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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 29, 1901
Page
3
A garbled OCR sample references gas shops, police, insurance houses, and lavender while mixing fragments about streets, oranges, perfume, and a 19th century setting. It lacks coherent events or clear individuals, yielding a diffuse, partial snapshot of an era.
A collage of Barrie law firms offers money to loan on favorable terms, probate and administration services, notaries, conveyancers, and related legal work. Firms include Hewson & Creswicke, McCarthy’s Block Dunlop Street, Ross Block Barrie, and others with offices in Barrie and area.
The report shows a quiet market with old red and white milling wheat at 67 to 74 cents, No. 2 goose at 61, No. 1 spring at 67 to 68, and Manitoba wheat softer. Flour and millfeed trends are steady to easier, with Manitoba flour unchanged, shorts and bran near steady, and oats and rye showing firm or steady footing. Prices for commodities range across corn, oats, peas, lard, pork, and various meats and produce, reflecting a broad, mostly quiet trading day in Toronto.
Dairy prices hold steady with choice butter 17 to 18 cents, creamery prints 21.4 cents, select stock 12 to 14 cents. Potatoes ease but stay quotable, poultry offerings limited with chickens 45 to 65 cents. Cattle and hogs at Western Cattle Market mixed, lambs down about 25 cents, feed grains steady to firmer with wheat around 66 to 72 cents.
Buffalo Aug 27 flour firm reports good demand with spring wheat quiet and mixed prices for No 1 northern old and winter wheat. Corn and oats show firmer tones while rye remains weak. New York market notes flour receipts and exports, firmer rye flour, steady cornmeal, and mixed wheat futures with active buying and war rumour driven rally. Nearby prices listed for No 2 red and northern Duluth wheats, with futures closing higher in Sept and Oct contracts.
Leaves Cape Town as a dispatch from the city notes the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York leaving on Friday morning. They sailed aboard the Ophir at Simons Town for St. Vincent, expressing gratitude for loyal support and urging youth to pursue patriotism and empire unity. The Ophir is expected to reach St. Vincent by September 4.
The report covers a range of 1800s era items: the Czar’s September France visit for five days, the transport Thomas carrying 500 teachers arriving in Manila from San Francisco, NSW assembly passage of a Women’s Franchise bill, and US peach crop estimates at 75 million bushels. It notes Russian fortifications at New Chwang and rail push toward Korea, Tribuna Rome urging protests on Isthmus of Panama, Faulkner’s arrest for embezzlement in Connecticut, and Puget Sound Sockeye pack at 1.2 million cases worth 400000 dollars. Survivor Captain Stephen A Jackson dies in Wisconsin at 74. Claims of arms production in Chinese arsenals, and corn crop failures in Nebraska and Kansas with other states near half yields. At Temple Georgia Henry Griffles fined seven dollars for singing off key in church. Jack Winters jailed fifteen years for a $320000 San Francisco theft. Sierra Nevada tunnel project estimated five miles long costing about 4 million. The Gazette calls for German officer corps reform to restore soldier spirit as Dowager Empress Frederick reportedly destroyed journals to hide state secrets. Fort Riley incident: a seven inch shell explodes during target practice, head of Private Watson lost, seven hurt. The note ends with Sir Francis Cruise of Dublin University referenced.
Despatch from Graaf Reinet notes frequent railway interruptions in Cape Colony as Boer columns maneuver against General French. Boers blow trains by mines under rails. a German Transvaal burgher was captured with apparatus. Enemies attempted six blockhouse crossings east of De Aar with only two minor breaches.
Ottawa dispatch reports militia orders for the Duke of Cornwall and York review. Regiments with tunics wear them, those with serge frocks wear them with sashes. Officers must be uniformly dressed, tunics or frocks. Only eight companies of the 68th and 69th Regiments may take part in the Halifax review.
Toronto dispatch notes July health department report by G B Lindsay showing a lower death toll vs June 1901 and July 1900. Consumption deaths about one third of July 1900. overall death rate 10 per 1000, with high reporting compliance and delays by registrars.
London dispatches report Lord Kitchener saying Boer efforts persist. He notes 32 Boers killed, 139 captured, and 185 surrendered since Aug 19, including Kruger’s nephew, with Beaton engaging Scheeper’s commando. Several columns face limited opposition in Cape Colony while Boers vow to keep fighting.
A cloudburst drenched from Tarrytown to New Jersey and eastern Connecticut, hampering transit and causing extensive property damage. Dams burst near Mauch Chunk, Pa, four feared dead, steeple toppled at St Marys Jersey City, and ships rode out water spouts while Hoboken reports major wind damage.
Despatch from Ottawa reports a blast at the Ottawa Power Company dynamite factory at Green's Creek five miles away. Manager John Hudson, 60, was blown to pieces while James Fulford and John Cyr, workers, were seriously injured. Hudson worked alone in the packing room where 21 cases about 1000 pounds of powder were stored. The sole witness died, body torn apart. Factory buildings destroyed. Fulford and Cyr survived with severe injuries and nervous shock. Hudson leaves a widow and grown children.
A London despatch says Newton Crane for the American Embassy has renewed a claim to the South African Compensation Commission for Charles B. Nelken a Prussian born yet naturalized American. Major-General Sir John Ardagh of the Foreign Office noted Nelken joined the Boers to protect seized property and the commission would not compensate anyone who fought Britain. Chairman Milvain repeated the policy that no one who fought against Great Britain will receive compensation.
A London despatch credits royalty with steadiness amid war strain, while criticizing government missteps such as the ill fated recruitment drive for sixteen thousand Imperial Yeomanry. The Duke of Cornwall and York earns praise for tactful, unflawed tours that bolster imperial unity and commend colonial troops including Canadians and Australians.
A Bloemfontein despatch reports Australian Bushmen riding a farm house at night with fixed bayonets. Fifty Boers opposed them. three Boers killed and seven captured. North of the Modder river the South African Constabulary clashed with forty Boers. three Boers killed, several wounded, six captured. Australian casualties: two killed, seven wounded.
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