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Bell Telephone Office at 12 Hope Street West in Tavistock — circa 1935
left to right: John Lemp, Pauline (Girly) Lemp, Ruth Eifert (later Seltzer), Edna Berger and Bob Krug

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Staebler's Jewellery Store

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For 37 years, from 1892 to 1929, Moses Staebler was Tavistock's trusted jeweller and watch repairman. From his store at the five corners (NE corner of Woodstock and Hope Streets) he sold a wide variety of items ... music books, safety razors, phonographs, eyeglasses, canes, silverware, purses and violins along with the expected clocks and watches and jewellery. One wonders how many marriages in the community were sealed with a ring purchased at Staebler's Jewellery Store.

Weston's Bakery

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These days people get the weather report on their smartphone or iPad or their TV. Years ago we all got it the old-fashioned way. We checked the thermometer usually hung by the kitchen window. One wonders how many homes in Tavistock used the Ben Weston's Bakery thermometer fashioned in the old key style.

Weston's Bakery was started by Fred Weston, a British homeboy. An ad in the Tavistock Gazette dated November 16, 1917 stated that "WESTON'S BREAD is made in the home-made way, with the best of materials and potato yeast".

Shall We Sing?

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Do you remember the words that follow “Let Me Call You Sweetheart”?
Did you know there is a second verse to “Home On The Range”?
What colour ribbon is on the “Old Grey Bonnet”?
What happens “The More We Are Together?”

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