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December 17, 2025

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125 Years Ago

September 27, 1900

Local news: Hugh McCredie, eldest son of Andrew McCredie, of Bristol, a promising young man of nineteen years, passed away on Thursday last, a victim

September 20, 1900

Local news: The sudden death of Mr. Samuel Wilson, of Green Lake, removes another of the old settlers of Clarendon. The deceased gentleman was preparing

September 13, 1900

Local news: Mr. Jas. Cuthbertson, of Clarendon, has shown us a letter from his son Norman, dated Galivan Bay, August 15. In it the young

September 6, 1900

Local news: Mr. H. Imison, photographer, is still confined in the hospital at Ottawa in a very serious condition, so reports Mr. F.A. Parker, who

August 30, 1900

Local news: Mr. John B. Ralph of Bryson has the contract for building the several stables, sheds, etc., on the exhibition grounds and began the

August 23, 1900

Local news: Messrs. Dale Bros., Tinsmiths, have removed their stock into the building lately occupied by George Swatman. The shop vacated by them is to

August 16, 1900

The Kickapoo Indian Med. Co. have been in town for the past week and are entertaining large crowds nightly with amusing programmes. A word about

August 9, 1900

Messrs. Armstrong and Dale, having just burnt a large brick kiln, are preparing for the erection of Mr. Jas. Cuthbertson’s residence opposite the exhibition grounds

August 2, 1900

Local news: The favourable weather of the latter half of the past week enabled farmers to get pretty well through with their haying. Prof. Workman,

July 26, 1900

Local news: Our citizens were treated to an outdoor entertainment on Saturday evening, the performance being of an acrobatic nature in which the artist executed

September 27, 1900

Local news: Hugh McCredie, eldest son of Andrew McCredie, of Bristol, a promising young man of nineteen years, passed away on Thursday last, a victim to consumption, which laid hold upon him as the result of a cold, contracted last

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September 20, 1900

Local news: The sudden death of Mr. Samuel Wilson, of Green Lake, removes another of the old settlers of Clarendon. The deceased gentleman was preparing to retire about half past eight o’clock of the date mentioned, when he suddenly expired,

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September 13, 1900

Local news: Mr. Jas. Cuthbertson, of Clarendon, has shown us a letter from his son Norman, dated Galivan Bay, August 15. In it the young man says he is working on the erection of a hotel and store at the

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September 6, 1900

Local news: Mr. H. Imison, photographer, is still confined in the hospital at Ottawa in a very serious condition, so reports Mr. F.A. Parker, who called on him last Monday.  Sunday was the hottest day of the season so far

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August 30, 1900

Local news: Mr. John B. Ralph of Bryson has the contract for building the several stables, sheds, etc., on the exhibition grounds and began the work last week. Mr. W.D. Armitage has been re-engaged as principal of the Portage du

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August 23, 1900

Local news: Messrs. Dale Bros., Tinsmiths, have removed their stock into the building lately occupied by George Swatman. The shop vacated by them is to be fitted up at once for a drug store, for Mr. Box, a Renfrew young

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August 16, 1900

The Kickapoo Indian Med. Co. have been in town for the past week and are entertaining large crowds nightly with amusing programmes. A word about their medicines: the purest, safest and most reliable medicine known to humanity. Their elements are

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August 9, 1900

Messrs. Armstrong and Dale, having just burnt a large brick kiln, are preparing for the erection of Mr. Jas. Cuthbertson’s residence opposite the exhibition grounds in Shawville. Mr. W.B. Crawford is still nursing a pretty badly sprained foot, which he

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August 2, 1900

Local news: The favourable weather of the latter half of the past week enabled farmers to get pretty well through with their haying. Prof. Workman, the well-known musician, was in town on Monday. He is talking of opening a music

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July 26, 1900

Local news: Our citizens were treated to an outdoor entertainment on Saturday evening, the performance being of an acrobatic nature in which the artist executed some rather perilous feats from a ladder held vertically with guy-lines. The fortieth anniversary of

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