Ilo-Ilo Hall Opens With Grand March and Large Attendance
The Ilo-Ilo Dance Hall opened on Thursday evening drawing about seventy couples and a large crowd. Cumberland Symphony Orchestra provided music as Mr and Mrs Thornley led the Grand March. Dances continued to 280 with Home Waltz and God Save the King. Plans are spoken of for regular future entertainments in the Ilo-Ilo Hall. Simon Leiser & Co Ltd prep for grand millinery opening to be announced later. A dance at West Cumberland Band Hall is slated for Saturday Aug 15 with West Cumberland Conservative Band providing music. Gent 50 cents Ladies free.
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Dunsmuir) Ltd
Shipping notes from Union Bay Coaling Wharves
The local mines operate daily and seven steamers plus several scows crowd the Union Bay Coaling Wharves awaiting coal. Vessels include J. C. Potter for coke Donald D for Edmonton Construction coal Clayburn with scows and LaTouche for cargo and bunker coal. Thor due tomorrow for 7 500 tons and Protest laus for 8000 tons. Scows loading fire clay. Last lines offer a moral quip about swallows and heaven.
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Local notes on jobs, transport and events in Cumberland
The itemized notices include Englishwoman seeking daily work via the Islander office. Harry Devlin leaving for Nanaimo as mine inspector. The New Home Bakery buying a Ford delivery car for district bread supply. Chas Brown of Victoria plans a heating and plumbing business. a grand football match Ladysmith vs West Cumberland United on August 16, 1914 at Recreation Grounds.
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Italy massed for war on Austrian border amid global tensions
Reports from Rome and Bern place Italy on the brink with a quarter million troops mobilized. London and Paris dispatches note German and Russian actions, with naval skirmishes and troop movements across Europe, while Australia pledges aid to Britain and Germany claims food sufficiency.
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