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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1911
Page
7
Ward and Morris advertise new potatoes and fruit while Littles and Atchisons offer fresh produce. Social dance at the Auditorium tonight. CPR project funds and Coronation concert June 27 featured. Local residents travel, shop, and attend events. mention of schools, mines, and band concerts throughout Cranbrook.
Local items report a Cranbrook club formation The Peoples Fly Catchers and a sermon series at the Methodist church. Mrs Geo Harrington visitor from Toronto Brice Harrington wedding of Hugh Brock Master Taine Hilton missing boy W H Wilson trips to Victoria and Masonic grand lodge. Job ad for home workers and Wigen berries notes. Chamberlain's tablets promoted for digestion and Dr Ver Lees leaving Cranbrook for Vancouver.
The Coronation of King George V is observed today with local displays at businesses like Patmore Bros showcasing preserving kettles and supplies. A travel and entertainment note mentions Miss Havel Fleener visiting Cranbrook for a Presbyterian Church event, with details on her background and connections. The ad section promotes Chamberlain’s remedies for coughs and rheumatism, a post office construction contract in Cranbrook, and local wanted ads seeking pasture land.
A lighthearted Trade Secret item credits Senator Bacon of Georgia with praising the peanut. It notes the nut's nutrition and appeal and recounts a train vendor’s tip: leave one peanut with each passenger to trigger a sale. An inexperienced seller learns the trick from a seasoned vendor.
On July 12 1211 at ellock in the forenoon T Allen Earnhardt of Curzon Yahk P O intends to apply to the Water Commissioner in Cranbrook for a license to take and use one cubic foot of water per second from Elmera Creek in the Cranbrook Water District. Water to be taken from the stream about 1 1 chains from the S W corner of Lot 9161 Group One Kootenay District land to be used on sand Lot 101 for irrigation.
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