Ready to Carry Wheat this Fall
The Grand Trunk Pacific will be used this autumn to haul the wheat crop. Chief Engineer Schrieber says contractors will finish by fall the 460 miles of road from Winnipeg to Saskatoon, with the roadbed practically completed and 120 miles of rails laid from Portage la Prairie west. Sidings stations engine sheds and other facilities are being put in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Trunk Pacific
Schrieber
Railway Department
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
Portage la Prairie
Chronic Diarrhoea Relief Reported by Express Worker
Edward E. Henry of United States Express Co in Chicago says Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy stopped his chronic diarrhoea and has cured many on trains. He notes a brief health claim and mentions Miniota Drug Store selling the remedy. The piece ends with a quip about a funeral horse and exercise.
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Edward E. Henry
United States Express Co
Chicago
Quick
Chamberlain
Rutherford B. Hayes
William McKinley
23Rd
Ohio Regiment
Miniota Drug Store
Nuisance pits and gossip in Miniota letters
A series of letters to the Miniota Herald covers complaints about a gravel pit stink near Mr. Rowan, a request for a town gossip role, and a satirical rebuttal to the writer Perplexed, signed by Joan Wyrue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herald Office
Miniota
Euclid
Joan Wyrue
Townsman defends municipal telephone plan and rebuts critic
A letter writer responds to a July/August debate on municipal telephones, defending bylaw details, tax implications, and cost, while attacking an opposing commentator “Im prove with the times.” The writer argues the bylaw would levy taxes on all landowners and questions non-user levies and future ownership, urging council honesty and clearer disclosure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Probona
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John Parker
F. A. Wilcocks
Anitoba
Saskatchewan
Miniota Herald Ce
Sale Stable
Jersee
Bert Whitney
J. D. Forsyth & Co
Clay & Son
F. J. Preston
Hooper's Lake
Orsea
Hackney Sins Food
Hackney
Thos. Shaw
Hackney Stock Food Co., Ltd
Man
Hackney Poultry Food
Manitoba Horse Company
C. Knox
Ty— Ross
FFER
Miniata Herald
Deir Sir
Gossip Society
Miniota Gossip Society
Gossip Alley
Miniota Herald
Belshazzar
Rome
Baalam
Bray
Mart
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