Local Briefs from Victoria and Vancouver Trips
Local items note multiple residents traveling to Victoria for church events and meetings. Rev. James Hood, Rev. W Leversedge, and T H Mumford attended Anglican Synod and returned. others like Mr and Mrs Haworth and See W A Owen also tripped to Victoria or Vancouver. Mrs Nellie Pettipiece of Vancouver visited the Review and received a Dresden China tea set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. H. Mumford
Victoria
Anglican Church
W. Leversedge
Nellie Pettipiece
Vancouver
Women's Benefit Association
Stern Father and Backward Son Cartoon in Karikaturen
A cartoon caption from Karikaturen in Christiania shows a stern father scolding a son who jokes about saving money by accepting ten dollars for a good report card. The dialogue highlights a parent child bargain and economic humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karikaturen
Christiania
Wanted A Temporary Husband Ad Sparks City Wits
A Victoria Daily Colonist ad offering a temporary husband for one week causes chatter in Cumberland. A 22 year old seeks marriage with pay, but with conditions to separate after the ceremony, prompting reactions from curious locals and a wary reader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria Daily Colonist
Cumberland
Shipping moves in Qualicum list of vessels figures
Coastwise messages show a sequence of vessel names including Dauntless Ethelfreada Ardenza Glenboro Shamrock Chiefton linked to Qualicum Vancouver and Japan operations under Coastwise and wireless terms involving Helen Mc Neil and Japan trade routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Qualicum
Vancouver
Helen Mc Neil
Coastwise
Wireless
Dauntless
Ethelfreada
Japan
Ardenza
Glenboro
Shamrock
Chiefton
Churches With The Churches Service Schedule
Sunday March 2 1924 service times listed with Sunday School at 2 30 pm and Evensong at 7 pm led by Rev W Leversedge in a church notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Leversedge
Grace Methodist Church
Church Union
J. R. Butler
Tender for Digging Pole Holes and Erection of Poles
Cumberland Electric Lighting Company invites tenders for digging pole holes and raising and gaining about fifty poles. Tenders must be submitted by 12 o’clock noon Wednesday March 5 1924. Specifications available at the company offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland Electric Lighting Company
Ford Canada plant to build 125000 cars in 1924
Ford Motor Company of Canada announces the new Ford plant at Ford Ontario will produce more than 125000 automobiles in 1924, averaging about 50 cars per hour on an eight hour day. The 15 acre shop under one roof enabled the doubling of output from 250 daily a year earlier. The first car from the shop was a new Ford Coupe motor No 451306 driven out December 3. Since then many cars including the Tudor model have left the plant. Card of thanks follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited
Ford
Ontario
Canada
British Dominions
United States
Also Mentioned on This Page
James Hood
James Haworth
Mr. C. Newman
Cassidys
Unte
George O'Brien
Ladysmith
W. A. Owen
Thomas Graham
Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited
Nanaimo
J. Damonte Sr
Janet
California
Mrs. James Burns
New
Wm. Douglas
Tommy’s Hardware
Moir
Henderson
U. Watanabe
P.O. Box
Cumberland Hotel
Charlie Dalton
Union Bay
Lang’s
Moly Trinity Anglican
D. F. Bush
Minneapolis, Minn
C. J. Fernance
Minto
Libby
Califoria
Florida
Finnin Hadie
Matt Brown
Cumberland Electric Lighting Co. Ltd
Women's Auxiliary
The
Cumberland General Hospital
Thomas Pearce
F. O. B. Courtenay and District
Meredith Bros. and
Bell-Irving Star Dealers
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