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125 Years Ago

August 16, 1900

The Kickapoo Indian Med. Co. have been in town for the past week and are entertaining large crowds nightly with amusing programmes. A word about

August 9, 1900

Messrs. Armstrong and Dale, having just burnt a large brick kiln, are preparing for the erection of Mr. Jas. Cuthbertson’s residence opposite the exhibition grounds

August 2, 1900

Local news: The favourable weather of the latter half of the past week enabled farmers to get pretty well through with their haying. Prof. Workman,

July 26, 1900

Local news: Our citizens were treated to an outdoor entertainment on Saturday evening, the performance being of an acrobatic nature in which the artist executed

July 19, 1900

Local news: Quite a pleasant time was spent at the house of Mr. J.J. Hodgins Wednesday last, when the Templars gathered together to spend their

July 12, 1900

Local news: Hon. Mr. Duffy, Commissioner of Public Works, Quebec, passed up through here by train to Coulonge on Monday in company with Hon. George

July 5, 1900

Local news: The thirty-third anniversary of the birth of the Dominion, although not observed by any special celebration in Shawville, was generally recognized as a

June 28, 1900

Local news: Lord and Lady Minto, accompanied by Princess Aribert, (the Queen’s granddaughter), have been visiting the Chats Falls. A number of our citizens were

June 21, 1900

Local news: The annual Dominion Day picnic is to be held again this year at the Calumet Slides, Bryson. So successful did the Portage parishioners

June 14, 1900

Local news: The almost continuous down-pour of rain on Thursday last interfered seriously with the success of the church picnic at McCord’s grove at North

August 16, 1900

The Kickapoo Indian Med. Co. have been in town for the past week and are entertaining large crowds nightly with amusing programmes. A word about their medicines: the purest, safest and most reliable medicine known to humanity. Their elements are

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August 9, 1900

Messrs. Armstrong and Dale, having just burnt a large brick kiln, are preparing for the erection of Mr. Jas. Cuthbertson’s residence opposite the exhibition grounds in Shawville. Mr. W.B. Crawford is still nursing a pretty badly sprained foot, which he

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August 2, 1900

Local news: The favourable weather of the latter half of the past week enabled farmers to get pretty well through with their haying. Prof. Workman, the well-known musician, was in town on Monday. He is talking of opening a music

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July 26, 1900

Local news: Our citizens were treated to an outdoor entertainment on Saturday evening, the performance being of an acrobatic nature in which the artist executed some rather perilous feats from a ladder held vertically with guy-lines. The fortieth anniversary of

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July 19, 1900

Local news: Quite a pleasant time was spent at the house of Mr. J.J. Hodgins Wednesday last, when the Templars gathered together to spend their last evening with Miss J. Currie. The evening was whiled away in games of all

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July 12, 1900

Local news: Hon. Mr. Duffy, Commissioner of Public Works, Quebec, passed up through here by train to Coulonge on Monday in company with Hon. George Bryson. He visited the government buildings at Bryson on Tuesday. The good people of Dunraven

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July 5, 1900

Local news: The thirty-third anniversary of the birth of the Dominion, although not observed by any special celebration in Shawville, was generally recognized as a holiday by our citizens. There was a general exodus from town of the young people

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June 28, 1900

Local news: Lord and Lady Minto, accompanied by Princess Aribert, (the Queen’s granddaughter), have been visiting the Chats Falls. A number of our citizens were awakened from their beds between one and two o’clock on Friday morning by the prolonged

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June 21, 1900

Local news: The annual Dominion Day picnic is to be held again this year at the Calumet Slides, Bryson. So successful did the Portage parishioners make the last picnic at Bryson that it is quite likely many from far and

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June 14, 1900

Local news: The almost continuous down-pour of rain on Thursday last interfered seriously with the success of the church picnic at McCord’s grove at North Clarendon. Mr. Archibald Campbell, one of the family after whom the village of Campbell’s Bay

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