Rumor of CP and C W Strait Acquisition of Great Western
Minneapolis Sept 20 rumor says Chicago Great Western Railroad and its rolling stock may become a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific. Report cites an unlimited option secured during Sir Thomas Shaughnessy’s St Paul visit, with implications for wheat trade and Pacific coast competition.
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Minneapolis
Mion
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Bachill
Canadian Pacific
St Paul
Visw
Sir Thoma Shaughmessy
C.P.R
Shaughnessy
Horace G. Burt
Canadian Northwest
United States
Middle West
Northern Securities Company
Chicago Western
Chicago
Great Western
New York
Montreal
Medicine Hat Visit Highlights Warm Streets and Gas Output
An excursion of American newspaper men reaches Medicine Hat where the town appears sunny and welcoming. The Indian village visit yields homely scenes while Kipling's words are recalled and residents boast a surplus of natural gas priced at 13 1/2 cents per thousand cubic feet for households and five cents for manufacturing.
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Montecello Minn. Express
Medicine Hat
Kipling Hai
Dr Pierce's Medical Discovery Assures Purity and Efficacy
An advertisement claims Dr. Pierce's medicines disclose all ingredients on wrappers and are attested complete. It touts remedies for indigestion dyspepsia and weak digestion with sour risings heartburn and foul breath and promotes treatment for catarrh and related stomach bowels conditions.
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Dr. Pierce
Nature
Pierce Te Balen
Catarredy
Local notes from Woolchester and area gatherings
Me Clark has left for Claresholm. Me Miller returns home with sister Miss Litchsay. Freddie is planning to go. Woolchester residents attended Ma Fair. David Jardine visiting Johnston's ranch. Windsor returned to his homestead. Mr Bell has been successful at the Fair. Sammy.
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Clark
Claresholm
Miller
Freddie
Woolchester
Ma Fair
David Jardine
Johnston
Windsor
Hiomestead
Bell
Sammy
Harvest Week Visitors and Health Update in Medicine Hat
Mr and Mrs English, Biartt, Swiste, Sexton, Bennett, Denbigh were among many in Medicine Hat for Fair week. Mrs John Reid’s health remains poor and she plans to seek medical care in town. Harvest Thanksgiving service postponed to October 11 due to bad weather. Frosts last night damaged cucumbers tomatoes and melons in Medicine Lodge.
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English
Biartt
Swiste
Sexton
Bennett
Denbigh
Medicine Hat
John ‘Reid
Medicine Lodge
Cure for indigestion by Dr Williams Pink Pills
Local seller Dr Williams Pink Pills touted as cure for dyspepsia. Testimonial from Alex McKay of McLellan's Mountain Nova Scotia describes years of suffering and relief after using twelve boxes, claiming no symptoms since. Pills available at medicine dealers or by mail from Brockville Ontario.
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Alex McKay
McLellan's Mountain
N.S
Williams
Dr Williams
Dr Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Alberta Temperance Reform Platform for 1908 9
The Alberta Temperance and Moral Reform League approves a platform aiming to end intoxicating liquor traffic, enable majoritarian liquor ban votes, strip clubs of charters for violations, close bars on Christmas Good Friday and Thanksgiving, deny license transfers after violations, compel minors to testify in liquor cases, and strictly enforce liquor license gambling and moral laws.
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Alberta Temperance and Moral Reform League
Editors in Nelson Meet as Alberta Eastern BC Press Assn
Nelson September 24 editors gathered for the Alberta and Eastern British Columbia Press Association annual meeting. Delegates welcomed by the mayor heard discussion topics set by the executive committee with later votes electing officers including first vice president F W Galbraith and others.
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Nelson
B.C
Alberta Sae
Pee . Deane
Nelaon
Ae Ee
A Thomas
F. W. Galbraith
Ed Deor
Sermon on Sabbath Day by Lord's Day Alliance Secretary
Rev W M Rochester spoke in Madicirve Het and at St Johns Presbyterian on Sunday urging Canadians to keep the Sabbath as a national rest day. He argued protection alone is not enough and urged sustained effort to elevate Sabbath observance through culture and personal engagement.
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W. M. Rochester
M.C
St John's Presbyterian
Canada
Rochester
Alliance
Alberta College offers two penmanship scholarships for Alberta students
Alberta College Edmonton offers two penmanship scholarships for Grades V and VI students in Alberta public schools. The first prize covers up to fifty dollars tuition, the second up to thirty. Applicants must be regular students with at least 100 days attendance, submit letters and penmanship samples by specified 1908 dates, have samples certified by teachers, and include teacher certificates. Scholarships align with Education Department approval and offer two years use, with potential university affiliations and arts courses.
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Alberta College
Edmonton
Alberta
Education Department of Alberta
University of Alberta
Behal of Alberta College
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Lee Hw
Stewart Toronto Street
W. T. Finlay
The
Colonial Investment and Loan Co.’y
Alta
JRS. Fleming
Royal Hotel
Rice
South Railway
Mela
C. P.P. 16
Great Northern
North West States
Eagle Butte
Platform of Temperance and Moral Reform League
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Edmonton Wall
Cap. Thomas
Presiden
Dave Eiton
Bec
Treag
Louis London
Grace Cameron
Dollie Ee
Robert Aml
Miss Cameron
Black Watch
P.O
Gas City Lumber Go
Chas. Pratt. Mgr
Tetley S
A. W. Ireland
R.E. Walton Hardware Company
Stewart & Tweed
City of
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Percy Simmonds
Dartmouth
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