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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
3
A mangled OCR text suggests a 1900 letter describing Boer and British conflict impacts on families. It references loyalties, will, retreat, and scattered individuals amid wartime strain, with phrases implying trust, respect, and dissension within groups.
A dense notice lists numerous Barrie law offices offering wills probate, estates administration, and money to loan on favorable terms. Firms include Hewson & Creswicke, Strathy & Esten Abristell, McCarthy, Boys & Murchison, Dunlop Street offices, and others with mentions of Bank of Toronto buildings, Ross Block, and Coldwater branch. Also notes on county clerk Saturdays, and medical listing for Dr J C Smith with office and residence details.
Late resident physician and surgeon of Toronto General Hospital with specialty in diseases of women and nose and throat work also surgeon to Emergency Hospital Toronto. Office upstairs in McCarthy Block new to McCarthy Co offices two doors east of Dougall Bros Furniture Store. Dr W D MacLaren visits Cookstown weekly in Barrie office Ross Block east of Post Office Barrie.
Dr D B L Braret on Owen Street opens a dental office near Henderson’s Hardware Store entrance. The new location adds convenience for residents seeking routine care and urgent dental services.
An old classified notice lists ERS in VOAL and imported red from mines, lath and shingles, lime in white and grey, plasterers tools, bricks for hire, fire clay, plaster of Paris, cements and related goods. Marketed as of best utility and sold at very reasonable rates from 23 Elizabeth Street opposite Wellington Hotel, by SARJEANT.
Wheat market eases with western sympathy. Old red and white quoted 69-70c, new 67-68c. No. 2 goose 64-65c, No. 1 spring 69c east. Manitoba No. 1 hard firmer at 87-85c grinding in transit, No. 2 85c. Local delivery 2c lower. Flour steady. Ontario patents cited at $2.95 per car, 5-10c higher asked. No sales reported. Millfeed softer. oats steady demand. Peas firm. old 70c, new 65c midfreight.
Market activity remains firm across hog products with dealers reluctant to push. Prices unchanged as stocks dwindle. Port Canada short cut at 21 dollars, heavy mess 19 to 19.50. Smoked and dry salted meats list long clear 11c, breakfast bacon 15-16c, hams 14-14.4c, shoulders 11.4c, backs 15.4-16c. Lard tiers 10c, rubs 11c and pails 11c.
Toronto report notes lighter demand and poor quality cattle failing to sell. Heavy run of 72 loads includes 1,088 cattle, 1,045 sheep and lambs, 86 calves and 1,000 hogs. Prices shown for export cattle, butchers cattle, cows, bulls, stockers, milch cows, sheep, lambs, calves and hogs, with mixed activity and some segments steady or weak.
Butter offerings continue large with prices unchanged as dealers in surrounding towns stock up for a market downturn. Creamery demand remains active. top butter runs 17 to 18 cents, common grades 12 to 15. case lots sellats 12, holds 11 to 11 1/4. potatoes firm with good demand, 90 to 95 cents per bushel, storage 1 to 1.10. new bale hay steady at 8 to 8.50 per ton, old Toronto stock around 9.50 with few buyers.
Baled straw prices remain unchanged at five dollars per ton for carload lots on the Toronto market rails. Local dealers report stable demand with no immediate shifts in price or supply.
Flour firm in Buffalo with spring wheat quiet for No 1 northern old at 818 cents. Winter wheat declines with No 2 red at 76 cents and No 1 white at 76. Corn dull yet firm with various grades around 62 to 64 cents. Oats steady to mixed with No 2 white old 48 cents and new 41 to 14 cents, No 2 mixed 39 to 40 cents, No 3 83 to 83 cents. Rye strong at 65 cents in store.
London reports wheat firm on passage while corn stays quiet amid rain in England. French markets steadier with an advance in English wheat and firmer American flour. Liverpool closes with firm spot wheat and corn, prices steady to higher. Paris shows steady wheat and flour with firm August and futures.
