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Newspaper
Nelson Daily Miner
Location
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 10, 1901
Page
2
A compact ad page listing the Weekly Miner subscription rates and office addresses. It notes half year and yearly prices in cents and dollars, urges advance payments, and names London and Spokane advertising agents for subscriptions.
The Trail smelter in British Columbia is being enlarged to 1,400 tons per day, with additional plants planned at Grand Forks, Greenwood, and Marysville. The drive aims to keep ore processing local, urging liberal policy toward mine owners, while noting low lead prices and calls for reduced freight and treatment rates. The London Paystreak cites Canadian Smelting Works securing Slocan output and Kitchener iron deposits, suggesting a refinery move by the company to control flux, dry ore belts, and silver-lead supply.
A widow Mrs J A Witmer is jailed in Buffalo Ohio on suspicion of poisoning and killing fourteen people including four husbands five children a sister and four others. Police say motive unclear and one sister is in an insane asylum, marking a long fatal pattern undetected while crimes accumulate.
The text describes Mrs Witmer as a female killer who sent fourteen people to their graves before arrest, with comparison to Jesse Pomroy. It questions her mental processes, asserts she may be an extreme degenerate, and argues swift justice to prevent further harm and potential poison of jurors. The passage then shifts to Canadian press humor about remittance men and Toronto and Vancouver reports on customs revenue gains, noting substantial year over year increases despite tariff reductions.
The obituary notes Clarke Wallace as a patriotic Canadian and influential leader. It highlights his long parliamentary service since 1878, a record 1896 majority of 4068, and his stance against Manitoba school policy. It cites his Orange Order leadership, mining optimism in British Columbia, and his untimely death cutting short a career of public service.
Mrs. L Pease of Lawrence Kansas had been bedbound for seven years due to kidney and liver troubles and debility. After three bottles of Electric Bitters she could walk again and felt like a new person. The ad touts relief from backache headaches nervousness sleeplessness melancholy fainting and dizzy spells with satisfaction guaranteed priced at 50c via Canada Drug & Book Co.
A health notice extols balanced nutrition and rejects fad diets claiming one food for brain muscles or bones. It urges regular doses of Green's August Flower to aid digestion stimulate liver function purify blood and boost vitality, with Dr Green remedies available at W F Teetzel & Co and the almanac offer.
A fragmented OCR item lists times from 7 40 a to 11 20 a with 720p TM and price-like figures 8.20 9.00 9.40 10.20. The readable content appears to be a schedule or pricing snippet with unclear context.
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