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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 07, 1901
Page
3
A corrected date entry followed by a long table of farm goods and prices. Includes coarse grains, vegetables, wool and hides, meat, poultry, dairy, general groceries, hay and wood. Notable items: potatoes by bag, beef by quarters, hogs live and dressed, chickens per pair, turkeys dressed, lard, butter, eggs, hay per ton, straw per load, wood by dry short or long.
Advertises fruit biscuits described as fresh and fruity offered at ten cents per pound. Notes price point and product type in compact catalog style.
A city youth from Big Mountain Lumber visits the mountains, gives a scathing speech filled with grandiloquent insults about locals. The crowd cheers as a book agent sells Webster's Unabridged. the speaker retreats, leaving two dozen copies of his remarks for distribution. Then follows a list of local births and obituaries from various towns.
A dialog from the Chicago Tribune parries optimism about a better world by noting stones in grocery coffee are avoided by grinding buyers and grocers. The piece ends with a remark on selfishness. Queensland is becoming a large orange orchard with fruit ripening when others cannot supply.
Edward Bok argues in the March Ladies' Home Journal that secular notices read from pulpits jar worshippers. He says sermons should remain dignified, not advertising spaces, and urges pastors to use circular leaflets instead when possible.
On Tuesday night the Board of Health urged the School Boards to ensure pupil vaccination and called for all unvaccinated people to receive the smallpox vaccine as a precaution. It also decided to request the Council grant milk vendor licenses without fees and enforce the by law strictly.
An early 20th century health ad urges readers to take Scott's Emulsion now while the cough is mild, presenting consumption as a looming danger and promoting the product as preventive relief with a brisk, urgent tone.
David Walkenshaw an inmate committed from Angus died at the House on Friday aged 35 from apoplexy. He had sunstroke years ago and his mind was deranged, yet he did light work. He was buried at Angus. Chas Jones, another inmate, wore a Governor Ross outfit then fled to Cooks town, was captured, charged with theft, and committed for trial at Barrie.
A local retailer announces deep discounts on overcoats to clear inventory. Various all wool frieze styles in black gray and browns with heavy tweed linings are offered at fixed price tiers 7 50 10 00 and 15 00, far below usual retail. Prices reflect bulk stock rather than next season carryover and aim to move remaining coats quickly.
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