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Newspaper
Nakusp Ledge
Location
Nakusp, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 09, 1894
Page
3
A Christian Register discussion argues that three hundred unnecessary deaths occur annually in a city of one hundred thousand due to sewer gas malaria impure water and disease germs. It calls for awareness responsibility and remedies to prevent avoidable deaths. The dialogue notes trouble can drive one to drink highlighting social causes of crime and vice.
A flowing well at Isabela Michigan yields wrigglers in great numbers. Small animals burst into the water and rise to the top, unfolding wings and flying away. The cold atmosphere prevents them from traveling far as they fall back into the snow.
The note describes a moisture test by color on painted glass or boards, showing yellow and green damp while red and black stay dry. It then reports London rail traffic within six and twelve mile radii of Charing Cross, with 270 and 400 miles of rail and 255 and 301 stations. Weekday passengers total 2.5 million, yearly total 777 million. A Berlin transit consigns valuables worth 280 million francs from Paris to Russia, carried by thirty attendants in three carriages.
The Critic reports Dodd, Mead & Co of New York bought for four thousand dollars the manuscript of The Poems of Two Brothers by Lord Tennyson and his brother Charles. The current owners plan to profit and expect higher bids from collectors. Rawin Beal
Schedule note shows La Ayohega trains running Wednesdays and Saturdays at Keaves Revelstoke and an Eastern and Coast connections with Canadian Pacific Railway. Keaves Revelstoke service also listed for Tuesdays and Fridays at 3 am.
The notice lists trains from Northport to points north and south on the Spokane Falls and Northern Railway. It shows departures from Robson on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 4 a.m. and from Northport on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 1 p.m.
Leaves Nelson Tuesdays at 3 p.m. and Fridays at 3 p.m. and Wednesdays and Saturdays at 5 40 p.m. Connects on Saturdays and Wednesdays with Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway for Kaslo and Lake points. Leaves Kaslo for Nelson with connections to Spokane and south on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 39 a.m.
Great Northern Railway schedule shows Bonner's Ferry via Kaslo with trains from Nelson. Kaslo to Bonner's Ferry departures on Saturday and Wednesday mornings. Bonner's Ferry to Kaslo via Nelson on Mondays and Fridays. Service subject to change without notice. Tickets and rates at Nelson offices.
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