Long Range Tailoring Brings Metro Ideas to Small Cities
Hobberlin Limited expands long distance tailoring across the Dominion. With 854 retailers, the firm supplies samples and measures for hundreds of miles, operating a flagship building at 3 5 7 9 Richmond St F facing Yonge St. The model stabilizes dealer margins as Hobberlin controls design, cutters, and fabrics while serving nearly 900 dealers per season.
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Dominion
Great House of Hobberlin, Limited
Richmond St. F
Yonge St
Hobberlin’s
Canada
Hobberlin's
Hobberlin
Hepberlin’s
Europe
Cranbrook Agents Named for Hobberlin House
Cranbrook Co-Operative Stores Limited is listed as Cranbrook agents for the House of Hobberlin. The notice indicates an agency arrangement and local representation in Cranbrook.
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Cranbrook Co-Operative Stores, Ltd
Port Mann townsite lands exclusive agents named
William J. Darling joins Motherwell and Darling as exclusive Port Mann townsite agents for East Kootenay and Alberta. Hunt and Darling promote the new city with extensive inquiries from Canada and the U.S. Port Mann expected to attract rail, harbor, and wheat trade, with plans for mills steel works car plants and cold storage, plus substantial industrial growth by Mackenzie and Mann.
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William J. Darling
Motherwell and Darling
New Westminster
Port Mann
Mr. Darling
W. L. Darling
Hunt and Darling
East Kootenay
Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Pacific
Messrs. Mackenzie and Mann
Canadian Northern Pacific
Canadian Northern
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Mackenzie
Mann
Port Arthur
Lake Superior
Edmonton
For Sale Cranbrook fruit bushes and poultry items
For sale 500 red and black currant bushes 750 gooseberries Oregon Champion 2 White Plymouth Rock roosters White Plymouth Rock eggs good laying strain taking prize past two years at Cranbrook Agricultural Association two dollars per dot W. J. Hamilton Box 13 Cranbrook.
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Oregon
Plymouth Rock
Cranbrook Agricultural Association
W. J. Hamilton
Cranbrook
The Girl From Rector's proves harmless crowd draws
The auditorium was crowded Wednesday night to see The Girl From Rector's a farce comedy. Critics note poor staging and lack of feminine charm but call it amusing overall. A milch cow wanted for sale in the Herald office box B.
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Herald — Office
Rom Reetors
Burns challenges Johnson for world heavyweight title
Calgary raises $30,000 for a Labour Day bout as Tommy Burns, former heavyweight champion, challenges Jack Johnson for the world title. Burns offers to replace Johnson against Flynn in July and defeat Flynn to force a Johnson rematch.
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Winnipeg
Marcel
Calgary
Alberta
Tommy Burns
Pugilist
Jack Johnson
Burns
Johnson
Flynn
Over Seas Club social at Cranbrook branch event
Members of the Cranbrook Over Seas Club held their second social in Carmen's hall on Tuesday. The evening featured a whist drive, refreshments, and a dance with music by the club orchestra, signaling growing strength as membership reaches one hundred.
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Cranbrook
The
Over Seas Club
Carmen's Hall
Suffragette Smashing Raid Trial Opens in London
A special sitting of the London sessions opened to try 125 women picked up after window smashing raids on March 1 and 4. Travers Humphreys, for the treasury, called the raids an organized attack on property and not tolerable. Judge Robert Wallace sentenced several suffragettes to four to six months' imprisonment.
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London
County of
Robert Wallace
Women Bound Over After Offence Admission
Records note that in some cases the women who undertook not to repeat the offence were bound over to come up for judgment if called upon.
Home Rule for Scotland Bill Introduced in Commons
Dr. Chapple introduces a bill to establish a Scottish parliament to handle Scotland only. The crown would hold executive power, with administration by a Scottish privy council committee answerable to parliament. The bill allows Scotland to levy certain taxes, sets financial adjustment terms, and reserves imperial supremacy.
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London
Scotland
Chapple
Stirlingshire
Scottish Privy Council
Fig Pills Restore Brother After Long Ailment
A St. John New Brunswick reader reports that after kidney stomach and bowel troubles doctors gave up, five boxes of Fig Pills restored health. The testimonial notes improvement and urges others to try Fig Pills sold by The Fig Pill Co. and Cranbrook Drug & Book Co.
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St. John, N.B
J. W. Manners
Fig Pill Co
St. Thomas, Ont
Cranbrook Drug & Book Co., Ltd
Transfer of Cranbrook Hotel License Possible to Alexander Cameron
Notice that an application will be made to Cranbrook Board of License Commissioners thirty days after this notice for transfer of the Hotel License held by Eneas Harding Small for the Cosmopolitan Hotel on Baker Street, Cranbrook BC, to Alexander Cameron. Dated March 5 1912. 10-5t E H Small.
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Board of License
City of
Cranbrook
Eneas Harding Small
Baker Street
B. C
Alexander Cameron
E. H. Small
Duplicate Certificate of Title Issued for Cranbrook Lot
Notice of an application to issue a duplicate Certificate of Title for Lot 13 Block 145 Cranbrook District Lots 4 22 29 30 Group 1 Town Cranbrook Map 669. The duplicate certificate to be issued in the name of Charles Ernest Moffitt after one month from first publication. Certificate dated January 25 1908 at 9 40 a m and numbered TBA.
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Cranbrook
Charles Ernest Moffitt
Elizabeth Amelia Moffitt
Saml
R. Roe
Nelson
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Commons
Miss Verna Felton
ALLEN
Grace George
Royal Hungarian String Quartette
Beattie-Murphy Co
Remin
Der
WWE
Cranbrook House
Quain Electric Company, Ltd
General Electric
Edison
Maurice Quain
P.O
Norbury Avenue
Sams
B.C
P. Burns & Co., Ltd
Alta
the Riverside Nurseries
Atill
Spy Tolntosh
Red
Cravenstein
David
F. H. Worthington
the Herald
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