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Newspaper
Ontario Georgetown Herald
Location
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 18, 1924
Page
1
A reflective piece recalls a gray weathered back stoop and a blooming rose bush, hollyhocks, peppermint, flagroot, and mandrake luring visitors. The narrator describes a daily path to school and duty, ending with an unwitting closing of nature's page as Harriot Whitney Durbin signs the reminiscence.
Georgetown writer recalls passing Preston’s Tavern on the road to Bailinafad in the distant past. He recounts hospitality, a wetting ritual, and a famed Montreal hotelkeeper Joe Beef who fed sailors and housed a traveling menagerie. Names of Silver Creek residents and tradespeople follow the highway notes.
The piece recalls 1616 summer cold in North America and Europe, citing Rev. Dr. Patterson's history. It narrates crop losses, flour and wheat prices, and a Halifax trip by Alexander Grant to secure flour. It also reports local thefts and farm raids in Halton area, culminating with Dayfoot Reliance booth sales in Georgetown.
Revenue officers led by Edward Floody and Mason uncovered six headless stills and twelve barrels of mash in a wooded bush camp near Tom Tox sear ville Halton County. The operation, believed active Tuesday night, left five stills broken and only one kept for evidence as a prosecution follows.
A Milton Champion article notes jail counts rising from none to eight then fifteen prisoners in Halton over a short period. It blames no single cause, cites bootleggers, vagrants, and a burglary group from Burlington, and questions Ontario Temperance Act influence while reporting farm thefts increasing in the county.
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