Etc. -- Ross Clapp arrives in Simcoe
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A lightly edited transcription of a page 1 article in the 10 Feb 1921 Simcoe Reformer newspaper.
 

Simcoe gets new optical parlors

Mr. Ross Clapp, formerly of Toronto,  a full-fledged Optometrist and Optician, has decided to locate in Simcoe. and install a complete optical equipment.

Mr. Clapp recently completed the most advanced course in Optometry it is possible to take in Canada. He has successfully passed the examinations of the Canadian Ophthalmic College, Toronto, under the tutelage of Mr. W. G. Maybee, an instructor of international reputation.

Although optical equipment such as Mr. Clapp has installed is not usually found outside the larger cities, Mr. Clapp believes local conditions to be such that Simcoe and vicinity will support modern optical parlors.

It is only in recent years that the business of optics has developed scientifically to any great extent, and it is now making such rapid strides that men who have been prescribing glasses for years find constant study necessary to keep pace with its advancement, and with the public demand for more scientific service in the correction of their eyes.

The old-time method of trying lenses in a trial frame until the patient thinks he can see better will no longer do. Scientific and exact examination and tests are demanded and modern knowledge and equipment are necessary in the use of the new methods.

Mr. Clapp has had a special refracting room built within his offices and has equipped it with instruments of the latest and most approved designs. With this equipment and knowledge, he is in a position to give the citizens of Simcoe and vicinity an optical service unsurpassed anywhere in Canada, not even in the larger cities. 


Ross L. Clapp

  
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