TOM BERTRAM, Pharmacist

LADYSMITH DRUG STORE

Phone 26 Ladysmith for

A Complete, Modern Drug Service

Hotel

Malaspina

THOMAS STEVENSON, Manager

Dining Room and Beautiful New Coffee Shop

An Impressively Good Hotel Reasonable Rates

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+ face still reflecting the beauty and charm that once made her Queen of the Klondike, and her NANAIMO, B Cc

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wt young with the sourdough spirit, Klondike Kate has won for herself a new title. To her ghbors and many friends on the Pacific Coast, she’s ‘‘Aunt Kate.” After four years as the idol the Savoy, Dawson’s daudiest pleasure palace, Kate made the big-time circuits in the States. An male pegaent cut short Repeannen career; but no misigroune ever dimmed the sunny smile, pped the flow of human sympathy, nor quieted the gay vivacity that made Kate a famous and well-

ed personality. In the heyday of the arene Kate was cc aeeineut of the ote She WITH COMPLIMENTS ered them Phe they were sad, took care of their pokes when they were drunk, and staked them new ventures when they were broke. Today her home and her heart are open to all, and many General Auto Sales

veary mortal has gone on his way with renewed hope, because of Aunt Kate's encouragement.

5 LIMITED nks of the Klondike. And we'd make Spring was the big season in the Yukon. Meise: ton : ins for the day that we would marry. All winter the miners sat in their lonely | cabins on the frozen creeks, waiting for . Miners’ GENEROSITY MADE the spring thaw, so they could come to Chevrolet and Oldsmobile

HER FORTUNE town for laughter and song. With gold I was never a gold digger. The men. dust they would drown their hardships and © rew their gold at my feet when my dances their homesickness and be happy. sased them. And I had more than $30,000 Then there was gold in the streets of FRONT STREET, NANAIMO, B.C. less than a year. I lived over the theatre Dawson, gold in the hills, and gold in the a beautiful room. It had red and gold Yukon! And I was named the queen of lpaper, and the furniture was of golden it all! There were whistles and cheers when- k. The carpet was lush and thick, with a ever I appeared on the board streets.

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sign of great red roses. There were fine Men dressed in mackinaws and high ottingham lace curtains at the windows. boots, with their pockets stuffed with buck- FOR 25 YEARS LEADING CANADA I began my day’s work with an hour skin pokes of gold, were ready to fling gold IN ENTERTAINMENT a gymnasium to keep in trim. Then I. at every pretty face. We wore leg-of-mutton Only The Best for a Famous Guest ould take my own dog team and go _ sleeves and gold nugget jewelry and silken shing out over the frozen snow. I had petticoats that rustled as we walked. CAPITOL & ST RAND y own horse and in the summer Id drive The clothes for my shows were from e wild through that strangely beautiful Paris. I paid $1,500 for one Worth gown. FAMOUS PLAYERS THEATRES

And all my lingerie was French and hand-

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Bie Mayo LUMBER Co.

Victoria Lumber Company (1943) LTD. Limited TIMBERS :: DIMENSION ROUGH CLEARS SELECT COMMONS

Chemainus, B.C. Plant: McKay Lake Head Office: CASSIDY P.O. PALDI, B.C.

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