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Newspaper
Nelson Daily Miner
Location
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 08, 1901
Page
4
The store advertises picnic and lunch baskets for the season. Japanese baskets make sandwiches look appealing, with pressed fibre lunch baskets in three sizes from 25c to 45c, and a family lunch basket that holds many items for all to enjoy.
Amid labor unrest on the Moe railway project, workers express dissatisfaction and a strike threat. Elsewhere, A B Gras receives ten cases of cigars from the Philippines, and Nelson ports goods bound for Arc c, with rail shipments flowing to Arlington mine and Robson bridge. A church ice cream social, cemetery water service work, and local band concerts draw crowds as business moves in Kootenays.
The Kokanee steamed yesterday with a timely schedule, making a remarkably swift trip. Fire crews reported embers in the woods between Trail and Robson, and nearby Balfour faced smoke but no spread yet. No alarms reported from the small blazes.
Heavy Boy of the London Consoli date is a guest at the Phair. Russell leaves for the east to attend the Pan-American Exposi Dan. GW. Jackson Jenver bound for the boundary country on a business trip. EB Race of Rossland passes through en route home. W. 3. Hogg and wife, C. P. E. at Rossland, stay eight fortnights. James Lockhead of Ainsworth sails tonight for England. C. W. West moves to Vernon to enter brewery venture. D. McArthur health improving. expects Nelson return in about a month. K. Douglas travels east on C. P. B. Others depart for Bouffalo and eastern points. many health and business trips announced.
The city billboards promote Sells & Gray united shows for Monday the 1th last. The circus travels on its own special train with a large menagerie, superb horses and over 100 performers fresh from Savannah Georgia. New costumes trappings and bandwagons enhance a bright, clean, refined parade and performances described as entertaining and unique with startling innovations.
The three year old daughter of H. H. O'Reilly, a bank official from Niagara Falls, Ontario, drowned yesterday while playing around the boat house at Caledon Lake with other children. The tragedy adds sorrow to Orangeville and the local community.
A resident of Stanberg East, aged 36, Mr Andet, visited town yesterday. He is the father of thirteen sons, all living, with the eldest aged 14.
Montreal Aug 7 So far this season 24 more ocean vessels with increased tonnage of 71 770 have arrived in port compared with the same date last year.
The report surveys mining activity across Nelson Ward's crossing and Rover Creek areas, noting road progress linking Nelson with Ward's crossing and potential access to many claims on Bind Creek. It highlights free milling gold quartz ore, multiple branches of Rover Creek, proposed routes, and potential new discoveries with easier transport.
A large group of prospectors, about 21 workers, engage in assessment work on their claims on Toad Mountain in the Silver King district, continuing mining activity in the area.
Local listing shows Poole port traffic with a cargo ship docking in California waters. The brief fragment notes tonnage and destination in terse trade notation.
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