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Newspaper
Rosetown Eagle
Location
Rosetown, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Apr 29, 1915
Page
8
An extended portrait of a plain village grocer named Jim who knows customers personally, aids the needy, pays taxes, and helps community services. The piece contrasts Jim with a deceitful peddler and warns how buyers are drawn by alluring catalogs while forgetting the real value of trust, service, and accountability.
A harsh critique warns residents that favoring distant buyers and squeezing traders like Jim drains local commerce. It predicts empty storefronts, rising taxes, shrinking schools, and families moving children to city schools for education, urging readers to reconsider their financial habits.
Shinytown is depicted as a quirky town where residents push a spring clean up, burn trash in zeal, boast no diseases yet mock danger, and joke about a once hearse now used as a jitney. The piece lampoons community effort and optimism amid humorous hyperbole.
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