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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 24, 1924
Page
2
Kestner, seeking quiet, is housed in a private office by a mysterious Stetson wearer. The man locks the door and steals away with Kestner’s shoes, leaving him asleep on a tarpaulin over a counter and effectively a prisoner in the room.
The Secret Agent Kestner hides in a cellar chamber and learns a printer is forging forty peso shin-plasts. He overhears Lambert and Burke plotting to seize a warehouse shipment as a broader plot unfolds.
The market list shows dressed chickens at 23 to 26 cents a pound, milk fed at 25 cents, fowl dressed 22 to 25 cents per dozen, beef fronts and hinds 9 to 12 cents per pound, pork fronts and hinds 4.13 to 15 cents per pound, butter 43 to 45 cents per pound, cream 15 to 30 cents per pint, whipping cream 40 cents, buttermilk five cents per quart, beans white 5 to 10 cents, cabbage 5 to 15 cents per head, and assorted produce with prices for carrots onions apples maple syrup onions radishes rhubarb pigs and potatoes listed.
A tidy guide suggests lemon juice in rice to keep grains whole and bright. It offers pairings with pork chops and a variety of vegetables including Brussels sprouts, onions, celery, tomatoes, turnips, corn, and apples. Spinach is noted as adaptable, with methods like timbale, fine chopping and creaming, or baking au gratin.
B M Sylvester former director of music at Christie Street Hospital and bandmaster of the 134th OS Bn and 75th Toronto Scottish Regiment is teaching music at 120 Bayfield Street.
Mrs Harvey Millian of Sydenham Ontario testifies to taking Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound during pregnancy noting improved strength and reduced fatigue. She recommends the tonic to other expecting mothers stressing safety and its herbal origins. Her letter mentions sending the booklet and endorses the medicine for run down conditions in pregnancy.
Local notices advertise Miss M McArthur fur services at Hurlburt’s Shoe Store Barrie and Miss Nellie M Laycock nurse in Barrie with office hours 2 to 3 pm. Also listed are Welch Campbell Lawless chartered accountants Toronto and L R Ord civil engineer Barrie with contact details and service offerings.
A Quebec town reports relief from kidney trouble after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mrs John McRae says she suffered three years before finding help, using two boxes and remaining free of trouble since. Other letters from grateful users corroborate the remedy's effectiveness.
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