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Description: 2 WOOD FRAMES ARE CONNECTED AT EACH CORNER BY LONG METAL SCREW THAT IS INSERTED THROUGH THE BOTTOM FRAME THEN A METAL SPRING IS POSITIONED BETWEEN THE FRAMES, WITH A BRASS WINGNUT ON THE END OF THE SCREW MEANT TO ADJUST THE TENSION ON A RACKET. IN ONE CORNER THE SCREW IS ATTACHED TO A HINGE AND CAN SWING OPEN TO ALLOW THE RACKET TO BE INSERTED INTO THE PRESS. MARKED ON THE BOTTOM OF THE PRESS IN BLACK INK IS "F.H. STUART" AND "WARNER". OTHER SIDE HAS A MARK WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN A REMNANT OF A STRIP OF TAPE OR FORMER LABEL.

History: BELONGED TO F.H. STUART, FIRST COUSIN TO MR. HUGH M. DICKSON JR., DECEASED HUSBAND OF DONOR. ACCORDING TO DONOR, PRESS IS APPROXIMATELY 80 YEARS OLD AND CAME TO CANADA WITH STUART FROM ILLINOIS. HUGH MARQUIS DICKSON SR. WAS BORN IN 1888, AT CHATHAM, NEW BRUNSWICK. HE CAME WEST IN 1906 TO WORK FOR THE C.I.B.C. IN REGINA UNTIL 1910. HE THEN WORKED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY. IN 1914 HE MOVED TO WARNER ALBERTA AND MARRIED HELEN MOSEDALE OF ILLINOIS IN 1915. HE PURCHASED THE MOSEDALE FARM IN 1917, WITH FRED MOSEDALE AND SOLD IT IN 1931. IN 1935 HE BOUGHT A FARM WITH W.S. RYAN, AND RETIRED IN 1950. IN 1936 HUGH JR. GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA AND JOINED THE R.C.A.F. IN 1941. HE MARRIED ISABEL GOODALL, OF REGINA, IN 1943 (HAD 3 CHILDREN). FROM 1964 TO 1981, HUGH WAS A DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED GRAIN GROWERS. IN 1975 HE WENT TO GHANA FOR CIDA. F.H. STUART WAS FROM ILLINOIS, WENT TO SCHOOL IN WARNER AND EVENTUALLY MOVED TO CALIFORNIA.