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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Mar 12, 1921
Page
2
A collage of club-page snippets detailing a chaotic music hall scene with hecklers and a broken tone, a football match where Guy Jonkine and Yates pace the play and the Camp team edges a win, plus postgame chatter at a smoker and crowd banter about betting and boxing.
An old time newspaper blurb extols Buckley’s Bronchitis Mixture as a miracle cure with claims of millions of germs killed and thousands relieved from bronchitis asthma and colds. Letters from Canada praise the product and a Montreal testimonial reports clear lungs and vanished cough after use. Also notes a local Cumberland listing and a sports update about Nanaimo and footballers with training notes.
Poem extols living in open land where the sky deepens the bine and winds, birds, and woods offer sweeter songs. The speaker longs for solitude and nature’s laughter, rain, and rivers, with a pilgrim heart seeking restful sleep at sunset.
G. W. Hubbard, a South Vancouver municipal electrician, fences a ravine on tax sale land where he believes a five foot coal seam lies. He reports the discovery amid the municipal property takeover.
A humorous verse about Archie T8 courting a girl named K8 who is later revealed to be married. A series of puns and quips follow, including a joke about Evelyn the violinist and a professor’s remark on her fiddle.
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