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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 24, 1901
Page
3
An unclear excerpt presents garbled dialogue and incomplete phrases about teaching, war, and spiritual themes. It references a youth, open and closed circles, foreign influence, a slap, and mentions of China and a Bible source, all in a disjointed, fragmentary form.
Traitors Notaries Conveyancer and solicitors in Barrie advertise money to loan from 4 to 5 percent on improved farm property. Listings include Hewson Creswicke Strathy Esten Arrinlrs and others with offices in Ross Block Dunlop Street and Bank of Toronto Buildings. Donato Ross LL.B. J. C. Brokovsiski also listed.
A historical Toronto-Barrie page shows Lenox Ardagh Cowan Brown solicitors with various offices and partners, plus a roster of physicians and surgeons including Dr J C Smith and Rh W A Ross. Advertises offices at Hinds Block, Dunlop Street and McCarthy Block, with contact telephones and clinics listed.
Dr W D MacLAREN provides dental services every Wednesday at ee Block east of the Post Office airic. In Barrie and Cookstown residents may access care on a regular midweek schedule.
Fragmentary item reports a town entrance feature near Henderson's Hardware on Owen Street with unclear date and wording. The readable portion hints at a Monday reference and a possible street or town event but lacks complete names or details.
Johnson and Sarjeant offer all kinds of imported materials direct from mines. They supply lath, shingle, lime, plaster, pipes, brick, fire clay and cement. Located at 23 Elizabeth Street opposite Wellington Hotel.
A Washington despatch reports Rev Dr Talmage's sermon on Watchman What of the Night, praising the third watch of the city as he draws stark contrasts between bustling evening life and the grim scenes of poverty, drink, and crime. He urges practical Christian aid, warns of gambling and abuse, and ends with a sermon on judgment and repentance.
Teething mothers are urged to send for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup claimed to soothe distressed children. The ad touts relief from diarrhoea stomach issues wind colic and gingival inflammation with a pleasant taste. Price is 25 cents a bottle and is sold by druggists worldwide.
A collection of brief notes on emigration rates in Britain, skills for Vienna policemen, an old Bank of England note, a tiny Greenland birch, rising women's height, Persia’s crown, Paris dog barbers, Dutch wedding sweets, Australia gesture-language, Scottish fishing superstitions, the origin of infantry, liner boiler tubes, Naples plant reversal, Baden telegrams by postcard.
Mrs. Joseph K. Ormsby of Chicago has borne fourteen children in seven years, including twins, triplets, and quadruplets. Five of her children survived from earlier births. the latest four, three boys and a girl, weighed three pounds each. Her husband, a plumber, vanished last June after a delusion of perpetual motion. The mother tended a small grocery store and house, with charitable help arriving after newspaper stories.
Mrs. Jones of Northwood Ontario declares her eight month old baby was very ill with dysentery and that Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry saved the child's life. She notes continued use and recommends the remedy to others.
A mother cradles seven children in a cot and names appear for triplets as George Dewey Carter Harrison and Helen Gould. Carter Harrison died in infancy while George Dewey and Helen Gould thrived. The family awaits formal naming for the newest infant who is already dubbed Theodore Roosevelt by the mother. The passage also notes demand for fleet conveyance by families applying long in advance.
Signs point to a thriving Nile season as Cairo hotels fill and health resorts draw visitors. Hebu wan and Assouan gain popularity with sulphur baths and English churches, while Luxor expands. Adventurous sportsmen plan buffalo, giraffe, rhinoceros, hippo, elephant hunts between Khartoum and Fashoda amid stricter gun rules. Dahabeads and steamboats offer luxurious travel back to ancient times.
Dialogue shows a negotiation over room possession where the clerk suggests the tenant may claim possession to deter others from eviction. The exchange portrays a legal or tenancy dispute and a strategy to assert occupancy if confronted. The passage highlights tension between renter and agent and hints at an impending confrontation over rightful use.
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