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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 24, 1917
Page
5
The Examiner notes a timely Public Library list on gardening, highlighting its value for amateur gardeners. Rise in local interest fuels 800+ gardens, with many vacant lots weeded. advice urges continued care through June. Merchants are urged to decide on weekly half holidays or closing hours to suit trade and town welfare.
Superior Investments promote safety saleability and steady income with approx returns of 5, 6, and 7 percent. Potential buyers are urged to write or call J. H. Bennett at 57 Dunlop Street Barrie Ontario for full information and to conduct transactions free of charge.
Trustees consider a college site at the Agricultural Park noting its central elevation and access on major streets. The agricultural building is a major obstacle and other barriers exist, but public support for the location prompts full disclosure of feasibility and site selection implications.
Two members of the Board of Trade are to interview merchants to seek uniform action on holiday closing. The move is presented as the proper method to achieve standard closing rules across shops.
An Ottawa backed shift toward conscription is viewed as essential after the voluntary system faltered. The plan may exclude key food and munitions workers and could draft older workers or women to fill roles. Canadians nationwide support a democratic, impartial policy to sustain wartime production and honor fallen soldiers.
Aggregate fire losses in Ontario for 1916 total about twelve million dollars. January 1916 saw 798 fires causing 808419 dollars in damage with 566589 dollars insured. Simcoe county accounted for thirteen thousand eight hundred seventy five dollars in fire losses and nine thousand five hundred sixty five dollars insured. The piece also promotes home gardening for health and food self reliance.
Unable to secure local ad sales the Thornbury Review editor signs a contract for a full page in every issue with a Toronto department store. He notes Ontario towns lack strong weekly papers and many publishers stay loyal to local commerce to avoid diverting trade away from community shops.
Extra copies of this issue may be obtained at this office or at the bookstores of Walter Scott, J. G. Keenan or Roy Stone. Also at Harry Fisher's store, Cooks town. Three cents per copy.
Mrs. T. H. Redditt receives a letter dated April 30 1917 from the Ontario Educational Association expressing sympathy and high esteem for the late principal of Barrie Collegiate Institute. The note praises his character independence humor and unwavering truthfulness and notes his influence on provincial education and pupils.
The Bradford market paid the biggest price on this continent for a single load of wheat last week. S. G. Hodgson near Cookstown delivered 79 bushels and 35 pounds and received a cheque for $252.95.
Officers of the Flying Corps visited the Durham farm at the toll gate in Bradford last week to assess forty acres for airship landings between Camp Borden and Toronto. The land would host practice ascents and descents.
A testimonial style notice offers an ache to freckle faces with a no cost trial if freckles remain after treatment. It claims ethine double strength from any druggist can clear freckles and achieve a beautiful complexion with minimal expense and a money back guarantee.
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