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BY LUCY R, WOODS
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The contents placed in the corner stone of his house by Lewis R.
Thomson provided quite interesting reading:
The Globe magazine section, Saturday,, March 2, 1907, is printed
On very good paper, which has not Yellowed with age.
The front bears a large photo of Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux,
Postmaster General and Minister of Labour. On the reverse side of
the sheet are pictures of Lord Strathcona's house in Montreal; John
Sharp Williams, a suggested candidate for the U.S. Presidency; Hon,
Philip H. Roy, K.C., M,P,P., the speaker of the Legislature, Province
of Quebec; and the lqincess of Wales with her small son George
riding pick-aback.
On page 15 an accident is reported. An electric ear on 'the
Toronto Junction—Weston line left the track descending the hill,
crossed the road and ran into a creek on February 21. One person
was injured and all were in danger of fire from the stove.
On page 16 one sees a picture entitled "Fun at Winter Carnival"
showing boys in costume at an afternoon carnival in Moss Park Rink.
The labour problem is reviewed by Goldwin Smith. And in 65
years it doesn't seem to have changed much or is it only 'history
repeating itself?
"The outlook is threatening not to industry and commerce only,
but to the general relations between classes, and even to the unity of
the Commonwealth." ,
He accepts the estrangement between labour and capital as a fact.
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Clinton News-Record, Thursday,. September 9. 1971
and Canadian Forces
participation, a tour on a
London double deck bus and a
Memorial Service at the Harvard
Memorial in Civic Centre,
For further information,
please contact Frank Scholfield,
Box 187, Dunnville, Ontario,
who will send all information
and will place your name on the
permanent mailing list for future
reunions.
eep in touch
Consider your
hands for a moment.
Consider how
important they are
in your life.
Consider how easy
they are to hurt,
Your hands keep
you in touch with
the world. Take care
of them. When
you work, work
defensively; a little
thought, a little
care, can bring you.
safely through
the working day.
They're your hank
Defend them.
The sure
way to,
safety is
Self-Defence.
Your Workmen's Compensation Board
and The Safety Associations, Ontario
If your job
needs protective
gloves, wear them.
Hands are easy
to hurt, difficult
to mend.
Take time
to learn
the right way
with tools.
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
SUMMER SCHOOL AND EXTENSION DEPARTMENT
ex ENSION CLASSES
1971-1972
NEW STUDENTS
in beginning •work for degree credit this fall
sion and submit their academic documents
ilgar, the Admissions Officer, University of
ntario.
NO APPLICATIONS FOR
AFTER SEPTEMBER 10.
ADIVIISSION WILL 88 ACCEPTED
Application forms and an Extension program for 1'57142 are
available from the Summer Sohool and Extension Department,
University of Western Ontario, London 72, Ontario. Telephone
679-3632 or 679-364. Area Code 519...
Students interested
should apply for admi
immediately to Mr. J. W
Western Ontario, London, 0
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"Capital has been erected into an industrial tyrant, the mortal
enemy of labour, and yet what would labour do without capital?
Without capital we should be living in caves, and grabbing up roots
with our nails, Such, in fact, was the state of primitive man. The
man who first stored up some roots was the first capitalist; and the,
man who first loaned some of his roots on condition of future
repayment, with addition, was the first capitalist.
"From enabling the wage-earner to treat on fair terms with the
employer, unions seem to be going on now to create for themselves a
monopoly of labour.
"Freedom of labour is the rightful inheritance of every man and
the vital interest of all,
"Refusal to work with nonunion men is undeniably lay,tul,
though far from kind.
"The danger attending public ownership is interfering with the" ,
rights of those who have been allowed to invest their capital under
the protection of the law and ilisregard ,of whose rights would be
public rapine."
Advertisements such as this made one wish for "the good old
days":
"Robinson & Cleaver, Belfast, Ireland, Regent Street and
Cheapside, London and Liverpool, Irish Linen and Damask
Manufacturers, To His Most Gracious Majesty The King, H.R.H. The
Princess of Wales, Members of the Royal Family, and the courts of
Europe — Supply mansions, villas, cottages, hotels, railways, etc.
Household Linens from the least expensive to the finest in the
world."
They advertise a 50 percent saving by dealing direct and Warn
that they employ no travellers or agents.
The following prices seem fantastic to-day when it is very
difficult to obtain good linen for altar use or formal dinner parties:
"Surplice linen, 19 cents per yard; Irish damask table linen dinner
napkins, $1.32 per dozen; cloth, 21/4 x 3 yards, $1.42; household
roller towelling, 18", 6 cents per yard; linen sheets, 21/4 yards wide,
57 cents per yard."
