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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 20, 1902
Page
8
A continuous display of millinery invites Barrie ladies to view the season's headwear. Tomorrow marks the first showing of the novelties with an early call urged to ensure Easter delivery. Miss Brownlow and Miss Vickers lead a skilled trimming staff in welcoming all customers.
Our Dress Goods collection has been highly praised by many ladies and orders are pouring in as proof of sincerity. We invite your inspection with any weight shade and weave at prices unapproachable and our best attention promised.
A dense list of luxury fabrics offered in various widths and finishes. Includes 25 to 50 inch Black Venetian options with satin or luster finishes, crepe de Chine, crepolines and veiling in multiple colors. Prices range from several dollars to over a hundred, with notes on shrinkage, durability, and suitability for suits, skirts, and dresses.
A collection of home decor tips on shadow fresco technique using plant silhouettes, outlining, and color notes with a sketch example. The item then shifts to health and social topics including dangers of overstudying children, praise for the modern woman, a sulphur wash for skin, and tips for pretty throats and avoiding wrinkles.
The report notes bad roads depressing Saturday trade with meat the focus of activity amid beef price surges. Buyers discuss Toronto price effects, rising cattle costs, and a Western Cattle Market spike as supply tightens from U S feed shortages, signaling high beef prices for months ahead.
Market prices list for wheat flour coarse grain wool hides meat dairy produce and livestock in Barrie with figures for per cwt per lb per bag per ton and per pair including beef mutton hogs chickens turkeys lard butter eggs potatoes apples hay and wood reflecting early 20th century trading terms and commodity values
Local items report residents traveling to Allandale and Toronto, births, new property purchase by Huff at McBeth property, health notes on Geo. McGee, and community visits. Several residents attend Lefroy anniversary services, while others shift jobs on the G T R and make short trips to Holland Landing, Barrie, Bradford, and Innisfail Alberta. Auction action highlighted with high farm stock prices at James Patterson and J R Smith sales in Thornton.
A brief notice lists new wardrobe items including hats jackets costumes gloves and hose arriving or available for event use. The fragment hints at costume updates or outfitting for a production or display. Further details are not provided in the readable text.
Miss Murphy leads the dressmaking department as the dress goods section thrives in spring. The store highlights its broad weaving world and showcases renewed energy under her capable guidance.
Store emphasizes its carpet department with hundreds of patterns and worthy weaves. The lighted 20 by 100 foot space on the second floor is described as ideal for customers to inspect choices and compare against other stores.
Men are apt to think of a Dry Goods store as a woman's store and fight shy of it but this Double Store devotes an entire shop to men's clothing and furnishings. That fact alone brings trade this way and good merchandise profits cement the business.
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