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N TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1946 THE DAILY. TI MES-CAZETTE PAGE FIVE Eggs At Dime A Dozen Feature of Life at Time Paper Was Launched "Butter Was Packed In Tubs (No Coupons Required) At 12 Cents Per Pound When Oshawa Was What was it like to live in Osh- awa 75 years ago, when the paper that has grown into The Times- Gazette was being launched? One thing certain is that it did not cost much to live then in com~ parison with today--not with eggs costing 10 cents a dozen, or even as little as eight cents, and butter 12 cents per pound. There was no shortages, either, Butter was avail. able in tubs, and no man had ever dreamed of the possibility that a method of rationing food would some day be devised, Part of the story can be drawn from the following report on condi tions as they existed in Oshawa in the 'seventies', as written by an old timer, who spoke from experience, which appeared in The Oshawa Times twenty years ago: "I must add here that I much re- gret that I did not Invite the town of Whitby to unite with us before oe pora/ing our town into a city. Canadian methods of doing busi- ness, money was a very scarce art- icle in those days, so much so, that it only took a few minutes each night to count the amount in the till, because there was so much bu~ siness done on credit, trucking and trading, that very little money changed hands in any of the stores, I was known in those days as "Wal- ter at Blamey's" and many of the farmers' wives would bring me in apble ple and scald cream, also in- vite me to their hemes in the coun- try. (Those were the good old days boys!) Many farmers had a year- ly account which was settled when they sold their grain, usually about October 1st. During the year we supplied them with all the goods they needed, and they would bring us butter in tubs and large rolls, price 12 cents per pound, chicken, 6 cents, ducks, 8 cents, geese 9 cents and turkeys 10 cents and eggs 8 and 10'cents per dozen. "Wild and tame raspberries in 20 1b pails, $1; cherries, 12 quart pail, 40 cents; strawberries, 1 qt. box, 6 cents, plums and green gages as low as 50 cents per bushel; apples $1 and $2 per barrel (orchards sold at 50 cents per barrel). In the fall dressed pork was plentiful at four The Times-Gazette Mailing Room This is a busy department of The Times-Gazette ag young ladies count, label and wrap newspapers for delivery. Trucks Make Fast Delivery of the Times-Gazette Jack Hooper tosses a bundle of The Times-Gazette into this truck as it prepares to leave for its delivery route. I was much interested in the re- 'butiding of this block (which now stands) in 1873, as I was clerking for Mr, G. PF, Blamey, whose store was on the opposite side, and is now occupied by Puckett and Scilley. 'The heat from the fire was so in- tense that the windows were broken in our store. Store Keeping of Long Ago "This is where I learnt my first dollars per hundred and beef per quarter the same price, "For their winter supply they would usually take from us 200 Id barrel of Labrador herrings, one keg each of Lake Superior white fish and trout so it was not neces- sary for them to go fishing, Due Bills "I will now explain our due bill system; we kept due bill books which were similar to check books, When one of our customers brought their produce to us and wished to purch- ase boots, dry goods, or other lines that we did not carry, instead of paying out cash we would give a due bill on the merchant which they wished to do business with and he would accept it like a cheque, these merchants also gave due bills to their customers on our Campbell's Studio has been associated in Photography with The Times-Gazette more than 60 Years ~ Congratulations to - The Times-Gazette 75 YEARS of PROGRESS CAMPBELL'S STUDIO OSHAWA store. These due bills were usually balanced every two months, and the merchant having the largest amount in due bills was paid the balance in cash by the store which owed it to him, less 12'% per cent. which was the profit on the trade. "Proud of Our Customers" "We were proud of our customers as they drove up to the store with a beautiful span of horses, silver mounted harness and a bright red bob sleigh with wolf, bear and buf falp robes. In addition to the fur cap and overcoat, the farmer wore a long plaid shawl which only he seemed to have the knack of putting on comfortably, any of these were made by their wives, from the wool of sheep raised on their farm, The wife wore bright wide-striped wool- len shawl, ana her children woollen plaid dresses usually her own make and weave," PAPER CONTINUES CONSISTENT PLAN IN LOOKING AHEAD Readers Again Requested To Judge Paper On Basis Of Public Service When a newspaper is operating cffectively in the field it is intended to serve, the