The Seaforth News, 1937-07-29, Page 7THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1937
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FOLLOWING THE SHOWMAN
"The 'Bill'board," founded 421 years
ago as the official magazine of the
bill -posting industry in 'America. has
become the weekly encyclopedia of
the amusement 'field, •covering not
only. Ibiliboard losers, such as circuses
and carnivals, but nearly everything
from grand opera to stunt 'fliers at
county 'fairs and concessionaires in
caverns.
The size of a nail -order :catalogue
, and containing as much reading mat-
ter, Billboard tells more about the
state of the nation than a hundred
(Presidential messages. 'Local spend-
ing' -money conditions, local health
and -weather conditions, local con -
'stable and justice -of -the -peace condi-
tions are described in every issue by
letters from wandering merchants
and showmen. Billboard runs its own
IDnnartutent of Agriculture to keep
its 'followers posted about crop mon-
ey. Pt had a news beat on the stand
taken by 'Canadian cattle -show man-
agers at 'Toronto against ".unethically
fitted" cattle, "unethical fitting" 'be-
ing the injection of paraffin under
the hide of an animal in order to per-
fect its figure before it enters a prize
contest. It gives news of oil strikes,
mining operations, 'factory openings
and closings, always trying to dis-
cover where the national pocket mon-
ey is. You.learn 'from Billboard what
the 'boll weevil, the grasshopper and
various blights are doing to herb and
snake -oil industries, to itinerant mid-
get villages, to the toy -balloon 'busi-
ness, to magicians, mind-readers,
glass -eaters, Hottentots and rotary -
headed men.
The advertising columns are a voc-
ational guide. Por 411, you learn 'tow
to snake a god living hemming in a
loved nne with knives, axes and tom -
'the kinks out of African hair, Become
a piano -tuner; knowledge of music
unnecessary. There are openings in
the sawin-a-woman-in-two and +hurn-
ing-a-girl-alive lines, There is said to
be a fortune in the new !Phonetic
System of Silent Thought Transmis-
sion. You can sell :Indian perfume
beans, corn -removers, and live baby
turtles painted in 'fine waterproof
colors, with or without motto•irams..
In the entertainment afield, Bill-
board is for "flesh" --live actors and
musicians—rather than •for talking
shorts and 9'canned" music. And it is
for professional flesh as against ama-
teur flesh; It opposes amateur hours
on the radio, .bathing beauty contests,
nudist colonies, tree -sitters, and other
amusements which do not require a
.pro'fessi'onal personnel. Most of the
important walkers today are profes-
sional; hence Billboard champions
•w'a'llcathons and .cona'bats arguments
of some local authorities that they
are unhealthy, iBiliboard crusades for
the sale of 'Quality iMerchamlise by
pitchmen, For clean comedy in 'bur-
lesque shows, and against coin mach-
ines that can be "gaffed" or fixed.
Biilllboard demands coin (machines
which are 'uncontrolled, uncontrol-
lable, and which produce unpredict-
able results."
Billboard has success stories, too.
How 'Little Betty !King j•tlnped • in
one day arom the chorus to the posi-
tion of ,principal stripper at the ',Peo-
ple's Burlesque Theater in 'New
York. How an anonymous old gentle-
nian, who sold toy balloons, made a
practice of repairing .punctured /'ones
and giving then to poor boys and
girls, with the result that people lav-
ed him for his kindness of heart and
bought twice as many balloons 'front
him es formerly, 'How Harry Wood-
ruff developed such emotional 'foun-
tain -pen oratory that he sold 14237
pens in two hours at Newton, Kan-
sas, and now rides about in a Cadil-
lac. The reader of Billboard pauses
here and there on his tour to send in
notes on himself and friends. You
find 'tents of personal history on
sword and neon -tube swallowers, on
iron -neck, iron -tongue and iron -eye-
brow people. 'Omok, Tgorote Head-
Hunter, has recently rejoined the Pa-
lace of Wonders after "visiting
'friends in Boston." julius Kuehnel,
manager of Susie the ElephantSl:in
Girl, has taken out Isis ;first citizen-
ahip papers. So has 'Susie. Al /Roes,
manager of the snake -charmer 'Prin-
cess Carmelite, sells safety -razor
blades while the Princess is recupera-
ting from serpent bites.
