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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 18, 1917
Page
5
The piece questions if Barrie can win a share of Canada's $500 million war munitions spend and warns of potential railway service cuts. It notes the Toronto Star campaign against midday train reductions, cites a March 30 deadline, and suggests public opposition may rise if schedules are not restored after wartime exigencies.
The note claims there are only 199 school days in 1917 and argues that teaching remains a respectable career despite long hours. It reflects wartime schooling pressures and public attitudes toward educators.
In Muskoka the Huntsville Forester notes that prices for sugar eggs wood butter have risen sharply while the local paper subscription jumps from a dollar to 4.50 a year. Producers bristle at the idea the paper can no longer be mailed for a dollar after decades.
Officials press universal registration noting the government requires every man aged 16 to 65 to complete the forms. The message emphasizes civic duty and the need for full details for the Dominion, stating it may never be needed again.
Over the past week local merchants have shunned travelers representing Kitchener firms seen as hostile to the British League in that town. The anti Berlin sentiment risks derailing efforts to restore the name Berlin across the Province even as the Postmaster General rescinds the mail routing order to the dead letter office.
Barrie businessmen fear train service reductions will hurt commerce on the Hamilton, Meaford and Midland branches. Some residents urge moving a Collegiate to a central site and converting the old grounds for public schools to avoid future boundary shifts and extend school capacity for fifty years.
After the 12 30 train to Toronto is discontinued the Barrie market may shift its main market day. Only about twenty percent of produce is sold directly to consumers. most is shipped to Toronto by local and outside buyers. A noon train would let Saturday purchases reach city retailers in time, preventing price slumps and loss of farmers as a marketing center. The Board of Trade is urged to study the issue for the community’s welfare and consider moving market day to Thursday or Friday.
The Orillia Examiner touts itself as the pioneer journal of Simcoe county, noting that two Barrie papers had led in public reporting before its Couchiching edition appeared. It marks its fifty fourth year with strong circulation, rivaled by only a few Ontario town weeklies.
A compact chronology lists 1916 local events: deaths of Capt. W. O. McCarthy and Lieut. Geo. Rogers, Barrie firings, town council debates on street lighting, fire losses including Mrs Byrnes and Stroud, military honors for Pte Brentwood and J C Henderson, large Barrie and district gatherings, hospital reports, and town issues from January through November with civic meetings in Sunnidale and New Lowell.
A Waterloo township farmer was fined $20 and costs for offering for sale stale eggs at Kitchener. The local currents hint at recurring incidents in the area over recent months creating ample chances to encounter rotten eggs in Kitchener.
A daily stage service from Clarkson House in Barrie departs at 4 45 p m carrying mail and passengers to Dalston Craighurst and Hillsdale.
Postal deadlines listed for Barrie RMD 1 and 2 as noon and 112 o'clock. Midhurst Candles and Al Handale Painswick Toronto and intermediate stations North Bay Meaford and Penetang specify specific closing times. Several open mail and closed mail slots are noted for Meaford with 9 45 a.m. and 7 p.m.区别.
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