HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-10-26, Page 7SE.LI.M1ELIANCE
■COLUMBUiS had a gregt idea. .But
without self-reliance and confidence
that his idea was right, he never
would hay become the greatest dis
coverer of all the ages.
You have problems to solve, Lis
ten to the advice of those who are
older and wiser. They can help you
because they have had experienc.
But you must solve your own pro
blems. No one can do it for you.
You have a brain to reason and a
will to act.
Listen to the advice and exper
ience of others — consider it as it
applies to youd own case. Decide
what you think is best. Rely on your
decision. v
Then, DO it,* ♦ »
Enthusiasm is the fruit of sincer
ity.* ♦ *
He has hard work who has noth
ing to do.* * *
To be truly generous is to ,be truly
great.
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Judge a woman’s social status by
the kind of people about whom she
likes to gossip.
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After All, Errors Are Few
There never was a typographical
error in any publication that some
one did not ‘beg to call to your at
tention,’ etc.
In view of the possibility of mak
ing such errors, they are amazingly
few in an ordinarily well-edited
newspaper.
In an ordinary column of a jour
nal, there are about 2,600 letters,
there are seven possible wrong pos
itions for each letter, there are 20,-
000 chances to make errors, and mil
lions of possible transpositions. In
the sentence: “To be or not to be’ by
transpositions alone, 2,759,02 2 er
rors can he made.
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What.. All Twelve?
A young lawyer, pleading his first
case, had been retained by a farmer
to prosecute a railway company for
killing twenty-four hogs. He wanted
to impress the jury with the magni
tude of the injury, and said in part:
Twenty-four hogs, gentlemen!
Twenty-four! Twice the number in
the jury box.”* * *
eternity
If we work upon marble, it will per
ish,
If we work upon brass, time will ef
face it.
If we rear temples, they will crumble
to dust,
But if we work upon men’s immor
tal mijuds,
If we imbue them with high prin
ciples,
With the just fear of God,
And love of their fellow men,
We engrave on these tablets
Something which no time can efface,
And which will brighten to all eter
nity.
—Daniel Webster
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Prize Pupil
QUIDNUNC
Boulder Dam jformerly Hoover
Dam) is the highest dam in the
world, rising 727 feet from bed rock,
It required 5 years to construct and
used 4,400,000 cubic yards of cement
for the Dam itself and 5,500,000 bar
rels of cement for the power house.
Grand Coulee Dam in Washington
required 11,2i50,00Q cubic yards of
cement and will have 2i times the
volume of masonry in Boulder Dam.
The power plant will have a capacity
Of 2,700,000 horse power.
Bartlett Dam under construction
in Arizona will be the highest Dam
of the multiple-arch type (in the
world.
Fort Peck, with 100,000,000 cu
bic yards of hydraulic earth fill, now
under construction near Glasgow,
Montana, will be the largest earth
fill in the World. If all the dirt
used in the fill were piled on one
city block, it would reach four miles
high.
Buchanan Dam in the Colorado
River (in Texas) is the world’s long
est masonry dam - the main dam be
ing 9,152 feet in length.
Messages can be sent 1,000 miles
in a little over an hour by African
tom-toms. The sound waves from
these drums travel over 1,000 feet
a second or 21 miles in about one
minute and a half,
Africa is a land of many languages
Around ’900 different tongues are
spoken by the various tribes,
By Siamese law, titled people are
stepped down one degree of nobility
each generation, until they event
ually become nais or plain ‘misters,’
This gradual decline can only be
halted if the king awards a new title
in recognition of conspicuous merit.
About three years' time is requir
ed to build a modern battleship. The
average cost is 27 million dollars per
battleship. Approximately 1,400 sai
lors are required to man the finish
ed ship.
A recent display at the American
Bible Society, New York, showed
that the titles of 265 successes among
modern books and plays were Scrip
tural quotations. The Lord's Prayer,
Matthew V.I, can be practically put
together with book and play titles:
“Give Us This Day” by Louis Zara;
“Our Daily Bread” by Gosta Larsson
"Forgive Us ‘Our Trepasses” by L. C.
Douglas; “As We Forgive Our Debt
ors” by Tilman Breiseth; “Delivei’
Us From Evil” by Achmed Adbullah;
“The Power and the Glory” by Gil
bert Parker.
* * *
A woman looks on a secret in fwo
ways, either it is not worth keeping,
or it is too good to be kept.
* * *
Of all'the things you wear, your
expression is the most important.
* * *
Funny, how pet names will remain
ong after the tenderness that coined
them is gone,
* * *
Tenuous
There was a young lady named Aster
Whose clothes fitted like plaster,
When she happened to sneeze,
She felt a cool breeze
And knew she had met with disaster
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THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
Humbug gets on nowhere.