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TOWN AND PROVINCE
THE SEAFORTH NEWS.
'SEAFORT it, ONTARIO.
vertised are: an embalmed sea caw;
one 'liv'e octopus with carrying. tank,
$.2d; lady's wax head, ,horn growing
from head, Via; California Nudist
Camp Show, •Comp:lete with Banners;
mummies, $IO; two -headed wax 'baby.
$35.; IUn!borns !Show, 21 specimens.
105111; trained doves, rhesus; monkeys
or pythons on part -payment plan.
Different advertisers offer a wide
choice of waxworks for exhibition —
all the figures in '.H•auptmaan case;
IHolllywood, stars; Dillinger, Baby -
Face Nelson, Pretty Boy ',Floyd.
Billboard probably has a greater
trailer or house -car circulation than
any other magazine and prints pages
of advertisements of new and used
palaces and penthouses on wheels.
Of migratory readers of all kinds,
the chances are that no other maga-
zine has as large a percentage.
Of these, the most migratory are
the pitchmen. The pitchman sells
rubber and leather neckties, mechani-
cal snakes and mice, stocking -darn
ers, 219 -cent watches, statuettes, it
tation tarantulas, and countless other
novelties and staples on the •sidewalks,
in doorways, or wherever the p•oliee
let him. 'Prosperous pitchmen occa-
sionally rent stores. During the de-
pression they have occupied dozens
of situps in Times Square, New
York, for example specializing large-
ly in the sale of health -giving Indian
seeds, exercisers, sex treatises, magic,
and astrological equipment Billboard
tells the pitchman which towns toler-
ate hint, and which throw him in jail
for selling goods without a license.
The pitchman has his own vocabu-
lary. "S have been pitching cosmetics
high and low," said a letter printed in
Bil'l'board. 'iPitching cosmetics high"
is selling them from the back of an
automobile or some other elevated po-
sition; "pitching, low" is selling at
street level. Only a good mob orator
can "pitch .high" successfully; the
trouble with this method is that it an-
noys 'local storekeepers and often
causes them to telephone to police
headquarters.
In the .present period of $30 used
cars, even the humblest • pitchman
need no longer carry his stock on his
back from town to town. Old-timers,
however, regard the automotive age
as an age Of decline, In the nineties,
successful pitclunen always wore tall
sill: hats and long tailcoats and usu-
ally drove about the country in red -
ant -gold wagons with two- or 'four -
horse teams. Nearly every leading
pitchman was a maestro with the
blacksnake and could ' rentoce a clay
Pipe from a man's mouth at 30 feet,
They were all said to be adept at coil -
in;; the whiplash around the neck of
a chicken or turkey and transferring
it from the barnyard into the wagon
Scute of them could whip themselves
a nightshirt or an union suit from a
clothesline while their horses gal-
loped at full speed, Instead of pet
eventing pitchmen with high license.
and police inquisitions, town official,
used to offer inducements to big
pitchmen to visit them. '!'heir bally-
hoo used to help small-town nter-
'Itants by bringing in farmers from
miles around.
.01 late years, however, the .pitchy
man's life' has been nne loss- battle
against local merchants. The . medical
pitchmen have suffered especially
from the persecution of loear `aprTthe-
caries. The tables have 'been turned,
recently. Pitchmen, having been forc-
ed to traffic in mineral oils, health
foods, exercisers and massage mach -
ilius, now ballyhoo for nature's• rent-
ii,-, as against drugs so vigorously �.
•tne paten t-ntedieine associatti„it
,l: the matter to court attd obtained
f air injunctions to prevent pitchmen
m. howling "Poison!” at pills and,
l'.\1
t:�hts.
