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Newspaper
Revelstoke Herald
Location
Ravelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 23, 1902
Page
2
The Revelstoke Herald announces advertising rates for display and legal ads with prices per inch and per line, plus small charges for birth, marriage, and death notices. The paper invites correspondence and requires writers sign with their real name for personal submissions.
Satun Day notes a permanent Dominion holiday for May 24 to be observed across Canada next Saturday with no King's birthday observance this year. The government modifies railway land grant terms and fixes bonuses per mile for Canadian Northern and Coast Kootenay road. A proclamation will set May 26 as a holiday in the governor general's domain and a future May 28 date will be fixed for next year. The piece also discusses advertising spend patterns and promotes Edwin Owen Towne's Too Rich to Marry at the coming season with a New York City cast.
The Southern Pacific plans seven 1000 barrel tanks plus 13 existing tanks to total 4.25 million barrels of oil storage. It will power locomotives with oil across its network and phase out coal for engines, ferries, and ships.210 locomotives already converted with 120 more awaiting conversion in Houston shops and Sacramento shops accelerating coal to oil updates.
A Lincolnshire gentleman sent a swan to the Atheneum Club for a special dinner. The bird proved nearly impossible to carve after thirteen hours of boiling. The donor then reveals the swan was preserved as a family curiosity for 280 years and tied to Charles I's era, claiming it fed his ancestors.
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