Wingham Advance Times July 25,2024 turnbacks

July 25, 2024 @ 7:00 amColumns, Opinion, Pieces of the Past, Wingham Advance Times

The top advertising spot of the newspaper was taken by the local drug store, a century ago. The ad featured the still currently popular Thermos brand. (Ad from the July 31, 1924 issue of the Wingham Advance Times)
FIFTY YEARS AGO 1974 – Both the Town of Listowel and the Village of Brussels, according to a report by the Ministry of Environment, were polluting the waters of the Middle Maitland River with “untreated municipal-industrial wastes” entering the river through “uncontrolled municipal and industrial sewers”. Only a handful of Wingham residents attended the final…
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Kelsey Bent is a Local Journalism Initiative Reporter with Midwestern Newspapers.