\1\"'. 'o with pitchmen al,•t athrr
.111 lows, the circulation thtp,rt ent
Billboard leads a wild life. It :iv-
/elation
t :,ation follows the ult;. it is h Iii/sat
la 'North in s'.tmnter,- and-- tli'sn
S.-otta in winter. If a ninratory: sub-
r:'rer :urnishes his itinerary, ;he gir-
t ttion lepartniettt wia try t) atm
nim r 'ularl3 year! Pi:Ihn,ul o
iy c ,ntnent. Ilii .,',tr a haa also
r.n •kable ht -til art rice. If ton sv:ra t
;sat in touch with a nomadic plc
-•r, or a d'u- n p)uy alma/
7 ice, an itinerant magician, .'r
y Mu, has ran ..ray front hon t•'
a cion:. o.rise 1, hint care of
uncut.
llinoar4 a;11 fareordL the
•.ter, if it has his ad,lrea.,.-if ;r..•. it
n thli.li his name. lie col ,yrh,e
old het it. .l'hottsanda o'f lo-: lovers
ort'tt found, th.usatid a:nt
have aeon r,.ited thr, , !;ill
irds letter lists. Great ineua'rs of
mitering •sho;v ',,eaple au i nrerch
cats have no address es pt Bill
d. Every day hundreds awarm in
t their mail at Btllho ' post
ctiaaa in Now York' Chi ani rt, Cht
, St. 'L tic and Dallas. ., lrrbnte
is pc' lisaed in ' Billboard recently
H'ar-y Har:ora who i, said to be
the ,',lest paclunan. The -t .sen.
.tn'slies. 6' cruors: other'., of
the B'ill'board -clan; it reals, "'Bill-
board is his address and the U.S.A. is
his home."
TOWN TOPICS
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Miss McDonald of Toronto is the
guest of Mrs, L. T. IDeLaeey.--ISa•nt-
eel 'Horton of Saskatoon is visiting
with his parents in :Hanpurhey--Miss
Norma Dickson has -been visiting
friends in ,Goderich. — Miss E'19a
Webb of Montgomery, Mich., is
home on vacation.—W. Twamley,
formerly of Seafarth, has purchased
a' :bakery in Roland, Man.—Miss
Mary ,Cowan is visiting her ceusin,
Dr. Calder, in Wingham.--Mr. and
Mrs, Orton Leatherland and children
of S'trathroy are visiting with Mr.
and Miss 'Leatherl'and, John street.—
Ralph Reid tame up from London on
Thursday. - The Canada 'Furniture
Manufacturers resume work on Mon-
day anter (being closed down for two
weeks, stockataking and snaking ne-
cessary repairs.—Milton 'Naylor and
Miss Annie 'Naylor of Fordyce and
Miss +Della Higgins of Wroxeter,
and A. V. Shackleton of Auburn were
guests of M. and Mrs. A. A. Naylor.
—Art :Plant of Brantford was a visit-
or in town over (Sunday \Toss
Hart of Stratford spent Friday in
town with her sister, Mrs. Geo, Stag -
dill -(Rev. Mr. Martin of Stratford
had 'charge of services in the Presby=
terian church in theabsence of Rev.
Mr. Larkin.--tMrs. .A: -J..Gri;gg . and
daughter Helen, of Clin'fon aid the
Misses Smtillie of +Chicago /ere'
guests at the home of dos: Robert
Webb,--tOn the local :howling green
on Tuesday afternoon 'four rinks from
Clinton went down to defeat before
the local bowlers, being 9 shots down.
This was a Fai11 Trophy coutpetbtion.
—+Edward Yundt, wcho has been em-
ployed here for some weeks, has se-
cured a position as barber in Loudrnr.
Arnold IFfabkirk, !Frank Smith, A,
MCGavin and 1A. Munroe drove to
Brussels on Tuesday .and - witnessed
a football match between 'Brussels
and Listowel. --Mrs, R. Fulton of
Bremerton, VPastiington, left for her
bonze on'.Ss•�turday after an extended
visit with•Tier :sister.—(Harrold Apel
left on Monday for Zurich, where he
will go into the gents' furnishing bus-
iness with his father. --'Orangemen
with 'their .friends ,and ,families to the
number of several thousand gathered
in Seafnrth on july.112. The weather
conditions being ideal..: the hig crowd
appeared to enjoy themselves thor-
nughly.----ores. R. 'Webb and Miss El-
la \\'eh'b, Mrs. Thotitas Scott, and
Miss Della Thompson, J. 'B. Thnine-
son. \V. !P. Thompson and Arthur
Neely from Seaforth attended the fu-
neral of Harold Webb at Winebant.
