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Eaton's selling leather postcards shortly after the store opened -- the leather postcard appears to have been a 1905 phenomenon. Winnipeg Tribune, August 26, 1905, p. 3.

Interesting ... I've heard that the tinselled cards were injuring postal workers, but this is the first time I've seen an actual contemporary report of that. Winnipeg Tribune, March 15, 1907, p. 8.

Interesting use of postcards --- would be nice to know if anyone out there has one of these. Winnipeg Tribune, December 1, 1903, p. 7.

Reprint from the Portland Press of Maine concerning how postcards are getting out of hand and are not following the post office regulations. Winnipeg Tribune, September 23, 1905, p. 19.

The U.S. finally allowed divided-back postcards in 1907 but evidently forgot to extend the rule to postal cards (the government issued version of postcards). Winnipeg Tribune August 2, 1907, p. 5.

Russell, Lang appears to be doing well at the time of this ad. Winnipeg Tribune, June 2, 1906, p. 16.

Death of Joseph Barrowclough, brother of Samuel and George, as reported in the Winnipeg Tribune, Sept. 21, 1914, p. 3.

Winnipeg Tribune, February 24, 1904, p. 9 -- Russell, Lang & Co. requesting amateur photographs. Russell, Lang & Co. produced a lot of postcards and (I believe) viewbooks at this time.

Winnipeg Tribune, April 14, 1913, p. 12 -- Eaton's offering postcards.

Winnipeg Tribune, July 10, 1912, p. 8 -- requesting photographs of the Duke of Connaught's visit.

January 18, 1906 -- this includes the story of Barrowclough's accident with the grizzly down in Lead, S.D.

Winnipeg Tribune, October 29, 1904, p. 11, gives an account of just how fast the Bulman Bros. were able to come up with a replacement building. The new 12,000 sq ft building is already well along barely three weeks after the disastrous fire.

June 2, 1899, p. 6. The Winnipeg Tribune updates us on the activities of the city's architects, including what appears to be a contract for the construction of the Bulman Block (perhaps in an initially smaller form).

Part of an article on new buildings for 1905. If all of these articles could be found and indexed, we'd add a lot to our knowledge as they are very detailed. Winnipeg Tribune, Sept. 23, 1905, p. 11

Winnipeg Free Press, March 14, 1906, p. 2. -- At this point it gets kind of strange since the new Bulman Bros. seems to be on the site of the old one. At least it is on the same intersection, and it's hard to see which other corner it could have been on. This is odd because there is no building there now and the story that is always told is that no buliding ever sat on that site after the 1904 fire that destroyed the 7-storey Bulman Bros. block.

Selling off the now empty lot in January 1905. Winnipeg Tribune, January 19, 1905, p. 8.

July 9, 1904, page 14 ... the Bulman Bros. block is shown here. I'm a bit confused by the timeline with the Bulman Bros. block as something clearly existed on the site for several years prior to this (see other clippings). Maybe the additional storeys had just been added (actually that is clear from the cutline which I didn't look at closely enough!). In any event, it was all to go up in smoke just 3 months later in one of the biggest fires in Winnipeg's history (fanned by all the printing chemicals). Anyway, I've never seen what this building looked like before ... if it only reached this size in mid-1904 that is probably why as it would have existed only very briefly.

Winnipeg Tribune, January 7, 1905, p. 12.