Margery Wilson Hollywood Actress Comes to Almonte 1924

Born	Sara Barker Strayer October 31, 1896 Gracey, Kentucky, US
Died	January 21, 1986 (aged 89) Arcadia, California, US

March 1924- Almonte

Famous actresses or movie stars seldom come to a country town. We know them only as we read about them. So Almonte people will be interested to learn that Miss Margery Wilson, whom we have all read about, is to be here herself this week. Miss Wilson will appear at the Orpheum on Saturday, March 8 when her motion picture “ Insinuation” will be shown. This was written, directed and produced !by herself. Miss Wilson will give a very intimate talk on the motion picture industry. Her topic will be “Life in the picture colony o f Hollywood.”.

A week later

The feature of the theatre in Almonte last week was the appearance of Miss Margery Wilson, the well known actress with her picture Insinuation. She spoke both afternoon and evening at the Orpheum and was introduced with greaceful words of welcome by Councillor George L Comba. While in Almonte Miss Wilson, met a number of local people and visited the chief sites of the town. She was charmed and impressed with the swiftly tumblng falls and the town generally had high praise.

“What a beautiful town Almonte is ,” she said .’ “P eople ought to be very h appy h e re.” She visited several of the stores comparing prices, and making little purchases. She thought the prices in Almonte remarkably fair.

KOZY-TV Presents Silent Sunday Movie in “The Clodhopper” from 1917. Isaac Nelson is the tight-fisted president of a country bank and owns a farm, where his son Everett works long hours every day, even on Sundays. Everett wears his father’s cast-off clothes, and after his mother buys him a mail order suit, Everett goes to a Fourth of July picnic with his sweetheart Mary Martin. The father sees his wife in the field doing the son’s work and, after forcing his son home from the picnic, beats him… –Wikipedia Starring: Charles Ray as Everett Nelson Charles K. French as Isaac Nelson, Everett’s Father Margery Wilson as Mary Martin Lydia Knott as Mrs. Nelson Tom Guise as Karl Seligman

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CLIPPED FROMThe Daily Sun-TimesOwen Sound, Ontario, Canada11 Apr 1924, Fri  •  Page 1

Etha Dack De Laney Broadway Actress from Ardoch and Other Folks

The Opening of the Marcus Lowe Capital Theatre

“Our Town Is The World” Part 2 — 1950 International Movie Almonte

Our Town Is the World— 1950 Almonte International Movie — Local Cast Names

Peg O My Heart — Gracie Mark’s Belt

The Story of Ms. Kitty Marks

Lakeside Farm on Taylor Lake 1924 Stuart McIntosh

These photos of my mother’s childhood home are at least 100 years apart. It is still a treasure mostly unchanged.

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Muskrats on Clayton Lake 1928

So Which Island did the River Drivers of Clayton get Marooned On?

The Sullivans —- Floating Bridge Builders

The Floating Bridge – Claudia Smith

More on The Floating Bridge– Memories of Lyall McKay

The Carp River Floating Bridge

More Memories of the Floating Bridge

More Notes on the Floating Bridge in Clayton

The Floating Bridge of Carleton Place — Found!

Clayton floating bridge

Searching for the Floating Bridge?

The Floating Bridges of Lanark County

The Maberly Fair 1922.. Names Names Names

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The Weekly British Whig
Kingston, Ontario, Canada02 Oct 1922, Mon  •  Page 6

Maberly Fair 2022

Ashley James

Ashley James

Brian Dowdall

Our Metal Detector Specialist.

Brian Dowdall

Our Metal Detector Specialist.

Adam Dowdall

“Sale” Fairs — Crops and Sometimes Fair Damsels

Almonte Fair 1890 —-Alex Currie — The Country Fair

We Don’t Need the Almonte Fair 1897 – “Admission to the grounds is 25 cents, which is twice too much!”

