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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
4
The Gazette lists subscription terms, advertising rates, and policies for notices and classified ads. It details annual dues, arrears penalties, transient rates, notice categories, contract rates with time periods, payment in advance for transient ads, and changes schedules. Editor R M West confirms liability limits and contract terms.
Last week a threshing outfit stable and granary on Mrs. E Rae’s farm near Holland were destroyed. Frank Porter of Holland lost 35 acres of wheat in stock and four stacks belonging to J Gill at Rathwell were also burned. Smith’s livery stable in Treherne had a narrow escape when fire broke out in a stall but was contained. Roy Duff to visit Glenboro on October 1 to collect for J F Fumerton & Co. all accounts to be paid this fall. The text also notes a museum exhibit of the first reaping machine, Patrick Bell’s design, and a remark on Canada’s banks bringing eight million pounds in British gold recently.
A Gicabere meeting features a Conservative critique of Laurier’s twelve year Liberal rule with calls to restore economy and investigate timber leases. It cites rising duties and expenditures, timber deals by Clifford Sifton and Burrows, and pledges to pursue restoration and restitution. A fire at Rosebank Manitoba damages a 50 000 bushel wheat elevator, likely total loss.
A pithy quip contrasts a palm reader awaiting fortune with a wife who stirs her married husband from settling down. The joke pivots on a line about She Ada having married one man out of a thousand and the reply about expected marriages.
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