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Newspapers from yesterday sometimes provide us with an interesting glimpse into our ancestor's lives. These little snippets do just that. If you have any of these kinds of things in your files, send them in (with complete references and citations, please) and add them to our collection.
"Through a Watertown, N.Y. attorney, Wilfred L. Bullock of Gananoque has brought an action in the Supreme Court to have his marriage to Lillian Elliott of Oakville annulled on the ground that he was insane when the marriage occurred."
"Frankville - There died on Wednesday morning the 21st, an old centenarian in the person of Bernard Kilmury, who was as near as can be computed between 103 and 107 years of age. He was a very remarkable man of his age, until the first part of last May when he got a paralytic stroke, but he was going around smart and intelligent and during the last winter would steal away to the barn and clean out the stables and last summer would work at hoeing and in the hay field. In the spring of 1888 he was fixing up fence and got lost and travelled to Addison a distance of 10 miles from his home."
An 'index' and description of contents of "several interesting articles" taken from Brockville Recorder issues puiblished between March, 1935 and July, 1937. The articles noted as being authored by Harry D. Blanchard are especially rich in genealogical information, with a concentration on the Athens area. Microfilm copies of the Brockville Recorder are available through Canada's National Library in Ottawa.
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