Eastern Chronicle, 26 March 1903 on front page, reports John McEachern of McArras Brook missing and his brother searching for him. 

A Lost Man: - In the ad. columns will be found a notice of a strange case.  The facts are as stated in the ad.  On Monday evening the lost man's brother called in here, but that issue of the E.C. was run off.  Here the brother was advised to go to Landsdowne, as the lost brother once worked there, but nothing was seen of him there.  His brother has been continually searching for him ever since, and yesterday at Little Harbor he heard that a strange man was seen at the Middle River and the brother has gone there to-day.  The lost man John McEachern, left his home at McArra's Brook for Avondale Station with a trunk which he wished to send to his brother in Antigonish, after which he was expected home by his wife to attend to the cattle.  Not coming, the search began, when it was found that instead of going home he came here, stabled his horse and left to look for supper and then disappeared so far as completely as if the earth opened its mouth and swallowed him up.  He has relations in town whom he goes to see when he comes here, but this time they have seen nothing of him.  Before he left home, he complained of a slight headache, but thought it would wear off.  He has had a good deal of trouble and worry this winter.  His brother John, was killed out West in the mines, and the body came home during that very cold stormy weather and he had to make several trips to the station, and that in connection with the burial services was no slight task.  But he did not seem to mind it very much, and why he would come here, leave his horse at a public stable and then disappear, is so far a mystery.  If he went off on a train, his friends can only wait