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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 28, 1901
Page
7
A Hastings man reports relief from kidney trouble after using Doan s Kidney Pills. He recalls prior suffering, trial of remedies, and improved health following the recommended remedy cited in a letter or testimonial. The anecdote reflects familiar early 20th century advertising prose.
A children’s column notes a new farm use for dogs as they run a churn. The dog powers the dairy churn via a treadmill system, demonstrated in a northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania setting. The common shepherd dog is cited as easiest to train and enjoys the work.
No clear reason for bird migration has emerged. Instinct, social learning, and food-searching are proposed explanations, yet disappearances amid good food persist. Extraordinary tales persist of Virginia plovers flying high at 225 miles per hour and a blackcap warbler returning to a bush on the same day each year.
A naval officer’s young son in Washington overhears his father speaking of the mosquito fleet from the Spanish War. The boy cheekily asks to hear it again and quips that New Jersey would be its flagship, turning a wartime term into a playful family moment.
A fragment describes Miss Browns visit to sit for a photograph with her bunny. The playful poem hints at the photographer’s amusement and the child’s pet bunny as a lighthearted moment in town.
Drive ball is described as a game for older children. Two teams of five line up with a big soft ball placed between captains. The ball is driven back and forth and can only be hit by the fist, awarding two goals per score.
A London letter criticizes Army mess extravagance, arguing a rigid living scale tied to pay would curb polo, bands, and lavish expenses. It calls for reform under King Edward VII and praises Navy expense control as a model for the Army to prevent officers of wealth from crowding out capable, poorer officers.
Mrs. Charley Hoeg of Southampton Nova Scotia describes nine years of severe illness, three doctors unable to cure, and relief after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. She recounts renewed blood, energy, and end of pain, crediting the medicine with restoring health and vitality. The pills are advertised as blood builders and nerve restorers, sold 50 cents per box or six for 2.50.
A playful exchange between Mrs. Crimsonbeak and Mr. Crimsonbeak features a sharp jest about wives and red-hot pokers. The joke hinges on marital in jest and imagined consequences, delivering a light social quip rather than a formal report.
The thirty first annual meeting of The Mutual Life of Canada was held March 7 1901 at the Head Office Waterloo Ontario. Policyholders and officers attended as executives read the directors report showing 1900 results and a focus on Canadian operations with strong gains in policies in force and premiums. Informed discussion covered reserves assets and dividends while electing four directors and reaffirming leadership including President Melvin and Vice Presidents Hoskin and Britton.
Brief notes explain that slow cooking extracts flavor in soup and water should stay unsalted until near the end. In honey and meat cooking a high temperature dissolves gelatin, so salt is used. Gelatin is the nutritious part of soup, making salt timing important.
In Nicolet Quebec on March 25 special report by Dr W Smith cites two kidney disease cures using Dodds Kidney Pills. Caleb Rivard suffered nocturnal incontinence while Joseph Hamel endured years of illness and pain before and after three boxes of pills, both proven well known locally. Lord Balcarres is noted as heir to a long noble line.
A quirky exchange features Hinard’s Liniment and a colorful dialogue about household staff. Mrs One-How asks how a cook stays on, Mrs Tother explains she fires the cook each morning but the staff member refuses to leave, revealing a humorous domestic stalemate.
Public notice of Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup marketed to mothers for teething pain and diarrhea relief. The ad claims tooth gum soothing, wind colic cure, and urges purchase at 25c per bottle from all druggists worldwide. A second line notes Britain requires over 20,000,000 pins daily to meet demand.
Cured a horse of mange and a badly torn fetlock with Minard's Liniment as claimed by Christopher Saunders of Dalhousie Edward Linlief of St. Peter's C.B. Thomas W. Payne of Bathurst N.B. reports curing a horse with a bad swelling using the remedy.
Rev. John Robertson of City Temple Glasgow has entered on the charge of East London Baptist Tabernacle Burdett Road. This report notes the transfer of charge and the involved ecclesiastical authorities in London.
Frank J. Cheney sworn claim firm will pay one hundred dollars for every catarrah cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A.W. Gleason witness. Cure taken internally and affects blood and mucous surfaces. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills and woodland acres in the United Kingdom.
An old advertisement claims a cold can be cured in one day using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a money back guarantee. It cites E W Groves’ signature on each box and prices at 5c. A historical 1839 Parliament act is noted about banning dogs in London as beast of burden.
Minard's Liniment is advertised as relieving neuralgia. The article notes a major English project: the proposed canal from Southampton to London as a principal undertaking in development.
The Newcastle Scots again urge the War Office to permit the formation of a corps of kilted volunteers, while other corps express objections.
Seventeen-year-old Margarita, prime breadwinner after her parents’ deaths, saved five siblings during the Galveston flood. As waves struck their wooden home, she improvised a raft by tying the children to a bed and using a door as a float. She steered through wreckage toward the government building, sustaining injuries but delivering all to safety with help arriving at the steps.
A historic recipe for white fruit cake blends butter sugar eggs flour and citrus with coconut frosting. In Ontario Crown Lands reports, the pine cut this year reaches a record 720 million feet board measure, employing about 17,030 men across roughly 10 camps and 17 shanties.
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