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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
8
Doctors buy poisonous snakes for experiments and zoos while pet buyers often keep snakes with rats and turtles in bedrooms. A university student studied coils and eyes in a trance, keeping over a dozen snakes in a boarding house bedroom before they escaped causing a public stir.
The message advertises fabric values as best offered with mail order service. It mentions 48 inch Fine Black Cheviot thoroughly shrunk priced at 100 dollars per width and 54 yards of Fine Amazon Suiting with finishes and quantities. It invites samples for distant customers and promises prompt mail-order service.
Grocery and farm goods prices listed for grains meats dairy and produce. Includes wheat barley flour butter eggs hay wood and livestock prices with many figures, plus an ad for Pain-Killer Perry Davis.
Aug 20 notes show Miss Haywood of Orillia visiting Miss Mary McCulloch while Joe Wearing returns home from Parry Sound after an accident. Miss Mildred Metcalf returns to Toronto’s C B G. Miss Robinson of Etobicoke visits grandmother Mrs Martha Robinson. Annie Todd of Toronto visits friends locally. A lake sail aboard Islay entices C K members and others. Mrs James Day of Orillia visits Miss Lizzie Muir. Tanner couple attend funeral in Morton Park. Local farmers report harvest progress as Guthrie C E Society plans lawn social at A D and N Campbell home on August 22 with expected good times.
August 13 entries note Mrs Mulholland and children visiting Mrs Jas Campbell, Miss May Hodgins visiting Utonia, Mrs Young of Toronto staying with Aunt Mrs F McCuaig. August 19 reports birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Joseph Damond, Angus. Waanle awarded interior contract for Wm Haines’ house. E Lucis to Toronto for work. Catholic church picnic to fund repairs in Mr Comartin’s grove with a good programme.
Stops the cough and works off the cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold in day. No cure no pay. Price 25 cents.
President J. L. ES eRy lists six vice presidents and directors including Sir WR MEREDITH and Gowan. The firm, based in Toronto and Guelph, offers Life and Endowment insurance and related classes with a stated asset figure of 20,575,000.00. For more information, apply personally or write to 18-ly.
The piece surveys archaic courtship trials in various cultures with vivid examples. Arabs of upper Egypt require a proposed groom to endure a whipping by male kin. Madagascar Sakalava lovers face spear-thrower tests while Dongolowee girls impose knife-armed duels. Darling River natives link fighting prowess to wives and victory.
A child muses on love as a changing lens that softens how people look at others and themselves. It makes quiet moments on a bench feel intimate and turns nurses, police, husbands, and lovers into varied recipients of affection. The writer anticipates growing up to love and to have influence in a partner’s life.
A debate over a line about a woman scorned prompts a $5 wager. Higginside claims the quote comes from Psalms, the other argues Job, while a third says Proverbs of Solomon. The participants leave the matter to God.
A fragment lists domestic dialogue about salaries and savings with a playful exchange between a husband and wife. It then oddly shifts to a scientific note stating that the global air weight would be eleven and two thirds trillion pounds without the space occupied by mountains and land above sea level, followed by an incomprehensible fragment.
A passage from John Fox Jr.’s The Southern Mountaineer in Scribner’s recounts rugged hospitality. A stranger stays a week, pays nothing, and learns the host survives on generosity and moonshine. An outlaw father and two outlaw sons loom in the tale of mercy and danger in the hills.
Hot irons should not be used on flannels or woolens. iron calicoes and similar fabrics on the wrong side. Boil clotheslines before use to improve durability. Iron table linen when damp with a hot heavy iron. Avoid red hot irons. Embroideries need a smooth surface and wrong side. Borax can whiten linen. Soak colors in salt water to set dye before washing. Do not dampen white silk handkerchiefs. iron warm after drying.
The two stores announce a summer clearance with closing out and farewell prices. Purely summer items, odd lots, short ends and slow movers are priced to move and make room for fall stock. Shoppers yet to complete summer buying can save on economical purchases.
A local ad item notes farewell print prices with remnants in 6 yards and 35 pieces of print cloth, discounts on summer prints from 12c to 15c reduced to 10c, Zephyr and gingham patterns at 10c, dress ginghams cut to 15c, plus half price on a selection of hats and a fancy black piece priced at 50c at our store.
A European and American dealer, seeking new painters, explains his method. He judges promise by eye contact and conversation, not by portfolio alone. Only artists who speak with passion about their work and profession win a place on his list.
A young man asks where Miss Mobile resides and learns she has no fixed abode. She details spending winters in Reading, Lent in St. Paul, summers and part of autumn in Wheeling, and after Easter in Aiken. The exchange highlights a nomadic pattern.
A spectator at the oval remarks on Dr. W G Grace's brilliant hitting and says he places shots wherever he likes. A friend replies that it is all practice and he is always at it, not wasting time on family prayers, from C W Alcock's Cricket Stories.
Dialogue snippet shows Delia defending herself in a domestic conflict about room cleanliness. A woman accuses the prior occupant, while Delia mentions she only stayed three weeks, suggesting blame shifted to a previous resident. The exchange highlights tension and casual confrontation in a household setting.
A terse line suggests a pragmatic test to determine character, comparing a man to a peg whether square or round. the implied method is only clear by asking for a concrete standard of measure. The phrasing hints at moral or practical judgment rather than a physical test.
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