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Newspaper
Nanaimo Courier
Location
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 11, 1889
Page
3
A reflective piece argues that early California settlers embraced freedom from Eastern strictures, creating a lively, sometimes unruly, yet honest culture. It defends the virtue of learning from vice, praises frank speech, and contrasts frontier liberty with older societal norms.
A collage of humorous anecdotes and social gossip includes Potter the ventriloquist at a Southbridge tavern, Sherman at the theater, and a Detroit Free Press tale of a sorrowful man. It shifts to New York editorials on journalism’s lottery, origin of Listen to the Mocking Bird, wild egg-eating feats, and then dives into 19th century fashion notes, jewelry trends, and cultural tidbits from Philadelphia, Baltimore, and London creasing into Bar Harbor and Beaux Arts hints.
60 days after date we intend to pane application to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to buy 320 acres on the west side of Alberni Canal. The land runs from the head of the canal west 40 chains north to a point, east to the shore, following the shoreline to the landing known as Gitana, with arrivals from Great Britain including 100 tons Pig Iron, 25 000 Fire Bricks, 800 Casks Portland Cement. Kirkman & Sons Pinnafortes and Curtiss & Harvey blasting powder, W Stuart patent netting twines, and other items. Robert Ward, Wharf Street, Victoria, B.C.
An advertisement extols Dr J Collis Browne's Chlorodyne as a universal remedy for coughs consumption bronchitis asthma and many other ailments. It claims unparalleled efficacy in diarrhoea dysentery epileptic fits neuralgia and more. Letters from Symes & Co and caution notices warn buyers to ensure genuine bottles with government stamps.
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