Word: chatham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tight-lipped businessman named Albert Houston from Chatham, Ont. had tramped from farm to farm buying used tractors. When he had 69, he slapped on some fresh paint, took them to Yorkton, Sask. In newspapers and on telephone-pole posters he advertised a "Mammoth Auction Sale of Farm Machinery." Not until the day before the auction did Yorkton's 5,577 people know what they were in for. Some 10,000 tractor-hungry farmers, their pockets bulging with cash, arrived from all over the prairies. When all the rooms in Yorkton's three hotels were snapped up, empty...
Then Canadians heard ominous news. Ontario's Attorney General Leslie Blackwell sent 250 Ontario provincial police from Toronto to reinforce Windsor's cops. He followed it up by asking Ottawa for Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen. He got 200. Besides, 300 Regular Army troops from Chatham were held outside Windsor in readiness. Then Blackwell proclaimed: "A state of emergency exists in Windsor...
...most the treasure was worth only $1,900, but it was the King's trove and Snow was jubilant. Beaming at his find, he planned to get a radar set, go hunting storied New England hulks (among them the British Privateer Mary Ann, sunk off Chatham with $1,000,000 in bullion) which have hitherto evaded unscientific treasure seekers...
...Chatham, Ont., Butcher James Edmonson exhorted his colleagues: "Let's shove the tokens down [Dominion Price Boss] Donald Gordon's throat." Butchers in St. John, N.B. and Edmonton, Alta. threatened to close their shops. In Moncton, N.B., meat dealers gave away half a ton of bologna, frankfurters and chicken loaf (on which few buyers would waste ration points...
...year-old farmhouse of his boyhood for his "last days." He finally accepted an earldom from a grateful government (TIME, Jan. 8). Of him Winston Churchill said: "There is no history like his in living memory. . . . Indeed, history will have to return her pages back to Chatham to find his parallel...