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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 05, 1923
Page
2
A well known elocutionist will perform two programs Friday in Cranbrook, featuring entertainment linked to provincial fair successes by local youth in stock judging. Coverage praises farming as district backbone and notes broader hopes for freight rates reform and rail policy amid political maneuvering.
Twenty years ago this date features the marriage of D. A. Burton and Miss B. Ryckman with a Nova Scotia honeymoon. Patore joins his brother E G Patmore in Fernie business. Palmer Bar district gets a post office at Wattsburg Lumber Co. fevered election hot with Dr King and T D Caven as candidates. Drummond returns east with Mrs Drummond and resumes passenger east run. A Wilmer wedding couple honeymooned by horseback over the Rockies to the prairies with horses for sale to farmers.
Sunday night two youths aged 16 and 17 forced entry into three local stores and partially into a fourth on Armstrong Avenue. They unlocked a back door at CP MacDonald’s grocer, gaining about $15 and cigarettes, then moved to W. W. Kilby’s store. One boy previously reported found boots to police. The pair, first-time offenders, were drawn into crime seeking quick riches and a glimpse of the world.
The London Telegraph notes the Bible sales paradox while the Regina Leader-Post endorses Hon. Frank Oliver’s appointment to the railway commission as a western-balanced, outspoken voice. The piece argues for fair treatment of western interests and a square deal for all regions.
Police connected the string of break-ins to two young suspects who forced entry at Little and Atchison and Delany and Sinclair stores and damaged doors and windows. They seized small sums and various items before being located on Viow Horne Street where two youths were found with silver and coins. The case proceeds before Justice Treberis on Wednesday afternoon.
The piece appears in the Poland China Journal from Kansas City and quotes biblical verses and a devotional sequence for October days. It centers on rural life themes, religio moral reflections, and agricultural culture shaping the fowler’s perspective.
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