19 Jan 1902
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Newspaper
Nelson Daily Miner
Location
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 19, 1902
Page
4
A buyer’s guide urges choosing typewriters built from best materials to endure wear and tear. It recommends minimal parts for simplicity and highlights three models: Empire $60, Manhattan $10, and New Century $125 from Morley & Laing successors.
A daughter was born to the wife of D A Macdonald yesterday morning. Winter’s ice remains saleable as it is not thick enough yet. WCTU to meet Monday at 3 PM. YPC Endeavor holds evening meeting after church. Ice cleared on west yard tracks by improvised plow for skating today. Curling club telegram notes transport terms for Nelson men to Winnipeg contest. Stabat Mater rehearsal successful. full rehearsal tomorrow night at Presbyterian church for January 30 production. Emmanuel church service features Rev R B Blyth with character interpretation. mixed quartet and solos listed. Canadian postal fumigation notice corrected to Nelson, Wash. Males urged to become well-dressed gentlemen via Wallace-Miller Co. Anglican Far West notes Rev F H Graham named rector of St Saviour’s Nelson. praise for his McGill and Montreal training, Sunday school work, preaching, and music. Nelson clergy welcomed across British Columbia.
The item lists travelers and residences across Canada and the United States including Hume T D Whyte Vancouver C Mc Carty Raymond and others. It notes a cold wave and overcoats from Wallace Miller Co. Ltd and reports troops from the Wallace-Miller unit ordered to the Philippines replacing long serving personnel. It also covers James Considine’s five year penitentiary sentence for the 1906 Granville post office robbery.
The first hockey game of the season pits Sandon against Nelson at the skating rink on Monday night. Nelson lists Nunn or Collins as goalie, J Nunn as point, Jeffs, Thompson, Nace, Pollen, Wetmore as forwards, with green and white uniforms debuting. A spirited, well-dressed contest is anticipated amid a strong rivalry.
Lawyers discuss who should fill the Supreme bench vacancy after Chief Justice McColl’s death. Possible picks include E P Davis K C E V Bodwell Hon Aulay Morrison and Gordon Hunter. Emphasis favors an interior Kootenay appointee amid bar politics Liberal and Conservative names are noted.
Carrie Navion of Topeka sustains a severed toe when the edge of a hatchet gifted by an eastern maker cuts her right foot after she drops the tool. The incident occurred January 18.
In a Banyan curling night Tamblyn formed a temporary rink with N. T. Macleod J. H. Wallace and Stan ley to counter a heavy set. O Shea led the veterans and the result stood 10 to 5 in Tamblyn s favor when play ended at midnight after six ends. Earlier Lamont defeated Fox 18 to 2 in Bunyan competition.
The 1901 council holds its last statutory session on Monday at 11 o clock in City Hall. The incoming council will meet at noon the same day to begin its first statutory session after presenting oath certificates to the city clerk.
A large crowd witnessed the finish of the six days bicycle race at the second regimental armory. Freeman and Mayo won by a narrow sprint over Monroe and McHachran with Leander third and Wilson last. The event covered 1 004 miles and 10 laps, surpassing the prior best by 388 15 miles.
Supplemental Isthmian Canal commission report on the Panama Canal Company sale offer of 40 million dollars to the United States is delivered to President Roosevelt. It is said to recommend acceptance of the Panama company’s offer and examines possible legal and international issues. The report was signed and sent to Congress via Bee Jenny Hay after the Admiral Walker handoff.
Democratic Senate committee members spent hours in conference outlining a substitute plan for the Philippine tariff bill. They agree on key points and favor eventual Filipino independence with a transitional period of free trade between the United States and the Philippines.
In San Francisco on January 18 the Brotherhood of Railway Employees discussed union benefits. The convention decided to include lines of insurance in the plans, covering annuity, straight life, and permanent disability with partial payment.
Thistles and dandruff share a lesson eradicating the cause brings lasting relief. A germ damages the scalp and hair roots, causing dandruff and hair loss. Newbro's Herpicide claims to kill the germ, eliminating the cause and restoring hair.
Albert Dixon of Nanaimo B C credits Clarke's Kola Compound with curing his nine year bronchial asthma after using five bottles. He slept nightly again and can play in the city band. The testimonial is certified by Nanaimo pharmacist F C Stearman and druggists supply Clarke's Kola Compound through G M Co Limited Toronto and H J Vanstone Nelson BC.
A. R. Heyland on behalf of T. G. Baarey F. M. C. gives notice of intent to apply for certificates of improvements for mineral claims in Goat River Mining Division West Kootenay District between Goat River and Arrow Creek. Action under section 87 must start before certificates are issued. dated December 19 1901.
J D Anderson agent for Copper Farm Gold Mining Development Co Ltd, non-personal liability, free miner certificate B66708, intends within sixty days to apply for a Certificate of Improvements to obtain a Crown Grant for Homestake and Hallnes Mineral Claims in West Kootenay Nelson Mining Division near Craigtown Lake on the North Fork Salmon River. Public notice dated November 15. Miner want column references sale if details prove faulty.
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