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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 14, 1922
Page
10
Exclusive listings from Partridge and Gilroy include five to eight room cottages and brick houses with features like lights water sewer verandas and poultry houses. Prices range from 1100 to 3650 with easy terms and immediate sale, plus rental listings and a call to see the full inventory.
Roy L. Jay & Co lists cleaned currants 25c per box, seedless and seeded raisins 20c, queen olives large bottles 34c and 50c, Welch grape juice 40c, plum puddings for Xmas, mixed nuts 25c, Weston's English biscuits, mince meat 20c, fresh ground coffee 60c, and Dalton's French drip coffee 65c.
Canadian timetable snippet lists trains serving Toronto and suburbs including Barrie Gravenhurst North Bay Meaford Penetang and Midland with daily departures and arrivals. Timings cover early morning to late evening across multiple routes and stations.
At the Barrie area Bell Telephone Co plant employees council banquet at Wair's, A L W Smith received a reading lamp from the plant staff on his transfer from Barrie to Oshawa. Speakers and guests from Collingwood and Newmarket attended, noting safety gains and long distance line care. The event included toasts to the company guests plants and concluded with the National Anthem.
The Barrie edition notes a Victoria Order of Nurses branch to be formed with a committee led by Daniel Quinlan as President and Dr E G Turnbull as 1st Vice. Others include A F A Malcomson Secy Treas J F Wilson and representatives from the Woman's Canadian Club Daughters of the Empire and local organizations. The piece promises a page two feature on a Victorian Order nurse.
Five candidates sought support for the Barrie Boys Parliament delegate with local groups pledging rail and hotel funding to Toronto. Victor Collins of Allandale led the ballots, with others from Ste. Marie St. Thomas Stratford Smith's Falls Niagara Falls Lindsay Oshawa Hamilton Ottawa and London.
The case centers on Sir Charles Lowe and associates amid a raid at a Bradford farm where three bushels of spent mash and a dismantled still were seized in a swamp. Police Constables Kirk and Webb testified, with Lowe denying knowledge of the apparatus and calling the incident a frame-up while Ben Collins and a man named Rogers were named by him.
Magistrate Clarke imposed a $400 fine and costs with an eight month jail option amid claims of extensive moonshining in the neighborhood. He insisted the activity must be stopped.
Bryson's almond paste ready to use sold at 45c per pound. An evening event on Wednesday December 20 at 7.45 PM features Salvation Army children's entertainment and a Christmas tree. Tickets cost 10 cents.
Montreal unveils The Mount Royal, a ten story Georgian style hotel covering 306 by 227 feet. 1500 men labored for a year. features include 150 miles of electrical wiring 60 miles of conduit capacity for 2000 telephones, artesian wells, and a double H floor plan ensuring each room is outward facing.
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