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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 25, 1901
Page
8
VAIR and VICKERS, prominent names in millinery, dress goods, and silks, are highlighted as leading providers in the fabric and fashion trades. The feature notes their specialization in hats and textile specialties, underscoring their role in local retail.
A promotional note from a company declaring leadership as its goal. It emphasizes growth and ambition, promises better values for customers as the business expands, and frames success as a benefit to shoppers. The tone is assertive and forward looking.
The Mullinery department promises a great attraction for shoppers with up to date fashion, daily shipments of novelties, and the lowest prices. Wedding and mourning orders receive immediate attention and are executed promptly.
Tea evokes bright experiences from fields to table and warms social evenings. It symbolizes refined pleasure and family gatherings, yet genuine tea is hard to obtain. Our 25c Blend Tea offers aroma flavor and strength you can trust.
Reports from Allandale Ward include a lost milking cow, job changes at the freight sheds and farming plans, church fundraising near $2000, school maple plantings, cattle and hogs shipped to Toronto, fishing with no catch, summer plans for Depot Harbor, church and railway updates, a carbolic acid incident involving Bert Bebb, a 94 year old widow Mrs Sinclair’s death and funeral, a hospital fundraiser dance with Keenans, station excitement over a runaway dog, and a serious rail accident at Stouffville injuring engineer Wm Bain with a broken ankle.
Albert Bismarck Ellis 28 known as Frank from Unionville died Thursday noon after a severe headache in Monkman s drug store. He collapsed within minutes, apoplexy causing death. An uncle Mr Harrington arranged for remains to be sent to Unionville for interment.
The week includes multiple evening talks led by commanding officers with topics such as Darts of an enemy and The gates to the soul. Special offerings occur Sunday at 3 and 7 30 pm. Juniors quarterly review and annual concert with recitations music and drills are planned with prizes and five cent door offering. Major Pickering and Sgt Stangon visit Barrie for meetings May 4 5 6.
A former porter recounts life on trains, praising railroading as easy money. He reflects on porters who attract passengers, shares anecdotes of passengers tipping poorly or generously, and concludes a return to railroading is best despite past missteps. He highlights earnings of 15 to 30 dollars per trip and notes the appeal of working with sleepers and chair cars.
An upcountry English resident in the East Indies boasts displayed wealth at luncheon. Ram Buksh bluntly reveals missing napkins and spoons saying they have gone to the wash. The master, embarrassed, is laughed at and publicly shamed for swaggering excess.
Indians believe the ghost of James G Blaine haunts the old log house at Fort Gibson where he lived briefly with his son in law Colonel Coppinger. They recall his chilly treatment of the tribe, the post election celebration at Talequah, and fear his spirit will punish enemies, prompting families to move from the residence.
For several seasons the Double Stores Millinery receptions have been a feature of general interest to ladies. Our display this season shows progressiveness in millinery art with advances from New York and Parisian studies adapted to Canadian needs and designed by Miss Wright. No show hats from foreign makers. all hats are manufactured in house by our staff and can be repeated for customers.
The largest carpet shop in Northern Ontario showcases new Brussels Carpets in varied colors and designs for dining and drawing rooms. Tapestry carpets arriving, priced from 15c to 50c per yard, and a full range of floor oil cloths, linoleums, and Japanese mattings.
About 40 men's suits in single breasted sacque coats with fine English Scotch and Canadian tweed and worsted fabrics in dark and light colors, valued $9 to $11, offered at 7.50. Also fine colored cambric shirts laundried with bosoms and cuffs attached, mostly new blue stripes, priced at 50 cents.
A brief commotion centers on a child asking if angels have wings and if a feathered hat accessory could be bought. The exchange reveals a sentimental moment between a mother and child about belief, vanity, and adornment within a domestic setting.
The London Mail notes that landscape gardeners can alter the earth’s surface to an amazing degree. It cites Virginia Water ruins placed by a firm, a Geisbach falls replica in Shropshire, a Norman castle ruin in Hertfordshire built by a Sussex firm, and a feasible lake or brook landscape.
A paroxysm of coughing may be prevented or cured with dry salt as a gargle. For sore throat tannin in water is a top gargle, stronger solutions often better and sometimes used like a paste. For a cough lemon and sugar is a good remedy, roasting a lemon then squeezing it into a cup with three ounces of powdered sugar and taking a spoonful when coughing.
A school board inspector asked a class what an epidemic is. After no replies, he prompted with an example. A boy instantly answered Jam, sir, saying an epidemic is anything that spreads.
A comic exchange about a wordless song as Professor Nagelschmitz performs. Binkerton jokes the audience fills the deficiency with their own singing and clamor.
A western railway passenger agent states his experience shows Friday is the best day for rail passenger travel while Wednesday is the worst, reflecting demand patterns and travel planning considerations.
A carping critic questions police knowledge as a fugitive hunt unfolds. A retort likens the chase to a spider weaving a web with the fly unseen. The note adds that the oldest fort in America stands at St Augustine Florida, built by the Spanish over three centuries ago and long used as a prison.
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