Birth and Obituary Notices From 1934
BORN MILLER At Terra Cotta on Wednesday October 10 1934 to Mr and Mrs L Miller a daughter DIED PERRYMAN At the home of her son B Perryman lot 6 concession 6 Brin Township on Saturday October 27 1934 Fannie Christie wife of the late Thomas Perryman in her 70th year FORGRAVES In Georgetown on Wednesday October 1st 1934 Elizabeth Scott widow of the late William For Graves Pimeval from the home of her caretaker Mrs Edward McWhirter iz Street Georgetown on Friday November 1nd Service at three oclock Interment in Glen Williams Cemetery
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Forgraves
Georgetown
Elizabeth Scott
Willam Forgraves
November first through Remembrance Day plans and fishery gains
The town readies Remembrance Day services for November 11 while noting early Christmas shopping and Hallowe en parties. Local beer and wine regulations come into force as Rutland and Blenheim voters retain Local Option. A large wild geese flock passes south. Fisheries data show August catches on both coasts up from 1933, with cod, hake, pollock, and pilchards increasing and salmon dipping marginally.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Dominion
Nova Scotia
Fragmented moral maxim quote with garbled ends
The excerpt presents a damaged passage asserting moral values though garbled and incomplete. It hints at beliefs about God, future state, generosity, chastity, truthfulness, and bravery, but the text is cut mid thought and contains typographical distortions.
Comic Fragments and Witty Vignettes Between Travelers and Friends
A collage of light humor sketches about two commercial travelers at a hotel discussing dieting and commissions, a woman watching a fashionable wedding from outside a church, an artist and son misunderstanding a portrait, a boy questioning a family joke about his mother, a lamb joke, and a punchline about an old coat worn after a raise.
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Miecet
Margery Hadeen
Humorous Exchange At Packed Football Match
In a crowded stadium a man jokes with his small friend about watching the game. The pair speaks of the crowd and a meal, with the friend lamenting he cannot eat comfortably in the boot and shoe depot nearby.
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Erbie
Children Comfort Mother With Simple Love
The scene shows George age four and Ernest age five saying goodnight and expressing affection for their mother. George asks why they love her and the boys reply with a playful exchange about her face, noting they are used to it.
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George
Ernest
Mummy
Mother
Old Country Woman Refuses Eye Test
An elderly rural woman, nearly blind, visits an optician who asks her to read a chart. She retorts that she learned her A B Cs when she was young and refuses to be made a fool, defending her schooling and dignity.
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Optician
Real Scotch Business Bribe Tale
A commercial traveller pressed a large Aberdeen order by offering cigars to a cautious Scot who refused bribes as a Kirk member. After a counter proposal of sixpence, the Scot relents and takes two boxes, illustrating wary deal making and Scottish wit.
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Aberdeen
Kirk
Halloween Night Parade Brings Cautious Fun and Limited Damage
Halloween passed with light property damage and a muted parade in the Arena. Signs moved, fences torn only lightly, and some gun theft from the Soldiers' Monument noted. Acton Citizens' Band provided late night music. charity treats blessed many children while a new building stood watchfully untouched.
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Hallowe'en
Acton
Seeing Ourselves Reflects a Moral Mirror in Business
A young man in business confronts a shabby stranger in a department store only to realize the stranger is his own reflection in a long mirror. The tale urges self examination of temper and pettiness as a spur to reform, noting no mirror can reveal our spiritual selves.
Bricklayer Proposes as Missing Lunch Box Reunites Couple
Norton Nodd loses a lunch box containing a ten thousand dollar draft from Uncle Arthur after a chimney job. Years of hard work and a planned wedding push him to search. Atop the brick stack, Bessie discovers the box hidden in the chimney, sealing their future together.
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Bessia
Lind
Norton
Norton Nodd
Arthur
Bessie
Langtry recalls secret letters at Lord Malmesbury home
In her memoir The Days I Knew Lillie Langtry recounts crying before Lord Malmesbury who heard of a harmless indiscreet letter that was copied onto blotting paper. The diplomat, famed for wit, scolds his staff for daily blotting paper renewals to prevent such embarrassments.
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Lillie Langtry
Lord Malmesbury
Cross
Kansas City
Fortress of SS Peter and Paul in Leningrad
The article describes the early 18th century fortress of SS Peter and Paul in Leningrad designed by Com. Trezzini from 1703 to 1740 and faced with granite under Catherine II. It notes the connected prison cathedral mint old arsenal and Artillery museum and remarks the fortifications have since lost importance with the cathedral rebuilt in 1753 and altered under Nicholas I.
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SS. Peter and Paul
Leningrad
Russia
Com. Trezzini
Catherine III
Dtate
Ss.peter and Paul
Nicholas I
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Apiig
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Dominion Inn
Ada. Short
Main Street
Erin
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
Candy Department
Hinton’s
A. D. Savage
Guelph
Ontario
Piet ‘Ea
Carlton Crepes
Men’s Department
Poly
Swantex
Lux
Larage
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