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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 30, 1904
Page
1
Joe Boyle and Frank Slavin travel from Dawson City to Juneau Alaska. With police forbidding boxing Boyle turns to entertainment singing monologue and piano, drawing a packed crowd and ending as the town’s most popular figure.
A correspondent recalls the December 1857 to January 1858 general election for Canada East and West Parliament. He notes 65 seats each side, Reformers 88 and Conservatives 27 in the west, Brown elected in two ridings but resigning North Oxford, Macdougall elected in May 1808, and Ontario’s Mowat Atkins Carling Howland Stirton among seven living Ha members. He cites Macdonald Cartier government’s majority and provides memory-based details with caution.
The article cites Stupart on Klondike climate with average, summer and winter temperatures and frost dates, then shifts to critiques of newspaper headings and the value of concise news. It reports Rev G Walton’s census of Eskimos at Port George, counting 174 individuals in 42 Anglican households, with heads such as Ooch aungwak and wife Melukto, noting literacy.
The North Star editor witnessed Parry Sound Hospital X ray demonstrations. The device used a Roentgen tube powered by a water motor and a vacuum tube to reveal bones and heart activity. A later electro-pathic treatment showed nerves and muscles responding to electric stimulation.
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