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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 08, 1924
Page
7
The sermon argues that salvation rests as much on God's faith in humanity as on human faith in God. It cites Bunyan and Horace Bushnell, highlighting how divine forbearance saves the believer, and shows how a skeptical Yale tutor found faith through perseverance and prayer.
Cube two pounds flank steak and layer with onions in a kettle. Season with salt and pepper, add water, and boil gently. Stir in a quart can of tomatoes without mixing. Simmer two hours until tender. Add quart potatoes, cook twenty minutes, then serve.
The Altoona Kansas Tribune jokes about a husband telling his wife how lonely he will be during her next summer vacation. It suggests making the plea strong to ensure she goes on the trip.
Poem by Julia Ward Howe likens a clothesline to a rosary of household care. Each garment becomes a bead representing affection, toil, and prayer as a mother tends garden chores and mendments, noting scarlet stockings, torn pinafores, and tears of ill fate with reverent warmth.
May 11 is celebrated as Mothers Day with church services across Canada and Go-to-Sunday-School Day in many communities. An afternoon service invites all, and some Sunday Schools strive for record attendance while flowers will be sent to hundreds of mothers as tokens of esteem.
Walter Pratt, general manager, reveals a new recipe postcard program for the sleeping dining parlor and railway restaurant department. Postcards list two or more popular dishes prepared by chefs and are placed on dining car tables after wide passenger demand. Recipes will be updated frequently to keep dishes seasonal.
From the Thirtieth Report of the Superintendent of Neglected and De pendent Children of Ontario. The condensed figures show 8809 children under supervision, 1081 released last year, 486 in shelters, 225 dependent infants, 2960 in institutions, 1162 cases investigated of unmarried parents, 28998 children cared for, 786 committed as wards, 2250 urban ages, 39 shelters, 462 in four industrial schools, 922.56 dollars collected under the Varamee Parents Act, and 170864.17 dollars cost of maintaining four tactic trial schools.
Donors contributed a wide range of goods and money in April including clothing from Miss Stella McBride and Mrs. G Morton Toronto, food items from Hinds Bros Thornton W I and Central Methodist Church, plus eggs butter and a $5 birthday gift. The Executive Board thanks contributors and urges continued kindness toward children with a religious and charitable closing note from W J Justice.
Heat milk, cook onions in butter, then blend into milk. Whisk eggs with cayenne, stream into hot soup to thicken. Finish with grated cheese. Serve with buttered cheese toast finished under a hot oven, with optional mustard and paprika.
A brief cleaning method for gilt objects. Wipe dust with a dry cloth, then wash in warm water boiled with one medium onion. Dry the surface by rubbing with soft cloths.
A horticultural note describes Aconitum or monkshood as a tall appealing perennial with blue to yellow varieties, blooming from July to October. It covers growth habits, soil and moisture needs, poten tially poisonous roots, bulb-like bases, clump formation, and yearly lifting and division. It lists numerous varieties with heights and bloom months and ends with home remedy and maintenance tips for common items.
A satirical verse lampoons a social shift as the shingle trend gains favor and imposes costs on women, with lines debating whether the barber era belongs to the past and who bears the expense.
The Boston Transcript credits this to an Iowa paper. Mrs. John Coulter, being confined to her bed, will not be at home Thursday as usual.
W C T U columnist voices outrage at prohibition critics and cites a temperance counterpoint. The temperance advocate notes British Columbia and Quebec lead drug convictions per 100,000, with 40 vs 12 in other provinces, challenging wet arguments.
A partisan warns that illicit liquor causes stone blindness in three men in a small town. If true, the offenders violated the law willingly or by uncontrollable appetite, demanding stricter enforcement, deportation for alien moonshiners, and long prison terms for Canadian associates.
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