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LUCKNOW & DISTRICT
LIONS CLUB
Dabber
Bingo
Lucknow Community Centre
Sunday, April 1
$500.00 Winner
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1(10 Attar* Edith outighertv, Notenceitatty,
Kathleen Stewart
$1000. Progiressive
Potential Prize Board $3000,
jackpot on 52 Calls,
$501 must so.
Progressive at 50 Calls
Purpk Bali $225.00
Hall opens at 6:30 p.no,
Bingo starts at 7;15 pm.
Kayla and Kyle Elliott piebeside Brookside School's Valentine Tree.•.
The Valentine Tree holds Valentines that represent donations made by the students
to the Canadian Save the Children Fund. The contributions help children in Third World
countries with money to buy 'food, books and medicine....(Pat Livingston Photo) .
The.0.:iet.Lite•-•:.:00.6*COtt7t:has returned
Way back before World War ip the pie -
tare postcard hobby was the greatest col-
lectible hobby that the world has .ever
known. Throughout the world it seemed
that everyone from royalty to peasant
had a postcard album.
Just after the turn of the century when
postal restrictions were lifted so that the
picture postcard could be mailed for one
cent the po.steard helped Open a window
on the Test of the;world. Picture a world
where the average person never traveled. -
more than- 20 mile.s from his place of
birth during his llfethne. This was 4
world without radio, without television,'
with only primitive Motion pictures, few
automobiles for the very rich. The
average person had little < knowledge of
the world outside ,of his inutiediate
neighborhood. Then came the picture
postcard.
International 'clubs were established .
and posteards were exchanged with col,
lectors throughout the world. At last it
was possible to see how people in Russia,
Africa, or South America were living..
The cards received from these exchange
were placed in albums and kept in the
living room or parlor where they were a
constant source of entertainment with the
album serving as a substitute for today's
television'.
The most advanced printing plants in
the world were in Germany and this
country turned out multi -millions of pic-
ture postcards each day. Factious artists
turned their skills to designhig..cards and
for a penny you could own a pichure,by
Mucha or Kirchner or by one of yoar
favorite comic artists. In addition to the
millions of cards produced by huge
plants, the small town drugstore would
have a darkroom where pictures were
developed and printed as postcards shelf.
• ing local news items. A train wreck could
be Photographed, made into a poste.ard
and offered for sale within a day. The
local photo card enabled the sending of
local views to distant relatives. Posteards
were made of dead family members and
sent to distant relatives who could not at-
tend the funeral. Posteards were used as
wedding invitations • and birth
arinounceMents.
The postoffice reaped huge profits from
handling the postcards. When we see the
• figures -on the millions of cards that
would be handled in just .One day by the .
large. city postoffice it -is almost beyond
. our comprehension.
Then World War 1 came along. The
.plants in Germany were destroyed.
Young men who would have been serving
.as apprentices and learning the printing
trade were now in the army. When the
war was over the postcard- business and
the postcard collecting hob* were dead:
- Young men returning from the war
became interested in the new inventions
of the auto and the radio: Local printers
were not able to turn out the quality
cards that had been available from Ger-
many. Albums were removed from the
parlor and stored in the attic and
America moved into the roaring twenties
and the jazz age.
Just a few short years ago a new
Young America found the old albums in
the attic and saw that they opened a win-
dow on the past. Through the. cards we
are able to view the world as our parents
and grandparents viewed it. Through the
postcards we are able to escape our
nuclear world and go back to a simpler
tune. The world became entranced with
this escape into the past and albums
again came out of attics and into the
parlors until the hobby of postcard collec-
ting again become one of the largest col-
lecting hobbies in the world, ranking
right up' at the top with stamp and coin
• collecting.
• There are now large postcard clubs in
just about every state and province. The
hobby has large weekly newspaper and a
'number of monthly magazines and the
International Federation of Postcard
Dealers lists more than three hundied
dealers in the United States and Canada
who specialize in picture postcards: In
addition, there are. thousands of small
dealers who buy and sell at antique and
flea markets.,
Information on how to buy, sell and
collect old picture postcards together with ,
a current directory of more than 300 ap-
proved postcard dealers can be obtained
free of charge by sending 'a large 61 cent
postpaid reply envelope to International
Federation of Postcard Dealers, attention
of Cathy Wright, 36 Victoria Street,
Toronto, Ontario MSC 2N8.
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RIPLEY-HURON CENTRAL SCHOOL
.KINDERGARTEN.
ORIENTATION MEETING
Thursday, April 5, 1990
• " 8:00 p.m.
Parents of all children attending Kindergarten in Sept /90 are
cordialiy. invited, • •
KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION and
PRE-SCHOOL ASSESSMENT'
. . will be held
Monday & Tuesday, April 9th & 10th, 1990 •
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