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Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
This issue of the Fort Frances Times you are now reading is a product of the first “run” of the new Goss Cox-O_Type automatic roll-fed newspaper press which has been installed in the Fort Frances Times over the month.This modern newspaper press, of the latest design in its class, produced […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
One year ago the 44-year-old Fort Frances municipal telephone system was taken over by The Bell Telephone Company of Canada. The date was June 12, 1957. One of the conditions of sale was that Bell was prepared to introduce a new dial telephone system in Fort Frances.At 2 a.m. Sunday, […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
The Chamber of Commerce ceremonies to officially mark the commencement of work on the five million dollar Rainy Lake causeway went off with a bang at three o’clock yesterday afternoon- a Big Bang- literally, as well as figuratively. About 175 to 200 persons, representing communities throughout the whole district of […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
Conveyors From River, Truck and Rail Spur Feed Pulpwood by Hundreds of Cords to Mill The new Fort Frances woodroom which was placed in operation here in 1952, replaced facilities, a part of which has been in operation since 1914, when the mill was constructed. The old woodroom did not […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
No. 7 Machine Modernized This Spring to Complete Program Of Rebuilding Fort Frances Units With the rebuilding of the No. 7 paper machine this spring, the Fort Frances plant of The Ontario-Minnesota Pulp and Paper Company Ltd. now now can boast of three modern machines. The unit is the third […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
Canadians Thrill Border Throng With Dazzling Display of Hockey To Take Series From Stratford Triumphantly winning the Allan Cup, the Fort Frances Canadians on Friday night entered the national limelight as senior amateur hockey champions of all Canada for 1952. The Canadians showed a jubilant border throng a dazzling brand […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
Tomorrow a new theatre opens its doors to provide cinema entertainment- the new Fort Frances theatre which will be managed by Fred Polenske, well-known local young man, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Polenske, who have operated the Royal theatre in this town for the past 31 years. In all […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
Joseph Alexander Osborne, founder of the Fort Frances Times and a newspaperman for 66 of his 87 years, passed away at Newport News, V.A. on Sunday, July 25, 1948. At the time of his death he was editor emeritus of the Gazette of Williamsburg, V.A., the oldest paper on the […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
William Hampdon Tenner, who leaves as a memorial the finest complete collection of photographs of early days in the District of Rainy River, passed away at his home in Devlin on June 10, 1948. He was an ardent and artistic photographer and many pictures of steamboat navigation on the Rainy […]
Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald
The Peek Inn Cafe at 292 Scott St. was badly damaged by fire which was reported at 2:45 a.m. this morning. Although the flames, starting in the vicinity of the soda fountain swept up through the first floor and through the roof. The walls of the building were not badly […]
