Home Happiness and Marriage Duty in Victorian Advice
A long excerpt argues that music, good housekeeping, and domestic hospitality protect marriage joy. It urges women to master home skills and husbands to love their wives, noting marriage as a moral, sacred bond beyond legal ceremony and detailing the personal risks and sacrifices a woman makes when marrying. It emphasizes courteous behavior, mutual affection, and the centrality of the home to happiness.
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Lake
Province notes: new wreck staff and rail plans
Captain Demers becomes wreck commissioner succeeding Spall under Admiral Kingsmill. Kamloops to Salmon Arm steamboat service via Thompson River and Shuswap Lake. Vancouver sells bonds to A. & B. Jervis for stamps. Fishing officer Charles Barnes named in Fisheries Service. Cowan resigns Vancouver city solicitor post to allow a civic legal department. O H Nelson to launch independent weekly in Prince Rupert. Lieut-Col Holmes to retire. James Peters to succeed. Lobster finds at Comox. largest five inches. Trail smelter copper furnace blown in. Nickel Plate mine at Hedley nets 300000. Princetons’ Cronin travels to Babine mountains. Revelstoke fruit goes to Calgary. Benton captured near Quesnel for Republic killing. Doukhobors to brick mills at Grand Forks. Rev Alex Dunn now Indian college professor. Reichenbach sells two stores to P Burns 0. Sovereign Lumber at Annis prep for next month. CPR plans new hotel at Lillooet head. Pasadena BC resort aim. Warm Chinook favors winter. Ussher says CPR ready for vast traffic with three daily trains and motor cars. Arrow Lakes Lumber opens season. new mill add over 20000 costs. New exhibition building planned. Masons in Grand Forks build temple. $500 reward for Grieve body. $250 by Grieve Bros.. $250 by government. Spokane & BC Railway to Spokane. One line to be ~100 miles. Prairie lumber demand boosts mountain timber. Burton and Pike to explore Triangle Island. Home equals waiting but tips debate.
Hungerford seeks to purchase 80 acres in Cranbrook district
George Hungerford of Cranbrook B C Timber Cruiser gives notice of intention to apply for permission to purchase lands in Cranbrook Land District District of South East Kootenay. Legal description begins at northeast corner Lot 2311 and encircles 80 acres more or less with precise chain measurements. Staked June 3 1909.
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George Hungerford
Cranbrook
B. C
Cranbrook Land District
South East Kootenay
Notice of land purchase application in Cranbrook District
James Horace King of Cranbrook B C physician gives notice of intent to apply for permission to purchase land in Cranbrook Land District South East Kootenay. Land described as 820 acres more or less bounded by a post 10 chains north of Lot 6238 corner lines and stake dated May 13 909 901 with George Hungerford as agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Horace King
Cranbrook
B. C
South East Kootenay
George Hungerford
Nellie May King
B. A
Cranbrook Land District
Kootenay
Nellis
Bargain for Quick Sale of Fruit Land in Moyie Valley
A limited offer for 20 acres of rich bottom land in the Moyie Valley between Curzon and Kilgane, with 100 fruit trees already planted and 100 more to be planted. Bounds include the Mosio River and Spokane International Railway, 24 miles from Curzon and 4.5 miles from Kilgagate. Priced at 50 per acre, total 5400 cash. Apply Box 194 Cranbrook BC.
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Curzon and
Kingsgate
Moyie
Curzon
Kilgagate
Ailith
Mosio River
Spokane International Railway
Cranbrook
B.C
Land Purchase Notice in Cranbrook District
Robert Stark of Victoria BC seeks permission to buy Lot 6257 totaling 160 acres, describing exact parcel boundaries and dates May 1909. The Robinson-McKenzie Lumber Co Ltd plans to apply to purchase land described by a separate boundary description with J W Robinson as president, dated June 12, 1909.
Notice of Application to Purchase 80 Acre Land by Maurice Quain
Maurice Quain of Cranbrook B C Electrician will apply within 60 days to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works Victoria for permission to purchase 80 acres described as starting at a post on the Upper Moyie Wagon road 20 chains west of Nigger Creek bridge, then 20 chains north 40 chains east 20 chains south 40 chains west back to start. Dated May 26 1909.
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Maurice Quain
Cranbrook
B. C
Notice of Land Purchase Application at Benedict's Siding
Peter Stewart Kington of Cranbrook British Columbia a cashier applies for permission to purchase land described by metes and bounds starting near Benedict's Siding on the Crows Nest Wasc division of the Canadian Pacific Railway right of way. The parcel measures approximately 250 acres and runs through multiple 20 chain segments and a final 80 chain north boundary. Dated May 11 1969.
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Kootenay
Peter Stewart Kington
Cranbrook
B. C
Benedict's Siding
Crows Nest
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Peter Stewart Idington
Cranbrook Land District Notice of Purchase Application
Herbert Howard McClure of Cranbrook British Columbia intends to apply to purchase land in the Cranbrook District South East Kootenay. The parcel is 160 acres more or less described starting at a post near Lot 7317 then 40 chains each direction forming a square. Staked April 23 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Howard McClure
Cranbrook
8. C
South East Kootenay
Notice of Land Claim by MalColm Colclough Idington Cranbrook
Malcolm Colclough Idington of Cranbrook applies for land described at the north east corner of Lot 6318 with a 160 acre tract bounded by 20 chain and 40 chain lines. Dated May 17 1009.
