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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 30, 1909
Page
6
The essay urges noble character in youth and unselfish, steadfast motherhood. It argues women bear vast care at home, calls for thrift and partial financial freedom, and asks daughters to assist mothers. It emphasizes kindness, prayer, and daily mental and reading exercises to enrich life.
A West London magistrate freed Sarah Acca after evidence failed to prove she knowingly received four valuable pictures from a thief. The burglar John Smith confessed to the theft and urged mercy for the elderly dealer, saying she was innocent. In Yarmouth a constable was killed and two women wounded in a shooting at a private home, as Thomas Allen faced charges for the constable’s murder. In Westminster, an 80-year-old man sued a cartage contractor over injuries from a heavy van, and a ship London Hill endured a Cape Horn hurricane with crew injuries and equipment loss.
Advice urges women to stay mentally active for themselves and their families. It promises a husband’s fuller confidence, a deeper loving trust, and children’s pride if a wife remains an intelligent, engaged partner.
Mr Cowan preached a farewell sermon at St Andrews Church to a large audience then left for Winnipeg to attend Manitoba College. Mrs Rae Ciron and Miss Minnie Service visited Cranbrook friends. A box social in Library hall raised 61.00 for Mr Cowan before his departure. D Breckenridge was in Jatiray on business.
The Rhyl bench heard Inspector Pearson describe the deterioration of William Edward Jones who fled a court drunk and violent, while a South Shields inquest into Captain Duncan McGregor of the Loughborough linked his death to an insane accidental demise after a shipboard struggle. Other items note Mrs. Hawkins winning £210 at Tiverton show for raising sixteen children, Alfred King’s bike bus revenge, William Wilson’s backdoor love warning, Rosina Simpson’s parole plea, Royal Field Artillery Territorials’ knotted tide dash at Knott Rod, Fleetwood, and an Italian ice cream worker spared harsher punishment for a spree and assault.
Notices announce Allan G. Wilmot of Waffray BC intends to purchase lands around Kootenay River island and adjacent Lot 34, Group 1 East Kootenay, with detailed boundary measurements. James W. Blake of Skookumehuck BC seeks consent to acquire a 400 acre parcel with described posts and lots, dated September 28, 1909.
Two notices announce intents to purchase land in the Cranbrook East Kootenay area. John Pluhrer of Trail seeks 320 acres along the Kootenay river for a Pinehurst style parcel. Frederick Kummer of Cranbrook seeks 200 acres along the Kootenay river in an adjoining tract.
I A L Couzens of Marysville BC intends to apply for permission to purchase lands in the Granbrook Land District East Kootenay described as the north east corner of pre emption 1082 including a 40 chain cast and river boundary to Hans Lands pre emption with St Marys River as a landmark. Dated July 28 1909.
District of Southern Division, East Kootenay, gives notice that Robert Burns Benedict of Cranbrook BC intends to apply for permission to purchase lands described as the N E cover of PR 1131 totaling 400 acres more or less. Dated July 31, 1909. 22 9
John Crush Merington of Cranbrook seeks permission to purchase 160 acres described as starting at a post near Lot 15 then 80 rods south 20 chains west 81 chains north and 20 chains east to the Koootenay River, dated September 4 1909.
Charles Reginald Ward of Cranbrook BC Civil Engineer applies to Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works Victoria BC for permission to buy land on the north bank of Munroe Creek described as 20 acres more or less bounded by the creek and directions of 80 chain sides and 40 chain sides, dated July 15 1900.
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