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Memories of yesteryears
1928 headline reads'Girl found hanging'
From a 1979 issue of The Brussels
Post.
Sometimes it is interesting to go
back to old papers and look at what
was happening many years ago on
the same dale as this week's paper.
In looking at an edition of the
May 30 paper in 1928, The
Brussels Post reporter did find an
interesting story. Indeed it may
sound like an offensive headline
and an even more offensive story
but we promise that at the end of
this tale of woe you're more likely
to shake your read in amusement
than anything else. Here is the story
complete with headings and all:
GIRL FOUND HANGING
Distressing Case Found in a
Parlour in Grey Township Home.
1,500 at Brussels flea market
From the June 20, 1979 issue of
The Brussels Post.
About 1,500 people attended the
fifth annual flea market held at the
Brussels fairgrounds on Saturday
and Sunday.
This event is sponsored each year
by the Maitland Valley Region of
the Historical Automobile Society
of Canada. Max Watts, Brussels,
chairman of the flea market said 46
vendors there sold everything from
collectables to car parts and there
were a few aiiplane parts there too.
The fatal step may end the most
happy life; the most cultured,
beautiful and the best beloved are
not exempt from the same fate.
A father's devotion, a mother's
fond care, and love of a brother, or
a sister's companionship won't
shield them when they decide to
take the final step.
Last evening one of the most
refined young ladies of Grey
Township was found hanging in
her home by her mother,
surrounded by all the luxuries that
go to make a.happy life. In the
early part of the evening she was
missed, and a careful search failed
to reveal her whereabouts.
The telephone was used without
results. Her father was called to
As usual prizes were donated in
the different classes for antique
cars. The winner of the trophy for
the best commercial vehicle,
donated by J. C. McNeil of
Brussels, was won by William
Amos of Oakville for his 1951
Ford half-ton.
The Hard Luck Trophy was won
by Barry Spring of Balm Beach,
Ontario (near Midland) for blowing
the motor out of his 1953 Chev
which had to then be towed all the
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search for her, but no one was able
to locate her. Almost heart broken,
her mother had just entered the
parlour and there to her surprise she
found her daughter.
How the mother was affected by
the sight that met her eyes! For
there was her (here the editor had
cleverly made the notation that the
story was continued on page 5,
keeping his reader in suspense all
the longer, but to continue on with
the story:) daughter hanging on the
neck of her sweetheart, imploring
him to subscribe at once to The
Brussels Post so that he might be
Visitor
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European and they were told they
could name the station. They
named it after Brussels, Belgium.
Having a town named
Ainleyville and a post office named
Brussels confused things and so the
council at that time got together
and decided that the name Brussels
would be used. At least that's the
way the story goes.
Village clerk Bill King replied to
the news editor of a Belgian radio
network on Monday stating that the
Belgian residents would be
welcome. No formal plans have
been made but Mr. King said, "I'm
guessing we'll hold a reception for
them or something."
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around the township.
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