"Neave's Food, Gold Medal Award, Women's Exhibition,
London, 1900 For Infants, Invalids and the Aged."
"Eno's Fruit Salts, which cures and also prevents a long list of
maladies."
"A Laughing Baby is a Healthy Baby! All the Troubles of
Teething are lessened by Doctor Stedman's Teething Powder."
The four sheets of the London Advertiser, Saturday, November 2,
1907, devotes page 11 to Drawing Lessons for school children. The
Autumn, Thanksgiving and Christmas themes are illustrated by
various pupils in Grades I, II and M, who show considerable talent,
with comments by teachers.
Interesting also was the section "Heroines of History; TZU li'SI
who rules half of Asia". It is the story of a pretty Chinese girl who
begged her father to sell her into slavery to prevent the rest of the
family from starvation. She finally became Do.vager Empress of
China who held despotic life-and-death sway over some 400,000,000
people.
A School for Housewives page deals with washing, ironing, and
dry cleaning heavily embroidered curtains. Also mending them with
net; antiquing lace; and laundering black and ecru lace. All must be'
handled very carefully and never put in a machine.
The House Mothers' Exchange contained a letter from Mrs. H. E.
(Davenport, Iowa) who, after enumerating various ways of cooking,
baking, etc., writes: "Housework is a good healthful Occupation and'
it is too bad so many girls are not trained to it from childhood up. It
does not hurt one to know how to keep house and to learn how to
took, Even rich girls will find such knowledge useful." This brought
a long and favourable comment from the Editor.
Two columns are devoted to the home needlework pattern service
— beautiful eyelet embroideries such as her mother used to do.
(Lucy still has one half-finished, but one cannot match the white
heavy embroidery floss used in those days.)
One sees the same advertisements as to-day. Baby's Own Tablets,
Dodd's Kidney Pills, Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, truitatives. And
not advertised to-day: Royal Yeast Cakes, Imperial Ball, tearing
Rotary Washer.
Three columns of sidelights on notable people by the Marquis de
Fordo-toy fascinated Lucy so much that she read every word,
Will current issues of newspapers put in corner stones to-day
prove as interesting to historians in 65 or 100 years?
P,S, Error in column, August 19, 1971. When Menno Steckle Jr.
bought his farm, Lot 10, Con. 12, Stanley, he bought the old flour
mill building in 1920 — this should have read 1926.
Some of the hard work was gone from Percy Livermore's work
this year as he prepared for the opening of school on Tuesday.
Mr. Livermore, a custodian at Clinton public school shows
how he used to spend much of his time — stoking the school's
two furnaces. But not any more. The furnaces wer converted
from burning coal to burning natural gas over the summer
holidays, leaving Mr. Livermore more time for his other duties.
,The conversion was completed recently by Barclay Boiler
service of Kitchener.
Air Force veterans hold reunion at Dunnville
The wartime personnel of No.
6 SFTS Dunville will gather for
their 26th reunion on Saturday;
'September 18, All ranks are
invited • to 'this annual get
together for reminiscence and
reverberation.
The highlights will be an Air
Show with wartime Harvards
0F4 president
favours
.investigation
OFA President Gordon Hil.
said today the proposed inquiry
into the Ontario egg industry is
perhaps the best way to
eliminate the emotion generated
in recent weeks and clear up
confusion • amongt egg producers.
He was referring to the
recommendation of the Farm
Products Marketing Board to the
Minister of Agriculture and
Food, the Hon, William Stewart,
that an inquiry into the Ontario
egg industry should be held,
OP President said the
inquiiy must be thorough and
swift.
"It must be judicial inquiry,
so witnesses yid records can be
supoenaed, and must cover all
aspects of egg production and
marketing," he said.
Included would be:
opportunities fory smaller
producers to remain in the egg
business; contract production of
feed companies and food chains;
bootlegging eggs into Quebec by
some integrators; the current
rush of feed companies to
control the egg market through
control of grading stations;
effects of the present method of
establishing 4 price; possible
effects of the jirt•pcised national
market-sharing agreement; heed
for agency-type marketing plan;
attempts to 'pad' the voters list;
threats and intimidation of some
producers openly supporting the
proposed marketing plan.
"Family farm egg producers
are in dire straits", stated Hill,
"Speedy action is required to
prevent them being forced out
of husiness•"