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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 08, 1902
Page
8
An advertising style item extols Corticelli Silk as unbeatable for hand or machine sewing. It claims the silk threads smoothly, stays even, and maintains full length and strength while urging customers to insist on Corticelli and refuse substitutes. It ends with sententious tips on self-improvement from May Geiling.
Orillia assessors report a population of 516 with 1626 in the 5 to 21 bracket and 1069 males aged 21 and over. Realty tops 1,273,030 and personalty 124,700 with taxable income 25,850. Town lists 271 hogs, 200 cattle, 27 hogs four legged, and 285 horses. The News Letter notes a black silver fox fur sale at 3400. A stray line suggests a cryptic reference to a OK.D giume somewhere.
James McNeil, veteran fisherman based at the Nottawasaga river head, reportedly caught a giant sturgeon weighing 229 pounds and measuring 7 feet 10 inches, claimed as perhaps the largest ever taken in Georgian Bay. The note mentions a Collingwood jewellry venture by Mr. Zock that failed, prompting a $5000 damages suit, plus street watering costs of $50 a month and library bylaw costs totaling $427.99.
An 19th century advertisement claims Humphreys Witch Hazel Oil cures piles both external and internal with relief after one application. It offers a free sample by mail or a paid sample for 25 cents from a New York Medical Company at 111 William Street.
ALLANDALE items report moves of P Steele family to Tollendal and Conductor Scully joining from Toronto, plus local visitors and church services. A Swiss Bell Ringers concert drew praise, and Bishop Sweatman led a large confirmation of thirteen candidates. An accident near Kilworthy and a near miss on a Muskoka Wharf train are noted, with calls for more policemen and cattle control. April school report lists teachers and attendance. Thornton hosts a South Simcoe baseball league meeting with officers elected and a schedule through July. Also advertised are fine flower seeds from Hobley Bros at 10c per ounce.
Market list from Barrie shows prices for meat poultry dairy and farm staples. Beef hindquarters and forequarters priced at 10 to 60 cents per pound, lamb around 10 to 32 cents, pork and hams listed, chickens per pair five to seven? turkeys dressed twelve to fourteen cents, lard and butter quoted, potatoes per bag sixty-five cents, hay per ton nine to ten dollars, wood dry shorts noted.
Farmers struggled to seed yet market crowds remained large with women dominant at stalls. Butter values 20 to 22 cents per pound, eggs 12 cents per dozen, grain offerings scarce but hay brings about 10 dollars per ton. Hogs traded at 6.40, lambs 2.50 to 3.50, veal 7.50 to 8.50, mutton 8 to 10 cents. Potatoes 63 to 70 cents per bag. Local notes from Craigvale and surrounding areas record visits, illnesses, and minute transfers of residents and staff.
At the residence of T. M. Bryce in Yellow Grass a 4 pm Tuesday April 22 wedding joined Miss Hessie Bryce to Mr Harold J. Sissons of Yellow Grass. Rev. J. J. Squire officiated with Mrs. Squire at the wedding march. Attendants included Miss Bryce in Swiss rouslin over blue, and groom was supported by Mr. J. T. Rooney. A reception followed with many friends, games and dancing and generous gifts.
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