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Newspaper
Queen Charlotte Islander
Location
Queen Charlotte, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 18, 1914
Page
2
The Prince Rupert Daily News cautions about alleged Liberal discrimination on Graham Island amid Yakoun River clearing funds and local hiring biases against Indians. The piece notes a conservative island vote and cites road foremen questions while lampooning oil prospecting chatter and local staking mania.
Two rooms in the house with a shingled building and stabling for two horses. Sold for less than construction or land clearing would cost. Inquiry through Islander Office. Also a large tract of valley farming land in Oregon open for free settlement totaling over 200000 acres. Good climate and soil, no irrigation needed for crops. Send 3.40 to John Keefe, Oregon City, Oregon, a three year U.S. surveyor and timberman, for maps and instructions on several sections of claims as a fertile homestead near town and market.
Bay Team weighing about 1050 pounds each is for sale currently working at Sewall. Price set at $200. Apply to J. K. Anderson at Tow Hill.
The handsomest lady in Massett and the loveliest baby may collect Dominion Day prizes by applying at the Islander office. Miss P. Petroleum won the ladies prize and Baby D. Riller is the neighborhood’s famed squealer. Correspondents learn our nearest neighborhood is Woden, an abbreviation of Watun. Kundis, Yagwun were the inlet’s further point names.
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