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Newspaper
Grand Forks Sun
Location
Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 13, 1919
Page
3
A tavern tale recalls Old Man Moody and a collapsible rubber boat from New York. Moody and Ed Greene race across a pond in forwards style and nearly finish, until Moody realizes the boat stayed tied and snapped back as he stepped out.
A column culls classroom misstatements and language mishaps from a teacher’s fulowning notes. It lists quips about cuckoos, polar animals, Magna Carta, translations, and science misunderstandings, illustrating how students misread words and history.
An eleven year-old girl answered what is a veterinary surgeon by calling it a SA doctor for old soldiers, offering a concise, if humorous, definition in a wartime era interview.
A Boston Transcript item tells of a young literateur's wife hiring a buxom Dutch girl for housework. The girl misreads social cues and discusses pay with the mistress, offering to work cheaper until the husband finds work. The piece closes with a brief wartime job printing note.
A vintage beauty note touts a lemon juice based lotion to remove tan freckles and sallowness. It claims two lemons mixed with orchard white create a quarter pint of skin whitener to massage daily for smoother clearer skin and dramatic whitening results.
Ottawa June 5 1919 Department of Public Works invites tenders for a Miramata Wharf at Narawata Yolo District BC with plans from District Engineer Clare J C and Vancouver offices Tenders due noon July 9 1919 on printed forms accompanied by equal to 10 percent security by bank cheque or war bonds to Minister of Public Works Forms supplied by department and not accepted otherwise.
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