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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 24, 1921
Page
4
The Parent-Teacher Association urges playground equipment at Cumberland schools. Suitable apparatus would promote healthy activity and benefit studies. The Cumberland School Board has extra grounds and seeks city council support with funding for the project.
The column criticizes Vancouver Island roads under the Oliver administration, noting heavy rain reveals extensive potholes on Royston Courtenay and Nanaimo routes. It cites a $15,000,000 revenue and borrowing, calls for ongoing road work, and questions E and N Railway cuts. It also lampoons press lawsuits and a Chicago libel case.
A New York man commits suicide over taxes after concluding he would be taxed to death anyway. Enrich Grubert is jailed in Berlin for marrying 28 women in a year, while an Englishwoman tops the spree with 36 marriages in Deal. A missing U S Navy battalion, six officers and 274 men, reappears as Cuban authorities reveal marines were stationed to guard sugar plantations since 1917. The Vancouver Board of Trade urges Ottawa to curb Oriental immigration amid claims of over 50 000 Orientals in British Columbia and calls for wartime preparedness. Quotes from Israel Zangwill and Pendleton East Oregonian urge peace through armament reduction. A hunter is told deer must be horned males, yet many shoot at moving targets hoping for a horned deer.
A collection of aphorisms and maxims from Hazlitt Prentice Talfourd Simmons Demosthenes Rochetou Mile Sardey reflecting on wisdom virtue and human nature. The fragment presents brief moral observations and proverb style statements without narrative context.
A humorous verse extols the Telephone Girl who overhears gossip news and personal secrets. It imagines the trouble and scandal that would unfold if she shared what she knows, warning readers of the power of a well informed operator from the era.
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