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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 02, 1901
Page
8
Vair and Vickers & Co announce leadership in hatmaking with sharp focus on trim artistry and bespoke headwear. Their VAIR RI line highlights refined shapes, durable felts, and modern silhouettes. Local clientele note craftsmanship and style.
A shop advertises knowledge of ladies and children's wear requirements to help customers decide what to buy and when. It promises the best values and urges patrons that their goods are their recommendation, assuring customers they will return without persuasion.
Special announcement states Major Pickering an Army officer for sixteen years who served in England and Scotland and led the Maritime Province for two years will visit Barrie May 4 5 and 6 with Staff Stanyon. Events include a welcome service Saturday at 8 p m and talks Sunday and Monday culminating in a lecture Monday at 8 p m in the Presbyterian church chaired by Rev Dr McLeod. Tickets available from soldiers or officers.
We invite customers to visit our showroom and see top quality millinery. The department emphasizes newness and excellent values. Early ordering is advised to ensure delivery, with wedding and mourning orders offered and satisfaction guaranteed or money back.
A store offers over 150 parasols and umbrellas with cloths of all grades and prices from 50c to 8.00. Highlighted lines include Fine Gloria and Paragon frame models with horn handles and rustic mounts. Also featured are Fine Chere imported frames with gun metal mounts at 1.50.
A local store showcases a superb collection of colored blouses in sizes 12 to 14 with collar measurements. Highlights include Fancy Striped and Floral Percades in blues and blacks, offered at sale prices from 50c to 1.00, rivaling $1.25 shirts.
A local retailer lists a varied stock of ladies and children's hosiery in cashmere, lisle, and cotton with ribbed or plain styles. English cashmere and fashion stockings are advertised at three pairs for $1.00, with full details on sizes and finishes, promising value and wide selection.
A. J. Carson advertises his renowned tea offered at 25 cents per pound. The copy claims the tea beats rivals selling 30 to 40 cents and urges readers to try it, asserting thousands have bought it and will not switch.
A son in Dawson City writes home about summer work paying 6 to 7 dollars a day after expenses, harsh winters with typhoid pneumonia deaths, and a town of frame buildings, gambling halls closed by Ottawa on March 16. Most residents are Americans opposing incorporation, dogsled conveyances common, and summer population swelling with many seeking gold. Doctors report high winter mortality, but weather improves health in spring.
A dated price slate shows many commodity values including flour at 4 50 5 00 per bbl, shorts, bran, and oats. Coarse grain lists peas, buckwheat, and potatoes with varied per cwt or per bag figures. Wool, hides, beef and mutton prices appear alongside dairy, poultry, and general farm items like hay, straw, and wood.
On Friday morning before Mr. J. McL. Stevenson evidence concluded at nine. Seventeen witnesses testified culvert was not in dangerous condition. Jas Hoge described Parks driving past. Parks followed fearing trouble at a sharp turn. Witnesses recalled, including Blain and Lavery. Argument to be heard before Chancellor Boyd in Toronto on May 30.
A collage of theatre notes mentions Ada Rehan daughter Harriet Crelgan obituary, Fanny Davenport billed dancer, Rudyard Kipling Jungle Tales adaptation The Jungle Play, Nevada in Royal Opera for royal marriage, Mme Sembrich praised, Emma Lames rival, Miss Clara Butt cancels tour, Beerbohm Tree and others named for knighthood, Hoyt income figures, Olga Nethersole health rest plans, Omar Khayyam play by George Seibel with Mansfield as Khayyam.
Paul B. Du Chailly plans a spring trip to Russia to collect material for an impartial book on the czar's dominion. Thackeray’s daughter writes Blackstick Papers essays on charming but forgotten books. Mascagni endures 20 nights in railway cars while planning an opera in six Italian cities, proudly defending his weight. Jeremiah Curtin returns from a world tour to study the Burials tribe near Lake Baikal. Sienkiewicz may publish an English sequel to Quo Vadis. Sir Edwin Arnold pens a seven column obituary on Queen Victoria’s death. The writer remains versatile across love lyrics in Japan, Buddhist verse, and prose on time.
Marriage licenses were issued by James Edwards PM conveyancer at his office and in the evening at 63 Mary Street.
The North American Life Assurance Company lists head office in Toronto and Barrie office at Bank of Toronto Building with President J L an CON and Vice Presidents Sir W R Meredith. Directors include Senator Gowan J K Osborne E Gurney D McCrae WM McCabe and L Goldman. Policies issued on Life Endowment Limited Payment Life and all classes of insurance. For details contact 18 ly Richard L Barwick Barrie.
Allandale and district social and church notices report visits by S Howarth in Elmdale with Frank Peacock, and a party on Burton Ave. Horner. Rev T E Bartley preached for Rev Young. Wm Phillips left for Great Falls Montana with H H Good. Local concerts, dances, and meetings are noted, plus a sale at Irwin's and a parasol sale at the Cash Store.
For several seasons the Double Stores Millinery receptions have featured progressiveness in millinery art. The display includes advanced New York and Parisian ideas adapted to Canadian needs and designs by Miss Wright. No foreign show hats. all hats are manufactured in our rooms by our own staff and can be reproduced for customers.
Largest of its kind in Northern Ontario invites buyers to choose from New Brussels Carpets in new colors and designs suitable for dining rooms. Tapestry Carpets offered at low prices, plus a selection of floor oil cloths, linoleums, and a complete stock of wools and unions. Japanese mattings imported, priced 12c to 50c per yard.
About 40 men's suits including single breasted sacque coats in fine English Scotch Canadian tweeds and worsteds in dark and light colors valued 39 to 11 dollars offered at 87.50. Also 50-cent fine colored cambric shirts laundried bosoms cuffs attached with up-to-date blue striped patterns.
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