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From The Past: Cranbrook Hearld Newspaper of June 28th, 1900 Perpetrates Hoax

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From The Past: The Cranbrook Hearld, June 28th, 1900

By Andrew Phillip Chernoff

On Thursday, June 28, 1900 the Cranbrook Hearld newspaper published an article in its paper that would gather attention, raise a few eyebrows, result in a few laughs and create embarrassment for two other newspapers.

The article, titled “Taking A Look Forward: Excerpts From The ‘Morning Hearld’ Of September 10, 1907”, that showed the following occurrences at that time:  “Conflageration In The Warehouse District—Loss Nearly Half A Million” and “A Great Labor Strike Imminent”.

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On July 13, 1900, the Slocan Drill newspaper published an article that exposed the above Cranbrook Hearld post as a hoax, claiming two newspapers, the Spokane Review and Sandon Paystreak “were both caught for suckers having re-published the item as an alleged fact of today. It is a horse on them”.

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Source: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers

Romancer, Miner and Promoter: James F. Wardner

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FROM: Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill., February 12, 1899 and The Tribune, Nelson, B.C., February 13, 1899.

Note: The above referenced newspapers carried the same article from the New York World, with the following differences: The Tribune titled their article, “An Expert Liar: ‘Jim’ Wardner Admits That He Has A Wonderfully Good Memory”; and, the final paragraph, which appeared in the The Tribune but not the Chicago Tribune. The original article appeared in the New York (Evening) World on February 3, 1899.

Wardner, B.C. was named after James Wardner.

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