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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 16, 1945
Page
5
A medical writer outlines treatment for a child’s abdominal pain tied to allergy, contrasting modern advice with memories of a boyhood bellyache from green apples. The piece appears in the Ottawa Journal.
A quotation from Kiwanis Magazine notes that modern houses control most things by switches while the children remain uncontrolled, asking whether a statement is truth or fabrication and reflecting on domestic life.
The Ottawa Journal settles a spelling quarrel by noting the correct pronunciation is atomic with emphasis on the second syllable. Readers are reminded to say atom ic in ordinary usage and to avoid mispronunciations in conversation and print.
Allied and Axis mines planted during World War II litter coasts and sea routes. Despite surrender, thousands remain and will likely kill or sink ships for years. Britain and the United States laid over 260 thousand mines each. Germany and Japan also mined extensively, with no universal safe method to neutralize them.
A British task force reported Germany was five months from an atom bomb when the war ended. Scientists said a two room lab near Hannover housed work that could wipe out a six mile radius and one lead researcher warned completion by October with unlimited funding.
The Air-Sea Rescue Service saved 5 721 Allied airmen during World War II with 3 200 rescued overseas and 4 665 soldiers sailors and civilians saved off British waters. It developed from a small improvised unit into a vast force using 136 RAF craft and 60 US coastal cutters for the D Day invasion and its crews aided beyond the seas including a pivotal late war rescue on Lampedusa.
Postwar prospects of the Trans-Atlantic route operated by Trans-Canada Air Lines attract rising public interest. Officials note passage requests have surpassed 1,000 as plans advance.
The Windsor Star states that Britain had no civilian population during the war. It argues everyone in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland was engaged in war work or in uniform, with none truly civilian.
A New York Times report details the jeep performing farming chores such as plowing seeding and baling, plus powering machines via power take off. It serves as a mobile power plant, fire truck, and linesmen carrier, combining traction with broad utility for field and barnyard tasks.
The piece praises Churchill taking Labour leader Clement Attlee to the Potsdam conference as a lesson in democracy. It argues Attlee would be ready to lead if the election outcome changed, viewing the arrangement as democracy working at its best.
This ad urges immediate treatment for itching and soreness from piles using Hem-Roid tablets. It promises fast relief, healing of tender spots, pleasant use, and a money back guarantee if the user is not satisfied.
Princess Juliana and her three daughters arrived in Holland to reunite with Prince Bernhard for the first native gathering in five years. She will live near Soestdijk at Baarn to obtain new identity cards needed for food rationing for all family members. The princess expressed a desire to live under normal rations as distributed by the food distributing service.
From Basel to Norway a caravan of 29 Swiss trucks carried 309 tons of food medicine shoes and clothing valued at three million Swiss francs. The convoy passed through Germany Denmark and Sweden and was warmly greeted in Oslo as weekly supplies arrive in Norway.
Ten miles south of London, British families will move into mansions seized under a government order allowing councils to requisition empty properties to relieve housing shortages. The move follows Allied leaders Eisenhower and Montgomery shaping final invasion plans for Normandy.
Extra fussy coffee lovers praise Max Well House All Purpose Grind suited for any coffee maker. It’s described as superb coffee available at grocers.
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