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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
3
An excerpt scenes two narratively linked threads with Marylyn and Louis in a rocky prairie town. A storekeeper and section boss discuss winter stock while a looming claim and romance complicate loyalties amid harsh weather and frontier mistrust. In Chapter V Squaw Charley endures with Brown Mink and a violent camp dynamic unfolds.
Fragmentary notes show multiple preachers from Forks Baddeck and Amherst Browne praising Paychine for throat lung weakness and stomach troubles. Text includes testimonial style claims of relief and medical efficacy, with garbled OCR causing incomplete sentences and broken names.
An advertisement touts orange juice with morning consumption and two Fruit-s tives tablets at night as a quick cure for indigestion stomach troubles and constipation. It promotes orange apple fig and prune juices with added tonics and claims relief from biliousness. Sold nationwide at 60 cents per box, 10s per box, by Fruite-tivm Limited Ottawa.
Colonel Cummings challenges the view of Lieutenant Fraser as they examine Squaw Charley, the Indian prisoner, amid tensions over treatment and duty. The officers clash over punishment versus mercy while a torn paper reveals new details about the prisoner.
A testimonial from Mrs. E. Libba describes Zam-Buk as a superior family salve. She notes it eased her pain, aided a wound's healing, and helped her husband recover from a flesh wound. The ad claims Zam-Buk is essential at home and available for 50 cents a box through druggists and stores.
R W Bruce Smith reports Barrie Gaol May 29 1908 with 22 male prisoners. Several inmates are immigrant class, parole/deportation urged. Building conditions, diet, and water supply deemed fair, but idle prisoners lack hard labor. cost of rations could drop from 11 to 9 cents with work. County Council urged to provide work and new female cells. notes food contracts and staffing. Albany anti race track gambling bills passed.
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