Tabloid Thursday: 1910 BMDs & A "cheerful spinister" Wanted...

Tabloid Thursday: Where yesterday's news is today...

T.T. is an experimental weekly meme I'm trying here at "Roots & Stones" (please let me know if there are any themes/memes already around like this - I don't want to reinvent the wheel!). 

I wanted a weekly feature where I could showcase articles, those lovely little social news items (i.e. "Mrs. X and daughter visited Mrs. Y this weekend and will be returning home on Thursday..."), and other interesting newspaper "stuff" I've come across in the course of my research.  Thus, Tabloid Thursday...

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Source: "Ottawa Citizen" 1 October, 1910, evening edition, p. 4, column 8
Accessed through Google News archive, 7 December 2010
Note: [?] indicates the word/entry could not be read

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MARRIAGE AND DEATHS, 50C BIRTH NOTICES, EACH 25 CENTS.

BORN.
SHEARER-On Sept. 29, 1910, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Shearer, 61 Sherbrooke Ave, a daughter.
HYLAND-On Sept. 27, 1910, to Mrs. and Mrs. Robert Hyland, of 97 James St., a son.

MARRIED.
FISHER-ANDERSON On Wednesday, Sept. 28, 1910, at Christ church cathedral, Victoria, B.C., by Rev. W. W. Boulton, Alice Gwendolen, eldest daughter of W. J. Anderson, of Ottawa, to William Edward Fisher of Prince Rupert B.C.

DIED.
DEVINE-On Sept. 30, 1910, at 74 Baird St., Florence Mary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Devine, aged 2 years, [?] months.
Funeral Saturday at 3 p.m., to Notre Dame cemetery.

IN MEMORIAM.
In loving memory of the late Richard Hatton, who died Oct. 1, 1906.
Gone but no forgotten.
--Sister, Mrs. R. T. Lyon.
In loving memory of Mrs. Wm. [?], who died Oct. 2, 1908.
Two years have passed and still we miss her,
Friends may think the wound has healed,
But they little know the sorrow
Lies within our hearts concealed.
--Family

Source: "Ottawa Citizen" 1 October, 1910, evening edition, p. 4, column 8
Accessed through Google News archive, 7 December 2010
Note: [?] indicates the word/entry could not be read
From the classified ads to eHarmony: some things never change (except the language!)... ;-)  [I wonder if he got his "correspondence"?]

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PERSONAL.
BACHELOR, 37, wishes correspondence from spinster, 20-30 (English preferred), must be thoroughly domesticated, cheerful, tall and attractive.  Photo (to be returned), highest references.  Only those offering same need apply, as this is straight.  Address Box 13, Citizen.