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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 19, 1901
Page
3
Women discuss Milburn Heart and Nerve Pills in telegraphic exchanges blaming no one, focusing on the pills and shared experiences. The item highlights social chatter over patent remedies and personal health claims.
A Halifax era health ad describes Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills as a cure for nervousness and weakness. Mrs. Hannah Helmes of St John New Brunswick testifies she suffered fluttering heart dizziness and debility until using the pills. She reports relief of smothering, regular heart beat, renewed strength, and a return to health.
An advertisement touts B B B Burdock Bitters as a permanent cure for stomach and liver troubles, dyspepsia, biliousness, headaches, eczema, scrofula, ulcers, boils, hives, and blood impurities with thousands of testimonials. It urges readers to stay cured by using BBB only.
A Washington despatch recounts Rev. Dr. Talmage’s sermon on Joel ii 30 stressing the era’s wonders in heaven and earth. He catalogs earthquakes cyclones and plagues, contrasts disaster with blessings, praises literacy, missionary work, and self sacrifice, and envisions a hopeful Christian age advancing toward the millennium.
Sir Christopher Furness reports on the Cape Breton Dominion Iron and Steel works noting vast harbor access, 45 to 40 foot depth piers, 3,500 workers, 250 acres, 400 coke ovens, and ongoing mills. He details coal lands of 160 square miles with 5.5 billion tons, 16,000 tons daily capacity, and export plans to Canada, U.S., and Med markets.
A vintage ad promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. It claims relief from pain, diarrhea, stomach and bowel regulation, wind, and inflammation. Sold by druggists nationwide, 25 cents per bottle, with emphasis on its trusted medical endorsement.
A foreign scientist explains a small scale aurora borealis created by immersing the negative wire of an induction coil in water and touching the positive wire to the surface. He argues the northern lights result from positive electricity flowing from planetary poles and interacting with vapors, likening the phenomenon to familiar telegraph and telephone technology.
War correspondent from Vryheid recounts a Boer assault at Colenso. Piet Nel describes close combat near Long’s batteries, a British officer named Lieut. Roberts, awarded the Victoria Cross, saved by a Boer aid and later died of wounds. A vivid, partisan account from the Boer side details patient defiance and battlefield mercy.
River Terrace at Greenwich Hospital holds the only statue to a French officer near London. It honors Lieutenant Bellot who perished in the search for Franklin.
During Gladstone's Midlothian visit a bold handshake scene occurred at his carriage window. A strong constable hid behind his Inverness cape and gripped each corner with vigor, drawing amused comments from bystanders about the old man's age and nails.
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