Recalling The Good Old Days
- Publication
- Chronicle-Journal (Thunder Bay), 8 Jul 1975
Description
- Media Type
- Newspaper
- Description
- Chronicle-Journal spoke with four seniors ; Dawson Court Home for the Aged ; recalls 2 1/2 pounds of bread cost a nickel ; gunny sack of turnips and cabbages sold for 90 cents ; automobile for less than 1,000 ; were those truly the good old days ; Ella Sutherland, 88 ; schoolteacher ; riding street car cost 25 cents for eight tickets ; food prices low ; Harry Newton, 75 ; was captain of Great Western salvage barge ; earned $40 a month ; Daisy Hurrell, 83 ; emigrated to Canada from Britain ; secured position as nurse for family for $30 a month ; purchased all their homes in cash ; husband secured position in hardware at Eaton's ; Joseph King, 86 ; worked fishing boats for 50 years ; lived in lighthouse ; moved to Rossport ; bag of cooking onions 90 cents ; 100 pounds of salt pork for 9 cents a pound ; photo
- Notes
- Full text available in Newspaper Clipping File
File subject: LF - Thunder Bay - Biography - Hurrell, Daisy
Full text available on microfilm - Date of Publication
- 8 Jul 1975
- Subject(s)
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 48.4001 Longitude: -89.31683
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- Contact
- Thunder Bay Public LibraryEmail:research@tbpl.ca
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