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Divorce law for the rich sends poor man to jail
One hundred years ago: clippings from the newspapers of July 30, 1910.
London Free Press. “Canada’s divorce law is for the rich,” says the Free Press. “The poor are compelled to suffer where the well-to-do may find freedom.”
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In defense of Canadian women slandered by a Scot
One hundred years ago: clippings from the newspapers of July 23, 1910.
Lindsay Post (July 22). A Scottish writer who slanders Canadian women in the Glasgow Weekly Record will not dare to return to this country, says the Post. Or if he does, “It will be in disguise, in order to avoid the fate that would be sure to overtake him were the women of this country to discover his identity.”
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Passengers grew old and feeble when cows held up the railway
One hundred years ago: clippings from the newspapers of July 16, 1910.
Lindsay Post (July 17). When cows held up the Whitby, Port Perry and Lindsay Railway, passengers became old and feeble waiting for it to restart, Walt Mason writes in the Post. Also known as the Nip and Tuck because of its precarious existence, the WPP&LRR reached Lindsay in 1876 after a couple of changes in name and plans, the second of eight railways to serve the city.
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Canadians flocked in large crowds to witness public hangings in Canada in the early 19th century. When hangings were no longer public, eager spectators climbed telephone poles and lined rooftops to peer over prison walls. At a double hanging of lovers found guilty of murdering the wife's husband, a mob of 2,000 rioters tried to break down the prison gates to see the hanging.