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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 07, 1905
Page
4
The Herald advertises at 1 per inch for display and 1 cent per line for reading matter with local rates five cents per line. it pledges independence from cliques and aims to be a credit to the community. It appeals to South East Kootenay readers to subscribe at ten dollars yearly and promises quality printing over charity.
The Greenwood Times discusses editorials on theft irony bias and newspaper labor. It argues for fair treatment of the Crantvo ol district, supporting J T King as representative and demanding return on taxes regardless of politics, urging a businesslike approach to funding.
Prose fragment warns that a quiet mouth yields more than loud talk while a seaside resort episode hints at a provocative scene with a precocious seven year old and an older belle. The piece juxtaposes financial boasts with gossip and cautionary verse about speech.
Residents urge businesslike municipal management for Cranbrook as Labor Day crowds, wartime treaty talk, and local boosters fuel debate. A push to curb petty politics follows warnings of promises and mismanagement while Fernie and St Marys valley figures loom over the district's future prospects.
A collage of humorous quips and tales opens with a contralto exchange about clothing items, then shifts to a tale of three bears blocking miner Blalock in Grave Creek. The piece weaves aphorisms, a hotel anecdote, and a civil war title joke into a single playful column.
Granbrook news recounts long ago happenings including Judge Hutchison's Winnipeg trip for important business and a drunken sentence. The piece notes mining deals, land surveying partnerships, a new stage line, railway construction progress, coal distribution plans, and local store and post office changes amid a rapidly developing Kootenay town.
Mr ALN Mollat is appointed general manager of Breckenridge-Lind Coal Co Limited Lindbeek Alberta. His move prompts the departure of Mr and Mrs Mowat from Winnipeg. Mowat, educated at Royal High School Badinburgh and educated in Scotland, rose from bookkeeper to co optrodler and general supervisor, reorganizing operations from Mattawa Ontario to Victoria BC. The coal holdings lie on the Crows Nest Pass line with a large plant nearing completion. Lundbrek townsite is surveyed and lots will be offered after Mollat’s arrival.
A fragmentary item notes one stove and one heating unit for sale with an office stove and cook stove mentioned. The Detroit Tribune fragment references a Sunday school teacher and a humorous question about Eve and the serpent.
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