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Newspaper
Ontario Georgetown Herald
Location
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 26, 1929
Page
6
A whimsical narration imagines cozy winter comforts. Belinda contemplates clever devices to ease cold nights and improve daily life, from heat in bed to an ever accurate phone and ink pen, musing on a fountain of ideas to cure the chill.
An article notes tuberculosis remains a major disease reducing earning power and causing poverty. It highlights child infection from adults, urging precautions like separate drinking cups to protect children and curb spread within homes.
A visiting group plans to stay weeks then travel north as hospitality workers. Mr Miner offers three acres for a youth baseball ground and builds a clubhouse on his farm to aid neighborhood youths. He later asks to be removed from church rolls after a temper dispute, but church restraint kept him from violence, earning praise for his kindness and brotherly conduct.
Readable details indicate the rural school hosts a fair on the first of the month inviting families and residents to enjoy exhibits demonstrations and activities at the school grounds with anticipated community turnout.
Acton residents reported a large turnout as about 200 applications were filed with the Board for two Public School staff vacancies. Mr and Mrs H B Wilson and Mrs Hogg of Brampton were noted among those connected to the postings. John Hill has been ill recently, with his sister and Mrs Lindsay of Chare Bean also mentioned. A person from Heights was jailed for two months for liquor sales.
The piece highlights Mrs D Pirie Deyea's talk on Education or Catastrophe as a notable feature of the Canadian chant event. It notes her lineage from Sir George Bt, her royal court appearance as a child, and her later move to become self supporting. She trained as a nurse and served in World War I with British forces.
The Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association holds its annual convention in London Ontario on 24th and 25th with weekly publishers gathering to renew ties and discuss business. Leading members like H. B. Analow of the Graphic Campbellton NB are noted as presiding officers for the event.
A curious tale from The Orlils News-Letter tells of a well dressed man who arrives tonight with an artificial leg. He begs and uses the limb for mobility then returns, swaps clothes, and leaves town with about twenty dollars. The piece warns against trusting hard luck stories and labels begging as a disguised form of theft.
Fragment mentions an infant Barnes deceased around the 19th and references claims and security, with continuation about the administrator after that date.
The industry signals lower fares as cabin ships raise comfort and capacity while a new travel season begins, backed by government moves toward passport simplification. Canadian cheese orders from Britain show overseas demand, and Garnet wheat shipments to Great Britain test quality with prime samples. Beef grading to be introduced in Ontario, and tourism surges with over 61 million travelers visiting Ontario in 1926, spending about 100 million dollars. Ethel Catherwood is honored with a new CPR station named after her on the Rosalows-Perdue line.
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