19 Jul 1900
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jul 19, 1900
Page
1
The Medicine Hat Trading Co offers 14 pair men’s Dongola broad toe Congress shoes at a regular price of $3.00, cleared to $2.75. The ad promotes value and stock clearance with emphasis on the lower price and durable design for dress wear.
Railway notes report the Montreal Star says a cable from the Admiralty asks if the CPR can transport English troops from eastern Canada to Hong Kong. CPR officials reply they can handle large troop movements, potentially forming a contract before week’s end. It suggests Britain may send up to 10,000 regulars via Canada, with India and Egypt routes also involved. The piece also covers Great Northern line plans, Spokane coal moves, and locomotive engineers’ meeting in Milwaukee.
The article likens the stomach to a churn and argues a sour stomach taints the blood and spreads disease. It promotes Dr Dierce Golden Medical Discovery as a non alcohol tonic that sweetens the stomach, then oddly ends with a clothes repair shop note.
Ranchers, buyers and traders converge in Walkerton and Regina as 74 Manitoba stockers arrive from Trimble Bros. and cattle flows surge through the new stock yards. Reports detail diverse herds, winter feeding plans, bull and calf management, and shifting markets to England, Scotland, Chicago, and Kootenay. patrols and fire guards mitigate prairie fires, while prices rise for yearlings and two-year-olds as shipments resume.
London notes July 9 reports firmer cattle trade with higher prices for choice Canadian stock and steady American stock. Best States sold at large, Canadians at 13e, sheep market strong with a 1c week rise. Liverpool note July 13 shows cattle unchanged at 1t to 13c dressed.
Dr. S. W. McClure, deputy state veterinarian, reports dipping sheep at Saco and Malta and vaccinating 100 yearlings for Indians on the Fort Bethany reservation. Bucks imported from Michigan were dipped per state law. Sheep ranges are short and water scarce. wool contracts largely shipped, prices around 20.3 cents. Lewis Kaufman notes Bear Paw country cattle in decent shape but forecasts winter feed shortages due to dry conditions and scant June rains.
The cattle industry in the Canadian North West Territories has advanced rapidly in the last eight to ten years. Early managers were inexperienced but have since built a business focus, earning benefits for their shareholders as well as producing well guarded stock. Thoroughbred bulls feature prominently in the herds.
Lord Roberts notified that Lieut. Borden son of the militia minister was killed in South Africa. Privates Dodd and Robinson of Strathcona's Horse wounded at Platkop, four others captured. Canadian Mounted Rifles surrounded part of the enemy on June 13 but ammunition shortage prevented completion. Col. Herchmer seeks Dominion inquiry into Gen. Hutton's action that cost him command.
Reports say allied forces seized the native city on the second day of fighting with heavy casualties among Russians and Japanese. Li Hung Chang travels from Canton to Pekin to oversee the Chinese government as tensions rise in Manchuria.
A long hotel arrivals column lists numerous guests and their hometowns or origin places including Crow's Nest Mountain Wapella Newcastle London Calgary Medicine Hat Regina Winnipeg Toronto Ottawa Regina Ingersoll Nelson Maple Creek Little Bow and other towns. The dense roster reads like a guest registry with many individuals and families from across Canada and the United States.
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