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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 24, 1914
Page
6
Cream puffs feature among festive desserts and confections offered by Best Cakes and Pastry. The shop highlights seasonal pastries, gift-ready boxes, and bakery specialties suitable for holiday gatherings.
The war influence dominates fashion with Petrograd blue broad cloth capes lined in crimson and kolinsky fur collars. An evening frock features white faille silk and a tulle tunic with a beaded fringe underskirt. Sailor hats slimmed on one side and small hats echo Victorian styles with reappearing streamers on sailors and toques.
Mrs Blanche Johnston of Barrie suggests sending mending outfits to Belgian women in parcels. She advises including chintz or cretonne scraps, needles, thread, thimbles, scissors, wool, patches, cloth, flannel, and dress fabric to create practical mending kits at little cost.
The Belgian Relief Fund listing shows numerous contributions from St Andrew's Church Barrie Tennis Club and area residents. Donations include clothing boxes from Craighurst residents and gifts from Mrs Wice Craigvale Mrs Eastman and others plus a box of children's bonnets and evaporated apples.
A Christmas narrative blends wartime letters and home front reflections as a mother speaks of her son with the 44th Battalion of Sarnia and a Canadian hospital unit in France. The piece contrasts spiritual renewal with Kaiser tyranny and calls for peace and brotherhood. It closes with a local ad for tapestry and carpet squares at Dougall Bros.
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