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Jolly janitor: Don Aslett, author and owner of a successful cleaning company, finds humor even in cleaning toilets
Jolly janitor: Don Aslett, author and owner of a successful cleaning company, finds humor even in cleaning toilets

Jolly janitor: Don Aslett, author and owner of a successful cleaning company, finds humor even in cleaning toilets

Date10/27/1982
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Original Toronto Star caption: Jolly janitor: Don Aslett; author and owner of a successful cleaning company; finds humor even in cleaning toilets.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0099264F
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      Housecleaning pro: Author Don Aslett has good advice for party-givers
      Goode, Jeff
      n.d.
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      You think you have cleaning problems, Two's company but the more the merrier when you're given the chore of cleaning the outside of one of Toronto's g(...)
      Loek, Dick
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      "Another house cleaning time" : have your carpets attended to by the Ontario Carpet Cleaning Company
      "Another house cleaning time" : have your carpets attended to by the Ontario Carpet Cleaning Company
      Ontario Carpet Cleaning Co. (Toronto, Ont.)
      Approximately 1900
      We're all owners here, says Ronald Field, here outside the family's co-operative apartment building on Main St. with his wife Mary and daughter, Florence. When superintendent stopped cleaning, the Fields did it.
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      Mahler, John
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      Michael Kusner, left, finds a touch of humor is excellent teaching aid. Students Mary Macaulay and Owen Henry certainly seem interested enough.
      Michael Kusner, left, finds a touch of humor is excellent teaching aid. Students Mary Macaulay and Owen Henry certainly seem interested enough.
      Lennon, Frank
      8/12/1971
      The hurley brothers: Michael Patrick, left, and Richard Peter, came to Toronto from County Cork, Ireland, and-with an assist from the 'little man' in teh centre-have built their office cleaning company into one of the five biggest in Metro
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      3/12/1974
      Sam Blyth: Travel company owner, 33m recently had his collar-length hair trimmed and finds the shorter style easier to maintain and better for playing sports
      Sam Blyth: Travel company owner, 33m recently had his collar-length hair trimmed and finds the shorter style easier to maintain and better for playing sports
      Blyth, Sam
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      Cleaning up, Window washer Frank Underwood reaches for the tough spots with his three-storey-high cleaning brush on a Yonge St. office building yesterday
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      11/11/1992
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      They are cleaning up, With all the signs covering Five Star Cash and Carry's small building on Dupont Street, west of Bathurst, the cleaning supplies (...)
      Spremo, Boris
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      Successful duo: Pam Piper, above, in New York only a month, finds it a very exciting city
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      A nurse needs to be attractive even on the desert, as this one with the Eighth Army finds
      A nurse needs to be attractive even on the desert, as this one with the Eighth Army finds
      Toronto Star (Firm)
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