Sunnyside Cannery Marks Local Skeena Industry Shift
The Sunnyside Cannery on the Skeena River, led by Capt. Gosse and F. Strang, begins operations as a Prince Rupert centered plant. It spent more here than other Skeena canneries, canned 15 000 to 16 000 cases, and plans to close soon after a strong opening season.
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Sunnyside
Skeena River
Gosse
Gosse-Millerd
Prince Rupert
Skeena
Gosse-Miller Company
Capt. Gosse
Mr. Strang
Controllng
Fraser
Bella Coola
Rivers Inlet
Allies Press Forward Upon Bapaume And Peronne
Paris reports French and British forces advancing toward the outskirts of Bapaume and Peronne. Advances include assaults on the heights guarding the road between the towns. Violent artillery duels continue along the Somme front with fierce hand to hand fighting between French and German troops.
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Paris
Bapaume
Peronne
Somme
Wanted Housemaid at Prince Roberts General Hospital
A young woman is sought as a house maid at Prince Robert General Hospital. A finder who returns a lost black pocket book containing a sizable sum of money can claim a $50 reward by leaving it at the Police Station.
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Prince Robert General Hospital
Royal Hotel
Government Wharf
Canadians Fight On Soomme Front Amid Heavy Canadian Losses
Cable from London reports desperate week long fighting on the Soomme front. Canadian and British forces attacked along a wide front, captured trenches then faced fierce German machine gun fire. Ontario Manitoba Alberta and British Columbia troops suffered heavy casualties as Canadian numbers faltered under barbed wire and artillery.
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Ottawa
London
Militia Department
Soomme
Canada
Ontario
Manitoba
Alberta
British Columbia
Fish Day Set for Last Day of October in Canada
Canada proclaims Fish Day for October 31 with plans for a Prince Rupert banquet and speeches to promote fish as a staple diet. The Board of Trade entertainment committee will organize events to highlight fisheries, acknowledging fishing as Prince Rupert's key industry and aiming to raise citizen awareness.
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Dominion
Prince Rupert
Board of Trade
Pacific
Italians advance toward Trieste capture prisoners and gains
Rome reports the Italian army moving toward Trieste with seventeen hundred seventy one prisoners taken. On the Carso Plateau heavy enemy counterattacks against Italian gains were repelled. Since August 6 the Italians have captured nearly thirty one thousand Austrians in the Julian Alps.
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Rome
Trieste
Carso
Ugust
Julian Alps
Largest Drydock on Coast Readies for Active Operations
Interior News reports Jefferson and Coockrill start road work from Telkwoed Howson Basin to access mineral outputs. G.T.P. Drydock at Hays Creek to begin operations next week with 20 000 ton capacity and a 16 000 ton vessel expected. Prince Rupert dock remains largest on Pacific coast and will test local works while twenty two master mechanics arrive to ready the dock.
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Hays Creek
Prince Rupert Dock
Pacific Coast
British Advance Near Seres on Salonika Front
British forces reach the outskirts of Seres northeast of Salonika and push the enemy from nearby districts as German lines extend and trenches are added. Serbs on the left wing seize Brod while a strong Seres defense is expected. The Peat Concert Company schedules a charity concert in Manypress on October 14 with lectures by Mr. and Mrs. Peat and Trooper Jerrett. Proceeds aid the Prince Rupert Returned Soldiers' Association.
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London
Seres
Jon
Struma
Saloniki
Brod
Peat Concert Company
P. m
Peat
Canada
London Chronicle
Jerrett
Prince Rupert
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Jese L. Lasky Presents
Cleo Ridgley
Wallace
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Stephens Block
Merryfield Bloc
Insurance
Granby
Jay P. Graves
Pany
Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Company
New York City
Henry Bruere
Graves
V Graves
Mr. Graves
Spokane
West
William H. Nichols
HE. P. Harle
W. H. Robinson
Edwin Thorne
F. M. Sylvester
Mr. Sylvester
G.V. Woaver
Northa Fowler
Henry Bruer2
Earle Northup Fowler
J. B. F. Herresho
Hochschild Willis
Quebec
M. K. Rogers
California
G. W. Wooster
Vancouver
B. C
Alaska
Grand Forks
Anyox
B.C
Entertainment Company of the Board of Trade
F. A. Wietrich
B.C. Equipment Company
Telkwa
Jefferson
Coockrill
Telkwo
Ed Howson
Smithers
G.T.P. Drydock
Salonika
Coming
Westholme
Opera House
Charlie Chaplin In “the Count
Geo. Fawcett
W. Goldbloom & CO
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