Notice of Land Purchase In Elk River Region
Archibald J Farquharson of Fernie British Columbia a contractor intends to apply for permission to probate spurn as described north east corner Lot W030 known as Laidlaw purchase on the west bank of the Elk River ten miles from Morrissey with chain measurements totaling 250 acres dated April 23 1909
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Archibald J. Farquharson
Fernie
British Columbia
Laidlaw
Elk River
Morrissey
Atquhargon
A. J. Fl
A. D
Local notice of partners seeking to purbane described land
District of East Kootenay notice lists Irving Howard Cameron Willson James Martin and Robert Stanley Chapman of Cranbrook B C as agents and bookkeepers intending to apply for permission to purbane land described by a post planted 20 chains east of the southwest corner indicating a formal land transaction inquiry.
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Irving Howard Cameron Willson
James Martin
Robert Stanley Chapman
Cranbrook
B. C
Property Boundaries of 400 Acres Described in 1909 Will
Legal notice cites Lot 6422 with a detailed boundary survey of 400 acres in Irving area. Names listed include Irving, Howard Cameron, Willson, James Martin, and Robert Stanley Chapman as agent. Dated April 15, 1909. Notary or notice end.
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Irving Howard Cameron Willson
James Martin
Robert Stanley Chapman
Notice of land purchase and coal prospecting rights
Nellie May King of Cranbrook applies to purchase property in Cranbrook Land District comprising 160 acres with a post at Lot boundary. George Hungerford, agent, notes the stake on April 26 1909. Lemuel L Langley locates 140 acres for coal and petroleum prospecting in Block 1693 near Langley claim post, located May 10 1909.
Miner seeks purchase rights for Anise land near Kootenay River
Arthur E Hale of New Westminster seeks licenses to acquire Anise land described along the Kootenay River about 24 miles above Skookumehuck Creek. The claim traces a post on the west bank then runs 40 chains south 20 east 40 north and 20 west to complete the parcel. Dated May 7 1900.
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Arthur EB. Hale
New Westminster
H. C
Jciuissies
Kootenay River
Skookumehuck Creek
Kootenay
Arthur E. Hale
William John Moore
Tarrant Mineral Claim Location Notice 1909
J William Tarrant intends within sixty days to apply for a Certificate of Improvements to obtain a Crown Grant for the Tarrant mineral claim on Lake Creek in East Kootenay District. Action under Section 37 must be commenced before the Certificate issues. Dated Cranbrook May 27 1909. Also Peter J Weber intends to purchase land described as 40 acres starting at George Coldbird preemption with George Coldbird and M J Weber as locators, dated April 21 1909.
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Tarrant Mineral
Kort Steele Mining
East Kootenay District
J. William Tarrant
William Tarrant
Cranbrook
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Queen's Hotel
Calgary, Alberta
Calgary
H. L. Stephens
Canadian Hotel
Joseph Brault
HOTEL
ST. Francis
Cguas
Cor. Seymour Wid Cordova Sts
O. Pi. Station
Vancouver, B. C
Queens Hotel
Jack McDonald
Gust, Andren
Manitoba
J, Brown
M. Frost
Granbrook, B. C
Carpenters & Contractors
P. C
Cranbrook and Hosmer
Cranbrook Employment Agency
Manacer
Bullock & Webster
Demers
Commander Spall
Kingsmill
Kamloops
Salmon Arm
Thompson River
Shuswap Lake
Shcamous
Vancouver
A. &B. Jervis
Toronto
Charles Barnes
Victoria
Fisheries Protection
Marner
George H. Cowan
M. P
Cowan
O. H. Nelson
Victorian Times
Prince Rupert
Holmes
James Peters
London
Ont
D.0.c
No. 1
Comox
James Carthew
Mr. Carthew
Canada
Trail Smelter
Hedley
Princeton
Jim Cronin
Ashcroft
Babine Mounains
Revelstoke
Philip Benton
Ros Seibert
Republic
Quesnel
Grand Forks
Alex. Dunn
Fer‘nie
India
Reichenbach Company
Columbia Iet
Sapperton
P. Burns
Sovereign Lumber Company
Annis
Annesty Arm
C.P.R
Lillooet Lake
Pasadena
Lytton
Kanaka
Ek, Ussher
Arrow Lakes Lumber Company
The
Masonic Order of
Spokane
Prairies
W. FP. Burton
Warburton Pike
Triangle Island
Vancouver Island
Stewart’s
Hazlewood
Stewart's
Hugh Stewart
Robert Stark
Commissioner of Lands
S. BE
Stark
George Lloyd
Robinson-McKenzie Limber Co., Ltd
Robinson-McKenzie Lumber Co
J. W. Robinson
District OF Kootenay
Maurice. Quain
Al-Gt
District OF
Malcolm Colclough Idington
Saints
Les Malcolm Colelough
Kootenay Land District
East Kootenay
Joseph H. McLean
Sage
Hanson Avenue
Wing Lee
Raratoga
van Horne Street
B.C Louise
van Horne Streets
N. H B. Corner
L. L. Langley
Lemuel L. Langley
Certificate OF Ments
Lake Creek
Southeast
Peter J. Weber
Lethbridge
Alberta
N. W
George Coldbird
M. J. Weber
Chas. K. Morris
Hume Nelson
Babe
GEO
P. Wells
Proprietor
Tomkin
Henrys
Carden Tools
GEE
W. J. Henry
B. 6
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