London's Bicentennial (Snippet 25)

 Happy Canada Day!

   Here are a few items from the London Morning Advertiser - 100 Years Ago - July 1, 1926.

Today the temperature is supposed to soar to 35, but will "feel like" 47! In 1926, it was 25 and peoples' feelings were probably not so inflated.

Cars driving into buildings is not new.

In 2026 we may soon be able to get booze from another province, but probably no bourbon from the U.S. for quite a while.

According to the "Homicide Dashboard" produced by the Toronto Police Service, there have been 16 murders so far in 2026.

The blue license plate problem happened in 2020. The issue is still in the news: "Ford Government is in Secrecy-by-default mode, Critics Say After blue licence plate Documents Released."

DON'T FORGET TO RENEW YOURS

Nurses can now wear scrubs.

Now we just have different coloured ones.

London had a local paper back in 1926 and the sports coverage was considerable. There were even stories about lawn bowling and cricket.

There were plenty of ads, but clearly the writing was on the wall and this strategy was applied. It didn't work.