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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 31, 1920
Page
8
A fishing rod in a round leather case on Comox Lake offers a $5 reward return to R. Rideout at the Lake or the Canadian Collieries Office. A silver hat pin with THISTLE DE sign was found on Courtenay Road near the slaughterhouse on Thursday evening. Suitable reward. Notify Box 278. 1-29.
Several properties and items offered for sale including a three room house by B Pearse, a motorcycle in excellent order via P O Box 105, Cumberland, and four acres of land with a three room dwelling and barn three miles from Cumberland via A R Wes ley. Prices and terms offered.
The piece argues the United States risks war with Japan over California's new land law. It cites Hearst influenced hostility, anti Japanese legislation, and fears diplomatic rupture sparked by national tensions. It also notes prejudices about assimilation and religion fueling anti Japanese sentiment.
A collection of cheeky questions about who caused a black eye, the 4 a.m. baby blast at Overland, gossips retreating, eggs on Sunday, a heart break song, Cumberland ladies polluting the dam, a short man with a long grin, married bachelors, a well dressed town passerby, a four in hand at Cross Roads, Capt. Mortimer’s residence makeover and party remarks about siestas.
Local figures and visitors frequent Cumberland this week. Mr. H. S. Fleming sails from the area to Victoria on Monday. Archdeacon Collisson of Comox plans a two week August visit to Kincouth on the Naas River. Mrs. Thomas Rickson returns with her sister Mrs. John Langham for a Cumberland stay. Dr. J. Briggs and Mrs. Briggs, touring Vancouver Island, are hosted by C. J. Bunbury.
Geologists offer varying estimates for the falls age from about 420 feet in height at earlier times to a river origin dating ranges from 9 000 to 65 000 years. Early figures placed the Niagara River formation around 65 000 years ago with later revisions to 12 000 35 000 and 9 000 years.
The Comox Logging and Railway Co hosted a festive dance Saturday night marking the opening of a new bunkhouse at Boom Camp near Royston. About a thousand attendees from Campbell River Union Bay Cumberland and beyond joined the event with Little's Jazz Band providing music. The 120 by 22 foot bunkhouse features a concrete basement central heating two sleeping rooms each with sixteen beds hot and cold water showers and a verandah overlook Comox Harbor and the Mainland mountains.
An American passenger jokes about British monuments as the bus passes Pall Mall and Nelson’s Column. The conductor notes George III and London sights, while a final quip mentions a mosquito with 22 teeth.
A fragmented verse laments tobacco as a dirty weed that harms and hypnotizes the speaker. It mocks social niceties and hints at law trouble while praising the product's fleeting pageantry.
The temperance reformer boasts of converting the town’s biggest drinker who became a gravedigger. On stage he recounts sobriety for a month and plans to buy a coffin with brass fittings if he remains teetotal. An offhand exchange about a dress underscores social satire in the scene.
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