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Get you tickets here! For the second summer in a row, Five Star Tickets will operate a booth outside the Royal Ontario Museum on Queen's Park Cresc. A(...)
Get you tickets here! For the second summer in a row, Five Star Tickets will operate a booth outside the Royal Ontario Museum on Queen's Park Cresc. A(...)

Get you tickets here! For the second summer in a row, Five Star Tickets will operate a booth outside the Royal Ontario Museum on Queen's Park Cresc. A(...)

Date6/18/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Get you tickets here! For the second summer in a row, Five Star Tickets will operate a booth outside the Royal Ontario Museum on Queen's Park Cresc. And sell half-price tickets for Metro-area performing arts events as it does year-round on Yonge St. at Eaton Centre. First in line for their tickets this week were: Actor Jan Rubes, singer Salome Bey, dancer Vanessa Harwood, harpist Loreena McKennitt, actor Brad Cormier, singer Kathy Michael McGlynn and actor Richard MacMillan.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0101167F
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Last summer, he sold encyclopedias. This summer, university student Mark Dingman is selling himself - as the first prize in an unusual raffle. Dingman 21, of Toronto, has decided to raffle himself - or more precisely, 16 hours of his time - to make money for school. I wanted to run my own business. This took minimum capitalization and had minimal risk, should it fail, said Dingman, a McGill University student. And it seems like a good skill to learn, to sell yourself. Dingman is going door-to-door with his Student Slaves raffle and a very professional pitch. Tickets go for $1.99 each (or three for $5) and there are 200 in each draw. The first raffle is scheduled for Tuesday and the winner gets Dingman for 16 hours to do anything from cleaning ovens to fixing eavestroughs.
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9/24/1976
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Tickets to ride: Despite all the $5 parking tickets he has had Emile Trottier is now a happier man
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9/29/1977
Tickets return. Metro police began doling out parking tickets again Tuesday after ending a 14-day work-to-rule over a contrct dispute. They will vote (...)
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8/26/1980
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Victory costs $10. Controller William Archer, whose campaign to have wording on parking tickets make clear the offenders has five working days to pay (...)
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8/20/1985
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Waiting for the box office to open Friday morning, four residents of Mimico camp outside Maple Leaf Gardens to buy tickets for a concert Dec. 6 by for(...)
10/23/1974
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2/14/1986
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Manuscript letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "My dear Smith Let me know if I can send you tickets for the Speckled Band"
approximately 1921