27 Oct 1894
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Newspaper
Golden Era
Location
Golden, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 27, 1894
Page
1
DRY GOODS PRICES and mail order info. HOSPITAL admission hours and dues. Golden BC rail and river hub profile with industries and landmarks. Revelstoke mentions a football club in context of Golden questions its status. Bon Ton Bakery advertises fruit assortments.
Sealed tenders addressed to the undersigned for the Post Office at Victoria British Columbia will be received until Friday October 9 1804 for the erection works. Forms and specifications available at the Department of Public Works Ottawa and F G Gamble Resident Engineer Victoria J C tenders must be on supplied forms signed by the tenderer. An accepted bank cheque equal to 6 percent of tender amount must accompany each tender. The Department does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender. Itawa Sept 6 184 E F Roy secretary.
Fragmentary notice lists visiting hours with times on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 12 m and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Also mentions Trai 9 80 am to 11 am and 2 p.m. with unclear context across four pages.
Local items record Joe Late’s Windermere trip, Fraser bridge crew’s presence, and Bon Ton Bakery offerings. J 8 Reeder fined $15 for pointing a revolver at Fred Burns. Reeder’s shooting gallery opening and a planned public reading room are announced, with updates on curling rink progress and new town appointees.
Gustaf Johnson married Ida Carolina Carlson at Donald on Saturday October 20. A new shooting gallery opens this evening with three free shots for a pipe or fruit basket, plus a forthcoming reading room. London reports a sealed dispatch bag opened in transit between Chemulpo and Seoul, with Japanese knowledge of its contents. British consul seeks instructions.
In Galicia Austria a mother aged 48, a daughter aged 33, and a granddaughter not yet 16 each gave birth to a son on the same day. The trio are Polish peasants. the mother has sixteen children, the daughter eight, and the granddaughter’s future birth count remains to be seen. The Winnipeg Free Press and Toronto Star attack gambling dens in their cities, citing a touching tale of a newsboy whose life was wrecked after succumbing to a gambling house lure. He saved money for his family until a single bad night at a gaming table led to a loss of about 1600 dollars and his prospects.
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