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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 13, 1906
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows payments and remittances directed to J A MacLaren Pebisher of Tax Exasrxes. The text mentions advance payment terms and various stray phrases including Harrie and Oot, indicating a disrupted notice.
Dec 11 reports heavy snow for sleighing and local events. Neil Livingston stricken with paralysis. Mr Wheatly of Angus preached in the Methodist church. Young People held opening meetings. skating shops expected by Saturday. Literary Society organized. weddings and travel noted. Mrs Wattie elected president of Ladies' Aid. Miss Cavanagh teaching, Bertha Orrock filling position. program updates and a debate planned for Dec 12. Local church and community notices, injuries, illness, and social gatherings are summarized from Minesing and nearby areas.
The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Savona Luck died after about five weeks illness. Funeral held Sunday at St James Cemetery with Miss Frances Botting conducting services. Miss Orpha Luck visited Toronto. Miss Eva Partridge ill. Rev Lynch preached at St James Church. Temperance Hall to host a box social for St James Church funds. Long list of local updates follows with community notes on members, visits, and church activities.
A jumbled Shanty Bay item notes damages from a Sunday wreck and large quantities of minnows from the lake. Mrs Duncan Gilchrist is in poor health. Mrs Walker of Toronto was buried in Shanty Bay cemetery on Tuesday.
Real estate ads describe timbered land in Vespra township and cleared acres near Avandale with mortgaged prices. J N Brown, Western Realter agent, advertises stores, dwellings, and farms in Barrie area. Local news notes Edwin White returns from Yellowgrass and various residents’ social updates.
Barrie market notes list prices for wheat flour shorts rye barley oats buckwheat and other grains with per hundredweight and per pound figures. Wool hides and meat dairy items include prices for beef hides tallow calfskins lambskins and poultry products.
A fragmentary report lists Wheat Futures closing high and lower days, with May oats and Dec wheat quotes. Market notes reference Winnipeg and Toronto grain markets, Liverpool grain prices, and New York dry goods prices showing mixed but generally steady movements.
Reports from London Toronto New York Chicago and East Buffalo detail steady cattle trade with unchanged prices for top butchers cattle at $3.80 to $4.25 per cwt and milch cows in limited supply. Hogs and sheep show mixed activity with bids around $6.00 to $6.75 per 100 pounds for hogs and lambs selling from $5 to $8 per cwt. Also noted: Canada subsidy for mail service and a fatal streetcar accident in Winnipeg.
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