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Newspaper
Nelson Daily Miner
Location
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 29, 1902
Page
2
The Nelson Miner lists subscription rates for daily and weekly editions, with charges by carrier and mail, plus a London office and agency notes. It includes a $10 reward for evidence locating the theft of the Miner from subscribers’ doors, then digresses into rustic seasonal musings on northern sports, human vitality, and a brief antiquated comparison of Roman legionaries to northern warriors.
Rossland citizens launch a memorial fund for the late Rev Henry Irwin with a one dollar subscription cap. The article lauds his unselfish humanity across races and creeds and recalls a Magdalen-like charity tale to illustrate his life of giving. The piece endorses building a lasting monument to inspire others by his example.
Roving readers, winter sports flourish around Nelson with snow covered steeps for tobogganing and skiing. The lake offers a four to five inch thick ice sheet for long distance skating from the city, with skaters cruising miles beyond rink boundaries. An experienced skater may reach ten miles an hour, and a Nelson to Five Mile Point run is a notable feat.
The piece anticipates Denmark selling the Danish West Indies to the United States and urges careful public consideration of the deal. It surveys 1901 Canadian railway earnings, notes increases for Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific, and counts OPR net gains. It lampoons sensational moralizing and recalls a sheriff’s execution scene, then summarizes Slocan mining prospects and rail smelter grievances, ending with a critique of monopoly patriotism in Crow's Nest and PR.
A vintage advertisement promotes Asthmalene as an asthma and hay fever remedy with testimonials from Rev C F Wells and Dr Morris Wechsler. It claims instant relief and no opium or morphine. Trial bottle offered free on postcard request, urging belief in its curative powers.
D R Young writes from British Columbia praising coal reserves in Similkameen Valley and Collin's Gulch and urging Dr Taft Bros to join in opposing smelter monopoly. He cites rail links, transportation delays, and past subsidies as blocking progress and mocks political tinkering by Wallace Miller Co.
A plainspoken ad touts Electric Bitters as a cure for backache, headaches, nerves, sleeplessness, melancholy, fainting and dizziness. It cites Mrs. Pheebe Cherley of Peterson Indiana reporting kidney trouble and a lame back healed, enabling her to do housework at age 73. Also notes 50 cent price at Canada Drug and Book Co and advertises clothing and shoe value from Wallace-Miller Co.
I J D Anderson agent for Katie D Green Gold Mining and Development Company Limited gives notice that within sixty days from today to apply to the Mining Recorder for certificates of improvements to obtain Crown Grants for claims in the Nelson Mining Division West Kootenay near Craigtown Jupiter Mountain. Action under section 87 must be commenced before certificates are issued. Dated November 16, 1901.
Kenneth L. Burnet acting for William Blair and other assignees gives notice that within sixty days from November 21 1901 he will apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements for the Mineral Claim located on the north bank of Wild Horse Creek about six miles from Salmon River. This under section 37 precedes Crown Grant issuance.
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