-(;eorge Thornton, one of the oddest
resident, of this section, passed away
on 'Monday evening at his home in
\Ichillop tnwuship. Deceased was
102 year, of age. lnt'erntent was in
StatTa cemetery.
siitchel-I • • -
\V. J. d ngram, with Stas been at-
tending the Normal School in Stoat -
fool .during the past year, and ha,
been successful in securing a certific-
ate, has accepted a position as teach-
er in Gould's school, Fuliarton, at a
salary of w;'50.
Dublin
Mr. Joe \" pb:er. ai,ter Maisie.. and
\lies i'..34cKenna spent Wednesday
in Berlifil-Mr. and ,\frs, L. Looby
have :returned from Oshawa.—Mr.
and Mrs. W. Srrrenson, of Detroit.
called 011 friends in 'Dublin on Mon-
day. They motored .over.
PEAS A BUMPER CROP
i/laete' Tiros.,-Ad:orris)
Pc . •ria, atria more• r,eas .are be-
hi.q Bron lit to the Exeter Branch of
the ("madam (inner-. The eros this
year 1, trrni't; Orr 'n'et' ! il rhe fan -
••'r': s.!l as,, -r o( r;r,, l:,r,est t'ut-
:ntts n enc-:i”on is Exeter. The
14,5 1,1r4c5:
:n t c tinri.sh
air`s .'r„•' .5 tuart.. of
11;,. (•crater- ace real
in: - r gat•. ra ret•n•a.` bar
! t r •turn ,y t' �. aala
ass ' iI One tt et +s ,
ere .545:',4
t., i. • i, r„tui, oris, ver,, ..
' lty •i..y bat 11-,t`n ll 'al J.
ns llytit! to n:r, i fr,
t't heal ure. ldtavlt,,n,etsiod the
'irt„r'. and '.1. 0! 1 nn,l,,lr or, :tett
is•:t,1 , .'.t ,ar.t,to o',t att,.n.,
ur.ts
Wr7t. fainters t111-
i„adiur Ole!: t:••t:k. at t'i winos: ,
the s‘tafi ,'saner in their natty
t inti ani 'mils, t tt"' the pit '
r7 i lair,,.,, . .1•. ,n..
The tsr',s s',i , throtrl,
for 1'n ' rt4.t.
Bonne' , n : a em.--* hi11 1'1 '
foot ‘t'lere t n t
V`;,
ansa ea ea c eals n, eat 11' y 1
lora. 1. I:t.tl[• t .,. 't ,•' 1
vino., , �-
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0, 'H5 Melones
chiropractor
Electro Therapist — Massage
Office — Commercial Hotel
Hours—Mon. and Thurs. after
nouns and by appointment
FOOT CORRECTION
by manipulation—Sun-ray treat-
ment
Phone 227.
steel drums with holes to correspo}d
to the various .grades. Inside of those
revolving drums the peas start their
journey. The small peas are first'
taken out, then the ,medium, and last-
ly the large. The greatest menace to
the pea paok is the small thistle heads
that have made their way through the
vireos,, the -fanning mills and the
graders, ,Next comes a rigid, personal
inspection. As the peas'pass along a
wide belt in front of a number :of wo-
men on either side of the line any
foreign substances and any unsuitable
peas are picked out.
