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The Ledge.Published every Thursday.R. T. LOWERY, Editor and Financier.SUBSCRIPTION RATES:Three months.. ....— ..... £ .76Six “ ..1.25Twelve lt;£ --00Three years................................5.00Transient Advertising, 25 cents i»er line first insertion, 10 cents per line subsequent insertionsnonpareil measurement.TO CONTRIBUTORS.Correspondence from every part of the Kootenay District and communications upon live topics always acceptable. Write on both sides of the paper if you wish. Always send something good oo matter how crude. Get your copy in while it s hot, and we will do the restA pencil cross in this square indicates that your subscription is due, and that the editor wishes once again to look at your collateral.i fHUKSDAr, MARCH 23, 1899.SCRAPS PR()3i THE EDITOR’S DESK.* %Some think that if people slept more the}’ would reach the age of 200. There should be plenty of old people in Victoria. .IIt was twenty years last Monday since we first went astray. Upon that date brother Willie and us started our first newspaper.Fernie is full of dives in whichliquor is retailed without a license. Fernie is not the only place in B. C. . afflicted with this complaint., JSmallpox is epidemic in manyI 'parts of the United States. The Yanks should put a tariff on it andIdrive it out of the country.1. .i JFor 18 hours work 45 cents is paid in the sweat shops of New York. Still the churches of that city are collect-Iin? money to help the heathen, whileit is 34 years since black slaves were• • /freed in the United States, ^hewhite slaves are still in bondage.I
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Fernie Ledge
Fernie, British Columbia, CA
Thu, Mar 23, 1899
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