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Foraging for reading material
Foraging for reading material

Foraging for reading material

Date1/7/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: Foraging for reading material: Betty jane Wylie digs in a garbage can for a discarded nespaper. In her boarding house, it was suspicious to be caught with reading or writing materials. She explaine she wanted the paper only for the horoscope, there threw it away.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0090245F
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This is so ridiculous, why someone has to live this way,' says Bob Ross, an ex-florist who is so allergic to ordinary things that he has to put reading material into a special sealed box
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Urgency of transporting building materials, industrial fuel, raw materials and food to the stricken millions of Europe brought the early opening. A ha(...)
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At the Imperial Room: Burton Cummings last night opened his 10-day gig with a repertoire that emphasized his post-Guess Who material, ciritc Craig MacInnis reports
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Man, a material, mental and spiritual being, a lecture delivered in the City hall, Kingston, C
Man, a material, mental and spiritual being, a lecture delivered in the City hall, Kingston, C
1860
Rapist-catching kit: A box full of materials and instructions for doctors examining rape victims has been credited with raising the conviction rate of their assailants to 70 per cent
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9/21/1984
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George Igantieff: University of Toronto chancellor and Canada's former representative to the United Nations helped prepare report to be used as material for speeches by the Pope in Canada
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On the job: Greenspoon, a Brampton firm and Canada's largest demolition contractor, uses The Crusher to pulverize material at the former Goodyear Tire plant site in Etobicoke.
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A chart of the Gulf of St. Laurence, composed from a great number of actual surveys and other materials, regulated and connected by astronomical observations
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With it's sod roof and flowing lines this cordwood cottage seems to have sprung organically from the Haliburton forest that provided nearly all the material used in its construction
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Taking a break: Mark McLay and George Semkiw 9with guitar) collected original material from little-known Canadian artists for their compact disc Velvet Records Compilation 1, which is getting radio airplay across the country
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