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Newspaper
Quappelle Progress
Location
Quappelle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jan 01, 1886
Page
2
Rates for advertising space by contract listed as one week one month and other terms. Columns and inches priced with figures indicating costs. Notice excludes auction sales entertainments legal notices or transitory items.
This 1886 New Year message urges readers to consider time’s passage and adopt good resolves. It emphasizes positivity, personal effort, and a determination to make the year better, closing with a call from Tax Procarss.
The Partners Union of Manitoba is denounced as degenerate and led by a single unscrupulous figure. The editorial claims the Union, via its Secretary, sabotaged immigration for 1884 and portrays the body as controlled by dupes. It criticizes the Union's shift after the C F R line north of Lake Superior and its rate changes.
The piece accuses a Farmers Union official of using his control to profit personally from wheat deals and to pressure the Canadian Pacific Railway for favorable rates. It describes Secretary Purvis urging action at Winnipeg, threats to convene another convention, and resulting defections as directors oppose the schemes.
The Regina Leader remains aggrieved about its arraignment in the North West Council and continues to attack the paper’s grammar and duties. It accuses the editor of using dirty language about Mr. Perley while claiming to advocate elevating language.
Mr J W Astley argues Riel duped his people for personal ends. He recounts not sending the principal petition to Ottawa for the Metis and claims Riel asked him to act for his own benefit with Middleton, warning against mentioning the people’s claims. He also cites a $35 000 demand as further evidence against Riel’s motives.
An ad touts a one year tax process at a dollar with six pages and thirty columns, promising more reading for less money than any Northwest paper.
The Medicine Hat Times endorses Judge Travis and his Calgary posting to uphold territorial law. It condemns detractors and asserts his residency will improve public order, noting supportive figures while warning against opponents like Bleecker and Davis.
A compact note notes correspondence and columns of interest, indicating gapfilled coverage by various correspondents. It highlights reader submissions and the value of local perspectives in shaping the page.
A reader critiques a prior letter signed who is who attacking a Goldstine and an assessor. The writer urges signed accountability, questions school board hiring 1885 practices, and notes tax and land issues. The missive praises a picture titled Little Sweerngarts by Muta and promotes contacting The Family Heartily Heacock Montrea publishers for terms.
An agricultural journal with fifty years of experience, edited by a practical farmer. It promotes farming intelligence over speculation and offers information on agriculture and stock. The publication, twenty years established, features a Home Magazine Department for the whole family and sends sample copies free to applicants this month.
A former physician claims a simple remedy for consumption bronchitis cancer of the throat asthma and nervous debility. He says he will send free instructions in French or English with full preparation details to all who request it from A Nowrs 149 Power's Block Rochester.
Reports from Montana to the Yellowstone detail a massive buffalo herd driven toward the river by a pursuing force of white men and Indians. An estimated thousand animals grazed on the Cannon Ball River with hundreds slaughtered as crowds chased the herd toward the boundary, raising outrage over potential extinction of the bison.
A young speaker began his address with a stammer and nerves, mispronouncing the opening phrase cello fitizens, signaling public nerves at the event.
The piece argues that outdoor physical labor and varied activity improve blood flow and mood, countering morbid anxieties. It suggests success and criticism can drain vitality, but lively work preserves vigor and freshness even amid hardship.
An article discusses farmers regaining interest in rural work amid urban migration. It notes some farmers lack appetite for farming, others show talent in mechanics and invention, and urges evaluating natural bent and ambition before deciding to stay or return to farmland.
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