Today's Old News
Today’s Old News: Mini Canadian history stories from the newspapers of 1820 to 1930.
In beauty treatment fad ladies roll in hot sea sand
Friday, 13 August 2010 00:00
One hundred years ago: clippings from the newspapers of August 13, 1910.
Lindsay Post (July 12). From the Philadelphia Record, the Post republishes this dispatch about the latest craze of stylist Paris— costly sand baths.
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Hair-raising escaped when ladies start an automobile
Friday, 06 August 2010 00:00
One hundred years ago: clippings from the newspapers of August 6, 1910.
Lindsay Post(July 5). The Post tells this tale of a lady motorist in Lindsay:
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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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