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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 08, 1940
Page
3
A collection of light jokes and anecdotes about train travel quizzes hairdressers barbers and office banter. Quick quips include a nurse train stop sneeze misdirection and a barber asking to remove a hat first. The pieces capture social quirks and everyday misunderstanding in short humorous vignettes.
A tenant complains to his landlord about a new house with grass growing through the drawing room floor. The landlord vows to fix it and jokes he will send a man with a lawn mower to round the premises.
Premier Hepburn orders total government spending cuts with no highway contracts to be let for the war. The Minister of Highways T B McQuesten says work on the Queen Elizabeth Way is terminated. 1400 plus workers laid off. A Delhi protest over widening Highway No 2 is countered as necessary for safety. cost figures cited and a plan to proceed with widening a dangerous corner.
Advice warns that heat illness can occur indoors during hot weather. It describes sunstroke versus heat exhaustion symptoms and outlines immediate care such as cooling the patient, placing them in a shaded cool area, applying cold cloths, fanning, keeping the head elevated, and giving cool salted water when swallowing is possible.
Q and A style notes cover keeping glassware from cracking when pouring hot jelly by placing glasses in hot water, treating poisoning with sodium bicarbonate and ice water, removing peach stains with chloride of lime and sun, easing excessive perspiration with alum solution, and preventing berry pie juice leakage by overlapping crusts like a hem.
The gross revenues for the week ending July 21, 1940, were 4,907,208 dollars, compared with 3,536,836 dollars for the same week in 1939, reflecting a 38.7 percent increase. The total also notes 1,370,322 dollars in another metric, highlighting overall gains.
The report describes electrocution of a foot athlete as a potential treatment for fungal infections, while copper atom diffusion via weak currents aims to destroy fungus. It also notes Milky Way radio origin from electrons and hydrogen, per University of Chicago scientists. A separate item reports potassium gluconate tablets gave relief to seven of ten hay fever patients in Emory University tests, improving symptoms but not curing.
The dialogue notes that praising one's home town while visiting another is ill-bred. It asks about the true meaning of wedding breakfast hours and suggests many people interpret this differently.
The Canadian Wheat Board fixes No. 1 grade Ontario winter wheat at 70 cents per bushel for the crop year starting Aug 1, based on Montreal export freight rates. This matches the price in the current year ending July.
Readable fragment notes a belief that cabbages originated from Jupiter's perspiration. The idea links vegetable reverence to mythic origins in ancient Greece.
Abstracted ad items list offers for steady cash profits selling daily necessities and opportunities in rebuilt ovens and machinery. Includes addresses in Montreal and Toronto and a belt and thresher equipment line with price lists.
A housewife argues against wasting polish by never opening a tin to avoid losing a day's supply. The quip highlights thrift and daily routines in a domestic setting.
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