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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 19, 1900
Page
8
Incomplete OCR reads as a brief about a local occurrence near Oakland with scattered names and numbers. The readable parts indicate a grouped event or meeting but provide no clear date, participants, or outcome to confirm fuller details.
R Vickers and Co direct importers announce a large linen sale with wide stock. Read below for 72 inch damask, Irish damask, unbleached tabling, towels, and Turkish bath towels at deep discounts. Limited quantities. call early as items will sell in a few days. Blouses in multiple lots also offered at reduced prices. Every Simcoe lady urged to buy now.
The page lists social visits and guests such as Miss Grace Little and Miss H How of Toronto, with Rev Cameron preaching in Orangeville. It reports plan for extensive improvements at Allandale Public School, and travel notices of Mrs W Little and families to Big Bay Point. It notes a St George church excursion and Wright of Toronto visiting Paton, plus a справ about eight entrance pupils passed.
Mrs Stephens buys Thurston stock to run larger scale business. Dalton Heard goes to North Bay for Bell Telephone Co. lightning hits Hearn’s house gate, minor damage. G.E.R. workers seek wage relief and shorter days. Joseph Babb struck by lightning near Anderton’s brewery, unconscious but not severely hurt. warm weather continues. church sermons praised by Rev. Barren. farewell for Elizabeth Street Methodist pastor and welcome to Mr Cocking. Mr McKinley’s three years praised with congregation gift. Glover & Brass furnishings sale at J O Irwin’s.
At the latest board meeting five buyers attended and 1038 boxes were offered with locations listed as Newnurkal Elmvale Beaver Valley Avening Edenvale Mt Albert Crown Hill Wyevale Upter Grove. Ethel Lamb of Midland was struck by lightning last week in the yard, paralysing her right side.
A fragment mentions Cook's Cotton Root Compound and a drugstore of unclear naming amid garbled text. Names and places are unreadable, obscuring concrete facts, with no clear events or dates to anchor a summary.
The council debated the 1900 budget including county rates, water and electric light expenditures, and school finances. Key figures Bennett and McLean clashed over levy amounts and committee rules as votes split along party lines. The meeting closed with by laws for debentures and waterworks extensions and reminders of ongoing street and sewer repairs.
Pleasing customers reflect two weeks of seasonable summer goods bargains. Purchases through July remaining lines include dry goods carpets clothing plus daily additions of short ends broken lots and remnants to satisfy late month buyers.
Hat shop advertises ongoing sale of trimmed hats from $4 to $6 now 83 cents, plus new lot reg2to3 hats at 25 50 and 7hc, and summer sailor hats priced modestly. Many hats remaining, customers can negotiate reasonable prices.
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