Wall Paper Sale Highlights Local Tastes
The article promotes a wall paper shop claiming the best up to date stock in the province. Prices range from 7 to 50 cents and emphasize value and personal service for better satisfaction and full value.
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Newspaper
Nelson Daily Miner
Location
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 19, 1901
Page
4
The article promotes a wall paper shop claiming the best up to date stock in the province. Prices range from 7 to 50 cents and emphasize value and personal service for better satisfaction and full value.
A shipment of locally produced fruit will be sent to Nelson today with strawberries from C W Busk's ranch to Mr Gee Bell. The Imperial Development Syndicate meeting is postponed to July 4. The company plans to sell its property to a wealthy buyer for about a quarter of a million dollars pending shareholder endorsement.
A Bay State reader testimonial praises Grape-Nuts for restoring energy after severe fatigue from intensive mental work. The letter recounts decline, then recovery after using the cereal, attributing renewed vigor to the food and urging use with cream for best results.
A busy Nelson scene as Latimer street gets a new sidewalk and Josephine street gains telegraph poles. Prospects thin amid warm weather while locals repair sewers, haul driftwood, and improve parks and lawns. Fishing grows. a copper gold claim near Crawford Bay shows promise. coal land sale nets 13,000 dollars to Princeton interests. A local denizen fined for inappropriate remarks. Masons prepare for provincial convention. a Slocan Labor demonstration offers prizes.
Preparations for a major public meeting include morning addresses by Edward Boyce of Denver president of the Western Federation of Miners and vice president Wilks of the federation. Other leaders will speak. A special train and boat rates are offered from Slocan and Nelson districts.
Joseph Jackson, in Nelson to locate a flour mill, reports Regina partner B Friel will visit end of month. He favors Nelson due to cheap fuel and water power, enabling milling of Manitoba hard wheat at competitive prices. Current freight cycles cost 55 cents per hundredweight to mill east then ship west.
The article notes steam power aided by a first class market and shipping facilities. Water supply for power is deemed ample with waste water from the electric light flume sufficient. A nearby connection could resolve any shortages, and Mr. Friel a veteran millwright with 35 years in the trade backs a large, profitable flour business at the site.
Permanent stock of the B P L S Co has advanced within the last week from 118 to 120 per share. The total advance in the last three months amounts to six dollars. E J Flatt is the agent in Nelson.
Lots opposite Block 491 reserved by Government face a proposed school site. Authorities expect construction on the government reserve with plans under consideration.
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