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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 29, 1901
Page
8
Under skilled management by Miss Hunt with a large staff our dress making department prepares for the usual rush. Opening Day is Wednesday September 4th. A long list of orders already exists and ladies should leave their orders soon.
Market notes from Bangg dated August 28 1901 list fall and family wheat at 83 to 65 cents per bushel baker flour 4 50 5 00 and other grains including peas buckwheat and barley with price ranges. Wool hides and dairy products follow with beef lamb pork lard butter eggs and hay wood and straw prices across meat poultry and general commodities.
On Sunday August 27 Mr and Mrs Will Lockhart of Killyleagh visited Mrs Lockhart s parents. Mr and Mrs Smith of Barrie were in Barrie over Sunday with H Brown. Mr and Miss Jennet of Ivy visited friends in the area. Miss Maley spent the day in Barrie with her parents. Milford Andrews wheeled to Oro Station. A bright sun visited Wm Summers Sunday night. H Bigger and M Moorehead have erected new windmills. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at Thornton cemetery for Mrs Agnes Bloxham who died after a long illness. she was laid to rest after a service in Thornton cemetery.
Miss Lizzie Muir has gone to the Soo. A Luck of Barrie spent Sunday with John Hockridge. Mrs T Hirons of Toronto visits friends here. Miss Nellis Hockridge hosted a gathering Friday night. Tom Walton and Frank Travers spent Sunday in Shanty Bay. Miss Ettie Waldruff returned to Bradford. Harvesting is finished in this vicinity. Miss Edna Sewray of Gwen Sound visits cousin Mrs Mark Webb.
Aug 27 Elias McNeit, visiting friends here, returned to Bay Bills Michigan on Tuesday. Jaz Broley on the sick list but hopes for a speedy recovery. Miss E Dulmaye visiting friends in Penetanguishene and Midland. Mr and Mrs Herd Black spent Sunday at Thornton. Mr and Mrs Wm Kneeshaw at Wilson Black's Sunday. Miss Cora Sawyer of Cherry Creek spent Sunday with her cousin at The Pines.
Aug 26 contractor finished bricking the new dwelling of Archibald Ross. John Mc Cuaig recovering from illness. Robert Blackmore threshed his peas last week with good results for the season. George Ferguson is on the sick list.
Mies Alcot's Letters to Laurie printed for the first time and edited by Durie. Durie also presents With Seton T capson in the Woods and Some Col'ete Surapes We Got Into told by A Graduate. Bok's The School Question Again urges American parents to engage in education. Curtis Publishing Company advertises: one dollar per year ten cents a copy.
Brentwood news reports the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. M. Johnstone on August 19, a house and contents loss by Mrs. Deane from a lightning strike that damaged a stove, and various social visits. Additional items note a new school planned along the river nottaswasaga and bridge work underway.
Local remedy claim for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets that promise to stop a cough and cure a cold in a day with no cure no pay and price set at 25 cents.
Useful domestic advice covers baby care with Canton flannel as a bath wrap, cleaning windows last after sweeping, avoiding soap for glass to reduce clouding, and polishing piano cases with a vinegar and paraffin mix. It also explains quick ankle sprain care with hot water immersion and bandaging, suggests minimal curtains near babies, and recommends weekly laundering of light Swiss draperies for better air flow and less dust.
A Milwaukee household tale tells of a maid rushing to the door with the silver card tray on an at home day. In a panic she snatched the tray back from the hallway and cried out that she nearly forgot her pan, startling a supposed upper-class visitor.
In a 1858 debate Douglas mocked Lincoln for selling whisky. Lincoln retorted that the first time they met he was selling whisky by the drink inside the bar while Douglas stood outside buying, a sharp, lighthearted comeback from the era.
Senator Sorghum quips that true unselfishness in politics pays. He says the unselfish man is the one who takes nothing and thus goes down as clear profit. The remark frames selfless motives as political currency and outcome.
Gossipy chatter questions if Sydney Spruggs acts differently after fortune. A confidant replies that Spruggs has undergone three surgical procedures, implying changes in his demeanor and lifestyle.
Analyzes Britain's royal protection network guarding King Edward VII. Secret service officers in plain clothes devise daily plans, cover routes, and monitor for threats, acting as eyes and ears of the nation while remaining largely unseen. They are adept at disguises and tracking, familiar with Braemar, Sandringham, Windsor, and Buckingham Palace.
The John L. Goss quarries on Crotch Island, Stonington, yielded a massive granite formation weighing about 25,000 tons. Measuring roughly 325 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 88 feet deep, the block was separated after months of careful work and blasting through a pyramidlike quarry.
Boys 6 to 12 years single breasted two piece suits in grey and varied cloths priced from 1.73 to 3.50. Three piece brownie suits from 2.00 up. Youths single breasted 12 to 17 years from 2.00 to 3.50. Double breasted youths 12 to 17 years 3.00 to 4.50. Boys odd pants 25c to 1.00. Odd lots of stock and special prices on shirts collars ties caps and more.
The general board of appraisers ruled at Nogales that melons are technically, popularly and commercially a fruit. They are thus dutiable as green fruit rather than vegetables, a stance supported by the department of agriculture. India may now claim a thriving fruit sector in California without trees.
At an international medical congress Dr Cohnheim described using large olive oil doses for severe gastric distress. In one case a young man with prior gastric injury and probable ulcer found complete relief from a wine glass of olive oil before meals. The oil helped other patients with prominent stomach discomfort and even relieved many symptoms in gastric cancer cases.
A new resin cored solder from England promises pure metal composition in the most efficient ratio with added flux. Sold as tubes with a central resin core, available in four diameters from one sixteenth to one quarter inch, designed to ease work in difficult positions, per the New York Sun.
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