About a year ago, I showed you a scanned photograph that I had found on newspapers.com, a research resource with a name that’s self-explanatory. It was a group portrait that had appeared as a human-interest item in the Star Weekly (a Saturday supplement to the Toronto Evening Star) on November 14, 1914, and it showed my cousin, Blanche Isabel Price (she went by her middle name, Isabel), together with her four grandparents and four of her great grandparents.

Here’s that post from June 2025.

The quality of the photo was sub-optimal, given that it was taken from an online archive, but I recently found a better version that I wanted to share with you.

A Better Version Turns Up

Last week, I had the opportunity to spend time with some of my Price cousins, including Isabel’s brother Ted and her nephew Ken. Ken was was kind enough to give me access to a box full of family photos and clippings. As I went through them, I was delighted to find that the trove included several pages of the actual 1914 newspaper. It seems that Isabel’s father, Joseph Leslie Price, must have put it away for posterity (and posterity is us!).

When I scanned that newspaper page, the result was what you see at the top of this page. It isn’t a huge difference, but it’s definitely clearer than what I shared with you last year.

I took the liberty of using AI to clean things up a bit, and here’s what I got (you can click the image to enlarge it):

Star Weekly, November 14, 1914
(the photo has been gently cleaned up using artificial intelligence)

My great grandparents, Joseph Price and his wife Helen Elizabeth Leslie, are in the upper left. The photo gives you a better idea of what they looked like in their mid-fifties.