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Ready to push away the old model? Take your time and poll the experts
Ready to push away the old model? Take your time and poll the experts

Ready to push away the old model? Take your time and poll the experts

Date8/11/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Ready to push away the old model? Take your time and poll the experts.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017892F
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Camp borden experts tune them of, send them Roaring away for dutt
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A call away
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Ready to go: Nokia EX1100C, new on the market, comes with a carrying case
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Pet hot line: Toronto company called The Pet Line will provide you, for a fee, a tag for your pet that includes an identification number and a toll-free telephone number
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9/7/1979
This number could save your life
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3/22/1982
Telephone garden: Mohan Samtani of World of Communications displays several weird and wonderful telephones including the Adam and Eve model
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5/26/1982
On the line: Bob Somerset listens in while Ruth Burkholder holds a vintage office model phone
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3/11/1992
Anonymous volunteers take their turns at the telephone answering calls from the lonely the heartsick and the suicidal in Toronto. But they don't give advice. They've learned to really listen
Anonymous volunteers take their turns at the telephone answering calls from the lonely the heartsick and the suicidal in Toronto. But they don't give advice. They've learned to really listen
4/4/1986
Second marriage for Shirley and Al Fingler is happy. With Danny, 6, Fingler's son from his first marriage, the family enjoys a walk by their north Metro apartment building. Experts believe couples married for the second time usually have a more open relat
Second marriage for Shirley and Al Fingler is happy. With Danny, 6, Fingler's son from his first marriage, the family enjoys a walk by their north Metro apartment building. Experts believe couples married for the second time usually have a more open relat
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Foul language, disruptive behavior and bad manners aren't their fault, experts say, but just a sign of the times
Foul language, disruptive behavior and bad manners aren't their fault, experts say, but just a sign of the times
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