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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 04, 1894
Page
1
Store invites buyers to turn over a new leaf in shopping by promoting first class articles. Offers Happy Thought Ranges Radiant Home Heaters High Class Wood Stoves and Christmas goods left over at sacrifice. Includes Carving Sets Plated-Ware Parlor Lamps Teapots and more AI goods. Star-Skates touted as best low priced skates in market.
Barrie items recount church services led by Rev E J Hart at Elizabeth Street church, social notes on Mr Adam Crown, fire brigade officers for 1894, a Presbyterian conference, and science notes from Prof A P Coleman. Personal news lists locals visiting or recovering, plus a meteorological report, births, marriages, and obituaries from December 1893.
The clipping covers municipal election results with plebiscite majorities in several wards, listing elected reeves and councillors across districts such as Victoria Ward and St Patrick's, plus counts for county councillors. It also reports the golden wedding of Mr and Mrs O J Phelps in Merriton, with family recollections of their journey from Michigan during a plague era.
Several obituaries recount the deaths of residents in Innisil and Holly areas. Details include Ly Morris’s daughter born July 1346, marriage to James Lougheed of Holly, long church service, and death after illness. Other notices note James Sullivan of Styre and Arch. McAllister of Nettawa, with familial ties to Cork, Scotland, and Islay, Scotland, plus community roles and funeral arrangements. An advertisement extols Miller's emulsion cod liver oil and various periodicals offers.
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