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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 12, 1954
Page
11
Ed Fisher, 26, spent 24 hours wearing a skin-tight rubber suit on the Atlantic Ocean floor near Key Largo, Florida, sustaining himself on soup and raw fish he caught. The stunt set a new underwater endurance record, with the suit aiding body warmth.
Excerpt from Lady With a Spear recounts a dive south of Chardaya at Sharks Bay. The narrator wanders a vibrant reef with corals like pink flowers and brain shapes, teeming fish, and variegated parrot fish, morays, goatfishes, and reef dwellers as the sea shifts from desert to coral garden.
A letter from a mother to her son congratulates him on his engagement praising marriage as heaven’s gift and urging him to marry a good woman. A separate postscript in another hand undermines the message with a blunt warning to stay single calling him a dam fool.
In Bail leul during Mardi Gras celebrations a snake charmer named Miss Monica faced a deadly ordeal when a black python and an Indian viper attacked as crowds watched. The girl protected her head, received antitoxin after multiple bites, and survived though she bears more than 50 marks.
A Washington restaurant opens on a busy street with a weight based pricing gimmick. Diners are weighed on entry and exit to pay for weight gained. A burly patron lost weight after a large meal and demanded payback, while the owner later found weights concealed under the table.
An advertisement urges sufferers of rheumatic pains neuritis and menstrual distress to try Dixon's Remedy from Munro's Drug Store in Ottawa and Peminx from Posts Chemicals in Toronto. It touts express prepaid price and postpaid plain wrapper delivery.
A fragmented exchange shows a disputatious diner challenging staff with misheard phrases and odd spellings. The scene hints at comic confusion over a request to visit a new venue and a joke about a turtle.
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