Clippings and Photos of the 1958 Almonte Turkey Fair

HISTORY OF LANARK TOWNSHIP AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION –Laurie Yuill Part 4-“the proprietor of a merry-go-round was paid a bonus to bring his machine to the Fair “

Vintage 1920s Clippings About Buried Treasure — Meyer’s Cave — Bon Echo

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The Daily Standard
Kingston, Ontario, Canada09 Oct 1926, Sat  •  Page 10

Cloyne and District Historical Society
Guest on Iron Staircase up Mazinaw Rock – Bon Echo Inn

Unknown date of photograph (pre-1940).
 
This sheer iron staircase was used for visitors of the Bon Echo Inn to travel to the top of Mazinaw Rock. Spectacular viewing and blueberry picking were favourite activities of guests. Often, guests would have a box lunch packed to take with them as they climbed the deep stairs to the top. Local people who picked blueberries for sale or for their own use frequently made use of the stairway. (John Campbell – ‘The Mazinaw Experience’).
 
Eventually the staircase was damaged by ice and finally taken down in 1940, 4 years after the fire that destroyed the Inn.
 
Remnants of the staircase are still evident today – directly across from the Narrows peninsula. Today a multi-level staircase built by Bon Echo Provincial Park guides visitors to the top via the Clifftop Trail with many lookouts.

Cloyne and District Historical Society
View of Narrows Bridge, Bon Echo circa 1920

This photo is part of the Bon Echo archives. It features a man atop Mazinaw Rock (likely Merrill Denison) looking down at the Narrows Bridge. The bridge enabled visitors of the Bon Echo Inn to reach the staircase (steel) that led to the top of Mazinaw Rock.
 
The lagoon can be seen at the top right and a dock which has remains that can be seen today.

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The Sault Star
Sault St. Marie, Ontario, Canada02 Jun 1924, Mon  •  Page 13

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The Sault Star
Sault St. Marie, Ontario, Canada02 Jun 1924, Mon  •  Page 13

Wan to read more vintage clippings about the treasure> CLICK HERE

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The Daily Standard
Kingston, Ontario, Canada20 Oct 1922, Fri  •  Page 13

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The Daily Standard
Kingston, Ontario, Canada06 May 1926, Thu  •  Page 1

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada14 Aug 1907, Wed  •  Page 6

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The Windsor Star
Windsor, Ontario, Canada06 Feb 1971, Sat  •  Page 47

Five Lost Treasures You can Still Look for in Ontario

Where Was Meyers Cave?

Maybe We Should Film Oak Island in Carleton Place? The Day the Money Disappeared

What Happened to the Gold on the Ramsay 7th line?

Gold in Dem Dar Hills of Lanark

Murder on Maple Island

The Tale of a Pirate named Bill Johnston with Pirate Dog Supermodels

Stories from Ash Island

The Almost Tragic Story of Robert Henry

Assassinated Gossip about Lincoln, Payne and the Thousand Islands

The Lost Island– Now You See it- Now You Don’t!

Gold Mines and Disappearances

Know Your ADHS Principals –Benjamin A. Upshall -1926– Human Smuggler

Benjamin A. Upshall, Canadian aviator during the Great War, former principal of Almonte High School and at present assistant principal of Trenton High School, was held at Niagara Falls, N.Y. on Wednesday by immigration officials for arraignment on a charge of smuggling aliens from Canada into the United States.

Upshall is alleged to have been operating since early in 1925. He was arrested at the lower bridge when he is said to have tried to enter Andrew Mccay and John Carney, both natives of Ireland. Upshall is reported to have received from $25 to $150 a head from the aliens.

Immigration officials are tracing eight men he is said to have taken into the United States illegally. Upshall is alleged to have driven the men from Trenton in his automobile and to have represented them as natives of Canada or friends of his on pleasure trips when he took them through Niagara Falls. Upshall was principal of Almonte High School about six years ago. He was not re-engaged at the end of his first year which was 1919.

