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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 27, 1906
Page
3
This excerpt blends a family pledge scene showing a father’s sobriety turning point with essays on temperance work and self reflection. It includes parable style advice on marriage and character, urging preservation of virtue, restraint, and hopeful living amid hardship.
The East Kootenay lumber firm details a 20 acre yard with a large warehouse, boiler rooms, and a central depot for hay grain and supplies. It describes a three-dine yard layout, a new mill superintendent cottage, and plans for extensive logging, sash and door production, and a 1000 electric light system powered independently.
A reflective admonition urges steady effort without overloading the mind with worry. It counsels balancing duties to stay fit for meaningful service and avoid fretful distraction that harms progress.
A garbled passage describes tension and solidarity among workers facing reform. It notes loyalty to leaders, shared distrust of management, and long-tenured employees who stay through industry shifts, highlighting collective cooperation amid uncertain labor conditions.
A Nixon era note recounts a Cranbrook gathering with visitors from Nelson and Spokane to tour the area, including the Chicamon Stone mine. Local church progress updates mention rapid Methodist church construction with an improved door. Notables like Mr. Dyer of the Exchange National Bank and Fort Steele merchants joined a Spokane‑to‑Cranbrook country visit before departing for Fort Steele.
The Free Reading Room in Watts block Cranbrook offers a free lending library with one hundred new volumes across social science natural science useful arts literature travel fiction biography and history. Residents may borrow two volumes for two weeks with five cents per book for late returns. The room also provides leading newspapers magazines and periodicals and welcomes all visitors.
Barber shop offers shaves haircuts shampoo sea foam massage and more in Cranbrook British Columbia opposite the post office.
Arthur Pigott of Cranbrook applies to the Chief Commissioner Lands and Works in Victoria for a special license to cut and carry timber on lands in East Kootenay. The parcel covers 640 acres, described as lot 6240, with specified boundary descriptions and a location dated August 16, 1906.
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