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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 12, 1954
Page
3
Ed Fisher, 26, spent 24 hours in a skin-tight rubber suit on the ocean floor near Key Largo Florida, to set a record for underwater endurance. He kept warm with the suit, ate only soup, and raw fish he caught during the stunt.
A fragment from Lady With a Spear recounts Sharks Bay in the Red Sea as a submerged grand scene. The author describes a vibrant reef teeming with corals and a spectrum of fishes, from emeralds to opal blennies, amid towering ledges and blue depths.
A mother congratulates her son on his engagement urging a good wife as heaven’s gift. She writes that marriage brings out goodness in him, then a separate postscript in a different hand urges him to stay single calling him a fool.
A Mardi Gras festival in Bail leul featured Miss Monica the snake charmer whose glass case contained a girl in a bathing costume as a black python and an Indian viper attacked. She protected herself and survived after doctors treated fifty two bites. next day she resumed her act with the snakes.
A Washington man opens a restaurant on a busy street and charges patrons by weight. Diners weigh in, then pay for weight gain. A burly stranger loses weight after a huge meal, revealing weights hidden under the table and prompting a payout to avoid a scene.
The ad urges sufferers of rheumatic pains and neuritis to try Dixon's Remedy from Munro's Drug Store Ottawa with express prepaid and Peminex for menstrual pain. The promotion includes Toronto Post's Chemicals offering Peminex and related products, with pricing listed.
A garbled dialogue shows a frustrated diner addressing a waiter with misheard phrases and stilted syntax. The exchange hints at a comic miscommunication as a patron lectures about visiting the zoo and turtles.
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