Almonte Gazette- 1926, July 1

August 1919 Almonte Gazette

October 1919 Almonte Gazette

Name:	Benjiman Wpshall [Benjamin Upshall]  [Benjiman Upshall]
Gender:	Male
Marital status:	Married
Race or Tribe:	English
Nationality:	Canadian
Age:	26
Birth Date:	Sep 1884
Birth Place:	Ontario
Census Year:	1911
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Dwelling No.:	82
Province:	Ontario
District:	Middlesex West
District Number:	97
Sub-District:	34 – Ward 3
Sub-District Number:	34
Place of Habitation:	Colborne St
Religion:	Presbyterian
Occupation:	Odd Teacher
Employer:	No
Employee:	No
Works at:	Coll Instituteur
Weeks Employed:	48
Hours/Week:	25
Earnings:	450.00
Life Insurance:	1000
Insurance Cost:	10.00
Can Read:	Yes
Can Write:	Yes
Language:	E
Family Number:	83
Neighbors:	View others on page

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All these photos came from the Playfair family in the Lanark/ Middleville/Playfair area. Thanks to local historian Laurie Yuill. All circa 1920s except for the corduroy road photo second to last– That photo is earlier. Some look like railroads and some do not–

All these photos came from the Playfair family in the Lanark/ Middleville/Playfair area. Thanks to local historian Laurie Yuill. All circa 1920s except for the corduroy road photo second to last– That photo is earlier. Some look like railroads and some do not–

Canada’s first provincial Dept of Highways was created by Québec in 1914. Two years later Ontario, which had had a provincial instructor in charge of roadmaking attached to the Dept of Agriculture since 1896, formed its own separate highways department.

Through the 1920s cars became cheaper and their numbers multiplied; registration of motor vehicles increased from 408 790 to nearly 1.62 million by the end of the decade. Good roads associations, national and provincial, led the crusade for improved road travel, and expenditures on roads by all governments tripled. By 1930 the annual outlay was $94 million. Methods and technology for building roads improved as horse-drawn scrapers and graders gave way to steam power for shovels and rollers. However, road building in most provinces ceased and maintenance was reduced during the Great Depression and WWII as men and materials were urgently needed in the war effort. The few good paved roads that had been built were almost completely destroyed by heavy wartime traffic, particularly in industrial areas. The Canadian Encyclopedia

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Stories of the Mississippi River — Elk, Rice Beds, and Corduroy Roads

The Toll Gates of Lanark County on Roads that Were Not Fit for Corpses

almonte gazette 1930

Nikki Thornton

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From an envelope labeled Len McKay – Middleville

Old Harvest Machinery

Blackhawk’s B & B Tonic Carleton Place — The Great Tonic Laxative

Vintage can belongs to Adin Wesley Daigle

Vintage can belongs to Adin Wesley Daigle

This was made by the looks of it in the early 1920s so I realize it is not politically correct today. The Can Med Assoc J. 1929 Jan;20(1):69-70. The Proprietary and Patent Medicine Act and Improper Medicines– so this was made in the 1920s or after by the Blackhawk Medicine Company in Carleton Place. Another reason is the can. World War I brought about new methods of food processing as manufacturers streamlined production methods of canned and frozen foods. Canned foods had a bad reputation initially as the lead solder used in construction leached into the food causing health problems. Once new safer cans were introduced then canned foods etc. increased in popularity enormously.

The Carleton Place company probably chose the name Black Hawk as Black Hawk was a popular war chief and leader of the Sauk tribe in the Midwest of the United States. He was known more for being a war leader, a “captain of his actions” than he was a tribal chief. Black Hawk earned his credentials by leading raids and war parties in his youth. So, it would seem the perfect name for leading a raid on your bowels in those days.

There were scores, maybe hundreds of these shows across the country (mostly the south and midwest), fronted by flashy characters in buckskin suits and western hats promising miracles from these bog Native American remedies and

Gone were the simple herbs prepared at home or by the local apothecary from time-honored recipes. During the early 1900s in came the elaborate concoctions in dark-colored bottles with attractive labels to gain attention for your daily needs.

Then came the Cathartics, used to cleanse the bowels. We must keep those bowels clean! Fiber does that for us, but if you live on highly processed foods, increasingly possible in Victorian times, you don’t get that effect. Many patent medicines were cathartics – very popular stuff.

