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Newspaper
Nelson Daily Miner
Location
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 07, 1900
Page
4
A Nelson department store announces a mid summer clearing sale starting Wednesday August 8 offering the entire stock of staple and fancy dry goods and millinery with many items deeply discounted including dress goods, silks, muslins, shirts, blouses, parasols and wrappers across numerous labeled prices and sale prices.
Readable ad copy listing discounted whitewear items across several lines. Includes ladies night gowns, drawers, chemise, corset covers with sale prices from 25¢ to 95¢ and up to 2.50, noting regular prices and sale brackets.
A historic notice advertises lace curtains at wholesale prices. Items include Battenburg curtains and various lace patterns offered at multiple price points from 60 to 2.75, with quantities and sale terms implied in the listing.
Shipping movements include Allan Line steamer Numidian bound for Quebec and Montreal, Dominion Line Vancouver passing Fame Point. second shipment with outfit cars and rails sent to Proctor. Tenders opened for Col. 2 roundhouse addition. Dr Williams and Mrs Williams visiting Nelson with public address planned. Mining and stock market notes plus community events and forthcoming dances at Lake Park Pavilion.
Richard Hutchison, a deckhand on the steamer Slocan, fell overboard at 1 30 last evening and drowned in the lake center between Slocan City and Rosebery. The body is not recovered. His father R E Hutchison of Petite Rocher N J was telegrammed this morning.
June mine returns show 104 tons crushed yielding 500 ounces of bullion and 41 tons of concentrates worth about 10000 dollars. Queen Bess mine shipped 120 tons valued at 6700 dollars. Paris police arrested anarchist Auguste Valette linked to Salson plot against the Shah of Persia. Valette fled Paris. Salson’s revolver failed to fire as attempted.
An old advertisement touts Dr. King’s New Life Pills as a remedy for poor digestion and liver issues. It promises a splendid appetite, sound digestion and regular bodily habit for 25 cents at Canada Drug and Book Store.
Advertisement lists sale price five cents per copy for the Miner at various news stores and stands including Gillbert Stank Nelson Cannon Drug, Hotel HomoNews Stand, Nelson Hotel, Campbell Ymir jelwon, New Denver Delaney Roswberry, Slocan City Jocan News Co, Sandon Thomson Broa, Vancouver Lamont & Young, Kaslo A. A. King & Co, Greenwood, and news agents on boats and trains out of Nelson.
Renick Hawilton of West Jefferson Ohio suffered 18 months from a rectal fistula and was told by doctors he would die without an expensive operation. He treated himself with five boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve claiming it cured him. The product is sold for 25 cents a box by Canada Drug and Book Company.
A cryptic notice references Dominion Line and related vessels including Corinthian, Allan Ling, Parisian, Beaver Line, and Lake Superior region. The text implies agency actions or affiliations across several shipping lines and lakes, with locations noted as Lake Mogantia and Lake Superior.
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