need seldom arises for it to exnlain either its purposes, pol- feles, or its methods. After' all, to ba ¢lf2ative, a paper must reach a larse pat of the potential audience avriiad'e to it, in its circulation area. And in each issue such a paper tells i's readers more about itself than it could ever say to them through fermal statements, These circumstances help explain why The Times-Gazette and the papers that preceded it have tended to grow with their communities but have sald much less about their po- sition and plans than perhaps any comparable Canadian paper, Through, 786 years the proprietors of The Times-Gaszette, and the pa- pers from which it stemmed, have taken it for granted that those who read their papers would see their progress, grasp the principles that animated them, comprehend the objectives toward which they work- ed In publishing this 75th Anniver- sary Edition and at the same time inaugurating daily publication, the publishers of The Times-Gazette still hold to the view that the read- ers, allowed to arrive at their own free and uninfluenced decisions, are the best possible judges of the pa- per's latest undertaking, Basis of Judging Almost five years ago, when The Oshawa Times and The Gazette and Chronicle of Whitby were amalga= ted, the 'publishers of the resulting Times-Gazette remarked: "The Times-Gaszette recognizes fully its obligation to have fits whole constituency , . . Its right to existence . , . can rest only upon the sure foundation of public ser- vice, Its publishers make no other request than that the paper be judged fairly by this standard, There is no further request now, ns the paper embarks upon a still larger program of service to its | readers, They're still asked only to Judge the paper fairly in terms of its public service." Such has always been the mood of this paper and its predecessors, in any published statements they have made about themselves, They have sought to apply the lessons of the past, but always while looking to and planning for the future, Words Still True Indeed, more than 18 years ago, when the paper was celebrating in- stallation of new press equipment, and erection of what was then its new home--the same home it still occupies, but which is in process of having its floor space increased by considerably more than half, through construction of a new ad- dition--the publishers expressed thelr attitude toward both the past and future in words that are stil wholly appropriate today, The closing paragraph of an edi torial, with the heading: "Hats off to The Past; , , , Coats Off To The Future," remarked: "Appreciation of those, who, in the past laid the foundations on which this newspaper is bullt, and thankfulness for the measure of success achieved, thus far, are cou~ pled at this time in the minds of the publishers with an ambition to accomplish even greater things and to serve this paper's constituency still better in the future." It is in that continuing mood that the paper steps into just such a future of greatly enlarged service, Lithium is the lightest of all sol- id elements, : Ud We Extend Congratulations and Good Wishes to the TIMES-GAZETTE on the grand occasion of their 75» ANNIVERSARY M. D. WYMAN Manager of Zellers In Oshawa ® 00 v, a EE We're Also Celebrating Our DIAMOND JUBILEE! THE GREATEST IA RIAD OF ALL TIME e VULCANIZING « RECAPPING AND ALL OTHER TIRE REPAIRS! FULL STOCK OF AUTO ACCESSORIES BF. GOODRICH Congratulations to the TIMES-GAZETTE On Their 75th Anniversary lebrating its 75th Anniversary and we are proud of the fact that we were the first to introduce synthetic tires to the motorists of the United states and Canada. We are also proud to have had such a major part in perfecting synthetic rubber and its usage, without which, authorities tell us, the war would probably have been lost and without which the winning of the peace would have been impossible, The problems that we now face are hardly less challenging than those of the past, We will assume our full share of the task of catohing with the war-deferred demand of civilian products. We will strive to hasten the return of normal living, and the development of broader markets to provide maximum employment. Dr, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich founded Akron's first rubber company more than three-quarters of a century ago and he believed that anything that could be made , . . could be made better , . . He proved his theory and our company has cone tinued to prove it ever since, Just this last year we introduced the first all-synthetic tire that actually outwears pre-war: natural rubber tires. We of the B, F', Goodrich Company have dedicated ourselves to the continuation of B. F, Goodrich leadership in the fleld of rubber research which had its 80 MANY years ago. John L. Collyer, President, WE ARE EXPERTS AT