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Through sleet and snow . . . Tom Jupp resorts to a blow torch yesterday to get his mail from a Mississauga supermailbox when it became frozen shut. It worked
Through sleet and snow . . . Tom Jupp resorts to a blow torch yesterday to get his mail from a Mississauga supermailbox when it became frozen shut. It worked

Through sleet and snow . . . Tom Jupp resorts to a blow torch yesterday to get his mail from a Mississauga supermailbox when it became frozen shut. It worked

Date1/9/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Through sleet and snow . . . Tom Jupp resorts to a blow torch yesterday to get his mail from a Mississauga supermailbox when it became frozen shut. It worked.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0011083F
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Copies of correspondence between the Treasury, the Post Office, and the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, from the 4th May 1860 to the 13th June 1861
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