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Buy British and buy at home.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26th, 1089
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Think your way fa better conditions,
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Johnny and Mary find these great days
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for nut gathering.
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We are learning once more where the North wind comes from.
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Mind ye, the smoke frae auld Reekie is bound to sting German
eyes.
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The less there is
comes to us.
Lindebergh
country dance.
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of sunshine the better we should use what
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is about as popular
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as
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a conscription officer at a
♦
Even Hitler ought to know better than
through Scotch heads.
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Are we again learning that “the
sword”—and bluster.”
It is hard
that the other
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medicine to swallow,
fellow outsmarts us.
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to try to get his Nazism
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pen is mightiei* than the
but
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we must admit at times
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Trafalgar Day found hundreds of thousands of Britons’ best
and bravest expecting
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to do their duty.
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Farmers still are perplexed by the s
duction costs and the prices they receive.
* * * •
Russia is a peculiar people,
ligion and without gratitude and
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spread between their pro-
* * * *
They try to get on without re-
without ideals,
* * * *
Col. Lindebergh is about the most heartily execrated man of
modern times, all because he failed to keep his mouth shut.
♦ * * * * * * *
The Turks first took on something of organized existance
about 1227. They have done some lively stepping since that date. „
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To maintain morale. Renew faith* in God. Stick to one’s
work. Give one’s self no rest till he has found a better way of
carrying on. To talk little or not at all about uncertainties.
***** ***
If anyone had required proof of the peculiar mentality of
Hitler, it has been supplied in his meddling with the Scotch. He’ll
find that “Scotch thistles will jag his thoombs.” Oo aye, joost sae.
********
It is just as well to go cautiously regarding appeals made in
behalf of material aid to soldiers. There are duly authorized
channels through which such aid may be given. Agencies un
authorized by the government have no claim on public generosity.
An open weather eye is good for both soldier and citizen.
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CONGRATULATIONS
We extend our heartiest good wishes to Mrs. James Gardiner,
of Kirkton, on attaining her 80th birthday. This excellent lady
has attained a national reputation by her diligent and tolerant and
enlightened manner of life. Hon. James G. Gardiner, formerly
Prime Minister' of Saskatchewan, and now Minister of Agriculture,
of Canada, is proud to acknowledge the priority of his mother’s
claim in all that makes for permance of renown. As friend, as
neighbor, as Christian worker and as mother, this rare lady has
few superiors. We honour the best in Canadian womanhood in
honouring this good woman as she looks out upon the world from
her vantage ground of four score years of adventure and achiev-
ment.
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NEED OF DEAD EARNESTNESS
It is said that George Gershwin
once arranged to take lessons in
composition from the great Russian
composer, Igor Stravinsky. When
they came to deciding on the fee,
Stravinsky asked GershWIn how
much his yearly income was.
“About $2'50,000” was the reply.
“My boy,” said Stravinsky, “you
should be giving lessons to me.”
* * *
An empty mind is never an open
mind.
* * *
Never poke fun at another man’s
weakness for it proves you have an
even greater weakness.
* * *
Ever stop to think that the boys
you forbid your daughter to keep
company with are the same kind
you were when you were their age?
(Or perhaps, that is the reason.)
Painful Boils
Bad Blood the Cause
When boils start to break out on
different parts of the body it is an
evidence that the blood is loaded up
with impurities.
Just when you think you are rid
of one, another crops up to take its
place and prolong your misery.
All the lancing and poulticing you
may do will not stop more coming.
Why not give that old, reliable,
blood purifying medicine ^u^k
Blood Bitters a chance to banish tho
boils? Thousands have used it for
this purpose during the past 60 years.
Take B.B.B. and get rid Of the bad
blood and the boils too.
The T. Milburn Co.* Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
Getting the Thread
I ’ “Define a bolt and nut, and ex
plain the difference, if any,” appear
ed in a recent engineering exam.
A lady engineering student wrote:
“A bolt is a thing like a stick of
hard metal, such as iron, with a
square lump at one one, and a iot of
scratching wound around the other
end. A nut is similar to the bolt,
but just the opposite, being a hole
in a little chunk of iron sawed off
short, with wrinkles around the in
side of the hole,”
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A Nimble Thinker, Talker and
Writer
When Voltaire arrived in Eng
land in 1727, he found that feeling
ran high against the French, that on
the streets of London he was in
grave peril. One day during a walk
a crowd of angry citizens shouted:
“Kill him; Hang the Frenchmen!”
