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Title: Canadian grocer July-December 1903
Year: 1903 (1900s)
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Subjects: Supermarkets Grocery trade Food industry and trade
Publisher: Toronto : Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co. (1887)-
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and excursionparties from this city topoints outside. The grocersengaged in the retail tradetook their outing on Wed-nesday week, of which par-ticulars are elsewhere given in this weeksGrocer. Port Stanley is the mostconvenient, and apparently the popular,resort for many of the societies and schools;it is situated on the Lake Erie shore about25 miles south. * * * The thirty-first annual outing of theemployes of the D. S. Perrin Co. was heldto Port Stanley last Saturday. Out of the400 employes 350 were in attendance.A liberal supply of refreshments was servedon the train going to the Port, and on arrival on the grounds another supply wasat hand. The company issued a veryunique programme for the occasion. Thecommittee having the affair in charge,and to whom much of the success of thepicnic is due was composed of T. H. Mc-Farland, master of ceremonies; CharlesFitzwalters, chairman, and J. T. May, secretary. # # * The thirty-third annual outing of theMcCormick Manufacturing Co. also took
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Nearly 5,000 of the employes of theGrand Trunk Railway left this city lastSaturday morning for Detroit on theirannual excursion. Five special trainswere required to draw the big crowd.* * * Two special trains will bring the Lon-don Old Boys from Chicago to the mam-moth reunion in this city from August 1to 4. First train will arrive on Saturdaynight at 8.30, and the other at 9.30 Sun-day morning. By the reports given inat the final meeting of com-mittees of the TravellersClub, just held, the successof the record-breaking pic-nic on August 1 is assured.Amongst the many featuresof the days events will bethe Cooks Parade. Thecommittee having this onhand on travellers picnicday, fully expect this willeclipse anything of thekind ever attempted. Eng-land, Germany, France,Italy, Russia, India, Can-ada, United States, and infact all of the various coun-tries of the world, will herebe presented in this greatprocession. W. H.L. ALD. LAPORTE, of Laporte, Martin & Cie, Wholesale Grocers, Montr

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