Unhealthy diets aside, people liked medicine that makes something happen — the more dramatic, the better. We see lots of cathartics in the diet-trickery aisles at drug stores today. Tonics like the one above made in Carleton Place were used to ‘brace up and give increased tone to the system. The Victorian era  also used laxatives and tonics for chickenpox. You could buy it over the counter in tonics, powders, and soft drinks.

Even a tiny dose of strychnine can cause convulsions. Yet the Merck Manual, following the medical practice of the day, recommended small amounts as a treatment for acute constipation. Commonly derived from the plant Strychnos nux-vomica, strychnine was thought to improve gastric function. (Strychnine injections were also recommended for both flatulence and ulcers.) Opium and turpentine were also recommended, but patients probably derived more relief from the less dramatic manual-recommended regimens, such as eating apples and figs or drinking coffee. In the shop, as in any druggists, poisons are freely available over the counter and are not kept in separate, locked cabinets. Some are also used in medicines, for example bitter tonics containing strychnine to stimulate appetites and improve muscle tone. Laws governing the sale of poisons will not emerge for almost a decade, in 1868.

Constipation Guaranteed to be Cured in Almonte

The Rosamond Woolen Company’s Constipation Blues

Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup — QUACK MEDICINE Spanish Flu

Medicine for Weak Women — Hokum Era

Drugs of the 1950s from Mac William’s Shelves– Iodine, Liniment and Camphor Oil

The Remedy Women of Lanark County

I Will Take Some Opium to Go Please —The “Drug Dispensary” at the Chatterton House Hotel

Was Lipstick Banned and the $64,000 Question

What the Heck was Electric Soap? Chatterton House Hotel Registrar

When the Spanish Fly Kicks In !

If Quackery Poison Gets You!! Blue Poison Ointment

Constipation Guaranteed to be Cured in Almonte

It’s Electrifying! Dr Scott’s Electric Corset

The Hygeia Waist – To Breathe or Not to Breathe

Would You Smoke a Hornet’s Nest?

What Did it Cost to Stay in the Hospital?

1920 St. Vincent de Paul

 

Lost Ottawa Photo

 Nuns of the Sisters of Charity of St. Paul, on the lawn of 1153 Wellington Street in Hintonburg, the site of the St. George’s Home for Boys. This “home” was a basically a distribution for boys removed from industrial cities — and often their families — in England. The boys would then become indentured labor, mostly on Canadian farms, until they reached the age of 18.

As many as 100,000 boys and girls were transported to Canada by Catholic and Protestant organization between 1869 and 1935, when this home was closed. (LAC Topley 106034)

 

1920  St Francis General Hospital–The Abandoned Smiths Falls Hospital 2011

Carleton Place Hospital 1958 Thanks God for Blue Cross

 

Photos of the hospital bills from the McRae family

Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in The Townships Sun andScreamin’ Mamas (USA)

Come and visit the Lanark County Genealogical Society Facebook page– what’s there? Cool old photos–and lots of things interesting to read. Also check out The Tales of Carleton Place.

What’s in the Cornerstone at the Carleton Place Hospital?

The Abandoned Smiths Falls Hospital 2011

Clippings of the Opening of the Carleton Place Hospital February 14 1955

Chuck Norris Does Live in Carleton Place—Carleton Place & District Memorial Hospital (CPDMH) Auxiliary

Sitting in the Emergency Ward at the Carleton Place & District Memorial Hospital

Maybe We Should Film Oak Island in Carleton Place? The Day the Money Disappeared

1980 Statistics for The Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital

The Day We Lost Hand in Carleton Place — Carleton Place District and Memorial Hospital

Carleton Place Photos 1920s

In front of the Queen’s Hotel with the King’s Cafe- Photo- Tom Edwards July 12 1920

Findlay House on High Street  Photo- Tom Edwards 1920s

Photo Linda Seccaspina Findlay House 1982

New CPR station-– Photo- Tom Edwards 1920s

Town Hall- Photo- Tom Edwards 1920s

In front of the Queen’s Hotel with the King’s Cafe- Photo- Tom Edwards 1920s

 

Findlay Foundry on High Street –Photo- Tom Edwards 1920s

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1. The Ottawa Journal,
2. 14 May 1920, Fri,
3. Page 2

