Birth and Death Notices from Terra Cotta and Georgetown
Miller family announces the birth of a daughter on October 10, 1934 at Terra Cotta to Mr and Mrs L Miller. Perryman family reports the death of Fannie Christie Perryman on October 27, 1934 at her son B Perryman's Brin Township residence, in her 70th year. For Graves Elizabeth Scott Perryman widow of William For Graves, died October 11, 1934 in Georgetown. Funeral service for Mrs Edward McWhirter at her home on iz Street Georgetown held November 1 at three o'clock with interment at Gilenwilliams Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forgraves
Georgetown
Elizabeth Scott
Willam Forgraves
November notes on holidays laws and local events
A roundup of town items notes Remembrance Day services planned for November 11 and early Christmas shopping hints. It records local opinions on beer profits and taxes, road graveling and drainage work, a dog kennel found at the Post Office doorstep, and a Dominion Inn redecoration plan. It also reports large geese flyover, a frost incident on Main Street Erin, and a detailed August fish catch across Atlantic and Pacific coasts with gains in cod and hake and pilchards rebound on the Pacific.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Dominion
Nova Scotia
Fragmentary moral aphorisms on virtue and faith
A terse, mispunctuated excerpt asserts that even without God or an afterlife it is better to be generous, chaste, true, and brave than to be wasteful, lustful, false, or cowardly. The passage contrasts ideals with doubt in a stark, rhetorical form.
Comic Gossip Fragments From Everyday Life
A collection of light vignettes about social mishaps and misunderstandings. Topics include dancing couples, two travelers at a hotel on commission, Margery watching a wedding from outside, a painter and his son, a lambs joke, and a coat remark at the office.
Dropped In Crowd A Quip About Food At Football Match
A spectator and his small friend joked among a large crowd at a football game. The man quips about the tight crowd making it hard to eat, while the friend answers in bitterness about the discomfort of the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erbie
Little boys comfort mother with loving words
The scene shows George aged four and Ernest aged five saying they love their mother as they are tucked into bed. George asks why they love her and they jokingly answer that they like her face. The mother comments on the face, and the boys reply they have grown accustomed to it.
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George
Ernest
Mummy
Mother
Old Country Woman Refuses Eye Chart Test
An elderly rural woman with failing sight visits an optician. In a dim room he directs her to read a letter chart, but she lights into him claiming she learned her ABCs in childhood and won’t be made a fool.
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Optician
Real Scotch Business Bribery Tale From Aberdeen
A commercial traveller tries to bribe a canny Scot who rejects cigars as a bribe citing kirk membership. After a prodding offer of six pence, the Scot relents and says he will take two boxes, noting the offer was well meant.
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Aberdeen
Kirk
Halloween Night in Arena Sees Quiet Festivities and Minor Vandalism
Halloween festivities largely peaceful with little property damage. A parade was not held this year, some fences torn and wood piles moved, a few items displaced. A few youths took a gun from the Soldiers' Monument, while Acton Citizens' Band provided Halloween atmosphere. A new building under construction saw no damage as adults and youths observed cautiously.
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Hallowe'en
Acton
Seeing Ourselves A Mirror Moment On Self Improvement
A young man in a city department store misreads a shabby passerby only to realize it is his own reflection. The piece argues personal appearance reflects inner character and urges reform of bad temper and pettiness.
Bricked in Love Wins as Box Restores Hope
Norton Nodd, a bricklayer, faces a lost ten thousand dollar draft from his uncle and heartbreak when it vanishes from his lunch box. After a tense search, his fiancée Bessie retrieves the missing box hidden in a brick chimney, confirming their wedding plans.
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Bessia
Lind
Norton
Norton Nodd
Arthur
Bessie
Langtry recalls College of wit and a blotting paper contretemps
The Jersey Lily Langtry recounts in memoirs how Lord Malmesbury found a private letter she wrote at her writing table copied on blotting paper. He ridiculed his servants for daily renewing blotting paper to avoid such indiscretions, as cited by the Kansas City Star.
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Lillie Langtry
Lord Malmesbury
Kansas City’ Star
Fortifications of SS Peter and Paul Fortress Leningrad
The fortress designed by Trezzini in 1703 40 housed a state prison a cathedral a mint and old arsenal with an artillery museum. The granite faced walls date to Catherine II as the cathedral was built with the fortress and later rebuilt and altered under Nicholas I. A church going people are apt to te a law-abiding people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SS. Peter and Paul
Leningrad
Russia
Com. Trezzini
Catherine II
Dtate
Ss.peter and Paul
Nicholas I
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Rodney
Blenheim
Dominion Inn
Ada. Short
Main Street
Erin
Miecet
Margery Hadeen
Henry
E. Harrop
Gore District Mutual Norwich Union
Canadian Fire Insurance
the Casualty of Canada Assurance Company
the Merchants Casualty Co
The
Portage-la-Prairie Mutual
H. P. Lawson
J. Cadesky Optometrist
A. T. Brown
Parke
Hinton
Japan
Ned Metal
Johnston
Roy Win
Alent
Candy Department
Hinton’s
A. D. Savage
Guelph
Guelph Ontario
Voch
Carlton Crepes
Men’s Department
Poly
Swantex
Lux
Larage
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