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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 12, 1954
Page
2
A widow admits planning to break another couple apart and laments the social scorn. She seeks guidance, praises faith healing, and credits Dr. Henry Milton Taylor for Christian psychology. Advice urges humility, church, and prayer to restore peace of mind.
Remnants of a thrift pattern offer bargain sewing with pattern 748 and sizes 20 to 30. A long agricultural reflection follows about wheat prices, farmer retirements, land takings for roads and seaways, plus hay, cows, hens, and a memory of Mitchie White and the mower.
A quirky tale traces the origin of slot machines from Ephraim Secker and Mrs. Ephraim Secker in Bath to George Weaver in Bath who built automatic devices for peppermint vendings and a temple perfector in Alexandria two thousand years ago. The idea, born in England and the United States, expands to machines that clean shoes, wash clothes, play records, sell insurance, and even dispense holy water.
The article sketches a future of coin operated systems. A vending network serves travelers with food and drinks while sister machines dispense orange juice and handle purchases with a nod. Other devices propose COD deliveries and order entry at department store doors.
This morning’s shower lasted five minutes and left fields brown and dry. Farmers fear storms before harvest, though peas picked today were sweet and tender. Parmer and I sense farmers’ worries are greater than in prior times.
The doctor sent bills to Thurman Afflesnitz and then met him in person. Afflesnitz replies he cannot pay but invites the doctor to the cellar to demonstrate a method to cheat the gas company.
Instructions suggest bathing hands in strong alum water or alcohol, or using a lotion made with two ounces of Cologne and a quarter ounce tincture of belladonna, rubbed in until absorbed and dusted with talcum powder.
Mildew can be removed with sour milk then placed in the sun. Separation of grains in rice cooking is aided by adding a little lemon to the boiling water to whiten and keep grains separate. To kill a tree girdle it with a deep belt around the trunk.
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