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Newspaper
Nanaimo Courier
Location
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 30, 1889
Page
4
The contract to install gas fittings in the Nanaimo Courier office has been awarded to J. H. Pleace, hardware merchant of Victoria Crescent.
A busy city meeting covers minutes adoption, Salvation Army singing, a water cart proposal, a street paving plan, and street repairs. Reports on a ship’s arrival, a missionary debate, a mining company board vote, coal prospecting by the Rustler party, and a building society drawing are noted.
A reader letter titled A corner in whiskey signed W is critiqued as abstruse and unreadable. The writer urges clearer meaning for general readers and cites old proverbs on brevity and wit. An advertisement for Japanese Catarrh Cure claims a 50 cent bottle via T. R. Morrow in Vancouver B C.
A council meeting discussed celebrating the Queen's birthday with a committee including Mayor Bate as chair and Aldermen Nightingale, Peck, and others. They will meet tonight at 8 o'clock to draft a programme, and a public meeting is planned Thursday at 7 30 to receive the report. A new walk from Richardson and Horner across Commercial Inlet to the Green is proposed, and there is talk of relocating the band stand and pre taxing the Green for May 24.
A skeptical physician reviews hypnotic theories from the Nancy school and Braid, arguing hypnosis results from suggestion and learned responses. It explains natural sleep, auto-suggestion, and clinical use, noting the mystery of why hypnosis works and urging caution with consent and guardian presence.
Sporting notes report New York 4 Washington 2 and Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 1, Cleveland 7 Chicago 3, Brooklyn 2 Baltimore 3. Indianapolis 7 Chicago 3. Columbus 3 Athletica 7. Kansas City and St. Louis games postponed due to rain.
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