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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 18, 1920
Page
4
The piece highlights brave researchers from the British Ministry of Agriculture studying foot-and-mouth disease at sea. They will work on ships isolated from people, facing infection risk and a distasteful death as they pursue prevention of a livestock scourge.
The piece extols outdoor cooking and the claim that trout baked in embers with seasoned wrapping can elevate simple meals. It notes a method for catching and preparing trout, predicting a delicious outcome that might lure neighbors to envy the savory results.
The quotation asserts that property results from labor and benefits society, arguing that wealth allows others to become rich. It urges individuals with homes to refrain from harming neighbors’ houses and to strive to build for themselves, demonstrating confidence that their own property will stand.
A speaker lauds water as essential and beautiful, describing its many guises from infant tears to ocean seas, but concludes that as a beverage it is a dismal failure. He uses vivid imagery of dew, rivers, and battleships to illustrate water’s grandeur. The speech blends praise with a humorous stinger against drinking water.
A London Express reflection argues that while men forge civilization and politics, women exist to add charm and meaning to life. It asserts the feminine mission remains spiritual, even as future events may push women into new roles, yet courage is required to accept this truth.
A labor and social critique laments chaotic times with callouts to strikes work alone and leadership. The poem warns of empty promises urging spending and speculation while old work routines dissolve and economic fear grows.
Judge Landis notes President Wilson halved Dorsey’s eight year sentence for using the mails to sell tubercular cattle across the west. The Omaha Bee comments that the pardon signals a need for a Washington clean‑up and criticizes influence over justice.
The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co president secures a 1 250 000 whole life policy for business use with the firm as beneficiary. Separately, Bensinger personally carries 1 000 000 for his family. The Ohio State Journal notes social reflections on baths and car morale.
A string of quick items covers Seattle pride, Tacoma growth slogan watch, a smaller coming tax levy, sugar in home brew, Nat Goodwin legacies in debt, four babies abandoned in Tacoma, General Ayala death at 73, a fading South American exec stereotype, and a Bryan Chautauqua contract tease.
A narrator recalls a shivering stranger begging in Care and market streets. He resists helping until a final night guest asks shelter, claiming to be a brother of Christ bearing a cross. The door opens, but the figure vanishes, remaining a stranger forever.
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