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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 16, 1926
Page
2
The piece warns against worthless checks and reckless banking, urging readers to guard their accounts and maintain honesty. It condemns men who abandon loyal wives for frivolous drifters, cites literature on marital faithfulness, and cautions against financial imprudence and moral laxity.
A preface warns that scientific progress cannot override moral law. It recounts the hangings of Ger ald Chapman at Hartford and Dutch Anderson's earlier death, noting their high intellect and early criminal records. The piece portrays their downfall as universal punishment for crime.
Chapter four of the Pathe Police serial Into the Net features Mrs. Fawcette luring Madge Clayton into a criminal gang and a tense cat and mouse by detectives. Dr Vining uses shadowing tactics to trap Bert Moore and Clayton as alarms echo from a Cumberland firehouse.
Victoria Times notes under Hotel Lobby Gossip that coal industry adjustments on Vancouver Island centers could boost prospects for white miners. Professor R S Baker, visiting Victoria after inspecting financial conditions across island towns from here to Alberni and Campbell River, comments on the mining outlook.
In Cumberland staffs of the mines were cut and 1,200 Chinese were dismissed. Official notes that as business rebounds these positions will be filled largely by white workers, improving general conditions. Alberni benefits from timber boom with Great Central Lake activity boosting business. Campbell River sees Willows Hotel reopen and logging, but island highways are isolated and impassable, deterring motorists.
The Scarlet Streak continues with Jack Daugherty and a mystery of a star reporter and sweetheart after a car crash. Crawford the scarlet ray inventor is kidnapped by the Monk’s henchmen while a dead body is claimed to be Crawford in the inventor’s lab.
Samuel McLeod of Royston B C sawmill operator gives notice in the Nanaimo Land Recording District of an intention to lease foreshore parcels locating Lots A and B Map 2243 and Lot A Map 3261 in Comox District. The description covers 20 acres more or less starting at a post at high tide mark and follows the shore from low to high tide marks. Dated March 24 1926.
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