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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Feb 22, 1913
Page
6
Advertises a stock broking role in a city aid town with bonds mortgages and stocks. Requirements include references and annual capital from 190 to 500 dollars. Contact M R Exswar at 44 Victoria Street Toronto.
Toronto based school supplies telegraph operators for Canadian railways. In business for fifteen years with hundreds of officials and operators in service. The book Guided by the Mey explains the program. write for it to W. H. Shaw, president, Toronto.
Two lawyers exchange quips about a geometry proposition and a legal case. The First hints at a triangle angle sum of two right angles while the Second humorously references a case scenario. The exchange blends math with courtroom wordplay in a tongue in cheek note.
Rome reports the Sardinian canon Appeddu of Sassari Cathedral has been sentenced to fifteen years penal servitude after an extraordinary trial. Investigations reveal a long record of bank fraud and misappropriation to fund sugar speculation, with his valet implicated. He fled to Corsica as police probed the case.
London doors opened Christmas Eve for From Manger to Cross, a five act biblical panorama produced by a 42 member cast led by Henderson Bland. The two hour film recreates Jesus life with authentic costumes and Holy Land settings, drawing praise for historical accuracy and reverent reception.
Berlin reports a plan to present Reichstag with supplementary army estimates totaling about 18 million marks to strengthen aerial equipment. About 2.5 million may fund Zeppelin cruisers while the rest buys other airships. Doctor Solf has flown at Johannisthal and backs aviation funding for defense and colonial needs.
Nearly the entire Corsican police hunted Tomasco Paoli and followers to a Borgo grotto. After Paoli refused to surrender, bandits fired on guards, killing a gendarme. Reinforcements bombarded the cave but Paoli and others escaped through another opening.
Percy Gayton, a luggage porter on the London and Southwestern Railway, is named one of Exe ter city’s new magistrates and also serves on the city council. The report adds a social note on women’s impropriety toward husbands and risk taking when faced with loss.
A Vancouver dispatch describes a projected Pacific and Great Eastern Railway turning British Columbia into a north south development artery. The plan envisions links to the Grand Trunk Pacific and Peace River districts with provincial and federal support, expanding land routes to Alberta, the Yukon, and Alaska.
An advertisement extols Dr Thomas Electric Oil as widely popular and affordable. It notes growing inquiries from western Canada and the United States, with F W Happer citing daily requests for pre emption lands in British Columbia and a Canadian financial firm planning land seekers parties for the Nelson Valley in spring.
Mrs Philippe St. Pierre of St. Perpetue Quebec reports her baby was constipated and cross until Baby's Own Tablets were used. The tablets are a gentle safe laxative and are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
The Railway Buildings and machinery hall grading is nearly complete. The Buildings and Grounds Committee has awarded contracts for grading the entire exposition site and for Fulton Basin improvements to serve as a yacht harbor.
A preacher’s long sermon on prophets ends with a parishioner declaring he’s leaving. The tale plays on minor and major prophets and concludes humorously with Jeremiah demanding his place before departure.
A west end business house cashier returns from a fortnight holiday and distributes printed cards to colleagues. He thanks them, lists activities like walking fishing and golf, notes rainy weather, and then resumes work without further words.
A wry provincial saying notes that true sense or prudence appears either before engagement or after marriage, implying men reveal judgment only in these life moments.
England’s foremost contralto Clara Butt and her husband Kennerley Rumford will perform a grand recital at Walker Theatre in Winnipeg on Monday evening February 17, under Loudon Charlton management. The pair travel with three children and plan a tour of Canada and the United States amid prior engagements in New York and Australia.
Advertises PAZO OINTMENT promising cure of itching bleeding or protruding piles in six to fourteen days with a money back guarantee. Mentions refund by druggist if not cured. Proceeds claim includes a 50 cent price.
Mrs Exe teases about her husband dozing through a sermon while Mrs Wye reveals she woke him only after the service. The talk notes the sermon denouncing women's extravagance, though John did not hear it.
A burglar attempting to enter the Asnieres railway booking office wedged in a window aperture and shouted for help. Police pulled him out by the ears and took him to the lockup. The tale adds a quip about repeated promises and changing women.
Shipbuilding returns show a record production total for the United Kingdom last year at 2,125,832 tons, up from 2,042,928 tons the year before. The rise indicates stronger output in London area yards and other major shipyards across the country.
A curt dialogue contrasts a deceitful man who feigns affection for a baby with a remark that men have prices, and only a few are worth paying.
Paris registrar rejects Miles Kerguel for civil marriage as Lorient birth entry is missing from the register. The case hinges on nonexistence of official records and marital eligibility.
A newlywed couple discuss political work amid personal weariness. The conversation hints at public service pressures, restraint, and the clash between private life and political duties.
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