The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2021-12-01
issued: 1935-08-22
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nelsondaily/items/1.0405703/source.json
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note: . ***** Buddy Baer Battles Doyle at N. Y. Toni_ht —Pa&e Ei&ht ^,_^ VOLUME 34 FIVI CENi. '*!* (051 Nanaimo Wins 7*3 in .Second Game —Pa&e Two NELSON. BRITISH COLUMBIA. CANADA-THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 22. 1888 NUMBER 102 BRITISH CABINET MEMBERS AGREE ASK ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST ITALY !■■ « MacDonald Says Situation "Most Serious Since 1914" as Premier Calls Session PHYLLIS HARRIS DROWNS NEAR WILLOWPOINT Slips From Log Into Deep Spot; Unable to Swim WITNESSES DO NOT REALIZE DANGER Boy Scout Tries Vainly to Revive Her; Nelson Born Tragedy wis enicted ln front of ■ Willow Point summer home Wednesdiy ifternoon, when residents sitting on the front porch saw 8- yeu-old Phyllis Pitricii Hirris drown just out from the north shore of the West Arm. The tot hsd been paddling on a log only a few feet out, and when she slipped off, witnesses, thinking that she wis sife in shallow water, gave little heed. Gerry Fitzsimmons, who was sitting on the porch ot the W. J. Mohr residence, was first to realise that the girl wis struggling for her life md rm out to her. The house ii some distance from the witer, md by the time he reached her the wis floating face down in the witer, EFFORT VAIN Hiving gained knowledge of artificial respiration through Boy Scout work, he brought her to the beach and worked on ber for a time and was liter relieved by John Applewhilte. Dr. *f. M. Auld, who wis summoned with Provinciil Constable J. Lawrence Smith, pronounced her deid wben he irrived. She wis born in Nelson md wis the diughter of the lite Roy Hirrls md Mrs. Hirrls, now of Trill, md wu visiting her grtndmother, Mn. W. Spooner. Mr. Hirris waa formerly of the B.C. Telephone company at Nelion and wai it one time In chirge of the Crmbrook office. An Inquiry wii conducted by Coroner Dr. H. R MacKenzie. PLANE LOST IN THENORTH DAWSON, Y.T, Aug. 21 (CD- Five airplanei were combing the air route between here and Fairbanks, Alaska, today for a service air linei pline piloted by Arthur F. Hines of Fairbanks…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0405703
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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