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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
4
Practical canoe safety tips from Beechams In Boxes include steps for entering and exiting, balancing, paddling posture, and handling tips. Rules emphasize stability, keeping the canoe upright, avoiding rushing maneuvers, and proper storage and covered conditions for winter. The advice covers paddling stance, grip, and guidance for solo outings and avoiding unsafe actions on water.
The Ontasio Agricoltursi College Department of Physics seeks to survey drainage plans for farms under ministerial authorization. The program doubles staff, offers public demonstrations near surveyed farms, and invites interested observers. Applications for drainage surveying directed to Wm. H. Day at O. A. C. Guelph. costs cover travel, meals, and wagonage. A new pamphlet titled Farm Drainage Operations is available on request.
Canadian Cargo Inspector report on Georgian Bay District apples notes good condition but small size reduces value. Scarcity boosts expected barrel price to 25s 4d to 30s, yet open sales fall to 23s 6d. Growers urged to note size defect despite reputation for long keeping quality.
A. McNeill, Chief Fruit Division, urges Georgia Bay apple growers to improve size through thorough spraying, clean culture, and abundant fertilization. Larger fruit is attainable by frequent cultivation and pest control, with benefits including increased overall yield.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward argues that true wealth and health come from the land as the countryman becomes the essential producer. She cautions cities depend on rural strength for growth, leadership, and enduring happiness, praising agriculture as the continent’s greatest industry. East and West.
A collection of household tips includes household cleaning methods using soda and ammonia, treating leather grease with benzine or turpentine, and a recipe for a asthma remedy with ipecacuanha wine honey lemon juice. Also notes on minor injuries, plant pests with sulfur matches, a manicure acid mix, and a tragic incident of a four year old boy crushed by a milk wagon in New York.
A vintage guide explains liming eggs to extend freshness. It details lime-water preparation from quicklime and water, layering eggs in a sealed barrel, and keeping them submerged with lime-water. A small amount of sweet oil or sacking cover protects against air.
The Chicago Health Department declares war on the house fly as a disease carrier and filth spreader. It notes flies contaminate milk and food, urges sealing food, burning refuse, proper disposal, screened enclosures, lime sprinkled surfaces, and even pyrethum use, plus DIY fly papers and poison papers for households.
A Washington State prohibitionist group sharpens its platform by seeking Jewish votes while refusing to drop appeals to Christian leadership. The stance draws scrutiny as it frames religious support within political goals.
A reader touts Zam-Bak as a permanent cure for pimples and boils after weeklong use. The testimonial notes success on a boil near the knee and a poisoned finger, with purchase options at druggists or by post from the Zam-Bak Company in Toronto for 50 cents a box.
An emergency Minerva Lodge gathering on May 19 welcomed KE. W. Bro. J. W. Bethone on his official visit. The D.D.G.M. lauded W. Master John Leonard and officers for precise degrees and good lodge work, paying tribute to the late W. Bro. R.3. McCraw and noting letters praising his Masonic standing. A banquet followed with speeches and music from members across Elmvale Beeton and Barrie.
Warning against catarrh ointments containing mercury. The ad urges using a prescription medicine from reputable physicians and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio, taken internally and free of mercury. Sold by druggists.
The Mother Superior in Chicago received four thousand one hundred ninety eight dollars in certified cheques after a banquet of sweet peas. Lord Minto and a Nigerian disaster relation are cited in a broader note on diplomacy and Afghan war risks. A field pest damages valued at two hundred fifty thousand dollars hits Carson River Valley. An Iowa man risks losing a foot after a knife incident and red socks.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes a change from fifteen to twenty trunks to two. Wardrobe trunks hold 15 to 20 made up suits on hangers. swatch trunks carry hundreds of swatches and ends. A model aids display, and a capable salesman can become a model himself with practice.
Government fishery experts report fewer than 20 000 diamond back terrapins remain in the Chesapeake region. Prices now run 175 to 200 dollars per dozen as the once abundant turtles have nearly vanished from rivers, creeks and inlets. The species once lined the area with twelve inch shells, but none are seen today. Historical trade notes describe enslaved labor and a barrel of eight inch terrapin fetching about 1 500 dollars in hog feed markets.
French geologist M. Martel argues that subterranean caverns reveal a gradual drying of the earth. He notes a steady drop in underground water levels and interprets this as evidence of a diminishing global water supply with implications for ancient and future life.
In Rotterdam harbor works demand wooden piles for all projects and the Zuyder Zee drainage spread wood en ramparts. A Lan cashire contracting firm built a machine like a giant pencil sharpener to sharpen driving ends. Piles up to twenty eight inches diameter are shaved to a five inch point in fifteen minutes.
A restaurant offering a full course dinner for 7 cents opened at 200 Clinton Street New York City. For a gum one can obtain soup entree meat bread and tea or coffee. Run by a charitable organization its officers say the meals are wholesome and well prepared and will soon be available twice daily from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
A Rockaway Blunt club superintendent on Long Island bought swamp land years ago for about 75.5 dollars and has since sold the salt day for 300 annually. Recently a dock company offered 25 000 for the purchase, but the offer was refused.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe "Fruit Liver Tablets" sold by dealers at six for $2.50 or 68 cents each. Mentions Fruit-e-tives Limited, Ottawa, with unclear dates or further details about availability and pricing. The text appears as a damaged product notice or advertisement snippet.
May 27 Chicago reports the Limited passenger train, speeding at nearly sixty miles per hour with about a hundred aboard, narrowly avoided a collision near Davis Junction after a faster train crossed paths. An engineer was found dead from brain injury in the cab. another crew member was injured. Enos B. Hoopes of Milltown is noted as a successful asparagus grower with a large display of fine quality stalks stated as twenty inches long and weighing fifty four pounds.
An ad claims Hyomei air medicant reaches nose and throat to kill catarrhal germs and restore health. It likens Hyomei to antiseptic air from pine and eucalyptus forests and promotes internal action similar to a curative. The complete Hyomei costs $1.00, Minard's Liniment also mentioned.
A fragmentary note mentions cough remedies and a reference to time and a sitter. The text is incomplete but suggests a discussion or ad related to health care or remedies with unclear names and dates.
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