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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
7
This notice promotes the International Newspaper Bible Study Club inviting readers to join Local and International clubs, answer weekly questions, and compete for medals, books, and prizes while studying the Bible. Subscriptions and addressed entries are required for participation and prize consideration.
A vintage lesson guide from the International Newspaper Bible Study Club frames Psalm 23 as a personal shepherding by God. It asks members to confirm if God individually cares for souls, explores the practice of divine presence, and contrasts dependence on God with earthly security, using verse by verse prompts.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union in Ontario closed a three-day convention marking broad progress across departments. Mrs. Barney and Mrs. McKee led speeches on global temperance trends, local option gains in Canada, and Ontario's 312 dry municipalities with votes pending in January.
Reports from the convention describe global progress toward women's suffrage, with speeches by Mrs. Gordon Wright and others. Updates cover unions, juvenile work, charity efforts, and international examples from Finland Norway New Zealand Denmark and more, highlighting the White Ribboners movement and local option discussions.
Fragmentary note mentions a doctor prescription and a druggist claim of a remedy. It references a teaspoonful after each meal and at bedtime. The text is garbled but implies a patent medicine or tonic promoted by a merchant with health claims.
The district convention opened with officers elected, Mrs. McKee voted to the Presidency for the ninth year. Afternoon session featured devotions by Mrs. Aga Gordon and speakers like Miss Sproule urging renewal of literature choices. Reports covered programs, mission work, youth outreach, and extensive travel by Miss Sproule totaling 7 780 miles with profound personal sacrifice.
Prizes were awarded over the past three weeks in the Mrs Virginia Warren Temperance and Literary Contest. The Col lier St Methodist Sunday School in Barrie recognized essays stories and poems on the theme Why Does Canada Speed Local Potion. Mrs Virginia Warren of Columbus Ohio supported the competition and spent summers in Barrie.
On Sunday in the close of the Sunday School session, merit orders were given to Murray Davis Esther Weston Thos Armstrong. The productions were worthy of the subject and reflect credit on the writers and the promoter of the contest.
Collingwood weighs cutting the cigarette selling fee from fifty to twenty five dollars. Political rumor touches Bryan’s presidential candidacy and New Brunswick moves toward provincial prohibition at the coming session. News from the North includes peat beds along the Canadian Northern route and a deadly dynamite accident in McLean’s camp. Newfoundland returns show ten government and twelve opposition candidates elected. Taft’s vote stance intersects with a suffrage petition by the National Woman’s Suffrage Association. Minard’s Liniment sales noted across venues.
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