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Grand Forks Sun

Location

Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada

Date

May 14, 1920

Page

2

Editor lampoons cemetery amid civic row in 1920

In a 1920 column, Evans critiques the city cemetery’s reputation while noting the editor’s role on the cemetery committee. The piece jokes about urban pride, agriculture labor costs, juvenile athletes, ancient Babylon tablets, and a pantry door’s fingerprints as odd curiosities.

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Public Accounts praised as model in British Columbia

Excerpts from editorials applaud British Columbia for publishing a full staged public accounts report for the last fiscal year with department by department revenue and expenditures. Commentators in Toronto Edmonton and Winnipeg hail the approach as clear business like and a reliable efficiency benchmark for other governments and municipalities.

Toronto Globe British Columbia The Edmonton Journal Financial Post Manitoba Columbia

Desert martyr and old clothes clubs noted in press

Col Lawrence and Palmer's desert mission ends with murder by hostile Arabs and burial in St Paul’s Cathedral. The piece also discusses wear-your-old-clothes clubs spreading in England and the U S with free membership tied to clothing condition and rank, including a parade of members at the thirty third degree.

Col. Lawrence Palmer St. Paul's Cathedral England

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