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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Feb 22, 1917
Page
2
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The Cranbrook Herald announces the editor and manager resign after fifteen months with the Herald under current owners. He thanks correspondents and readers for support and asks Cranbrook and district to back the remaining local paper amid tough news times. He notes fifteen years in the occupation and regrets leaving.
The article commends the Victoria Attorney General and Brewster Government for closing the segregated hillside area near Cranbrook and pledges to enforce laws against brothels. It urges public support, vigilant policing, and broader amendments to strengthen social vice enforcement.
The Herald announces under new management that the local press should shape policy to improve democracy in Canada and avoid insult. It rejects destructive criticism, invites full discussion, and welcomes women's political engagement while urging dignified, factual discourse.
Editorial calls for public ideas on postwar welfare policy, denounces autocratic power and economic parasites, urges Cranbrook citizens to submit legislation suggestions, and proposes a prize for the best idea while inviting reader responses.
The Rex Theatre plans to show The Battle of the Somme on February 28 and March 1 with no admission by pass for those nights. Cranbrook Trading Co advertises dry wood at four ricks nine dollars and two ricks four dollars seventy six cents. The Alexander Club to hold a Maple Fall dance, and the Knox Presbyterian Ladies Aid hosts a shamrock tea on March 17.
Cranbrook traders advertise apples at 1.86 a box and W B Black plans a move to larger quarters near the old East Kootenay store. The City of Cranbrook and Cranbrook School District announce the first Court of Revision for 1917 assessments at 10 o'clock March 2 in Cranbrook with written complaints due ten days prior.
A seasoned lumberman with twenty years of practical experience and good prairie yard connections seeks manufacturing partnership. He has a few thousand dollars to invest and wants to supply timber on a cash basis. Correspondence to P.O. Box 633 Nelson B.
An Calgary ledger notes a cash offer from Mackay and Dippie at 218 Sth Avenue with a long list of merchandise including garments and medical supplies. The piece records donations to the prisoners' bread fund for February 1917 totaling 6.10 with multiple donors listed by name and amount.
Jackson Mississippi reader Mrs J N Mettox describes relief after using Vinci a tonic she says restored health energy and stamina for a five member family she recommends the product to other tired mothers and housekeepers Cranbrook Drug & Book Co Cranbrook British Columbia outlets are listed for distribution.
A prominent newspaper figure recounts a decade-long struggle with a severe disease. He describes his legs in terrible condition and a nervous state before claiming eight bottles of a product named Hoaald wash fully cleared the illness. The paper offers a bottle on a personal guarantee.
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