Timmins Newspaper Index

Porcupine Advance, 25 Aug 1938, 1, p. 6

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Want to Buy a The Porcupine Advance We have an organization of skilled craftsmen who take keen delight in doing their work just a little better than you would expect them to do it â€"â€" until you know them. Then you realize that it is because they are in love with their art and craft. Let‘s skip the office ( where we plan to keep overheads from getting underfoot ), since we are talking about the plant. We have the most approved type setting equipâ€" ment, well laid out for efficient working conditions; we have highâ€"speed presses in our printing department ; we have the Rotaprint for lowâ€"cost production of business forms; we have binding facilities sufficient for the usual requirements and access to specialty needs; we have our own engraving plant ~and more â€" â€"â€" NO, ours isn‘t for sale. But, you can buy its products. and that‘s a lot better than having a plant of your own. Want to buy the product of such a printing plant? That‘s fine! We will be glad to call and talk it over whenever you say the word. Printing Plant? THE PORCUP:NE ADVANCE ONTARTIO @ o i The Sudbury Starâ€"In all the arguâ€" ment about taxes, it is significant that Prime Minister Mackenzle King and Premier Hepburn have one point in ‘common. Both men emphasize their desire to build up sources of taxation. ' Mr. King and Mr. Hepburn are agreed lt,hat, business should be nursed along !so that they can be made the target for heavy taxes. That point has been madse clear in their letters. It would be in the better interests of Canada if taxes could be lowered and business men could have some respite l from the crushing burden of taxation. If it were not for the necessity of meeting oncrous bills constantly, busiâ€" | nesses could give employment to more persons and pay higher wages to presâ€" ent employess. In their anxiety to build up taxable units, the government leaders should take care not to kill the goose that lays | the golden egg. RBolt Fires Dynamite But Workers Escape |called "the French Quarter." |~ About 1895, he says, a group of Seven |street urchins calling themselves the Spasm Band strolled the red light disâ€" trict of New Orleans, giving concerts which astonished th> natives. One crooned through a gas pips; another | played on ayfiddle made out of a cigar ‘box: another whiffed a harmonica. An Toronto SBaturday Night:â€"Who smys that historv never repeats itsel{? Here‘s the stock market going up and Helen Wills Moody winning the tennis chamâ€" pionship. sOVIET NOT TO BE MENACE INX GRAIN MARKET THIS YEAR Although a bolit of lightning set off the charges in 50 holes at a Transâ€" Canada airport construction .project near North Bay on Tuesday, only one of eight men in the lmmodhte vicinity was injured .though not ° seriously. cld kettle, a cowbell, a bass fiddle made out of half a barrel, and various homeâ€" made horns and whistles were also among their instruments. They tootled into hats; they stood on their heads while playing; they howled "hiâ€"deâ€"hi" BUILDING UP BUSINESS TO COLLECT TAXES FROM IT There is evidence that "jazz" is an invented word, belonging to no lanâ€" guage except the American. Herbert Ashbury tells a story that sounds plauâ€" sibl2, and is supported by living witâ€" meosses, in his book of New Orleans lore Pieco of rock wers thrown‘ @around in forceful fashion, some of the chunks weighing as much as 300 lbs, Seven of the men at work at the project in Widdifield township, some four imilles lrom North Bay, ducked as the exâ€" plosion cccurred. Rocks passed them safely by, but it is doubtful if they would be alive to tell the story were it not more for luck than for any prompt action they took. The accident happened so quickly that they had litâ€" tle times to do anything to save themâ€" selves. Two of the seven, Foreman Arthur Olsen and a worker named Louis Myer were only about fifteen feet from the drilled holss. Both of them wer> knocked down by the concussion. Others of the menâ€"some of them as much as fifty feet away, were thrown to thsir knees, but none received inâ€" jury with the exception of the eighth man referred to. Some of the smaller rocks travelled as far as 100 yards, while larger chunks of rock were scatâ€" Suggests That "Jazz" W as Started in New Orleans

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