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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 14, 1919
Page
2
A long homily from Youths Companion uses farming imagery to teach that seedtime and harvest govern life. An acorn's patient growth becomes an oak over generations, illustrating home training, schooldays, hardships, joys, and moral consequences of sowing good or bad seeds.
The Argonaut reports during the Boy Scout week end camp the boys grew tired of cabin repairs and the scoutmaster urged an impromptu concert. One boy sang another danced and a pause followed.
A woman driver in a large motor car struck a man on a street crossing. The driver claimed careful driving with seven years’ experience while the injured man retorted that he had walked for fifty four years.
An Irishman in a jeweler’s asks why a ten dollar eight day clock is valuable. The clerk explains it runs eight days without winding and the man then wonders how long it would run if wound. The joke turns on the paradox of winding a clock that already lasts eight days.
A travel sketch notes how Lower California blurs the border from Yuma to the sea with sheriffs and a real line. It also recalls Bolshevik collapse rumors and a 1919 probate notice calling claims and debts due.
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