The Cumberland News
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alternative: [The News]; [The Weekly News]
is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2012-10-09
issued: 1913-06-11
description: The Cumberland News was published in Cumberland, in the Comox Valley region of Vancouver Island, and ran from April 1899 to July 1916. Published by Walter Birnie Anderson, the News served the communities of Cumberland, Courtenay, and Comox Valley, and was eventually absorbed by another Cumberland-based paper, the Islander.
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note: .**���.*���-* -'-���:���: \ - *"VV , -'.-,/������* , -- / , ft ���** P* W" .���As The News, Twentieth Yeas. A Journal Devoted Especially, to the Interests of Comox District. ' CUMBERLAND,. B.C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE-11, 1913 ��� :', * Subscription $1.00 a Year *ty^��i#i3t-�� nfy+mmfyg) r^gji The Store ofQuality The Bis Store. The Store ofQuality -FOE TIIE- .QI<\ Dry Goods/and Gent's Furnishings: at -AT- v tl Th'e Big Store, Sale Starts Saturday For fen Days Only TERMS LEISER & CO., LD. A Famtius Citizen or Nero Out- Neroed 1 After painstaking search j; eomeone has at last been located iu prosy old Cumberland,' who has made himself famous, not a boy wonder or gouious, but, a wonder nevertheless. The individual referred to, after existing for a number of years in the guise of a quiet, secluded and unnoticed citizen, one municipal election day placed his pedal'extremity on the first step of the "Ladder of Fame," having been jacked up to that position by inducing the intelligent part of tlie citizens to elect*him to the esteemed and honorable office of Alderman or City Father, thus placing him in a position to attend to, in a fatherly, way,. the welfare of our numerous citizens, including a hundred or so. of cows and horses,,which quodru- peds wonder at their own , sweet will along and over the ��� cement sidewalks and into gardens' etc., besides three or four dozen 'curs which,, roam ; aboiit,, Jhe streets snarling, barking and fighting in a manner very similar to that of. some human bipeds when, attending a meeting. I must, at this point- digress a little and.meutiou the* well-known fye*ifij^tJ^a^f*viy*> �����������/^ft-w---/!||W.*^^ Liberal Road Appropriation President of The Cumberland & Courtenay Automobile Association Obtniii6 Grant of One Thousand Dollnrd For ������ Cumberland Roads, Unemployed Report Is Overestimated > -I Mayor Baxter Denies That 300 ���* Men Aro Out of "Work in Building Trades Horo Tljo roporl that 3000 mon in the" building trade in Vancouver wore u…
note: Print Run: 1897-1915 Frequency: Weekly No paper between Oct. 1, - Nov. 1, 1904, and Apr. 26 - May 17 1905. Titled "The Weekly News" from 1897-01-05 to 1898-08-09 and on 1899-04-01 "The News" from 1899-08-13 to 1899-03-21 "The Cumberland News" from 1899-04-08 until end of publication.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Cumberland (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0177267
language: English
lat: 49.6166999
long: -125.0332999
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Cumberland, B.C. : Walter Birnie Anderson
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