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Page contains 3 photographs - snapshots of young women working at a Patriotic Street Fair, held on Cooper street, Ottawa, June 22 -24 [1917?]. A news clipping reports the success of the Fair, organized by the Ottawa Women's Canadian Club, intended to raise funds for "Soldiers and Sailors."

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  • [start clipping] PATRIOTIC STREET FAIR ATTRACTING SPLENDID CROWDS --- Booths Well Patronized and It is Expected Results Will Exceed Those of the Previous Year. --- The Patriotic Street Fair, under the auspices of the Ottawa Women's Canadian Club, proceeds in all its glory. Ottawans, both young and old, have caught the step and were whirled up and down the brilliantly festooned and illuminated thoroughfare on Cooper street yesterday, with the happy, joking, laughing maelstrom of humanity, out in full force with their pockets jingling with ready money which will all go towards Soldiers' and Sailors' comforts. The need for these is greater than ever before, but it was stated by an official last night that the day's results even exceeded those of the previous year. Father, mother, Johnny, and sister, hand in hand, edged their way through the dense crowds, escaping a machine here and there in order toc over the grounds and see and hear all there was to be seen and heard before the Naval Band concluded their program with "God Save the King." New attractions seemed to be springing up in every corner and the original booths had new wares to offer. "O for the life of a sailor," sighed many a lad when he stopped to see the "Sailor's Hornpipe" danced by the Canadian sailors form H.M.S. "Niobe" and the cadets from the Royal Naval Academy, and the demonstration of the "Cocoanut Shy." The posters and the flags on exhibition in front of the booth proved a great drawing card. The telephone kept up an incessant ringing at the United States booth, where fresh vegetables from the club gardens, meats and groceries were selling like "hot cakes," and the Cornwall pastuerized butter, the Agricultural booth's specialty made many a housewife return home and "wonder how it could be done." The home-made pickles and preserves and cream cheese solved the problem of the high cost of preserving for they were "just like mother makes," one young bride was heard to remark and the Insecticide, put up in packages for amatuer gardeners, was in great demand. [end clipping]
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