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“Timmins First in Canada to Prosecute on Charge of Selling Sliced Bread,” The Porcupine Advance (Timmins). June 4, 1942. Page 1, section 2. ---- Two Convictions are Registered Here Tuesday Under Section of Wartime Prices and Trade Board and Bring. Fines of Fifty Dollars and Costs. Both Bakery and Cafe Plead Guilty. ---- Magistrate S. Atkinson, presiding at the regular weekly police court in Timmins on Tuesday afternoon, registered the first convictions in Canada under the section of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board Order that deals with sliced bread. Two Timmins business-men, Albert Tomchick and Andrew Fillafer, paid fines of fifty dollars and costs for contravening the regulations of the order.

Mr. J. Emile Lacouriere, local attorney, was named special prosecutor by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. but he didn't have to use any of his argumentative powers to obtain the convictions as the two men pleaded guilty before court opened and paid their fines. Mr. Lacouriere was informed by the board that the two charges were the first of their kind to be preferred in the Dominion of Canada.

The charge against Tomchick was that he as the owner and proprietor of Albert's Bakery, in the Town of Timmins, between November 1st 1941, and April 29th, 1942, inclusive, did, "sell bread in sliced loaves, and sliced bread for another person, contrary to and in violation of Section 1 (a) of Order No. 55 of the Wartime Prices and Trade Regulations made and established by Order in Council P. C. 8528. dated the 1st day of November, 1941."

The charge against Andrew Fillafer was that he did "aid and abet one Albert Timchick to sell bread in sliced loaves and to slice bread for another person, in violation of Order No. 55 of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and did thereby contravene the War tions made and established by Order in Council P. C. 8528, dated the first day of November, 1942."

The charges were preferred by Fred Noon, Wartime Prices and Trade Board investigator for this district.

The two charges were read by the magistrate at the court when he read the convictions against the men. The reason for reading the charges, the magistrate said, was to inform the people that there were severe penalties imposed on those people who contravened the regulations of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board.

Harold Grist 9 Centre Avenue, Schumacher, is the first to pay a fine under the new speeding regulations. He was apprehended by Timmins police a couple of weeks ago and this week he pleaded guilty to the charge and paid a fine of fifteen dollars and costs. This is the minimum under the new regulations designed to cut down the large number of speeding charges. The magistrate has the power, under these new regulations, to cancel a driver's license. and can also mete out a jail sentence.

Donat Crispin, 64 Montgomery Avenue, remanded last week on a charge of negligent driving (four persons in the front seat), pleaded guilty this week and paid a fine of ten dollars and costs Police stopped him almost two weeks ago on Fourth Avenue.

Lucille Desrosier, 69 Third Avenue, was given another remand on a charge of careless driving. She was involved in an accident on Third Avenue more than a week ago while she was said to have made a left-hand turn into a driveway. Personal service of her summons was ordered on Tuesday when she failed to appear.

Earl S. Campbell had a charge of operating a car without the necessary driver's license withdrawn, while Bernard Daley paid a fine of a dollar and costs for driving a car with defective lights. Ten other motorists paid fines of a dollar and costs on charges of illegal parking, while one man was given the benefit of the doubt when the magistrate adjourned his case till called upon on the same charge.

A total of twenty-one persons faced charges of allowing their dogs to run at large this week. Of the twenty-one fifteen paid fines of a dollar and costs while three were withdrawn, two adjourned till called upon, and one adjourned till next week.

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Some major events that occurred on July 7.

Photo One: The Ziegfeld Follies perform for the first time on the roof of the New York Theater, 1907.

Photo Two: Slice bread is sold for the first time, 1928.

Photo Three: Construction begins on the Hoover Dam, 1930.

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There was some chatter over at Twitter that should a The Sims 5 ever be released, people would look back at The Sims 4 and say it’s the best thing since Sliced Bread, and well, then this kinda happened....

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