Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Life was simpler in the Seventies

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The World in 1972.  History as we lived it.  The Ottawa Citizen, The Associated Press. 1973.

What smoking did for John

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From C.L. Paddock.   Golden Stories for Boys and Girls .  (Canadian Watchman Press, 1930) What the Seventh Day Ad...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

First Photograph of a Train Wreck

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Robert Reed; Train Wrecks; Bonanza Books. 1968 In 1853 a Mr. L. Wright took this picture at Valley Falls R.I.- the first train wreck ...

Buy War Bonds

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3.21%! Better than the most recent 2013 rate

We used to make things in this country. #157: Western Clock Company Ltd. (Westclox), Peterborough, Ontario

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The Western Clock Company Limited was headquartered in Peru, Illinois but established a Canadian division in 1919 and opened a fact...

North-West Mounted Police

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The Book of History.  A History of All Nations from the Earliest Times to the Present.  Volume XIII.  New York:  The Grolier Society/ Lond...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Voison Farman, 1908

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After the Wright Brothers did demonstrations in Europe in 1908, aircraft development took off. 

Triumphs, Old and New

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There's a litheness to the original that the new one just can't match.

Film: the storage medium of the future, 1968

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Leonard Bertin.   Target 2067.  Canada's Second Century.  Toronto:  Macmillan of Canada, 1968. Yeah, then trying searching for ...
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Giving the brush off

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I have a number of old wooden brushes I keep scattered around the shop for cleaning the workbench or brushing sawdust off of my various powe...
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