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Just Molly and me are all that are left after cars have killed two previous horses that hauled his tattered mail buggy during the last 23 years, says rural route postman Harold Miller, 74
Just Molly and me are all that are left after cars have killed two previous horses that hauled his tattered mail buggy during the last 23 years, says rural route postman Harold Miller, 74

Just Molly and me are all that are left after cars have killed two previous horses that hauled his tattered mail buggy during the last 23 years, says rural route postman Harold Miller, 74

Date9/15/1971
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Parting gift: Retiring postman Bob Cooper holds a miniature mailbox filled with money given to him by residents on his route in the Keele St. Eglinton Ave. area on the weekend. About 75 neighbors turned out for the retirement party for Cooper, who has a delivered their mail for 32 years.
Parting gift: Retiring postman Bob Cooper holds a miniature mailbox filled with money given to him by residents on his route in the Keele St. Eglinton Ave. area on the weekend. About 75 neighbors turned out for the retirement party for Cooper, who has a delivered their mail for 32 years.
4/11/1987
Retired rural mailman Hugh Strong leans on one of the 200 mailboxes along his old route southeast of Port Perry
Retired rural mailman Hugh Strong leans on one of the 200 mailboxes along his old route southeast of Port Perry
7/19/1978
Campaigning by horse and buggy, Gordon Clarke, running for alderman in Scarborough's Ward 12, hands a pamphlet to his neighbor Aubrey Crowhurst, who owns the horse, My Lenny Boy, and the buggy, an antique built by the McLaughlin Carriage Works. Clarke lives in a century-old farmhouse off Meadow-vale Rd. West Hill. He's also using a mobile home in his campaign. Advance polling in city and boroughs will be tomorrow, next Thrusday and next Saturday.
Campaigning by horse and buggy, Gordon Clarke, running for alderman in Scarborough's Ward 12, hands a pamphlet to his neighbor Aubrey Crowhurst, who owns the horse, My Lenny Boy, and the buggy, an antique built by the McLaughlin Carriage Works. Clarke lives in a century-old farmhouse off Meadow-vale Rd. West Hill. He's also using a mobile home in his campaign. Advance polling in city and boroughs will be tomorrow, next Thrusday and next Saturday.
11/21/1974
Solid handlwork: Art Cooke spent the summer of '45 chiseling mortar off old bricks to build the home he and his wife still live in on Burnett Ave. Today, a high-rise looms near the site he bought for $350. Above, Cooke admires the sturdy bricks he bought for $352 and hauled in a rented truck from the Swift meatpacking plant.
Solid handlwork: Art Cooke spent the summer of '45 chiseling mortar off old bricks to build the home he and his wife still live in on Burnett Ave. Today, a high-rise looms near the site he bought for $350. Above, Cooke admires the sturdy bricks he bought for $352 and hauled in a rented truck from the Swift meatpacking plant.
10/7/1982
Filson Family: From left, Elliot, 4, Judy Filson, Molly, 15, and Gerald Filson holding Mary, nine months.
Filson Family: From left, Elliot, 4, Judy Filson, Molly, 15, and Gerald Filson holding Mary, nine months.
2/25/1989
Mopping-up operation: Molly Maid president Jim MacKenzie spruces up with Jean Cloes and Anne Jervis
Mopping-up operation: Molly Maid president Jim MacKenzie spruces up with Jean Cloes and Anne Jervis
9/15/1982
Drive to get away is causing a boom in the utility vehicle market, according to Bill Fleming, new president of International Harvester Co. of Canada Ltd. Sales of the rugged buggies are growing at a rate of 25 to 30 per cent a year. People want to get out
Drive to get away is causing a boom in the utility vehicle market, according to Bill Fleming, new president of International Harvester Co. of Canada Ltd. Sales of the rugged buggies are growing at a rate of 25 to 30 per cent a year. People want to get out
11/10/1977
Bob Bailey: Partner-operator of Mr. Greenjeans Emporium learned a lesson in a previous unsuccessful, operation: Creative guys like me need to combine their talents with financial expertise.
Bob Bailey: Partner-operator of Mr. Greenjeans Emporium learned a lesson in a previous unsuccessful, operation: Creative guys like me need to combine their talents with financial expertise.
12/17/1980
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
3/10/1970
Tribute to hard work, the Bak family's architect- designed roadside open-air market, is in the background as Casey Bak and his wife Freda look at the architect's drawings on how it will appear when the windmill is completed as a landmark in the Holland area. The market was planned by Casey's father, Walter, who died in January at age of 74.
Tribute to hard work, the Bak family's architect- designed roadside open-air market, is in the background as Casey Bak and his wife Freda look at the architect's drawings on how it will appear when the windmill is completed as a landmark in the Holland area. The market was planned by Casey's father, Walter, who died in January at age of 74.
7/22/1974
Still lean and tought at 74, Frank Bazos (left), chairman of Beeker Milk Co. Ltd., helps manager Andrew Karastamatis to serve customer in store on Toronto's Bedford Rd. Becker chain, biggest convenience-style grocer in Ontario, opened 500th store this week.
Still lean and tought at 74, Frank Bazos (left), chairman of Beeker Milk Co. Ltd., helps manager Andrew Karastamatis to serve customer in store on Toronto's Bedford Rd. Becker chain, biggest convenience-style grocer in Ontario, opened 500th store this week.
1/7/1976
Still friends are Marsh Cooper, right, president of Falconbridge Nickel Mines, who talks with sharehoder E. M. Beals, 74, who flew in from Boston to question plan to create 3 million new special preferred shares. Stockholders gave company the right to raise up to $75 million by selling shares, primarily to banks.
Still friends are Marsh Cooper, right, president of Falconbridge Nickel Mines, who talks with sharehoder E. M. Beals, 74, who flew in from Boston to question plan to create 3 million new special preferred shares. Stockholders gave company the right to raise up to $75 million by selling shares, primarily to banks.
7/20/1976