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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Mar 04, 1922
Page
2
A rude old man torments a traveler on a train with questions about his business and family. The traveler reveals a wife and five children he has never seen, prompting the inquisitor to ask if he is blind. The man calmly explains one child was born yesterday during his week away from home.
A motorist on a country road sees a stranded driver and offers help. He reassures the exhausted wife in the car, while her husband attends to a burst tire, asking the observer to answer her questions and keep her amused.
Mrs Jones asks if her husband loves her for what she was or what she is. He replies he loves her for what she will be, revealing a forward looking, affectionate jest.
A Cumberland reader urges the Cumberland Board of Trade to expand its role as civic leader, praising past improvements in streets, schools, housing, health, industry, fire protection, recreation, and publicity. He calls for ending sectionalism, uniting merchants and public interests, and pursuing broader cooperation, new territories, and a shared, rational community life.
The Cumberland Board of Trade urges policy action to regulate production and reduce dependence on foreign fuel. It calls for government focus, possible bounties, and wartime methods to convert wood waste into industrial alcohol, projecting 40 million gallons from 10,000 tons of waste. A first mover could reap provincial gains.
General Herbert G. Maxwell recalled at a Chicago banquet how leaders promised peace but now arm harder. He compared officials to a chap advised by George to buy tin dinner plates after his wife shattered a china plate, highlighting a sharp contrast between rhetoric and action.
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