. The' next interesting step, one .that
has long puzzled us, was the separat-
ing of the tender peas from the more -
mature peas, ,bat it is, after all, a
very simple operation. Passing
'through a pan of running water with
a. elate/hie, solution, the tender peas
rYise 'to. ft.he''top' :and are carried off
through ixte outlet while the heavier
remaining at ,the bottom are carried
off through another outlet,again
cr $ting '; more grades. A large
atftount`lif ,water both hot and cold is
used td:lnsure a perfectly clean pro-
duct. The cans are next automatically
filled with peas in a briny solution
and are passed, along to the capping
machines: These machines, have been
newly installed for this year's pack
and have considerably speeded u,p op-
erations, The speed varies, the aver-
age speed being around two tins per
second, but this may be speeded top
when necessary. The can, ready for
cooking, are placed in large kettles
made of strap iron and run on an
elevated track. They are conveyed to
the cookers where they are steam
cooked. After being cooked they are'
stored in uses and packed away for
labelling which is done just before
the can are shipped. The peas are sel-
dom touched by human hands.
The Exeter branch is one of eighty
factories stretching across Canada.
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S'IR ,CHARLES E, SAUND'ERS '
Discoverer of Marquis wheat, the
hardy, early -ripening wheat that es-
tablished the ,Canadian and United
States prairies as the granary of the
world, Sir Charles .E, Saunders died
Sunday, July 215, 'at his home in To-
ronto. He had been in ill health since
the death of los wife and his illness
beca*te more serious two months
ago. 'He was in his alert year.
lin •reeogni'tion of his great achieve-
ment, the Canadian government in
1t903 gave him the post of ttte first
Dominion cerealist. ,King George V
also rewarded his great contribution
to the Dominion and the Empire and.
in 393.1 made hint a knight bachelor.
Born in London .Ont„ 'Feb. 2, r18t7,
a son of William Saunders,-C.M.!;i.,
and Sarah Agnes (Robinson, he 'grad-
uated from the TTniversity of Torantn
in 11888. with honors in science. For a
year he was professor in chemistry
and geology at Central university,
I`entnokv, and then hw turned to
music. Studying in New Y':,rk and
Boston. he tattglit meat.: at 'Ha::r,,al
and St. Margaret's n•nnu•rt"s ealieges
in Toronto. 2lnsic and French were
hi: .recreations ,:ter retire .;at. !au-
thor ,tf eo,lntie:a seientillz haliet'rns
and reports oJ. the C'eroa! L -sari in
1t028 he .published Feeds Ver;."
In t' nhiryt". 'Sir , l"t father,
Dr.•\,Viliiam Saunders , Iwo? ? sf the
D.)niinia'n experimental farms. wa$
striving to clevelo" a . is ' variety
of 'ut'i'cat for thy rev,i` , .eur'i prair-
ie'. 1 rota Resaa,, . a'ld
,ilia„r. lir 4.:r :i':lcrs
u ht A. busy
lis . 54e 01,1,1 1 °.. , :t -lea 75-
• 1 to t'.'1, ,.,rcl•t .r '*i, twti
is ;e :iatt •r t'h , an:l A, P.
\ -The 'l rite e foal a wheat
largely in ea:torn Cs .ala,
▪ r.:i d Rs ( tl,:'ttta. Cie'- r1I1
.ruin l"';:t 1-y,Dr.
-urn t rs, Mal ,u was tneither exam -
in a i decel.r ra,til 1)r, Cllries
to stark in l`1yt.. A eisii,m to the
t- .rilli^11 experiatantal If ono in
tl
wonlJ hit n Dr.
5111114 t tit.t..y r;t..W ,1.: Kittle ker-
ma. , In tros t',re
e ere noof,]r t'i!in:, ant
,Char 1 45 .r L- • •e +'r•'9"e.
,.-ten different
i n arty i :.i it 1 that Plar-
lt_ h . Lt ) a isle
I.r 1•
1 a< t
?,c, ‘A.“1-1,1
Tian:;, „n
peag aretakento
they are graded
and small sizes. The graders are large
111,1
con cc-yrr 1,elts thv
the ,graders where
for large, medium
n
Al': ,tri, y•
Mr. Brea e:: "Oh, ye; indeed, my
wife and I do sometimes disagree.
Mrs. Bragger: "Why, Henry, we
don't either!."