Ottawa dispatch reports Mr W A MacKinnon of the Department of Agriculture tested views on the marking and inspection of fruit packages for sale. Some exporters misinterpreted the act while others saw benefits. Inspectors for shipments this fall are due soon, likely seven, focusing on Ontario and the Maritime Provinces. The department also ships orders to foreign ports and Prof Robertson departs for St John NB as the Huronian sails with hay meat and jam for troops in South Africa.
A London despatch reports the Sun says General Botha concentrates at Hondweni near Zululand but will not fight Kitchener. It says Botha may surrender under an understanding with Kitchener as Milner travels back to South Africa with a draft constitution for annexed territories.
Ottawa reports five smallpox causes and a lighted Little Current electric scene. The Duke of York party will stay three hours in Hamilton while F W Borden is invited to open Peterboro fair on the 25th. Stratford may gain an electric railway from Woodstock to Goderich next year. Militia plans new rifle ranges at Winnipeg Brockville Sherbrooke and Fredericton NB. Three London hotelkeepers fined for after hours service. Edward Whymper among visitors to the Canadian Rockies. Three Rivers mills idle awaiting logs. vast logs stranded on St Maurice. Hamilton Beach canal and piers contract awarded for over 100000 dollars. Cabinet ministers to Quebec to meet Duke and Duchess in September. Frank Jackson from Queen’s University lands a drafting job in Harrisburg PA. A new wood pulp syndicate forms north shore Gulf of St Lawrence. Montreal council motion seeks reduced religious property exemptions. last year exemptions rose by 1.5 million dollars. William Bird and Duncan McLean fined for assaulting a woman in Halifax. C battery members to receive back pay for Rhodesian grant. orders issued. Prisoners tied to Yildiz Palace fire. A Ven detta murder occurs in an Austrian church. seven killed and twenty three wounded in fighting.
A string of brief news items notes Marquis Ito the former Japanese prime minister preparing a U.S. visit, plus various international and domestic notes. Reports cover a deadly trolley crash in Brazil Indiana, a life sentence for J Axel Douglas in New York, and other scattered items.
Victoria BC reports the Canadian Pacific steamer Islander struck an iceberg off Douglass Island Alaska while southbound with a record crowd. The ship sank in 15 minutes. about 82 aboard died including Capt Foote. Boiler explosion caused many in the water to perish. Survivors reached Juneau after rescue efforts by Flossie and Lucy. Identified dead included Mrs. R. Ross and others. several crew lost. Aboard survivors from Ontario and Ottawa listed.
Ottawa dispatch lists revised regiments for the Toronto review during the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York visit. Cavalry includes Royal Canadian Dragoons and several Hussars. Artillery features multiple field batteries. Infantry lists Governor-General's Foot Guards and numerous regiments. Medical Corps Bearer Companies and Field Hospitals. One Cadet Corps. Total ranks amount to 10,000.
A London despatch reports Boer women in concentration camps say the Boers will win despite recent events. Pretoria notes delegates in Europe claim Continental powers will intervene. Burghers who surrendered attend thanksgiving services while some surrendering wives insult surrendered men’s wives. escaped husbands rejoin commando.
A despatch from Cape Town reports the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York arriving Monday morning and being enthusiastically received. They traveled to Government House through crowded streets, the Duke held a reception at Parliament House, and with the Duchess they received an address of welcome from across the colony. Many valuable presents were given, and the weather was unusually hot.
A Berlin despatch reports German women calling for beards and mustaches to disappear or invite reprisals such as hoopskirts and long dresses. Kaiser's barber Francois Haby dismisses the campaign as nonsense, noting a beard's historic value and warning that whiskerless faces become signals of servitude.
Readers note potential relocation of Arnold’s glove factory from Acton to Georgetown. Citizens of Sudbury presented an address to Edison, the famed inventor. W J Spence of Peterboro named to Wesley College Winnipeg staff. Andrew Carnegie offered 50000 to St John New Brunswick for a public library with free site and ongoing maintenance. H W Laird, ex Cobourg Sentinel Star publisher, named secretary to Premier Haulton of the Northwest Territories.
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