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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 29, 1901
Page
3
An old tale on Money Island imagines ten men debating how to share work and pay. It argues money enables public improvements like bridges and roads, and questions whether labor alone can build a prosperous community without funds. The piece riffs on collective effort, fairness, and progress versus poverty.
A garbled 19th century style passage discusses who should receive credit for a day of service. It suggests a plan by Donothing and mentions informing the foe and starting work, with a brief reference to an initial day and a natural inquiry.
The piece describes a community where each of ten men earned indebtedness certificates for work, with totals showing the whole community owed four hundred days of labor. It explains how individual loss of certificates would affect settlement and whether the government or individuals could lose the value of the certificates, highlighting the system's balance and risks.
The fragmentary text cites political figures like Sir Wilfrid Laurier and a Hamp byelection, reports on a Toronto exhibition opening and census talk, plus railway and Klondike ore movements. It mentions murders and accidents, border tensions, and shipments by sea and rail, all in terse, disjointed notes.
A local shop lists fresh stock with chairs priced from 1p to 18 each and sideboards from 12 up to 50. Tables and beds in maple complete with castors, mattresses from 3.50 to 1, hotk with Dom two piece and other items in stock.
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