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Newspaper
Ontario Georgetown Herald
Location
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 21, 1939
Page
7
A compact sale notice from PAMILEK O at 570 St. Clement Montreal offering prices and quick sales with worker details and catalogue information, listing particulars for potential buyers.
Marksmen from New York and Ohio excelled at the Norval Rifle Club small-bore event held over June 10 weekend under secretary R W Hall Brampton. C Petrie Lancaster New York led open contests, edging Toron to and Norval shooters in several matches. Final scores include Petrie 200x16 at 50 yards and 200x16 at 100 yards, Nurse Norval 200x15, Thompson Toronto 200x17.
A Royal Salute cannot match the thrill of the Waterloo Band Festival Tattoo on June 24 in Waterloo Park. Over a thousand band men will participate in the Empire at Peace spectacle concluding a day of music with family picnics and full grounds facilities.
The article recalls Cracow’s legendary dragon lair beneath Wawel hill, reachable by a winding shaft and guarded passages. Krakus is said to have slain the beast by trap and fire, with later legends noting the cave’s river-side entrance blocked. It notes Polish forests and mountains as haunts of queer animals into modern times.
The name Richard, of Teutonic origin meaning powerful ruler, was favored by Normans and remained popular in England. notable bearers include Richard the Lion Hearted, St. Richard of Chichester, and figures across literature, religion, and politics such as Lovelace, Baxter, Glover, Lee, Cobden, and Wagner.
Imposing pre Inca fortress sits on a hill above Cusco, with zigzag stonework including 20 ton blocks of 18 feet high. Quarries remain undiscovered, likely dragged by hundreds of slaves. Rodadero slope bears grooves suggesting ancient Indian workers used the rock as a work bench for cutting and polishing stones with water.
The Embargo Act of 1807 passed December 22 forbade ships from sailing with American cargo to foreign ports. In response to British and Napoleonic decrees, it aimed to block commerce but only caused domestic distress. It was replaced in 1809 by the non inter course act targeting France and England.
The Bosporus waters push ships into riverside homes as vessels rub against embankments and ram bow sails into chambers and drawing rooms, a situation Collier's Weekly notes as the only place where such incidents occur.
A healed patient credits Kruschen Salts with relieving long standing rheumatic pains after seven years abroad. He explains two salts dissolve uric acid crystals causing pain and stiffness and are expelled naturally.
Toronto Hospital staffer argues stuttering largely stems from emotional distress. Suggestions include reducing household emotional strain, avoiding language over stimulation, accepting left handedness, avoiding parental over anxiety, and seeking early professional advice.
Inquiries on common household pests include ants cockroaches silverfish clothes moths carpet beetles house flies and bed bugs. Ants invade kitchens. cockroaches and silverfish persist year round. Use equal parts sodium fluoride and pyrethrum powder or dusting powder in cracks and crevices. Brush and box away infested clothing to deter clothes moths and carpet beetles. use napthalene and clean harborage areas. House flies thrive in manure and garbage. control is community based with sanitation and screening. For more details request Circular No. 137 from the Pub licity and Extension Division Ottawa.
Excerpt discusses how Americans spend large sums on sports and cosmetics while contributing far less to education about cancer. It argues for a balanced sense of values and responsibility, citing comparisons like a football afternoon cost and infantile paralysis fundraising, urging subscription to Georgetown's weekly paper BR.
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