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Newspaper
Quappelle Progress
Location
Quappelle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Nov 16, 1888
Page
3
The Northwest Farmer Journal promises premiums and a broad line of dairy stock breeding topics. It highlights practical farming discussions, sketches of reliable methods, and aims to keep readers informed on Northwestern agriculture amid frontier conditions.
Property notice indicates a £1 per annum lease option set for West Farmer on Wixside with Max noted as participant on application. The item outlines contractual setup and eligibility without additional terms.
Fragmented OCR reads like a late 19th or early 20th century science and publishing discussion with scattered references to American Popular Science World, printers, electric and chemical topics, architecture, and various names. The garbled lines resemble a publisher’s catalog or ad page with incomplete sentences and disrupted phrases.
The province shows rising fall plow acreage and general farming progress. Farmers thresh and plow, elevators near completion, grain prices rise to about 1 dollar per bushel, and Mr Hughes shifts to the implement business as Mr Lowry leaves. Rev W Walton to preach Sunday morning. Federal jumping deer used by Archie McCorqudale and others before southward travel. Constituents express discontent over libel case results and political tensions rise.
A long portrait of Sir John Day and Sir James Hansen outlines their temperaments, careers, and roles in a special commission. It notes Day’s irritability, private kindness, and mixed ancestry influence, Hansen’s calm decisiveness, and the other commissioners Sir James Hannen and Sir Are Smith as skilled, trusted jurists. The piece surveys their education, key cases, and service on the bench.
Mr James Thomson secures the will en route to Emerson to ease travel for the N P Run. He plans to provide a market for farm use and winter lumber camp work for horses. Jos Tennant of West Lynne, new Gretna sub collector, honored at West Kent send off with songs speeches and gifts. The Tennants departed for Gretna next day.
Farmers report thin snow covers ground as plowing continues and threshers note higher grain yields than expected. Missionary meeting at the Presbyterian church features Stalker and Dr Robertson detailing foreign and Indian work with urging for support of Manitoba education efforts.
A joint stock company plans a spacious public hall in the Northwest Land settlement near Moosouts. Trustees have settled tax issues connected with the company. Many houses of various sizes have risen this summer, and Moosomin looks bright.
The report notes Wheat, Darley, and oats marketed at the Sunt River millhead. Witehell and Bucknell of Millwood deploy a crew to push operations and hire more men to make the largest haul yet, signaling a major impact for local farmers.
The town hosts a youth culture group with Rev. Cone as president and W F Erskine as treasurer. Officers include D Att Cone and N Dickie, with monthly open meetings to the public featuring debates, readings and essays. A report notes 1.12 dollars tops the market and local wheat prices. traders discuss supply and breeding stock.
Fragmentary report shows wheat prices rising for No 1 hard to 1.05 and buying activity by Bos e Millan McBean amid ongoing operations and mounting police presence at Manitou. Mentions Garrett Mennle Dafoe Pickel and James William Beech among others in milling and sale efforts.
Farmers in the Glendale area report fall plowing complete and wheat yielding fair to good per acre. Wheat prices are favorable and most threshing is done, bringing activity to Neepawa as grain movements pick up.
A fragment describes a hunt that ended with risk as a year and a half old cub died in a hole during the pursuit. The outcome is unclear but marked as exciting and fairly successful in the report.
Reports describe the exhumation of the bodies of Fafard and Marshand by soldiers and priests massacred in 1885, noting the remains were in good condition and would not be moved. Bishop Grandin conducted pastoral visits to northern missions including Lac la Biche and Onion Lake. A local program in Lansdowne College featured performances by Edith Ham and Ada Guthrie, with thanks to Dr Severn and others.
In Killarsey on November 7 residents note winter nears and prep work rises. Times report steady market activity with large grain movements daily and many buyers and sellers in town. Wheat trades around 1.06 and Mr Moule leaves rural resort for town as Rev Johnson plans to occupy his former residence north of town.
In Moosomtown on November 10, Thomas D. Deegan faced Crown charges of forgery linked to a mock marriage scheme. J. M. McKay allegedly arranged a fake ceremony with a self-styled magistrate, using forged documents and signatures to obtain a license. The jury did not reach a verdict after prolonged testimony and defense challenges.
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