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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 11, 1929
Page
2
Last weekend on Dunsmuir Avenue a young man sped a car along Main Street at high speed, then vanished around Cumberland Hotel and returned within two minutes to stop before the Royal Confectionery for over an hour. Neighbors say such reckless driving endangers pedestrians and children and call for drastic measures to deter future incidents.
London Daily Chronicle notes Warwick Prison as an advertised sale marking a social advance. The piece links shrinking jail populations to lower poverty, improved policing, better penal systems, and especially widespread education, arguing that public schooling yields tangible results beyond its cost.
Advertising has proven itself as the barometer of progress, once scorned alongside boasting of personal qualifications. The passage reflects on changing trust in ads versus self-promotion, noting that only quacks and imposters faced ridicule.
Health service of the Canadian Medical Association explains diphtheria is not new but preventable. Immunization involves three injections at intervals to build immunity, with over ninety-five percent achieving protection. Children from six months to six years are urged to be immunized by family physicians using the diphtheria toxoid.
The piece traces advertising as a driver of growth across business and industry, noting its spread from commerce to professions. It laments doctors and lawyers still deeming advertising unethical while predicting medicine and jurisprudence will eventually embrace it, marking progress in the field.
A satirical riff questions business reliance on ads from morning routines to stationery, noting a long chain of advertised goods from fruit salts to pens. The piece mocks the idea that advertising cannot be profitable when everyday life is built around branded products.
The provincial government investigator Robert Baird recommends a general overhaul of the University of British Columbia accounting and business methods. His report says past transactions are verified, but procedures must be tightened and building projects paused until orders-in-council are obtained under the BC University Act. In Ladysmith, Mayor Reid and Alderman Radford were named delegates to the Municipal Convention at Harrison Hot Springs.
South Wellington, a rugged mining town on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, once home to 600, now about 200, has faced floods, fires, and deadly mine explosions. Settled fifty years ago by Scots Dover Becks, the town grew via coal rights sold to Dunsmuir interests and boasts Scotchtown along with Camp and Morden districts. Fires, labor troubles, and a 1915 mine flood that cost 21 lives marked its tough era, yet football cups and community resilience endured.
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