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Injuries sustained and inquest into Smiths Falls death: Hot off the 1912 press!

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Front page of The Perth Courier, Friday, Aug. 2, 1912

An auto caused the team of horses owned by John Drummond of Toledo to run away on Monday, while he was returning from Smiths Falls with a load of grist. Mr. Drummond was thrown out and rendered unconscious for a time. The auto did not stop.

Thomas Cairns, carter, Smiths Falls, broke one of his legs on Monday. He was putting a load of freight on his wagon at the CPR shed when his horse gave a sudden start and threw him off the wagon. A bundle of lumber fell on him and when it was all over it was found that his left leg was broken at the ankle.

John Telford fell through a trap door in a hay loft and dislocated his shoulder. John Dittrick, in stepping off a street car in Montreal, was thrown to the ground and broke his shoulder bone.

Col. Balderson was acting crown attorney at an inquest in Smiths Falls this morning. The inquest was held to enquire (sic) into the cause of the death of a Hungarian who was killed in Smiths Falls on the 9th of August of last year. The deceased man was jumping off a moving freight train when he fell under the wheels, and both legs were cut off. No inquest was held at the time and recently friends of deceased were making enquiries (sic) and sought the services of the Austrian consul at Montreal, who took the matter up with Attorney General Foy, who ordered the inquest. The body was exhumed and the jury found deceased came to his death through his own negligence.

Front page news from 100 years ago…

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Top stories of the June 7, 1912 edition of The Perth Courier 

Perth gets big new thriving industry
“Perth will have another new industry. For some time, negotiations have been in progress between Henry K. Wampole & Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio to take care of the Canadian business for the Jergens company. The Jergens company is the second largest manufacturer in the United States of high class toilet soaps.. the two companies are coming together to handle the soap, perfume and toilet business in Canada. A new company, with headquarters as Perth, is being incorporated to be known as the Andrew Jergens Co. Limited.”

Tap water is impure on account of swollen condition of river
“Dr. Dwyre, Medical Health Officer, has has a report from Dr. Connell of Kingston, on samples of tap water sent away last Friday. Dr. Connell reported the water to be impure and full of bacteria. This state of affairs has risen through the unprecedented steady and heavy rains, causing the river to rise. Until conditions become normal again, the advice is to boil the water for drinking purposes.”

You could buy… C.A. Farmer & Son was selling cream, fresh each morning. Half pint and pint bottle, 10 cents and 30 cents each. John Hart at The Perth Book Store was selling Colorite, an “entirely new preparation for restoring old straw hats to any colour,” 25 cents per bottle and brush.