Hamsters Come to Lanark County 1950

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Hamsters Come to Lanark County 1950

Feb 21, 1950

Mr. Alex. Morrow of Almonte came into the Gazette office a few days ago and showed us the first hamster we had ever seen except in pictures. The little animal is about as big as a gopher and is generally used for experimental work in clinical laboratories. It is a prolific breeder and can have five or six young ones every six weeks. Hamsters have become a scourge to farmers in some European and Asiatic countries. Mr. Morrow had the little animal in a cage, having bought it from a Toronto firm.

CLIPPED FROMThe Baltimore SunBaltimore, Maryland15 May 1949, Sun  •  Page 69

CLIPPED FROMThe Kingston Whig-StandardKingston, Ontario, Canada28 Nov 1949, Mon  •  Page 13

CLIPPED FROMThe Kingston Whig-StandardKingston, Ontario, Canada18 Aug 1949, Thu  •  Page 17

CLIPPED FROMThe Ottawa CitizenOttawa, Ontario, Canada21 Sep 1949, Wed  •  Page 31

CLIPPED FROMThe Ottawa CitizenOttawa, Ontario, Canada03 Oct 1949, Mon  •  Page 34

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About lindaseccaspina

Before she laid her fingers to a keyboard, Linda was a fashion designer, and then owned the eclectic store Flash Cadilac and Savannah Devilles in Ottawa on Rideau Street from 1976-1996. She also did clothing for various media and worked on “You Can’t do that on Television”. After writing for years about things that she cared about or pissed her off on American media she finally found her calling. She is a weekly columnist for the Sherbrooke Record and documents history every single day and has over 6500 blogs about Lanark County and Ottawa and an enormous weekly readership. Linda has published six books and is in her 4th year as a town councillor for Carleton Place. She believes in community and promoting business owners because she believes she can, so she does.

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