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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
7
The International Newspaper Bible Study Club invites readers to join local clubs and answer weekly questions for 52 weeks starting July 226th. Prizes include gold and silver medals, a Bible, and a book, with rules requiring subscription, single-sided 200-word answers, and identification by number only.
Rev Dr Linscott hosts a study for the International Newspaper Bible Study Club on Isaiah 11 23 and Proverbs 21. The card lists questions about drunkenness moral portraits community effects and the relation of drinking to work civic outcomes and divine judgment including contrasts between means and consequences and a written club response. It notes the Sunday lesson for Oct 4 1908 with David Brings the Ark to Jerusalem and references 1 Samuel VI
The official guide to court attire sets standards for gentlemen and ladies at royal courts and state events. It outlines two compatible styles of coats for men, waistcoat materials, button counts, cuffs, and pocket details, plus rules on accessories, hair feathers, gloves, and chains, with permission needed for high court dress for certain ladies.
Sir Archibald Geikie relates a humorous tale about a farmer of G in which a mysterious man describes Scotland as once Greenland, an amusing anecdote from Scottish reminiscences. The piece notes tiny post offices in Caithness including Berriedale, and Hartwood, plus Glasgow Corporation’s 900,000 square yards of unused land seen as a burden as suburban growth rises.
A flock of eight vultures roams Wellclose Square London after a cage door was left open at Mr Hamlyn’s Menagerie. The birds, feared for swooping on children, drew crowds as locals tried to net and deter them. Some birds perched on a church roof or a chimney while others remained elusive through the night.
A miscellany reports a London cabman carrying valuable coinage from the Exhibition with daily loads reaching tens of thousands in gold while an Irish village donkey backs a money sacks route. Other notes mention Sir Edward Grey’s farm policy, a giant fiddle vane atop Great Gonerby church, Great Yarmouth’s Kitty Witches Row as a narrow street, and Mint reports on coin production and late marriages of two cows.
Young sleuths at Newtown County Gown, Ireland uncover a theft at their school. James Lothe leads the inquiry as students trace a misused fund of four pounds, with clues found among school belongings and local chatter.
An underwater mishap aboard a Malta bound battleship led to divers frantically clearing an entangled propeller. A crewman slept through the tense episode after lunch, resting on a giant blade while fishes circled, and was not punished.
A London warehouse dealer in coco-nut shells reports selling over 1,000 bags last year as fuel. He buys shells from stall-keepers, confectioners, oil extractors, and market-sweepers, then resells for small profit, often mixing with slack coal. He notes rivals in other parts of London and mentions shell use in patent drelichters.
A debate grows over reprinting a novel as The Old Allegiance while previously published as Purple and Fine Linen in 1899 under author William Pigott. The Spectator notes the case and calls for explanation. Publisher John Long admits the two works are the same, and sales rose after the rename.
A Ladies' Short Skirt League has been formed in London to wear dresses that do not sweep floors and pavements, reducing dust and microbes. The piece notes a similar American group called the Five Inch League and mentions pledges about dress length and cleanliness.
The Inner Temple displays a historic fee bowl once used to store cash payments to counsel. Presented by Hon Malcolm Macnaghten, it traces to Baron Pollock and Sir Frederick Pollock, with the bowl kept in the Battery chamber alongside other treasures.
Sir William Magnay recounts a perilous episode from his early seventies continental tour. In a medieval Abruzzi ruin he spied four men plotting robbery, a lantern flare revealing masked criminals as they looted and fought. A stabbing sent one assailant to the ground, while Magnay escaped and later reported the incident.
The article notes two Swiss and Tottenham swimmers possibly crossing the Channel this year, Marthe Robert with Swiss records and Lily Smith who swam twenty miles in sea in seven hours, plus a reference to past efforts by Annette Keller. It then lists pairs of British MPs with notable brothers. It ends with a Railway Window novelty about North Eastern Railway coaches using frameless drop windows to reduce noise and repairs.
Sir Hiram Maxim drafts a comprehensive book on the science of modern aeronautics to be published toward the end of the current era. The work will embody results from leading scientists and aviators during the present twenty years.
A jumble of brief items reports a Toronto woman’s death in hospital, a Wright brothers plane wreck in Washington with fatalities, home remedies and advertisements for Minard’s Liniment, insect bites cure, agri policy talks in Ottawa, ice on Hudson Bay, a steamer’s entry delay, Irish National movement notes, a Chicago girl’s 2300 volt shock, and a claim that Minard’s Liniment cures dandruff.
A vintage advertisement extols Zam-Bak as a pure healing balm made from refined herbal saps. It claims quick relief for cuts scrapes burns and skin diseases and positions Zam-Bak above ordinary ointments. It urges use by children and adults for common household injuries and ailments.
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