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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 06, 1922
Page
7
A visitor in a lunatic asylum hears a patient tell a tangled family chain joke about marriage and kinship. The patient’s quirky logic leads to the claim I am my own grandfather through a web of step relations and offspring within one family.
Charles Lachance of Petite Vallee Gaspe reports years of sciatica and rheumatism eased after taking six boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. He credits the medicine with restoring health by cleansing uric acid from the blood, urging others with kidney trouble to try it.
In Barrie two women faced charges after a chicken theft spree, with Mrs. McCullough and Mr. Nicely described in court. The trial featured admissions about a bag of fowl and disputed sums, while jurists weighed if the evidence proved theft beyond doubt.
The magistrate rejected a Nicely conviction due to contradictory testimony though he found Mrs. McCullough’s account suspicious. Mrs. McCullough pled guilty to receiving stolen property as witnesses challenged the Chickens’ origin and timing. The judge suspended sentence for McCullough and noted belief in Nicely’s possible guilt without enough proof.
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