale about glitter and a flask ends in tragedy, a photographer scene with a misfit clothes line gag, a teacher quiz on perseverance, and a quip about cars and a moon phase pollution.
Local readers praise Vicks VapoRub for cold relief with a Brandon Manitoba user testimonial. The ad notes external application, inhalation of vapors, price of 60 cents a jar, free test size offer from Vicks Chemical Co. and broad sales in the United States.
An old advertisement promises instant relief from indigestion and stomach misery after taking one or two Pape's Diapepsin tablets. It claims heavy pain heartburn flatulence and sour stomach end quickly and that a package is guaranteed by the druggist for only a few cents.
A Winnipeg Board of Trade inquiry notes Canadian competition in flour exports to the West Indies and South America remains intense. The Topeka export business is not expected to grow due to keen Canadian competition.
A vintage ad urges mothers to use California Fig Syrup to ease children's bowels and prevent illness, noting a teaspoonful today may avert sickness tomorrow. It warns buyers to ask for genuine California Fig Syrup and to say California to avoid imitations.
The notice details pre emptions for vacant surveyed lands to British subjects over 18 and aliens declaring intention to become British. It explains residence occupation and improvements for agricultural use, with forms from the Department of Lands in Victoria. It covers land not timbered, with size thresholds west and east of ranges, and outlines five year occupancy with $10 per acre improvements before Crown Grant. It also notes purchase and lease terms for Crown lands, minimum prices, homesite leases, and grazing/industrial lease rules under Grazing Act districts.
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