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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
3
An old advertisement extols cod liver oil as a potent healer for pulmonary troubles and general health. It touts nature’s products from shells, roots, and herbs, and claims French chemists refined cod liver elements into a stronger prep with iron peptonate, promising superior strength and cures.
The text estimates a tax rate near twenty five mills on the dollar, up two mills from last year. Revenue losses from hotel licences total 1400 dollars, with raw costs around 3000. Public levy up 1200 and sewerage costs 500. Power plant costs add 2000, but the plant may show no fuel increase due to a monthly shutdown. Power and waterworks gross over 43000, with 21555 capital, 11500 running, yielding roughly 10000 profit.
An article notes a marked rise in breathing troubles across localities and promotes Hyomei as a quick remedy for cold in the head pneumonia bronchitis hoarseness sore throat and croup. It claims fast relief and possible cure with persistent use and outlines a dry-air inhalation method. Complete Hyomei outfit offered for $1.
It is reported at St. Petersburg that O Count Leo Tuloi, the Busgian novel fet, is dying. The succession and transfer taxes and the estate of the late Russell Sage amounted to 667,585. BH Kerr's year-old daughter killed by horse in Milltown New Brunswick. A sketch book and Drummond biography are planned. A four-year-old in Nelson County Dover township fatally scalded. Young Turks leader Dumolin says 40,000 top Turkish men displaced by the sultan's secret police.
A survey of lingering beliefs in Canadian Indian culture notes the windiga bogey man and old tribal customs. It recounts teeth exchange with a mother’s guidance, and omens from birds like the owl, fox, chickadee, and wood pigeon. A white hunter’s death is linked to a pigeon nest above his cabin, while ravens are seen as mixed omens for sport and safety.
A Canadian government invitation brings a Scottish agricultural commission to the Dominion for seven weeks of field study. Sir John Sinclair and 14 other experts will tour across Canada to the Pacific, delivering an independent veterinary and farming assessment. Separately, CG M Burton, a Detroit millionaire, reportedly purchased a valuable collection of 1812 war papers from J Askin of Walkerville, Ont.
Joseph D. Tits a Hamilton blacksmith invented steel shafts for light and heavy wagons and patented the contrivance. He sought a suitable wood substitute and turned to steel, testing and refining to ready his product for market despite limited details in the garbled text.
An ad extols fruit juices as Nature’s medicines and urges daily fruit intake. It promotes Fruit-a-tives as a quicker stimulant for bowels liver kidneys and skin to cleanse waste and toxins, claiming relief from headaches rheumatism neuralgia and other pains. Sold by dealers at 3p per trial box 50c for regular 12 boxes $2.50 for a box set. Ottawa firm Fruit-a-tives Limited.
The article links city and country stress to indigestion with headaches dizziness flatulence and sleeplessness. It promotes Mi-o-na stomach tablets as safe effective and guaranteed with a money back promise by D H MacLaren.
During the second week of the Toronto Exhibition practical meetings will be held in the Ontario Department of Agriculture tent opposite the Cattle Judging Ring. The Agricultural Societies Association meets Tuesday September 8, the Horticultural Societies Association Wednesday September 6, and the Ontario Vegetable Growers Association Thursday September 10 at 2 pm each day. Officials welcome all officers and members. programmes for annual conventions will be arranged. an Agriculture Department official will be present daily 9 am to 6 pm Friday to Friday September 11.
The Pelican, 632 tons, commanded by Captain Gray, sails from Montreal to Hudson Bay to carry food and supplies to Fort Churchill and Fort Chimo. Two passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Cotter, join for a multi year stay as factor and wife accompanies, both born in the War North.
The Prince of Wales has presented the government archives department with the chair General Wolfe sat in on the voyage from England to Quebec. The chair has been carefully preserved since. Paintings of General Wolfe and General Montcalm will be presented by Mr George Wolfe and the Marquis de Montcalm.
A new milky bylaw prepared by the Board of Urith of Edmonton is pronounced the most stringent in Canada. Dairymen receive until January to comply with all imposed exactions including inspections and milk taxes.
Miss Margaret Carlyle, factories inspector for the western districts, notes that women desire better sanitary conditions and washing arrangements in Ontario canneries. She condemns filthy floors, urging relaid floors with suitable material to prevent dampness and illness.
A vivid note on Shaganappi near Calgary where J erg, an Englishman, tends a vast truck garden with 22 acres of diverse vegetables. The area supplies lettuce and green staples, with 200 to 500 dozen weekly harvests and recent green produce prize entries. Buffalo bone-rich soil and pioneer effort underpin the thriving garden.
Spring salmon runs in British Columbia exceed expectations with about 60 tons of fish over 15 pounds shipped for Europe. Fish are salted and packed, then reprocessed on arrival to remove salt and sold fresh mainly to Germany, with some buyers in England. Epidemic of self harm at Victoria Police Station sees three inmates attempting suicide in one day, two by hanging and neck injuries, another by self harm. John Henry and William Long and John Irving are named in the incidents.
The excerpt offers odd domestic tips such as substituting green celery tips or Brussels sprouts leaves for parsley, sprinkling cinammon before serving to improve flavor, coppering cocoa and liniments, saving sweet gravy for stews and gravies, enamel coating a sewer pipe as a hull, using a small granite pan as an umbrella stand, and removing a short sliver with tiny tweezers.
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