Town Topics From Green's Repair Shop and Local Notes
Local items include a new extra police presence on Saturday night, a dairy butter sale at Ward and Harris, and cold weather records with five below zero. Various townspeople visit Nelson, Cranbrook, and Spokane, while Hillside Dairy ships cattle to Alberta. The Ladies Guild hosts a tea, and Cranbrook Agricultural Association meets at city hall. George Can, wounded frontward of the 11th Hussars, returns to Sirdar. searches for Hugh Doherty in St John. Norman and Mrs McClure celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on St Marys Prairie.
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Norman H. McClure
St. Mary's Prairie
Ward and Harris offer pickles olives and sauces
Numerous notices describe Ward and Harris stock including Mrs G H Thompson convalescing, various local visits, and community events. The era’s ads note skates ground at Green's and a Cranbrook bylaw discussion, plus church sales, funerals, and sporting club dances.
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Ward & Harris
Fined for Breaking the Game Laws at Fort Steele
At Fort Steele on Monday before R I Galbraith convicts under the Game Act include Robert Davis fined 28 dollars and costs for selling game during the close season. Another Davis fined 25 dollars and costs for exposing deer for sale without the head. James Queen fined 60 dollars for selling big game during close season. Julius Queen fined 60 dollars for selling big game during close season. The deer sale season closed on the 16th of last month.
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Fort Steele
R. I. T. Galbraith
Robert Davis
James Queen
Julius Queen
Rejected Canadians Return Home Under Guard
Edinburgh on November 18 reports forty six soldiers discharged from the Canadian contingent as ineligible, likely due to German or Austrian nationality. They arrived in Glasgow Wednesday under an armed escort of Canadian troops aboard a Donaldson liner.
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Edinburgh
Glasgow
Donaldson Vier
Canada
Letter From Cranbrook Boy Describes Move To Quebec Rifles
A Cranbrook recipient, Ted Ketteringham, writes aboard the troopship Scotian dated October 5, narrating Cranbrook and Fernie volunteers splitting into regiments, sea voyage hardship, seasickness, and personal duty as battalion scout. He mentions Charlie McCowan in kilts, some joining Dragoons and Strathcona Horse, and fifty three East Kootenay men remaining with the Quebec Rifles. He ends with Christmas wishes.
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H. Palmer
J D. McBride Co
Ted” Ketteringham
Cranbrook
Tubaist
Quebec
Fernie
Charlie McCowan
Dragoons
Strathcona
Scotian
Walter Chambers
The Last Days of Pompeii at Rex Theatre
The Rex theatre presents George Kleine’s photo drama The Last Days of Pompeii, recalling Vesuvius eruption with dramatic imagery. Based on Lord Bulwer Lytton’s tale, it opens Friday November 27 for two nights and uses scientific data and reconstruction to convey the catastrophe.
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Lord Bulwer Lytton
Pompeii
George Kleine
Lord Lytton
Mr. Kleine
Rex Theatre
Gymnastic Exhibition by Young Men's Club
A gymnastic exhibition by the Young Men's Club classes is set for Thursday November 26 at 8 oclock in the gymnasium. Physical Instructor Mirans will demonstrate lance use in warfare. Mirans a twelve year veteran trooper of the Ninth Lancers. The program includes free calisthenics obstacle race junior girls marching drill stinging the monkey parallel bar display driving competition ladies driving lant exercises by Mr Mirang vaulting horse display and a 16 cent admission.
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Mirans
Lancers
Mirang
Ottawa Soldier's Letter Describes Salisbury Plain Incident
A private letter from Salisbury Plain details a camp incident in which a sentry fired on an intruder by the big water tanks. The intruder was killed and cholera germ vials found on the body. The writer says authorities hushed the matter and it did not appear in the press.
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Ottawa
Ont
Salisbury Plain
Your Wife Can Tell If You're Lying to Her
New York reports Dr. Louisa Burns of the Still Research Institute says the pulse reveals deception. In a Park Avenue lecture to the Osteopathic society she compared pulse readings to a dictagraph and warned that steady blood pressure betrays lies.
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New York
Louisa Burns
Still Research Institute
Chicago
New York Osteopathic Society
Park Avenue Hotel
General De Wet Seriously Wounded In Head
London dispatch reports Christian De Wet, who led the Orange Free State rebellion, is wounded in the head. De Wet’s followers are said to be dejected, poorly armed, and short on ammunition. Also noted is Dr Spencer’s Sunday night sermon on “The Biggest Real Estate Deal In the World” at the Baptist Church.
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London
Pretoria
Reuter’s Telegraph Co
Christian de Wet
Orange Free State
Transveal
de Wet
Dr. Spencer
the Baptist Churel
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G. F. Pownall
Fish Lakes
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W. A. Nisbet
Nelson
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Liverpool
England
Hillside Dairy
Alberta
Ladies of Christ Church Guild
P. A. Grenon
A. Gaudy
Spokane
Wash
Slaterville
Lees
A. A. Johnson
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Simcoe
Mr. Darling
Poole Drug Co
Wm. Barclay
Windermere
B.C
GC. J. Stevens
Coleman
Alta
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Salvation Army
Sunshine Society
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Victoria
Willow Park
Cranbrook District Agricultural Association
George Can
11Th Hussars
Yorkshire Light Infantry
Sirdar
Hugh Doherty
Daniel Doherty
St. John
N.B
United States
British Columbia
G. H. Thompson
Jonathan
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Ward & Harri
Spencer
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Gov. B. Henderson
Bull River
Norbury
First Avenue
W. B. Cline
Edmonton
Capt. Davies
Fred Small
Canal Flats
Christ Church
W. BE. Dunham
Rossland
Methodist Church
A. Sturock
Calgary
A. Mallinson
Winnipeg
Price Ellison
Finance and Agriculture
The
Nelson Agricultural and Industrial Association
Mrs. Branning
Miss Nutt
Moyle
Cranbrook Electric Light Co
Hickenbotham
Cranbrook Ward
L. J. Peake
T. H. Lee
Athalmer
Peake
A. Mograw
Vernon
City
R. L. T. Galbraith
Tobacco Plains
Poultry Association
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Dr. Green
Fred J. Smythe
Moyle Leader
Similkameen Star
Princeton
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East Kotenay
St. John's Ambulance Corps
J. W. Drew
J. H. King
Louis
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Jackes
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Duke of Connaught
Red Cross
BE. A. Hill
Central Hotel
Magic Orchestra
Seernere
Cranbrook Tennis Club
Masonic Hall
Steve Clancy
Adams
Nai Mori
Vancouver
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Beatty Undertaking
W. K. Thomson
Edison Theatre
J. Fingal Smith
M Smith
Consolidated Company
St. Eogene
G. G. King
Chipman
N. B
J. H King
Baird
Andover
St. John’s Ambulance Corps
Ted Kettringham
Enroy Poppy
Ted
Mt. Vesuvius
Preveus
Bay of
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Perry Creek
Wagner
C.J. Twonard’s
Armstrong Ave
Otice
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L. J Hoag
Pinder Station
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Halifax
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