WEDNESDAY is Early Closing Day in Brantford, Ont. All the retail establishments shut up shop at noon, and Brantford housewives who haven’t got their food supplies into the pantry by that hour are called upon to do a lot of delicate explaining to hungry and supperless husbands before they go to a restaurant to eat.
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