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1. The Ottawa Journal,
2. 22 Apr 1920, Thu,
3. Page 2

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1. Nanaimo Daily News,
2. 30 Dec 1920, Thu, 
   

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   1. The Ottawa Journal,
   2. 21 Feb 1920, Sat,
   3. Page 9Come and visit the Lanark County Genealogical Society Facebook page– what’s there? Cool old photos–and lots of things interesting to read. Also check out The Tales of Carleton Place.Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in The Townships Sun andScreamin’ Mamas (USA)
      

      The Peden Family- Genealogy– Peden Saunders Sadler

   4. Hit By Lightning

   5. When the Past Comes A Haunting- Jessie Comrie

Should Girls Speak to Strange Men in Uniform? 1917

 

 

Women’s fashions in the 1920s reflected radical changes affecting many areas of post-World War I American society. Many of them rejected, at least temporarily, the traditional roles of wife and mother and instead entered the workforce of the thriving businesses of the period or enrolled in colleges and universities, which were also experiencing rapidly increasing enrollments.

The working girl and the coed were typically young, simultaneously more liberated and more apparently frivolous than their mothers, and intoxicated by the attention lavished on them by the popular press. “Is the Younger Generation in Peril?” asked a long 1921 Literary Digest article. Typical of journalism investigating youth during the decade, it focused almost exclusively upon young women’s fashions in dress and cosmetics.

Articles of this kind inevitably linked short skirts, the rejection of the corset, and bobbed or shingled hair with “licentious” behaviour—smoking, drinking bootleg whiskey, listening to jazz, dancing the Charleston or Black Bottom, necking, and petting.

Selling shame–The cosmetics industry boomed during the 1920s, and … was immediately suspected of being immoral — a woman of “easy virtue. By the late 1920s, “permanent waves” were also available to women willing to  change their hairstyle was immediately suspected again of being immoral—a woman of “easy virtue.

 

Unidentified dance troupe.. The photo went for over 150 dollars at an auction– way over my budget- Photo- Linda Seccaspina

 

Clipped from The Winnipeg Tribune,  08 Oct 1917, Mon,  Page 6

 

Sexual health posters from the 1940s reveal how warnings against STDs focused on prostitutes, pinning them as dangerous disease carriers and advising soldiers to resist temptation.

Dozens of campaigns portrayed these women as wily temptresses, referring to them as ‘good time girls’, ‘pick-ups’, ‘procurable women’ and ‘victory girls’.

Others mimicked the style of war propaganda, calling on men to ‘fight syphilis and gonorrhea’ and using images of dutiful soldiers to encourage them to get tested.

 

 

Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in The Townships Sun and Screamin’ Mamas (USA)

Come and visit the Lanark County Genealogical Society Facebook page– what’s there? Cool old photos–and lots of things interesting to read. Also check out The Tales of Carleton Place.

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Women Smoking Pipes?

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A Tale of Two Women

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Friday October the 13th– 6:30.. meet in front of the old Leland Hotel on Bridge Street (Scott Reid’s office) and enjoy a one hour Bridge Street walk with stories of murder mayhem and Believe it or Not!!. Some tales might not be appropriate for young ears. FREE!–

 

 

Here we go Carleton Place– Mark Your Calendars–
Friday October the 13th– 6:30.. meet in front of the old Leland Hotel on Bridge Street (Scott Reid’s office) and enjoy a one hour Bridge Street walk with stories of murder mayhem and Believe it or Not!!. Some tales might not be appropriate for young ears. FREE!–

Join us and learn about the history under your feet! This year’s St. James Cemetery Walk will take place Thursday October 19th and october 21– Museum Curator Jennfer Irwin will lead you through the gravestones and introduce you to some of our most memorable lost souls!
Be ready for a few surprises along the way….
This walk takes place in the dark on uneven ground. Please wear proper footwear and bring a small flashlight if you like.
Tickets available at the Museum, 267 Edmund Street. Two dates!!!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1211329495678960/

OCT 28th
Downtown Carleton Place Halloween Trick or Treat Day–https://www.facebook.com/events/489742168060479/