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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 30, 1910
Page
2
In Donner Flat a sunbaked frontier town, Poker Jack Ostrander shoots Indian Pete during a confrontation outside the Mohawk saloon after a dramatic letter reading and a brutal lightning storm. Ostrander dies from a gunshot wound, leaving a note to a Miss Maudie and a town in mourning.
A survey of Canada’s urban growth in 1909 outlines rising building permits, higher assessments, and population increases across cities such as Brandon Brockville Belleville Brantford Calgary Edmonton Port Arthur Montreal Toronto and Vancouver. It notes expansions in real property values, municipal debt, and new infrastructure projects reflecting nationwide development.
A dispersed collage cites global defense spending on air travel and aircraft, war punishments, Irish potato yields, and a quoted poem from Lyrics of Life by Florence Harle Coates. It mentions Weather Bureau storm warnings, a Simon de Montfort origin, and varied mortality notes, interleaved with literary lines.
A fragment describes residents pledging support for a friend in a local town and notes eight purveyors of stimulants, their assistants, and two general merchandise dealers as the population body. A narrow-gauge train then heads eastward over the desert on the next trip.
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