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Horsepower means horsepower to the Old Order Amish, the 'plain people' who travel in black buggies, farm with horse-drawn plows, use wood-burning stoves for heat and kerosene lamps for light
Horsepower means horsepower to the Old Order Amish, the 'plain people' who travel in black buggies, farm with horse-drawn plows, use wood-burning stoves for heat and kerosene lamps for light

Horsepower means horsepower to the Old Order Amish, the 'plain people' who travel in black buggies, farm with horse-drawn plows, use wood-burning stoves for heat and kerosene lamps for light

Date12/11/1979
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  • Horsepower means horsepower to the Old Order Amish, the 'plain people' who travel in black buggies, farm with horse-drawn plows, use wood-burning stoves for heat and kerosene lamps for light
  • Horsepower means horsepower to the Old Order Amish, the 'plain people' who travel in black buggies, farm with horse-drawn plows, use wood-burning stoves for heat and kerosene lamps for light.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Horsepower means horsepower to the Old Order Amish, the 'plain people' who travel in black buggies, farm with horse-drawn plows, use wood-burning stoves for heat and kerosene lamps for light.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0026846F
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      Loris Russell: Renowned expert on kerosene lamps will speak at seminar here.
      Loris Russell: Renowned expert on kerosene lamps will speak at seminar here.
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      11/20/1973
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      Joe Gray still plows the Brampton area farm his family carved out in 1823. Brampton, Ontario
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      Bryant, George
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      Company
      1897
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      Goode, Jeff
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      Spremo, Boris
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      Reopening a channel on Georgian Bay, the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Griffon plows through 12-inch-thick cakes of ice near Midland. It had come to(...)
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      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
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