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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 28, 1900
Page
7
Wald Ross banker solicitor and conveyancer offers money to loan at lowest rates. Battle Office on Dunlop Street and premises on Owen Barrie Street list borrowers and legal services. The advertisement names Lennox Brown and others and promotes loan services from a Toronto Building Bank owner.
Canada reports patriotic funds totaling 305 dollars and Hull Ottawa relief subscriptions of 3 678 dollars. Col Tyrwhitt M P dies in Bradford. British Columbia draws labor from Japan, and several naval ships visit Montreal. A Montreal civic official missing is located in Mexico, and May canal freight totals are noted. Grand Trunk to add fast trains, including the International Limited Portland to Chicago. Also noted are stock, lumber, and naval developments across provinces.
The column covers varied items from a London Gazette marriage consent to imperial visits, trade figures, and crime. It notes a hanged Washington spy, famine claims in Arizona, banana exports, a Kansas City train hailstorm, a St Clairsville robbery, and a New York Chicago rail concept. It also reports clergymen in Chicago and the Bulgarian insurrection, Jamaica’s conscription rumor, and colonial women in English peerage.
The piece profiles nineteen wives of baronets and eighteen wives of knights, noting most are daughters of colonial politicians and professionals rather than millionaires. It highlights prominent Canadians such as Viscountess Wolseley and Lady Clark, wife to royal aides, and mentions several titled spouses connected to Britain and Canada. The text closes with epigraphs from Richter Kempis and Epictetus.
London defenses at the Thames and Medway will be strengthened by a new fort on the Isle of Grain. The site is near the existing fort and work will begin without delay. The fort will mount long-range breach-loading and quick-firing guns to command navigable channels into the Thames and Sheerness Harbor.
Grand Falls New Brunswick to host a $7 million pulp plant to be funded half by Americans and half by British capitalists. The mill aims for 5 500 tons white newsprint 225 tons ground wood pulp and 175 tons sulphite pulp daily using 525 cords of wood. It will employ about 1 000 workers and spur a new town at the Grand Falls site. Key backers include Lord Strathcona Frank Stetson and E R Burpee with electricity generated on site and transmitted along 12 miles of lines. Construction to start soon after land purchase within three weeks.
The passage extols Nerviline as a powerful penetrating remedy for nerve pain and various aches. It describes relief from neuralgia toothache lumbago and general distress, noting cushions on palms and feet to ease sudden jolts.
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