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...evening last week some 25 people were crowded into the provincial liquor store of Sarnia, Ont., just across the St. Clair River from Port Huron, Mich. Into the shop stepped two holdup men, one small and wizened, the other masked with a black silk handkerchief. Both waved revolvers, made the customers line up face to the wall while the larger bandit climbed the wire partition to the cashier's drawer, scooped up the cash, climbed back again, ordering all the customers to file into the liquor room. What happened next was best described by one Jack Cosley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Ticket-of-Leave Man | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...ROBERTSON Toronto, Ont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 25, 1936 | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Arch died. Lucian, again mixed up in some shady gunplay, fled north with Mary. Arrived in Detroit, Lucian decided he would be safer across the river in Windsor, Ont. But Canadian law permitted the immigration of no slaves. So Lucian Fletcher married dusky Mary, settled down in Windsor's Negro district. In 1861 the Canadian census recorded the Fletcher household as consisting of Lucian. "one washerwoman, Mary Fletcher," and four pickaninnies: Sally. Moses. Maria, Sampson. Shortly thereafter a tax list reported Mary as "Mrs. Fletcher, widow and free-holder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Kinfolk | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Died. Virginia Van Vliet Insull, sister-in-law of onetime Chicago Utilitarian Samuel Insull; after long illness; in Orillia, Ont. Her husband, Martin John Insull was implicated with his brother Samuel in the collapse of the Insull utility empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 25, 1936 | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...year-old Texas Quadruplets, Mary, Mona, Leota & Roberta Keys, to visit the Dionne Quintuplets, but persuaded frosty-haired, stately old Pat Morris Neff, onetime (1921-25) Governor of Texas, to escort them. Pat Neff is president of Baptist Baylor University, where the four Keys Quadruplets are juniors. At Callander, Ont. the Keys' chorused, after seeing the Dionnes: "We are really terribly thrilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 18, 1936 | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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