Voltaire stopped, faced the crowd,
and cried: “Englishmen! You want
to kill me because I am a French
man! Am I not punished enough, ip
not being an Englishman?”
The crowd cheered wildly and pro
vided him safe conduct back to his
dwelling.* * ♦
Great talkers - little thinkers.
* * *
If you subtract 40 from the num
ber of cricket chirps a minute and
divide the result by 4 and add 50 to
the result, you can tell the tempera
ture without a thermometer.
* * *
"It posolutely can’t be done,”
The gallant boatswain cried;
“What can’t be done,” said I -
"Why, finish a column and
Let the last verse slide.”
-—the colonel
Experience is the best teacher, provided her lessons are not
too high in price. Britain is learning this lesson once again.
The Royal Oak is at the bottom of the sea because her sailors were
not equal to the occasion. Edinburgh has been bombed and not
a warning note was sounded because those in charge were not up
to wliat was asked of them. These are two terribly dear lessons.
It will not do to pass over these two occasions with a wave of the
hand saying sweetly, “We must look for such things.” Men in
places of responsibility simply must get their work done. They
are required to be both capable and in dead earnest, Slackness is
first cousin to criminality.
Canada, too, simply must learn this lesson. This war is no
parlour affair nor a matter of the office theories and words and
confidence breeding, but a life and death struggle in which re
sults are required. Canada’s job just now is to supply raw mater
ials and to get right down to building airplanes. We can win
this war but the struggle is going to be a grim one. He belongs to
the foolish and the blind who does not realize this.
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STICKING IT
(Sticking it is difficult these exasperating days. For one
thing, this war was thrust upon us. We took up arms under
dire compulsion. We turned every stone to find peace only to
find our homes endangered, our liberties imperiled and our re
ligion threatened. We are determined but reluctant warriors. The
nation we fight should be our brothers, contending with us for
the best things of the race. Then the political situation is full of
uncertainty. Now Russia seemed to be on the side of the Allies.
Over night she deserted us. Italy has been unable to make up
her mind as to whose cause she will support. Air and submarine
warfare always are incalculable features in a struggle such as this.
Each nation seems waiting for its enemy to take the offensive.
Meanwhile, folk wait with baited breath for the advent of some
measure whereby peace shall be restored to a distracted world.
Little wonder that even the bravest find it hard to stick it under
circumstances so hovel, so nerve torturing. But that is what
every true Briton is doing. He is assured of the justice of his
cause, and sustained by the conviction that right is the only
true might.
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THAT NEW ALtJfANCE
Britain and her allies have scored a triumph by making a
workihg agreement with the Turks. For one thing, the Turk is
a first class fighting man. For another, he is anything but a
gavage, though his standards of living are not our standards. His
race gave the world Some of its finest contributions in scores and
scores of Ways. Just now he is in the mood to fight and to fight
saucy. He has no love'for the oppressive methods of Russia and
still less for the domineering savagery of Germany. He is a child
of the desert and the storm, who for centuries has had the blessed
privilege of making liis own mistakes, and of learning therefrom.
He has tasted something of what Britain and her allies have done
and sees what they are likely to do for hei’ if well treated. He is
in no mood to smile at Italy. He lias seen what lias been done in
Ethiopia and has made a few reflections thereon. He has enjoy
ed some of the fruits of the British ways and likes them well
enough to seek more in that direction, Moreover, Britain will be
glad to get into the Black Sea to take some oversight of Russian
business in that interesting part of the world. Norway and Sweden
may see it to be in their interest to cast in tlioir lot with the
democratic allies as the British ships stir up the Russians in the
southeastern portion of their big country. As we have said else
where “the pen IS mightier than the sword.”
Instructions for
Red Cross Workers
(1) Material is now available for
those wishing to do Red Gross knit
ting or sewing.
(2) Obtain your material from the
Unit under which you wish to work*
or if not working under any organ
ized unit, material may be had from
the Secretary, Mrs. L. F. Howey on
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons
from three to five o’clock-
(3) When garments are finished
return them to the unit from which
you received them.
(4) Kindly return any yarn not
used when bringing in finished ar
ticles.
(5) The membership fee is qne dol
lar a year, but you do not have to
b a member to work for the society.
Following are the Instructions for
knitting.
Kindly cut out and keep,
MAN’S DAY SOCK
Please make a wearable sock; wash
and press, or wash and stretch- .
Directions for hand-knitted regu
lation socks:
Length of foot when finished-
11 inches.
Material required —Approximately
ly 5-6 ounces of 4-ply fingering yarn
For average knitting — No. 11
Needles by Bell gauge.
For tight knitting—No, 10 needles
by Bell gauge.
