City people, am I right? No sooner do they get electric lights put in everywhere than they start complaining to the newspapers about the quality of all that brash, unnatural light. This LTE is from September 9, 1902.


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Sure, why not? There's nothing to do in Shrewsbury on the weekends, anyway. I'm sure they have something there a well-off young lady can buy to pass the time.

It'll cost you, though. You could buy a cheap overcoat at Prowse Bros (The Wonderful Cheap Men) for the price of a return ticket from the North Shore, and a passable men's suit for less.


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From an unsigned quarter-column (Do Tobacco and Cheese Cause Cancer?) in the Charlottetown Guardian, September 3, 1902:

That cancers of the lips and mouth are caused by excessive smoking is now a fact established by the case of General Grant and others, and it has been intimated that cancer microbes have been found in certain vile-smelling foreign ( Read more... )

The archivists at the University of PEI are my new best friends. I went through their Timeline of PEI Papers and grabbed up all the ones still being published during the E. B. Diaries time period. Interestingly, the timeline records no new papers founded between 1902-1909 (though that doesn't mean there weren't any). Here are the links to where the ( Read more... )