Today's Old News
Today’s Old News: Mini Canadian history stories from the newspapers of 1820 to 1930.
Divorce law for the rich sends poor man to jail
Friday, 30 July 2010 00:00
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.”
In defense of Canadian women slandered by a Scot
Friday, 23 July 2010 00:00
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.”
Passengers grew old and feeble when cows held up the railway
Friday, 16 July 2010 00:00
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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Foolish female fashions called painful, unhealthy and ugly
Friday, 09 July 2010 00:00
One hundred years ago, clippings from the newspapers of July 9, 1910.
Montreal Star. Columnist Agnes Chesley bemoans high heels, hobble skirts, tight corsets and other female fashion follies that are painful, fatiguing, “extremely bad for the health,” and “horribly ugly.”
Read more: Foolish female fashions called painful, unhealthy and ugly
Bad milk makes Montreal’s child mortality world’s worst
Friday, 02 July 2010 00:00
One hundred years ago, clippings from the newspapers of July 2, 1910.
Montreal Star. “Out of every three children born in Montreal two die before they reach the age of five,” proclaims the headline in an advertisement by Truro Condensed Milk Company for its canned Jersey Cream Brand Evaporated Milk.
Read more: Bad milk makes Montreal’s child mortality world’s worst
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