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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 21, 1901
Page
7
A garbled OCR segment hints at historic ads and notices mentioning Morpeth Cape Miles City and Baltimore with references to syrup remedies for children and teething. It includes scattered names, prices, and phrases about medicines, swill, and treasure recalls, reflecting fragmented 19th or early 20th century notice style.
The Imperial direct West India line from England to Jamaica, led by Mr Chamberlain and Elder Dempster, inaugurates a fortnightly service with four new steamers. It aims to revive West Indian fruit export, lower UK fruit prices, and promote Jamaican industry while linking West Indians with Britain through education programs and closer ties.
An experimental printing telegraph using a keyboard-like sender and automatic receiver proved successful in Omaha. The system uses nine fingers and four current motions per finger to create 36 letter motions, plus digits punctuation. Tests covered 554 miles with 85 volt current, with plans for longer runs.
The article explains fashion now embraces eclectic styles with focus on suitability to the occasion and individual. It highlights a dark blue costume with a skirt of two circular flounces, a moss green velvet belt, blue silk yoke, Breton embroidery, and a matching dark blue felt hat trimmed with moss green velvet, bow, jewel, and plumes.
The article catalogs evolving sleeve and wrap styles with fashions such as wide gathered cuffs, stitched plaits, pagoda shapes, and long redingotes. It notes rich velvety redingotes trimmed with passementerie, plus an odd five-flounce sack with tafted borders and satin lining.
A Boston physician argues bacilli do not cause disease but aid cure by cleaning decay in the body. He cites their presence in air, tissues, and organs as nature’s physicians, while critiquing Pasteurian preventive inoculations and the focus on bacteria as disease causes.
A Nova Scotia farmer reports his son Constant, aged sixteen, recovered from a severe spine injury and long illness after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. After two years of immobility and doctors' poor results, eight boxes restored appetite, reduced back pain, increased strength, and enabled daily work. The company sells pills at 50 cents per box or six for $2.50, Brockville Ont.
Waterside New Brunswick March 18 Special. A man cured after five doctors failed and extensive patent medicines provided no relief. He says six boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills brought greater benefit than all prior treatments for kidney trouble and lame back. The testimony praises the remedy and notes local demand has surged. The piece also condemns Boxer crimes and calls for punishment of perpetrators.
King Edward VII is described as a member of the Church of England and Protestant, aligning with the Established Church in Scotland similar to the Queen. The statement emphasizes royal religious affiliations and public church associations.
A Toronto daily recounts Muskoka Cottage Sanitorium offering early stage tuberculosis treatment with private rooms open air hours, outdoor sports, and content patients. It notes patient gains, physician observations, and a broader Canadian health movement led by Lord Strathcona Mount Royal and Sir William Meredith, aiming to curb infection nationwide.
Foreign ministers at Pekin propose punishing high Chinese officials believed complicit in Boxer outrages and the legation attack. While debating responsibility, they stress substantial justice if the crimes are as alleged. Reports of allied troop excesses, starting at Tako last June, are corroborated by numerous witnesses. Russian troops slaughtered 300 coolies unloading ships who posed no threat.
A bedridden reader from Burin Newfoundland writes that after trying Minard's Liniment for rheumatism, they experienced immediate relief and attribute their recovery to the medicine. Lewis S. Butler signs the letter.
A statue of Admiral Blake has been erected by public subscription in Bridgewater, the birthplace of the admiral. The ceremony drew local residents and supporters who funded the tribute to Blake’s legacy.
A clipped news snippet touts Minard's Liniment as a cure for dandruff while noting an astonishing figure that three million acres of woodland remain in the United Kingdom today. The terse item juxtaposes a household remedy with an environmental statistic.
For over fifty years Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup has soothed teething pain softens gums ease wind colic and diarrhoea. Sold by druggists worldwide ask for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Rev John Robertson of City Temple Glasgow faces charge at East London Baptist Tabernacle Burdett Road.
An 1836 Toledo affidavit from Frank J. Cheney offers one hundred dollars for each case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason attests, with testimonials and internal use claimed to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Newcastle Scots propose a kilted volunteer corps. others object.
The estate of Lord Kensington, who died at Bloemfontein last June, has been sworn at £711,000.
Parliament passes a law banning the use of dogs to draw carts in London, ending their role as beasts of burden under the new act. The measure marks a shift in urban labor practices and animal welfare policy in the late 19th century.
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