17 May 1888
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Newspaper
Quappelle Progress
Location
Quappelle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
May 17, 1888
Page
1
Damaged text segment shows partial phrases and scattered terms. It mentions places like Ling Castle and Cala Le amid garbled labels, suggesting a historical listing or notice with unclear details and missing context.
The Qu Appelle Progress announces Thursday publication from its office in Qax giao. Advertising rates are listed by contract including column charges, inches, and business card pricing. The notice specifies payable terms and reserves rights on insertion and objections.
Public notices announce a mortgage sale of 160 acres in Assiniboia District with a schedule for bids at 3 PM on a specified day. The tract lies in Sec 4, Tp 16, R 2 W, near a railhead, with improvements including a house and stables. Auction details list trustees Andrews Carbert Andrews and solicitors for the lenders.
Dominion House passes resolutions authorizing government guarantees on fifteen million dollars of C P R land grant bonds. MP W D Perley endorses the measure while urging part of funds be used to build branch lines in Manitoba and the Territories. An amendment to require immediate construction of pre branch lines was rejected.
The Indian Head council met in the Council Room on May 12 at 10 45 with W R Bell as chairman and five councillors present. Minutes were approved and the meeting set for 1 pm with later arrivals. Finance and auditor reports were approved plus minor staff and tax issues. court revision set for June 16. News notes include farming expansion, fishing disruption, and temperance stance praised.
Notice of mortgage sale in Assiniboia District at 3 p m. on a date in May. Property described as part Section 6 Township 1 Range 9 of the Meridian, in the Northwest Territories near Winnipeg. Sale details appear incomplete in the OCR.
Assinibola Manitoba vendors Carlton and Andrews with known solicitors announce a power of sale notice. The document dated Winnipeg May 1 1808 details the sale and involvement of AOFM.
Vendors Andrews Cardert and Andrews place sale notice for farm lands in the North West Territory west of section 12 17 in the second district Assiniboia. The seal and granary details are listed with sale conditions. Solicitors are Dered & Wipes, May 1688.
Classified notice seeks an eager apprentice labeled as smart boy. Applicants may apply in person or by letter addressed to THE PROGRESS OFFICE in Qu'Appelle.
A readable fragment lists churches and services at Presbyterian Methodist Anglican and Catholic groups in Quappelle. It notes baptism and marriage notices, prayer meetings, Sunday schools, and post office mail closure times, with names of local church officers and Masonic meetings.
A fragmentary report describes Swankir Robert and a poet meeting. The text hints at a romance or poetic connection amid unclear details and missing context.
Rumors from a reliable source suggest construction on the Wood Mountain and Qu Appelle railway will begin soon. Mr. T W Jackson is expected back in a few days, with more definite information likely. Grading outfits are anticipated to arrive, promising activity in Qu Appelle.
The Presbyterian synod of Toronto and Kingston closed its annual session at Owen Sound on the 10th inst. The main question debated was the temperance report presented by the synod. It was warmly discussed in the same spirit as the presbytery amid prohibition law considerations.
Rev Joseph Cook laments various public figures from preachers to politicians who fail to abstain from alcohol and urges science driven critique of leaders supporting licenses encouraging drinking.
A reflective piece contemplates how drunkenness corrupts the divine image in man, causing war against the image, breaking the sceptre, tearing the crown, and degrading human dignity. The language echoes moral sermons on vice and virtue and the consequences of intemperance.
For two days large prairie fires burn west of Wolseley as fine weather boosts farmers. Local As siniboine Indians are suspected to start the blazes while quietude returns after shooting at ducks near Toneab. Young Wolseley men form a baseball club as Mr Coot of England visits and plans homestead filings nearby.
Athabasca and Pembina river trappers McMullen and another man faced starvation after a harsh winter. They wintered in a remote shanty, provisions destroyed, and with no escape until spring ice broke. They boiled furs to eat what remained, a desperate survival episode.
Lord Salisbury and his colleague grow uneasy at German newspaper attacks and anti English sentiment. The government orders two modern 30 ton guns on the central bastion facing the sea at Sheerness. Other defensive measures will be adopted on the Thames defenses.
The text blends scattered remarks on philosophy and political errors with a report of a five year old girl’s fall from a third story, a mother’s involvement, and a subsequent distressing scene. It mentions Descartes Hobbes and a Genevan skull alongside a mishmashed local incident description.
A columnist muses on flies invading homes as a recurring nuisance. He jokes that window panes and screens become critical defenses, noting the high cost of protection and the fleeting relief once the fly season ends in November.
Fragmentary report from the Bas ter Transcript notes Jonathan Wheelock’s Revolutionary service bounty totaling two thousand and fifty five dollars and forty four cents. The text cites alleged witchcraft related enticement and mentions payments dated April 15, 1834 and April 1834.
In early Indiana and Madison's pork trade era the term Hoosier is linked to traveling farmers and hog drives. The account suggests a lively greeting hoosier hoo ie reflects a dialectal salute among pioneers. Some scholars doubt the origin tied to cabin life and peace treaties of 1815.
A first-person travel recount describing dawn departure by Ferro for Rio Sacio, long plantation trails, towering tree canopies with orchids, scarlet bonsai amid green, ascent toward San Jose across dramatic mountain passes, and a rough arrival eight miles from town, ending at a small village near Cleveland Herald.
An OCR fragment cites old blue laws from New Haven and stray notes on horse biology. It mentions penalties for daily acts, religious conformity rules, and peculiar supernumerary teeth in horses, with references to rural New York life and curious antiquated beliefs.
A muddled passage lists poets and composers—Pope Swift Hatfield Watts Beethoven and others—as bachelors. It notes their reputed dislike or ambivalence toward women, their love misfortunes, and hints at writings or moody temperaments shaped by single life across a cast of named figures with varying notoriety.
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