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The price of gasoline is up 10 cents today under the gloomy budget Finance Minister John Turner introduced last night, and Otis Stewart was changing t(...)

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The price of gasoline is up 10 cents today under the gloomy budget Finance Minister John Turner introduced last night, and Otis Stewart was changing t(...)

Date6/24/1975

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Bull, Ron (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: The price of gasoline is up 10 cents today under the gloomy budget Finance Minister John Turner introduced last night; and Otis Stewart was changing the sign to 71 cents from 61 this morning at a service station at Parliament and Front Sts. In August; the price will go up another 5 cents. Heating oil's up too.

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Service stations

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Photographs

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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0008089F

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