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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 05, 1948
Page
7
The article urges August as ideal for sowing biennials and perennials with fresh seed. It notes seeds germinate quickly and lists plants like pansies and foxgloves, plus hollyhocks needing two years. It describes weed control from tree seedlings, new tools including a light aluminum Ay cutter-holder, a combined hoe and cultivator, and wheel sprayers for 2 4-D weed killer. It closes with Marion Cran quote on love of earth.
Baby Snooks jokes about selling her baby brother Robespierre after a rich childless couple offers a thousand dollars. Daddy weighs the infant at thirty pounds and Snooks counters to keep him fattening for six more months.
Instructions emphasize strict canning rules for low acid vegetables to prevent spoilage. It covers sanitation, packing, headspace, salt amounts, and pressure processing times for beans beets carrots corn peas and green peas with precise vessel and heat parameters.
New and useful devices include a self powered telephone for isolated areas talking up to 20 miles, aluminum identification cards carrying photo and signature, a personal protectograph shredding checks to indelible fibers, a rust proof rat water trap, and a fen lamp combining a concealed fan with a floor lamp.
Grace Sharp reports Hollywood plans a big anti daylight saving campaign for next year. Network executives seek larger audiences with giveaway promos while stars avoid TV but Ronald Colman signs for 26 half hour films. The Robe moves toward production with Gregory Peck and Joan Fontaine likely as leads.
A Sunday diary recounts cows freed from a gate in a rural yard and a writer perched on a tree stump to herd them, admiring wheat fields and the Mountain scenery. The author plans a reunion with Cicely from England after thirty years and reflects on travel by air versus road.
Crossword puzzle with across and down clues covering money cap garb star gift names and many everyday terms including onion Luzon native and Oklahoma city clues exposed in a dense grid puzzle style
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