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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 01, 1946
Page
4
Hopeful News On Coal and Fuel Oil Supplies
The announcement says coal supplies at Falls will meet demand and fuel oil dealers can handle all orders despite rising users. Readers recall wartime fuel shortages and blame on dealers, while better quality fuel arrives. The piece notes price concerns and suggests keeping names on dealer lists until delivery is made.
Soap Box Debate On Soap Shortage Turns Washout
A satirical note treats soap box orations and a soap shortage as a staged protest. It imagines an empty soap box used to rail against the lack of soap while a soap radio serial advertises a brand. The piece lampoons public displays and marketing gimmicks.
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Milady
Prices of raspberries blueberries and early apples rise
The article notes higher prices for raspberries blueberries and early apples compared with past years. It cites costly production, reduced patches, and labor shortages as contributing factors and argues producers deserve fair earnings while consumers adjust to the higher costs.
Pipe Dreams Costly Dreams and Fifteen Cents Loss
A local merchant sold pipes with prices above a nickel and faced a customer who only had fifteen cents. The piece recalls old promotional pipes and the rising cost of pipes, noting how small coins once bought multiple items and future pipe dreams may be more costly.
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Lord Nelgon
Orono Hydro Power Delays Spark Local Complaints
Letters to the Editor from Orono dated July 29 1946 blame Ontario Hydro for poorer service after a two dollar per horsepower rate hike. Citizens cite slow electric plates electric razors and clippers outages during storms, accusing a self serving monopoly of overloading the system and failing to increase horsepower for new users. Local residents Charley Miller Ernie Dent AM Ted Woodyard among those named describe delays and higher costs affecting farms barber shops and households.
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Orono Hydro Office
Charley Miller
Ernie Dent
Madison’ Hall
Ab. West
Roy Forrester
Reeve
Ted Woodyard
Ted
Charley
Ernie
Hydro
Orono
Shackleton Baby Born at Bowmanville Hospital
In Bowmanville Hospital on Friday July 26 1946 Mr and Mrs Kenneth Shackleton nee Ruby Allin welcomed a daughter named Margaret Ann.
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Shackleton
Bowmanville Hospital
Kenneth Shackleton
Ruby Allin
Margaret Ann
Beaverdell Becomes Link For Beaver Line In Saint John Return
The Beaverdell, a 10 000 ton turbo electric freighter from Canadian Pacific, arrived in Saint John New Brunswick in March completing her maiden voyage from Liverpool. She will join three sister ships to replace wartime Beaver class losses and features extensive electrical systems radar gyro compass and radio. The ship discharged 6000 tons of cargo including Singapore rubber and took on Canadian farm products for the United Kingdom amid a celebratory welcome led by Saint John Mayor J D McKenna.]
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Canada
United Kingdom
Beaver Line
Canadian Pacific
Beaverdell
Saint John
N.B
Liverpool
North Atlantic
Singapore
J. D. McKenna
B. B. Grant
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Phonne
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Professional Directory
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Bowmanville, Ont
W. F. Ward
Notary
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George Walton
Mink and Fox
Willow Creek Fur Farm
Boys Ranch
With Jackie Jenkins
James E. O’boyle
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Wartime Prices and Trade Board
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J. C. Tamblyn
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