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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 04, 1913
Page
4
Fragmentary text hints at Garrett’s Music Store and holiday gift selections but provides no concrete items, dates, or locations. The readable portion indicates a call to make a selection at the store. Additional context or continuation is needed to form a complete item.
A short promotional item describing a player piano suitable for home use, with options to select a mandolin, guitar, violin, or autoharp, inviting readers to choose among musical instruments for personal enjoyment.
Fragmentary note references Folio or Sheet music and choir books then mentions a first class sewing machine. It alludes to a house of quality and a war taking place north of Toronto with a welcoming message.
Local notes cover Women's Institute meetings at homes, Christmas plans, and school activities. Reports include Christmas entertainment rehearsals, papers by Mrs. Lily Chaprell and Miss Muriel Toye, plus church services at St Pauls with Holy Communion next Sunday. Residents travel to Toronto Bracebridge and Barrie, with social events and the Thornton Point supper attracting large crowds.
The item lists musical education plans by Mrs. Dunn in Shanty Bay and surrounding areas with modest terms, plus community notes from Holly and Minesing about church anniversaries, visits, a Friday geese and turkeys match, and local social happenings.
The Thornton council met with full attendance. officers announced a by law nominations and elections session to be held at the Orange Hall on Monday December 29, 1813 at 4 p.m. The minutes list numerous ordinary road and culvert works, repairs, and materials valued at various sums, including ditching on 7th Con, paving, culvert repairs, and grading along the Bth pond and nearby sideroads.
The Hawkesstone council met to extend condolences for Wesley Ada of Hawkestone, noted as a beloved local resident, and to direct minutes to his family. They discussed road work, bylaw updates, and periodic labor credits, with committee reports on ditching, timber, and hall arrangements.
A mixed old newspaper item shows Christmas gift patterns with prices for ladies aprons pillows and linens, plus a municipal notice about a by law under progression of the Calonization Roads in October 1913 seeking approvals for road lines and cross roads and substantial sums. It also notes Stith McKinlay accounts and a Baptist church notice. The piece concludes with an oblique profile of Tasabelle Carruthers appointed as a court relations aide focusing on family discord and social work outcomes.
A local church promotes December Sunday evening gatherings at the Baptist Church. Topics include sermons about the Second Advent, questions on Christ's coming, and a watch night service on December 31. The pastor Rev. Aldrew Bailth invites all to join for prayer, preaching, and the Lord's Supper.
A storefront notice disputes many eczema cures promoted lately and endorses D D D Prescription Soap from the Moronto Laboratory as the tested remedy. The letter urges patrons to visit the shop for more details about this treatment and cautions against dubious “oil of wintergreen” mixtures.
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