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Newspaper
Silverton Silvertonian
Location
Silverton, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 06, 1900
Page
4
An advert promotes heavy shirts for men heavy boots and underwear woolen socks and stockings for women with groceries and hardware offered at very low prices. The notice emphasizes severe discounts and bargains.
Payment in advance required for subscriptions. Price is two dollars a year. A fragment mentions Commander Semlin and arbitration with allies asserting the right to settle matters without outside interference. The readable text is garbled and lacks complete context.
Herbert Cadett’s London Chronicle verse paints Private Smith of the Royals amid mud and blood and a cry of pain. The scene shifts to a pale dawn, a stretcher of heroes, a Red Cross blessing, and a contrast with Private Switch glimpsed against a blue sky.
The editorial notes a six month continuance of the strike as the Mine Owners Association remains firm after a London Miners Union meeting. It critiques the association’s refusal of 3.25 per shift, praises the union’s 3.25 offer as reasonable, and laments hot headed members. It ties war news in South Africa to local upheaval, and hints at political defections amid censorship.
In a comic vignette from a 19th or early 20th century locale, Mollie and Mrs Donahue challenge traditional gender roles as Mr Donahue proclaims “the new woman” and endures his humiliation upon learning Mollie and her peers demand equal rights. The tale captures marital tension, work, and domestic reform amid a community set in Halsted Street environs with the Donahue family at center.
Notices filed by agents for Siocan take Gold and Silver Mines Limited The Wakefield Mines Limited and New Gold Fields of British Columbia Limited seek Certificates of Improvements to obtain Crown Grants for multiple mineral claims in the Slocan City mining district West Kootenay, with deadlines of sixty days and compliance under section 87 or 57, dated 1899. The notices specify locations near North Fork Lemon Creek Springer Creek Four Mile Creek Dayton Creek and surrounding areas.
Owing to the eight hour law reducing miners wages, all miners are idle and mines shut down. All workingmen are warned to stay away from Slocan and Kootenay country in British Columbia until disputes between mine owners and miners are settled. Sandon B C June 2 1899. W J Hayter Secretary Sandon Miners Union M M Benedam President Silverton Miners Union J MeTotest Secretary Miners Union
Cortiae So ophired inert wisty days from the date hereof to apply to tin Min jn Reventer for a Certificate et de Provement for Crown Grants of the above clatmea. Further take votes that ant minder certion ST mat-eoamineace before the teevineecofanmed Centestee of Laipreveinenis Dat Cds 8 Day of Septenden AL Si. JD Asmersen.
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