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Newspaper
Nicola Herald
Location
Nicola, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 27, 1908
Page
2
A Merritt citizen predicts rapid mining expansion and rising employment as the camp consolidates its coal wealth and mineral resources. He cautions patience for steady growth, cites outside capital interest, and urges optimistic local boosterism amid political chatter about Vancouver federal elections and Liberal candidates.
Readers question the delay in establishing a temporary Merritt station at the Y area. An agent is in charge but no ticket office or proper waiting room exists, with an old box car used for storage. The branch sees heavy business, and the public demands a suitable station with ticket telegraph service and freight sheds before winter.
A Toronto writer imagines Canada’s want fulfilled by a king who is truly hers while a self styled American Royalist leader travels to England to persuade European powers that Queen Helen of New York will sit on the U S throne within three years. The piece predicts an engagement between Queen Helen and Canada’s King Apollo and notes Goldwin Smith’s lifelong dream may come true.
W H Gray advertises all kinds of coast dressed lumber at Mennzitt with prices right. The notice emphasizes ready stock and affordable rates for builders and contractors.
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