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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 08, 1924
Page
10
Classified listings show a variety of houses for sale from $900 to $15,000. Properties include 5 to 7 rooms with features like garages, barns, modern conveniences, orchards, large lots, and prime locations. Listings attributed to H. A. Henry and W. J. Cowan, Clarkson House Block, phone 31.
Ontario moves to replicate Shawbridge Farm School model in Bowmanville with three hundred acres and a projected hundred thousand dollar building grant. Local Kiwanis endorsements and community gifts back the reform school concept aimed at rehabilitating boys and promoting loyalty and self respect.
The Renfrew Mercury discusses town affairs and praises owner W. Rupert Davies as the paper marks six years under his editorship. It notes Canada’s wheat exports in March, with the U S and Canada figures and year over year shifts in wheat and flour shipments.
Garfield MacKinnon secretary of the Rural Mail Contractors Association argues for a fixed rate of 70 dollars per mile for rural carriers. He contends this would yield about 800 dollars a year net after equipment costs and provides five years of expense and earnings data to support the demand for higher pay.
Montreal resident George H. Ham a longtime CPR traveling advertising official and former Winnipeg journalist is celebrated for meeting guiding visitors and linking readers to the Dominion. His career began in 1875 in Winnipeg and includes coverage of the Riel Rebellion of 1885 and service on city councils school boards and as license commissioner.
Council notes include filling holes on Baldwin and Adelaide streets and repairs to the Peel and Sophia Street bridge. Requests arise for sewers plans approval, camping grounds inquiry, school and library levy funding, dock repair at Mulcaster Street, and sidewalk extension. Deputations seek passage scripture cards for the police court and sidewalk extension.
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