19 Mar 1902
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Newspaper
Hamiota Herald
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 19, 1902
Page
1
A notice states monthly premiums for sickness and accident coverage plus a death indemnity or total permanent disability benefit over five years. If no benefit is drawn, premiums are returned. The ad urges timely action and lists agents F. W. Wicks and others serving Oak River and nearby communities.
A promotional piece argues that The Hamiota Herald drives sales by keeping merchants competitive. It states readers rely on the paper for up to date information and that ad presence yields more business, urging merchants to use the Herald to reach locals and nearby communities.
The Hamlota Herald lists subscription at $1 annually with advance payment. Rates for contract advertising, transient notices, and special notices are defined. No contract shorter than three months. First week 12 cents per line for transient ads, then same each week thereafter. Socials with admission fees charged at transient rates. Location notices not treated as advertisements.
Editors of The Herald defend publishing both liquor and prohibition viewpoints within their Manitoba circulation but warn against excessive unsolicited columns. They frame the paper as a business and say prominent views from Canada or the United States could be published at current advertising rates.
The trustees met in the secretary's office with Messrs Murray and Venables. They read and adopted the minutes, and by a vote of Venables and Murray, ordered payment of the remaining balance on debenture No. 9, totaling $10.58, to the Provincial Government. The meeting adjourned.
A Fort Scott Republican editor taunts Winnipeg Monitor editors over a local clash, while Omaha and Kansas City papers joke about March arriving like Tillman. The Winnipeg Herald notes public sanitation concerns and calls for town officials to enforce health laws. A Winnipeg Tribune interviewer quizzes Mr. Haugh John Macdonald.
A letter to the editor argues against an Asians policy stance adopted at a Winnipeg convention. It questions the referendum's constitutionality and criticizes temperance groups for pressuring prohibition. The writer urges voting to support enforcement of the act and criticizes unnamed critics.
The debate centers on whether to submit the Liquor Act to voters again and the government plan to appoint a railway commission this session. A commission could probe freight rates on wood and lumber from the Canadian Northern line to Hamietta, amid rising costs and perceived railway bias.
A letter argues government should enforce the act and levy strong charges against the judiciary, while opposing Roblin and Greenway. The writer urges practicality, honesty, courage, and common sense, invoking Rev. Jos. Hogg and President Roosevelt to urge fellow citizens to act faithfully rather than seek success.
Historical market notes show No 1 hard and No 2 WORGE wheat values, butter prints and eggs, hay per ton, potatoes per bushel, bran per ton, and corn related figures. The fragment lists several grain and dairy items with unit prices though details are incomplete.
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