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Sherbrooke daily record, vendredi 30 août 1918
1918-8-30
vendredi 30 août 1918
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Sherbrooke, Que. :[Eastern Township Publishing],[1897]-1969
vendredi 30 août 1918, Journaux, Sherbrooke, Que. :[Eastern Township Publishing],[1897]-1969
[" M Sherbrooke Daily Record Established 1897 SHERBROOKE, QUE., FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1918.Twenty-second Year THE THREATENING WEATHER CHECKED FLOW OF SPECTATORS TO THE FAIR YESTERDAY, BUT NEVERTHELESS A LARGE CROWD ATTENDED (The Railway Officials Were the Chief Guests at the Luncheon Tendered By the Directors Yesterday\u2014\u201cAlstead Arbutus\u201d a Field Spaniel, Valued at Over $600, Died from Pneumonia\u2014Sam Boy, Owned By Mr.Bernier, of Victoria-ville, Accounted for the King George State.VÏ 4 The threatening weather undoubtedly acted as a check on the flow of people to that bright and lively spacious enclosure situated on the east side of the St.Francis River to witness the programme offered yesterday by the directors of Canada\u2019s Great Eastern Exhibition.Nevertheless, there were nearly twenty thousand persons in attendance in the afternoon and over ten thousand during the evening, of which total number about twenty thousand were paid admissions.Consequently, the exhibitors, p
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News in The Times today (Thursday, Sept 26) that Bronze Age cheese crumbs had apparently been smeared over the bodies of mummies 3,600 years ago may bring memories flooding back to veteran children’s TV presenters Andy Crane, Pat Sharp and Yvette Fielding.
The trio were hosting a wild and wacky Saturday morning show called What’s Up Doc? in the wilds of Maidstone, Kent, back in 1993 when a producer stumbled over a similar cutting.
A rare 200-year-old lump of Tibetan cheese was about to be auctioned at Sotheby’s.
At the time, the programme also featured a weird character called Simon Perry who wore a bright orange cagoule, a knitted blue balaclava helmet and who also had an unhealthy interest in the snack.
It was decided that Simon (played by actor Stephen Taylor Woodrow) would attend the auction house and bid for said cheese as a publicity stunt. It was assumed the mouldy block of dairy could be snapped up for a song. Who else in their right mind would want it?
As it happened, another cheese collector had read the same piece and was also in the room. He was determined to get his hands on the crumbling cube and insisted on taking part in a bidding war against the unlikely-looking Scottish TV representative.
The chunk of Tibetan history finally went under the hammer fo
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