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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
6
A guide explains lighting and maintaining wick oil stoves to avoid smoking, including gradual wick rise, cleaning routines for burners and chimneys, and daily upkeep tips. The piece also presents recipes for Almond Cream, Peach Sponge, and Charlotte Russe with step by step instructions and serving ideas.
Advice on letting morning sun into rooms for short periods, airing sleeping areas, and avoiding draughts. Emphasizes ventilating, airing bedclothes, and not sleeping in a draught. Recommends lighter daytime eating and a hearty meal at night after work, citing fruits, toast, soft boiled eggs, and oatmeal as good breakfast options.
The excerpt provides detailed old time kitchen instructions for a spice layer cake and for preparing fresh fish. It includes ingredient lists and step by step methods for creaming butter and sugar, beating eggs, and baking, plus a boiled fish with a parsley onion stock and horseradish cream sauce. Also begins a creamed corned beef preparation.
A coarse brown paper soaked in vinegar placed on the forehead helps sick headaches. Gently bathing the eyelids in cold water generally allays head pain, offering simple relief from discomfort.
A survey of notable figures and curiosities includes the Marchioness of Tweeddale as a rare female engine driver and Mrs. McKinley as a practicing lawyer before the American bar. It notes the Czar’s vast estate, Edison’s sleep habit, and a Bavarian prince’s beetle collection. Also mentioned are the Khedive’s regal harness, a large Russian physician count, and horsemen from European royalty. Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour retires after fifty-one years in the navy, recounting a career marked by daring and the Armenian crisis era.
For over fifty years Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used by millions of mothers for teething children. It promises immediate relief from crying and pain, cures diarrhoea and aids digestion, with a pleasant taste and a 25 cent bottle price. Distributed by druggists worldwide.
Rev Dr Talmage preaches from II Chronicles to extol religion as spice and perfume. He likens Solomon’s palace to a beacon of wisdom, praises the Queen of Sheba’s spices as a metaphor for faith, and urges plain, earnest gospel that brings happiness, virtue, and consolation amid life’s burdens.
Glass fibre dress worn by a famed variety artiste is about to appear in public. Spun in Dresden and manufactured in Paris over five months, the gown features a demi-train skirt, sleeveless bodice, form fitting front, fringe hem, and glass braid trim. It shimmers with pale greens blues and silver under strong light.
A recent traveller reports Arab servants in Central Africa with extraordinary sleep power. One slept undisturbed by gunfire two feet from his head. Another, Salam, sleeps more soundly than any seen before. He recalls a tale of sleeping while donkeys tethered to his leg, waking to find the animal wandered far away.
A St. Petersburg report describes hunger typhus and destitution in Elizabethgrad Kherson, noting famine denial by authorities and private relief curbed by the Red Cross. An investigator found widespread poverty, deaths from starvation, and hunger typhus spreading among able bodied residents.
The report notes widespread hardship as peasants struggle to obtain essentials. Grain and seed corn delivered to rail hubs have been diverted by draymen yet many villagers lack means to transport. Governor Prince Obolensky under scrutiny for limited checks on distress. Elizabethgrad sits in the heart of the black earth zone where soil decline persists. Samara and Saratos face imminent crop failure, signaling broader famine risk.
The article notes waste cloth from tailors yields substantial value. British Army Clothing Department waste exceeds £6000 yearly while Leeds clothing makers generate around £50000. Devices reduce waste, cuttings sold to dealers, purchased by cloth makers, and sometimes refined into fine material.
A curious exchange discusses a curio collector seeking old relics while a visitor’s stay with the collector’s wife’s mother prompts a cautious response about suitability. The dialogue hints at negotiating items and social bounds during a household visit.
A damaged OCR text fragment references unnamed people and places with garbled names and phrases. It mentions trials, births, and possible events but lacks coherent context, dates, or identifiable subjects.
The readable text shows partial details about a fire incident with unclear names and locations. The fragment mentions a test or assessment and references a vague event. Further context is unreadable.
A garbled passage cites a dialogue about digestion and brain work, mentioning Diet and bodily stress. It references names like Katharine and Dorothea and notes outdoor activity, with fragmented phrases about digestion, nerves, and physical exertion. The text remains unclear and partially nonsensical.
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