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13 Aug 1896
Page 1
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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1896
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR shows names and phrases like Brown Solimitors Air Line Toronto and Wallington Hotel with stray words. No clear event, date, or structured fact to summarize into a coherent news item.
The Reed family saga unfolds around the Bar Lighthouse three miles from Rye. Jackson Reed and his wife Sarah face a collapsing bridge sea storms and a fragile faith while their lives cross with Abby Weaver and William Barstow. Sarah lights the lamp at last and confronts despair through steadfast duty and prayer.
A collage of speculative claims on brick durability granite and soapstone compares snake skin expansion in digestion cites Dr Viquerat in Geneva using ass blood serum to treat consumption. It notes steam engine cylinder boring while misaligned and warns of ocean cable wear on bad bottoms and longevity on good bottoms with wire recovery after twenty years.
An item notes the St Paul’s Cathedral insurance value at about 475000 dollars, Britain’s longest underground road in Derbyshire linking mines for seven miles, mint profits of nearly three pence per shilling, and penny piece profits per ton of 382 pounds. It also mentions Blenheim Palace tied to the Crown by the annual French flag presentation and similar tribute from the Dukes of Well ington for Strathfieldsaye.
The message calls for a noble creed for the hour urging selfless action. A preacher, L. Perin, DD, frames the motto Each for all as a path to save souls from ego and selfishness and to foster united effort toward the kingdom of God on earth.
The chief engineer Francis Somerville of Kingston with fifty years in Ontario river traffic credits his recovery from kidney troubles and gravel to a treatment that cleared sediment and relieved back and shoulder pain. Mrs Somerville notes the relief and renewed health, with life returning to normal.
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