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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 18, 1909
Page
8
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The excerpt records a busy Manitoba town scene with sermons, auctions, visits, and social events. It notes Miss Archibald of Truro visiting, local trips by GR Mackenzie and J Dallis, a mass meeting at Mackenzie's law office, and the English Church ladies bazaar. It mentions debentures offered, rifle cartridge orders, and a new Masses Harris Co. agency. The steamer Ottawa foundered off Isle Royale and local rail service disruptions, plus hunting license deadlines and curling club recruitment.
The item notes a devastating mine disaster with over four hundred miners burned to death at Spring Valley. It also references political activity with T. W. Thomps as a conservatively aligned candidate for Bore constituency and a local shipment schedule for Monday. The report mentions renewal of acquaintances by Rowan J. McGuire, a new agent in Seaman, Sask., and a town visit at Thurston Avenue.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with claims of internal action on mucous membranes. A separate notice announces a meeting of the Arrow River Minnesota Agricultural Society at Partner's Hall Miniota on Monday with invitations for interested parties to attend and confirm details.
The text notes that without a clear mistake there is strong opposition. It argues wages are the main incentive for most workers, though pay often seems insufficient to motivate action.
A fragmented poem warns of rising war against a deadly pest deemed now a germ carrier. Poetic lines describe improvised weapons and plans to attack the fly as a threat to public health, noting its spread from place to place and the danger it poses. The piece ends with a cast of action and improvised resistance.
Nominations close November 20 as the Birtle seat becomes vacant after Hon C. J. Mickle’s appointment to the bench. Returning officer G. T. Wilson of Shea Lake will oversee the contest in which Liberal candidate G. H. Malcolm faces Conservative T. W. Thompson. The campaign is expected to be keen with ongoing party meetings.
On Monday November 13 a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Webba. On Wednesday the 11th, Elen May Lei ond and Fred Hope Warrenen were married at the vicarage by Rev S D Thomas.
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