Confession and Advice From Anne Hirst on Love and Forgiveness
A widow writes of sabotaging a romance to win a man and now seeks peace through prayer and church. Dr. Henry Milton Taylor’s faith guidance frames emotional health as spiritual practice and urges remaining in faith. A second letter from ARGYLL asks how to handle a new romance when the mother of a potential husband objects to prior marriage.
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Beare
Anne Hirst
Tos
Deptss
Henry Milton ‘Taylor
Cme
Argyll
Eighteenth Street
New Toronto
Ont
Missed patterns and farm life across seasons
An assortment of vintage sewing patterns from Canada plus a farm diary recounts how dry weather and price pressures affect farmers. The writer notes neighbors selling land for roads and seaway projects, and shares small anecdotes about hens, cows, Mitchie White and farmyard happenings.
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St. Lawrence Seaway
Partner
Mitchie White
Mitchie
Palmer
Bob
Joy
Slot Machine Origins Sparked By Breakfast Talk Across Oceans
A tale traces the birth of slot machines to Ephraim Secker and George Weaver in Bath and an English U S collaboration. Ephraim’s toy-like device dispensed tobacco plugs while George built a fortune from automatic peppermint sellers, amid legends of a 2000-year-old temple invention that dispensed holy water.
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Ephraim Secker
Ephraim
Bath
George Weaver
England
U.S
Alexandria
Temple of Venus
Eph
George
Machines replace human touch in 1950s vending and services
The article catalogs automated kiosks and coin operated devices from the era. It notes orange juice dispensing, chocolate purchases with a "Thank you," and COD deliveries. It mentions Utah marriage papers, department store order machines, and coin operated typewriters in Britain. It also previews an intelligence test device at the seaside and forecasts slot machine sales in Canada and the United States reaching about a billion dollars annually.
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Utah
New York
C.O.D
Germany
Britain
Canada
United States
Rain showers and farmer worries amid dry spell
A brief rain cooled a droughty morning as farmers report brown grass and crops. Peas were picked for the first time, wheat is cut and stored, yet fear of a damaging storm looms over the fields.
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Parmer
Thurman Afflesnitz Offers to Show Meter Fixing in Cellar
The doctor sent tour bills to Thurman Afflesnitz who arrives in person. He tells the doctor he cannot pay and proposes moving to the cellar to demonstrate fixing a gas meter so he can swindle the gas company.
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Thurman Afflesnitz
Afflesnitz
Household Tips and Remedies From a Historic Query Column
Practical household guidance covering perspiration control with alum or cologne tincture, substitutes for soap using grated potatoes, removing yellow spots with garden mold, making tooth powder from areca nuts and bone, preventing tearing of sheets when drying, pastry shrinkage from excess shortening, testing jellying point for jelly, and cleaning felt hats with a flour paste and brush.
Mildew Remedies and Kitchen Tips from Old Advice
Mildew can be removed with sour milk and sunshine. A tip says lemon in the water when boiling rice helps whiten and keep grains separate. A method to kill a tree is to girdle it with a deep belt around the trunk.
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Butler
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Ostia
Italy
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Jane Ashley
Home Service Department
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Canada Starch Company
P.O. Box
Montreal
Bensows
Cork Starch
Canad
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