New Subscriber Offer for Snap The Banner
An offer extends for new subscribers to Snap The Banner through January 1, 1901, at 25 cents. The promotion targets readers to sign up promptly and start receiving the periodical.
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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 13, 1900
Page
1
An offer extends for new subscribers to Snap The Banner through January 1, 1901, at 25 cents. The promotion targets readers to sign up promptly and start receiving the periodical.
Local items note Thanksgiving Day as a public event, advertising a 25 cent subscription offer and urging readers to support The Banner. The report highlights crop yields, deer season details, and social notices from Newdale and Wabigoon, with various local movements and farm updates.
Local residents report health and business notes including L Cuddie and L Case illnesses, L Crerar busy cattle drives, W Waller attending Shoal Lake convention, and Crerar student in Winnipeg. Rains ruin crops especially wheat while Conservatives organize meetings. Dr Roche favored in elections and Rev Andrews speaks on The Boy Wanted with $5.75 collected for a Winnipeg church debt.
A schoolteacher resumes duties after illness. Mrs. Overholt had a ten pound daughter last week. Wheat stacks are completed by the leading farmers, with slower growers already noting earlier completion. The Shellmouth reporter may borrow a dictionary with a wash of hands. Rev Hillyer visited for missionary services but rain halted travel. Mr. Henges lost a horse, a heavy neighborly loss. Mr. Patterson and wife called at Russell and urged subscribing to the Banner, now a better paper.
Messrs Broadfoot Bros threshing continues as rain delays stacking. Miss J Angus and Mrs A Forsyth are ill. Oats late harvest remains. wheat yields between 25 and 30 bushels per acre. Ducks shot recent. two Indians seen with moose loads. Calls for game warden and election talk dominates local news.
A herd of fine steers passed through Russell for shipment. Gold particles are found in a town well currently under excavation. No 1 Company R A of Asessippi invites women to a fall bird shooting contest. A travelling perfumer entered Mr Church's cellar forcing residents to seek shelter. Asessippi correspondent notes difficulty reporting truth without distortions. Joseph Lougheed lost a valuable horse last week. Baker cites swamp fever from swamp grass and water, humorous note on county hay and water.
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