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Newspaper
Fort Macleod Gazette
Location
Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1900
Page
4
The Macleod merchants urge residents to favor local shops over eastern wholesale houses. Catalogs flood the country with low prices and cheap labor from distant firms harms town business. Local spending is urged to keep prices down and grow Macleod.
A daily Lethbridge Cardston stage boosts Cardston trade and prompts calls for similar service to Macleod. Cardston’s producers and butter egg shipments attract regional attention while Macleod is urged to show public spirit to capture the trade. Also notes space reallocation in the Gazette and high prices for two year old Percherons in France.
The Dupuyer Acantha reports camas or death onion injuring flocks in northern Montana. Prof. E V Wilcox and Prof Chestnut, sent by Secretary Wilson, will study poisonous plants affecting livestock this summer. Also notes high range horse trade as trainloads move east to sales rings, with buyers seeking quality over quantity.
Due to delays in settlement at distribution points in Eastern Assiniboia, the commissioners will miss remaining dates in Assiniboia and Alberta. James McKenna and James Walker will attend to hear evidence and adjudicate claims around Swift Current Maple Creek Medicine Hat Calgary Letheridge and Edmonton in June July 1900. The Interior Minister signs the notice.
Seeds and plant items listed with prices: Carnations Dianthus Zinnias Baleams and exhibition pansies at 25 cents per dozen. Blower pots with sizes 45 and a half inch priced at 1.00 1.25 and 5.00 per dozen. Spawn and bricks for new mill track mentioned at 20 cents per brick.
All varieties of fruit and ornamental trees and evergreen shrubs available from Blackford's Nursery in Toronto at reasonable prices. Order now for full shipment. Terms apply to local agent G. F. Beers in Macleod. Date 22 6 41.
The St Louis Globe-Democrat notes cold air strengthens circulation and skin in winter, arguing chill exposure nourishes the body, boosts nutrition, and acts as a tonic against summer heat, citing indigenous endurance as example.
A dialog from a New York Tribune piece shows a struggling writer Brown suffering writers' cramp that eats at his stomach, while a successful Sunday story writer flattens him with cheerful lies about his productivity and offers a harsh quip about using a typewriter.
A brief anecdote about the late Yale paleontologist Professor Marsh. A student presents a bone scraped and cut as a rare fossil. Marsh inspects the bone and reveals it is a brace or leg bone piece from a caldt, delivering a dry joke about familiarity.
A notice from Samu Hester of High River Alta offers 50 dollars for the return of a well bred eight year old filly branded omorz Harmon left shoulder, missing since March 1899. 20 dollars for finder, 50 dollars for information leading to conviction of possession. Also a drug ad for Laxative Bromo Quinini Tablets with 2c price and Grove signature on each box.
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