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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 23, 1926
Page
4
The article lauds a recent fair's success, urging broader exhibits next year and noting strong local service club support. It also analyzes provincial party lines, calls for a prairie Conservative convention, and stresses the importance of leadership and public trust in business and politics.
Readable portions show prize awards across poultry rabbits vegetables fruit plates and crafts. Winners include J A McDonald Roosville Invermere J H Morland Invermere Geo Hannant Wasa and R R Bruce Roosville among many securing firsts seconds and special prizes across classes 55 57 58 60 61 and 62 with focus on apples vegetables stock roots and fancy goods.
A large prize list records winners across many classes and sections. Names include Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Healey, Miss Mott, Mrs. Stedman, and Mrs. Baynes among others. Exhibits cover oil colors, photography, needlework, drawing, handcrafts, and school displays with numerous firsts and seconds noted.
Major Ralph Glyn MP of London with Mrs Glyn and Lord Long toured Lake Windermere and the Dominion Government Experimental Farm to scout emigration potential. They head to Golden to catch the Trans-Canada for Vancouver while hunting outfits are prepared for big game season. Local guides Conrad Kain Walter Nixon Wilbur Nixon lead parties including Fleming Dobbs and Kin Caird in multiweek expeditions into the Selkirks and Little Vermilion headwaters.
R Randolph Bruce has left to join the staff of the Imperial Bank at Calgary. While here Mr McBey had charge of the Boy Scouts, who held a farewell party yesterday afternoon. Miss Florence Erickson traveled to Vancouver to enter the University of British Columbia for Public Health Nursing. She served overseas as a V A D during the war and, on return, completed three years of training at St Luke's Hospital Spokane.
Extracts from the Cranbrook Herald twenty years ago note Mr. Roberts succeeds Mr. Prest as city clerk. Roberts, known for his work with Arnold and Roberts and as Board of Trade secretary, is praised for loyalty and ability. A. C. Bowness buys the Fink Mercantile Co. building and will take possession December 1. Fink Mercantile building work progresses satisfactorily.
The discussion moves away from linking evolution to monkeys and toward the idea that monkeys have organized, challenging the claim that humans alone bear responsibility for social outcomes.
A woman unable to meet car payments tried to end her life after she faced repossession. The article notes deaths linked to motor vehicles and urges attention to automobile reliance as a societal issue.
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