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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Feb 04, 1922
Page
3
Rev Jag Hood announces morning service at 11 a.m. and evening service at 7 p.m. Bible class at 1.30 p.m. Sunday School at 2.30 p.m. Choir practice listed as Friday evening. The text includes a quirky exchange about luminous paint used to light a baby's face for nighttime feeding without lights.
The Inter-Empire Trade Organization opens its main offices in Vancouver after two years of preliminaries. Led by Colonel G. Douglas Hamilton with Captain D. F. Gorrie as secretary, the club seeks empire resource conservation and new industry support. It plans to obtain a £25,000,000 Parliamentary appropriation for trade and resource development.
Investigation into seasonal theft reveals young girls stealing finery due to parental money shortages. Several detected and cautioned confess they want to imitate wealthier peers. Two high school girls were caught. an elderly woman aided by a charitable group is cited. A well-to-do west end young woman is described as klepto mani a and sometimes restrained.
Vancouver article cites Prof. Malcolm Anstruther West, a London archaeology expert, visiting British Columbia. He refutes claims of widespread centenarians among Native Americans, noting records vanish after age 70 or 80 and tribal prestige inflates ages. He says Indians generally live no longer than whites, often shorter.
Vancouver report notes that Hughes serving five years for embezzlement has not his co religionists backing parole. They decline to engage though he is in ill health and has made restitution. The piece cites Wells and a Nashville Tennessean reflection on justice and peace.
A Dominion Experimental Farms report highlights northward farming potential in the Peace River District Alberta the Northwest Territories Yukon and Fort Vermilion. It notes hardy yields in grains oats flax and root crops with Marquis Huron Pride Prelude wheat and alfalfa showing promise and states substation results from Beaverlodge Grande Prairie Swedee Creek and other sites.
The report lists oats yields 50 60 and 34 2 3 bushels per acre for three varieties, with Victory oats at 105 bushels and Banner at 134 bushels. Beets cabbage carrots lettuce parsley and peas also perform well and celery is described as exceptionally good.
Pessimists and advertisers are named and skewered in a satirical critique. The verse targets salespeople, insurance canvassers, performers, perfume users, writers of fiction, and self proclaimed prophets. It ridicules those who hype ruin or profit from others fears.
A sweeping denunciation condemns tyrannical husbands and women who toy with men abroad, while attacking cheats, frauds, quacks, crooks, gossips, busybodies, and a broad array of social nuisances across all groups and colors.
The Union Jack flies atop a 215 foot flagstaff at Kew Gardens after deducting 10 feet underground. It is, aside from one taller example in San Francisco, the tallest flagstaff erected. The log came from a 225 foot Douglas fir gifted by British Columbia and once lay on a Vancouver street before shipment.
Doris at seven asks why study piano when heaven has harps. Her mother comforts her by saying harps are played in heaven, reinforcing the idea that piano practice remains worthwhile.
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