Today's Old News
Today’s Old News: Mini Canadian history stories from the newspapers of 1820 to 1930.
If baby needs shoes Don't buy booze
Thursday, 30 September 2010 00:00
September 29, 1921. "If baby needs shoes, don't buy booze," an occasional barroom sign once is said to have once warned improvident bar flies, apparently to little effect. So when prohibition closed the barrooms, was there a boost in the sale of shoes?
Race for first Pacific railway
Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:00
September 28, 1858. North West Transportation, Navigation, and Railway Company has a plan to beat the United States with the first railway across the continent to the Pacific coast, the Ottawa Citizen reports.
Steel springs help ladies sit in their hoop skirts
Tuesday, 28 September 2010 00:00
September 27, 1864. Hoop skirts, worn by high society women at formal events, were the height of fashion in the mid-19th century. With crinoline attached to a bell-shaped frame of whalebone, metal or other stiff material, the hoop skirt was an inner petticoat followed by a second petticoat and then my lady's dress, which was thereby formed into what was deemed to be a fashionable shape.
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Softballs' big Safety appeal
Monday, 27 September 2010 00:00
September 26, 1929. Few professional sports result in as many injured players as baseball. Thus the Fort William [Thunder Bay] Times Journal predicts a big future for softball, with its bigger, softer ball—and more people playing, instead of just watching in the stands.
On the watch for Fallen Rock
Sunday, 26 September 2010 00:00
September 25, 1929. "The British Columbia government has declared an unrelenting war on outdoor advertising along the provincial highways," Canadian Press reports. Offending billboards are to be removed during the following weeks. Exceptions will include highway information signs and others deemed to have a definite public value by travellers with useful information. Existing motel, hotel and resort signs will be allowed to stay.
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