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Newspaper
Ontario Georgetown Herald
Location
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 14, 1939
Page
6
A trial shipment of certified seed potatoes from Nova Scotia to South Africa received high praise for packaging and condition. The consignee reported perfect packing, cases arriving in wonderful condition, and no rotten potatoes found upon opening.
The mistress of the house hears a bell and confronts a peddler at the front door. She calls for the maid and the mail, then shouts indignantly for him to leave, saying you go to hell yourself.
A reflective piece on Paul the Apostle and the value of letter writing. It links how Paul’s personal touch in his letters to Timothy Philemon and others shaped faith and mission, urging readers to write purposeful, sincere correspondence that uplifts and evangelizes.
Bank of Montreal report dated June 1 notes Prairie seeding nearly complete with crops generally favorable. In Ontario cool start gave way to rapid growth, spring grains germinating well, corn and roots planting underway, pastures revived by rain, and fruit trees blooming with good set.
Ontario apple growers consider a one cent per bushel assessment to fund self administered advertising through the Apple Advertising Committee of the Ontario Fruit Growers Association. Exempts under 100 bushels. vote by growers via ballots chaired by George H. Laird. If approved, enabling legislation would cover this year’s crop and support fall and winter Ontario apple advertising in Ontario Manitoba and the Montreal Quebec markets.
The piece reviews how ancient and notable figures valued dogs, citing pharaohs like Cheops and Rameses II, Tutankhamen’s tomb, Herodotus accounts, and figures such as Alexander the Great Alcibiades Cambyses and Washington Franklin Grant and Lee. It notes dogs accompanying Crusaders and a Great Dane saving Frederick the Great, among others.
A tramp sleeping on a golf course green was rousted by a secretary who challenged him to leave. The tramp protested that his presence was not a threat and questioned the secretary’s handling of the situation.
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