For loose knitting—No. 12 needles
by Bell gauge.
■Cast on 60 stitches, rib 4 inches, 2
plain, 2 purl. Knit plain 7 inches
(11 inches in all). HEEL — Knit
plain 2 8 stitches on to one needle,
turn, purl back these 28 stitches,
turn, knit plain. Repeat these two
rows (always slipping the 1st stitch)
11 times (12 in all.) or 24 rows.
With the inside of the heel toward
you, purl 15 stitches, purl 2 together
purl 1.
Turn, knit 4 stitches, knit 2 to
gether, knit 1, turn, purl 5 stitches,
purl 2 together, purl 1.
Turn, knit 6 stitches, knit 2 to
gether, knit 1, turn, purl 7 stitches,
purl 2 toegther, purl 1.
Turn, knit. 8 stitches, knit 2 to
gether, knit 1, turn, purl 9 stitches,
purl 2 together, purl 1.
Turn, knit 10 stitches, knit 2 to
gether, knit 1, turn, purl 11 stitches,
purl 2 together, purl 1.
Turn, knit 12 stitches, knit 2 to
gether, knit 1, turn, purl 13 stitches,
purl 2 together, purl 1.
Turn, knit 14 stitches, knit 2 to
gether, knit 1.
- Pick up and knit the 12 stitches
down the side of the heel piece and
knit 2 stitches off the front needle.
Knit 28 stitches of the front needles
on to one needle; the last 2 stitches
knit on to the 3rd needle, on which
pick up and knit the 12 stitches at
the other side of the heel piece. Di
vide the heel stitches on to the 2
side needles and knit right round
again to the centre heel. First
needle, knit to within 3 stitches of
the front end of side needle, knit 2
together, knit 1.
Front needle plain. Third needle
knit 1, knit 2 together, knit plain to
end of needle.
This reducing to be done every
other row until there are 56 stitches
on the needles (front needle 28, side
needles 14 each.) Knit plain until
the foot from the back of the heel
leach side needle. Now slip stitches
I from one side needle to the other,
making 10 stitches on 2 needles.
Break wool, and finish as for Kit
chener Toe.
Instructions for a sleevless sweat
er will be printed next week.
The Late Mrs.
Casper Walper
Catherine Sieghan, beloved com
panion of the late CSsper T. Walper
who predeceased her in February,
1935, fell quietly to sleep in her
home on Saturday, October 14th,
1939, aged 70 years, 9 months and
1 day. For a short time previous
to her departing Mrs. Walper had
been afflicted with heart weakness,
but it was not considered serious as
yet, and she showed signs of recov
ery,, when Providence directed other
wise. Born in Ontario, the deceas
ed had been a resident of the Zurich
community for 45 years. Before com
ing to Zurich with her husband some
years ago, the family lived on a farm
a few miles south of Zurich and pre
vious to that a mile east of town.
The late Mrs, Walper was of sterl
ing character, honest, helpful and
kind, always very devoted to the
needs of her family and neighbors,
and she will be greatly missed by
these, Surviving are four sons and
three daughters: John, of Wood-
stock; William of the West; Gordon
of Los Angeles, Calif.; Garnet of De
troit; Mrs. Erwin Willert of Hay
Township near Hensail; Mrs. George
Hess and Mrs. H. Mousseau, Zurich.
The funeral was held Wednesday af
ternoon to the Lutheran church for
service followed by interment in St.
Peter’s cemetery. Her pastor, Rev.
E. Turkheim officiated. —Zurich
Herald.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR HELP
(Newmarket Era)
Perhaps there are times when the
town weekly does not live up to our
expectations. Pehaps there are times
when we think that the community
weekly might do a much better job.
Undoubtedly town weeklies are not
what they might .be, if their resour
ces were inexhaustable, their staffs
were tireless, and their readers were
countless, and them advertisers were
never discouraged. But weeklies
have unnecessary difficulties.
People who bear in mind that a
weekly needs copy on Fridays
and Saturday as well as Tuesday and
Wednesdays. Press secretaries and
correspondents, who often might
have their material in a week ahead
of time, will send it in on Tuesday
or even on Wednesday and expect to
see it published. They do not realize
that they are forcing the newspaper
staff to work at night, and are cre
ating a rush which inevitably leads
to mistakes.
A weekly newspaper has a peak
load just as Exeter’s hydro-electric
system has a peak-load. That peak
falls on Tuesday and Wednesday,
when the weekly’s staff has far too
much to do. People who do not
think of sending in their items of
news or their advertising until Tues
day and Wednesday are contributing
to the peak, and are making econ-
mical production of their weekly
newspaper more difficult.
measures 9 inches.
