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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Mar 07, 1907
Page
3
The piece extols home taught manners over school books and urges filling life with sunshine. It praises everyday virtue from mothers nursing sick children to ordinary women facing danger, arguing small acts earn the brightest rewards from a benevolent providence.
Editorial urges mothers to train boys beyond prayer, stressing hard work, honesty, and resilience. It contrasts worthy parenting with idle behavior and extols a woman’s quiet heroism, noting ordinary mothers bear unseen burdens while men seek recognition.
In Cranbrook today multiple items surface: government inspectors with Mr. Forrest from Northwestern Central visit the North Star bowel. Dr. King returns from an East Coast lectures trip with strong support from district friends. The Moyie steamer receives thanks for passengers during quarantine. Local licenses, new school teaching, and plans for additional rental houses are reported along with arrivals from Manitoba and Rossland merchants.
A Sun essay recalls John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers discussing mine weighing methods. The piece recounts a past “fist and pound” method born in Scranton with a grocery punchline where a man balances a pound with his fist. The anecdote ends with a pair of red herrings for honesty.
At the Atlanta Baptist conference a minister urged sending a letter of commendation to John D. Rockefeller for his education gifts. Attendees denounced Rockefeller as a robber and hypocrite while records cited his Standard Oil dividends and claimed his fortune ranges up to three hundred million dollars with about 20 percent of Standard Oil stock.
The British steamer Trafalgar completed unloading a 100000 foot lumber cargo for Sydney and sailed to the Antipodes via Ladysmith. Dundee and Forrie are listed for early next week and first Vancouver visit.
The piece recounts General Washington taking command at Cambridge beside the elm. He leans on the tree when his elbow slips from the slippery trunk provoking a witty exchange about the elm’s slipperiness. The anecdote appears in the February Woman's Home Companion, as quoted by Perrine Lambert.
A Virginia man questions a Richmond preacher about belief in all of the Bible. The pastor calmly asserts Balaam’s talking ass is as easy as a man talking like an ass. A second anecdote recalls a clergyman who feared reproof would anger the crowd and reveal an earlier insult from an "idiot" in chapel.
An Irishman returns from a political meeting and cheers for Ireland at a street corner. A surly passerby retorts with Hurrah for he is. The Irishman replies with a wry grin affirming the exchange and shared sentiment.
A playful exchange shows a lady questioning a milkman about afternoon delivery as he replies it is tomorrow morning's milk, illustrating a humorous misunderstanding. The brief vignette centers on mistaken delivery timing and a lighthearted fallback.
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