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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 28, 1906
Page
3
A reflective piece blends a dream of returning to the home of childhood with religious and domestic ideals. The narrator recalls a father mother and the sanctity of home, contrasting amid storms and social warnings about gambling, gender roles, and happiness rooted in contentment and family love.
A tribute extols the wife and mother as a steadfast beacon guiding breadwinners past rocks and shoals. Her cheerful spirit and brave attitude sustain family life and inspire others beyond her own four walls, lifting her value above rubies and shaping state and social life.
A Cranbrook Herald review notes Robinson and McKenzie commencing wall work, a house fire at Olin Suehenith-Wwies, hotel bar mirrors replaced, Dr W S Bell now overseeing dairy cattle health, T A Creighton's cherry curiosity, and Captain Miller’s failed steamer transfer at Libby with the Gwendoline wrecked on a ravine.
J Hanbury of Elko B C announces a thirty day notice to apply to The Chef Commissioner of Lands and Works for a Special License to cut and take timber from lands in South West Kootenay and South East Kootenay Measured land descriptions include Lot 66 Yahk Station Moyie river lease Lot 1897 with distances of eighty chains in multiple directions Lease areas described with place of commencement May 18 1906 Elko B C.
Sixty days after date 1 I intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works to purchase described lands in South East Kootenay B C. Beginning at a post at the southeast corner of lot 2047 group 1 then north 80 chains east 40 chains south 100 chains west 40 chains to the place of beginning containing 36 acres more or less dated May 8 1906 Roy C Myers signer
The synopsis outlines Dominion Lands homesteading in the British Columbia Railway Belt for one quarter section of 100 acres. Eligibility includes sole head of family or male over 18, with personal entry at the local land office. Plans require six months residence and cultivation over three years or residency with a parent or farm nearby. Notices to Ottawa needed six months before patent. Coal lands priced 10 dollars per acre for soft coal and 20 dollars for anthracite. maximum 320 acres per person or company. 10 cent royalty per ton of 2,000 pounds. By William W. Cory Deputy Minister of the Interior. Unauthorized publication not paid.
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