KITCHENER TOE-— Decrease for
toe — knit 6 stitches, then knit 2
together, knit 6 stitches, nit 2 to-
together. Repeat this to end of the
3' needles. Then knit 5 rows plain.
Then knit 5 stitches, knit 2 toge
ther, and repeat to the end of 3
needles.- Then knit 4 rows plain.
Then knit 4, knit 2 together, repeat
to end of 3 needles. Then 3 plain
rows. Then knit 3 stitches, knit 2
together, repeat to end of 3 needles.
Then knit 2 plain rows. Then knit 2
stitches, knit 2 together and repeat
to end of 3 needles. Then 1 plain
row. Then 1 row decreasing, if
necessary, so as to leave 10 stitches
on front needle and 5 on each of the
back needles. Knit the back stitches
on to 1 needle. Break off the wool,
leaving about 10 inches. Thread this
into a darning needle, put through
the 1st stitch on front needle as if
for purling, but do not take the
stitch off. Then put the darning
needle through the 1st stitch on the*
back needle as if for purling and
take off. “"Then through next stitch
on back needle, as if for knitting
and do not take off, Then through
the 1st stitch on front needle again
knitting and slip off. Through the
2nd stitch on front needle purling
and do not take off. Through the
1st stitch on back needle purling
and take Off. Repeat from * until
all the stitches are worked off. In
finishing off end of yarn, run yarn
once down the toe so as not to make
a ridge or lump.
ALTERNATE TOE — Decrease
for toe. On front needle knit 2, kbit
2 together. Knit to within 4 stitches
from end of needle, knit 2 stitches
together, knit 2. On first Side knit
2, knit 2 together, knit to end of
needle. Knit to within 4 stitches
from end of second side needle, knit
2 together, knit 2. Knit 3 rounds
plain. Then 1 round decreasing, then
2 rounds plain, *Then i round de
creasing, then 1 round plain.
Repeat from the * until there are j
io stitches on front noodle and 5 on
BOB PEARCE A
KRUSCHEN BOOSTER
"KEEPS ME FREE OF POISONS”
says world’s champion pro sculler
Yau should re^d what Bob Pearce Bays about
Krgschen Saks.
"I consider Knjschen Salta
excellent as a preventive
against common ailments
that bring discomfort and
worry to people in all walks
of life. The body requires
certain mineral salts and
the daily dose of Krqschen
is a good way to gpt them
into the system. I take
Kruschen every morning.
myself—just a little—and
it is absolutely tasteless in
coffee or tea.
WER MS FEELING
YOUNG AND FIT/
Kruschen is a combination of several highly
refined mineral salts. One, for example, combats
excess acid so common in cases pt heartburn;
another aids the kidneys to eliminate poiapns;
a third helps purjfy the bloodstream—and soon.
Why not try Kruschen Salts
starting immediately and see
for yourself bow very little
it costs to feel like a million
dollars) Bottles, 26c. 46c
u , , ■ ■ ■ and 76c at
ITS THE LITTLE £ru«
DAILY t>O$E
THAT DOES IT
DUCHARME — CANTIN
A happy matrimonial event was
celebrated at St. Peter’s R.C. church
Drysdale, on Saturday, when Rev.
Fr. O. A. Martin united in holy wed
lock, Miss Yvonne Cantin, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Napoleon A. Cantin,
of St. Joseph, to Mr. George Peter
Ducharme, son of Mr. and Mrs. Da
vid Ducharme, of Zurich. The Her
ald joins the many friends in extend
ing congratulations to this young
couple.
EDWARDSBURGiw
The CANADA STARCH COMPANY Limited
JUICY, perfectly-ripened Canadian apples
are in , , , fresh from Canada’s finest
orchards! Plenty of them, too—those that nor
mally would be exported overseas, as well as
our own usual, generous supply. And—thanks
to the higher minimum grade requirements—
there are greater-than-average qualities of the
finer, fancier, higher~grade eating apples^
So, all through this year’s apple season, order
liberal quantities of Canadian apples . . . for
eating, cooking, entertaining . . . and for jelly
ing And preserving. You’ll enjoy them im
mensely—and you’ll be doing your country a
SERVICE at tho same time.
And remember, Canadian apples are Govern
ment Graded. Ask to see the grade-mark on
the container when you buy!
Marketing Sereice
DOMINION DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
OTTAWA
Honourable James G. Gardiner, Minister
ISERVE
APPLES DAILY
AND
YOU SERVE
YOUR COUNTRY, kr°° J
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BUY BY GRADE-BUY WITH CONFIDENCE
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