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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 20, 1944
Page
8
A collection of short humor vignettes and dialogue sketches from ordinary life. Jokes cover makeup and vanity, misunderstandings in work and romance, farm life quips, horse drawn transport, lodging and tenancy quirks, and Irish-wold punchlines reflecting everyday pressures with light wit.
A terse notice describes guard dogs trained by the Army. It notes these dogs’ sharp fangs and aggressive growl as they deter any attempted intrusion. Training includes dehydration of dog food as part of guarding war plants.
Advice columns offer methods to tackle wallpaper stains rust on fabrics and putty softening. Techniques include ammonia paste for wallpaper grease with alcohol on fabrics using salt and lemon juice in boiled water for rust, soft soap on putty, and benzine caution after benzine evaporation.
Do not delay treatment for itching or soreness from piles. Hem-Roid tablets, taken internally, quickly relieve itching and soreness and aid healing. Pleasant to use, it is recommended. if unsatisfied, the druggist will refund your money.
Various means have been developed to stop fast moving machinery for study. Spark photography uses brief illumination from an electric spark to capture bullet flight and impact. Flashing lights can halt motion when synchronized with engine movement, and a new motion picture camera now takes 8 000 consecutive pictures per second, each exposure 33 millionths of a second.
A specialized research camera records rapid movement with film flashing past the lens at a steady pace of 70 miles an hour. This device differs from ordinary movie cameras by enabling slow motion projection for detailed study of the operation photographed.
Roberta Lee answers five etiquette queries about accepting offerings from a hostess and non smokers or non drinkers, serving corn on the cob at meals, where to date social notes, the meaning and pronunciation of canape, and candle lighting timing on the dinner table.
A reader outlines options from etiquette to proper phrasing. The best approach is a direct request such as Will you dance this with me or May I have this dance, delivered politely before the dinner announcements.
The head of a scrap drive at a Brooklyn pier last week saw a shipload of scrap from the North African battle area. The material arrived to be rebuilt and reprocessed and returned to the war effort. The report notes 550 units or tons in the cargo.
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