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Newspaper
Quappelle Progress
Location
Quappelle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jan 22, 1886
Page
2
Publisher notices rates for annual subscription and single copies, advertising space by size and duration, and payment terms. Rates listed include business cards and display sizes with costs, plus a right to refuse ads of questionable character. Names Amex Weidman and Qu Appelle Station appear in the notice.
Major Jarvin and a field party returning to Winnipeg from a route survey for the Hudson's Bay Railway. UK assistant R J Money joined the survey representing capitalists ready to fund construction if feasible. The transit covered the Lake Winnipeg north end to Melson River by foot, noting light earthwork and no heavy bridges. The project is seen as lifting the Northwest toward European markets, potentially raising wheat prices and benefiting regional workers.
George Ham of St Boniface travels west to probe reports of an imminent Indian uprising. White settlers express mixed views while warning of possible trouble if Indians steal cattle and flee to the mountains, prompting police pursuit.
A Toronto Mail column warns of a rising Indian coalition in the Northwest led by Crees and Blackfeet. It notes hundreds or thousands of tribesmen along the eastern slope of the Rockies preparing for potential conflict, with strategic fields between Battle River and the sealing lines.
A correspondence piece argues that open exchange benefits public interest while noting the writer bears no responsibility for the correspondent's opinions. The letter emphasizes the forum's inclusivity and calls for careful language in public discourse.
A London reader comments on a previous letter signed Anglican, criticizing reliance on church views not supported by Scripture. The writer urges New Testament study, cites Paul's era and temple veil events, and questions Christ's explicit instructions for church services.
A dated verse prose piece by George Paulecer from Portage January 15 1686 contemplates time life and eternity. The author muses on breath as a transient spark that alters states and decays earthly turnings. Death becomes a sleep while eternity holds no limit and ages pass unseen.
The article notes Thomas A. Edison as a wealthy figure with an annual royalty of about 20 000 from the Western Union Telegraph Company and holdings in five manufacturing firms bearing his name. It mentions dividends from the Downtown Electrical Limvaling Company and income for his three children estimated between 75 000 and 100 000.
A classroom moment centers on a girl who misquotes a line about Colaminn and Colamulus, provoking laughter from classmates. The teacher probes the girl as she struggles to recall the wording and corrects her in a puzzled, patient exchange.
A vivid description of New York City’s morgue at Bellevue near Twenty sixth Street and the East River. The account recalls a father viewing his daughter’s corpse and details the wardrobe and display cases that identify unknown deceased.
A high profile legal dispute centers on John A. Morris a wealthy New York City magnate and M N Cutter architect over a private bedroom addition at Morris’s Throgs Neck estate Westchester County. The plan featured Italianate interiors a royal cost and an extravagant exterior mimicking a furnace and Italianate tower with costly finishes and furnishings. The suit seeks redress for overrun costs and breaches of contract with architectural designs and interior details at stake.
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