Today's Old News

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.”

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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.

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Holy Ghosters fail to cash in on real estate prize

Friday, 25 June 2010 00:00

One hundred years ago, clippings from the newspapers of June 25, 1910.

Halifax Herald: The ill-fated effort of the Holy Ghost and Us Society to cash in on valuable real estate at Maitland, Nova Scotia, is told by the Herald.

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World’s owe is world’s woe

Tuesday, 22 June 2010 00:00

June 22, 1837 - Runaway inflation and a speculative investment bubble that burst in a New York financial panic quickly spread to much of the world. In the panic, 343 of the 850 banks in the United States collapsed, fuelling a five-year economic depression and record unemployment.

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Expectorating On the Streets

Monday, 21 June 2010 00:00

June 21, 1895. The editor of The Week magazine expresses a dim view of those who expectorate on both the snowy and summer streets of Toronto.

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