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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 17, 1921
Page
5
Ancient Order of Foresters holds meetings on the second and fourth Wednesdays each month at the Fraternity Hall on Dunsmuir Avenue. Visiting brethren are invited. Officers listed: Hugh McLean Davidson C Ranger. Eaton Secretary. F Slaughter Treasurer.
The Great War Veterans Association holds its weekly meeting every Tuesday at 7 o clock in Memorial Hall.
Vancouver’s Y M C A faces near bankruptcy as merchants and public appeals struggle to raise about 25 000 to salvage the stalled palatial project. A troubled history includes a failed building program, a bank collapse, and repeated tag day drives with little relief.
A sensational birth control controversy unfolds in a local daily with a flood of letters from readers including a prominent unmarried woman and high school girls. A group called the Sorority of Thinking Girls asks for justice for our sex as publishers discuss launching a women’s viewpoint journal. Par sons raise protests.
A wit recalls earning a scar in London by leaping through a plate glass window on Armistice night. He admits the act was impulsive and uncertain, but he chose it as a spontaneous, if reckless, idea at the moment.
Labor unions in Vancouver have raised 1400 dollars for starving Russians. A second drive targets funds for the defense of the publisher of The Federationist who is charged with printing advertising matter for a pamphlet defending alleged criminal Red policies.
A large group of tramps marching in Vancouver carry a banner demanding food and shelter. They claim to come from Winnipeg and say their fares were paid for one day. many arrived hungry and desperate as Vancouver faces rising unemployment.
A chain of five deadly incidents over a weekend and three more the prior weekend marks Vancouver area news. The week ends saw a Japanese suicide a fall from stairs a deckhand killing and a man struck by a car within twenty hours. Earlier weekends recorded multiple violent deaths.
A veiled young girl, calling herself a close family friend, attends nearly every prominent funeral in Vancouver. She visits morgues soon after removal and returns several times, displaying intense grief. Undertakers are puzzled, deeming her condition acute morbidity with no specific death interest.
New Westminster bids for river towing contracts drew eight applicants this week, five from unnamed firms. The report notes a cynical line about men and honesty after the market mention.
Minna Irving writes in the New York Sun about the moon likened to Aladdin’s lamp, turning sands to gold and cans to platinum, transforming a gloomy shore into a scene where couples find romance under moonlight.
Vera's dinner with a serious parson leads to a joke about missions and a Bulgarian tax on women. The parson claims his mission is to save young men, and the girl humorously shifts to worry about shoulder-visibility taxes, noting a $100 levy could grow to $1000 for American women.
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