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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 19, 1954
Page
10
A reader describes a failing marriage with unemployment pressures and daily frustrations. Annie Hirst advises rebuilding faith, cooperation, and daily joy, suggesting compliments, shared affection, and practical steps to improve life with children. The note urges support and ends with the Box 1 address for further guidance.
Remnants of seersucker nylon or cotton used for play tops and pants for boys and girls. Pattern 705 sizes 6 months to 18 months. tissue pattern with embroidery transfer. state size. Send 25 cents for pattern and box address 123 Eighteenth St New Toronto. Catalog offers 79 embroidery crochet color transfer and more patterns for gifts and fashions.
Easy to sew pattern 4553 for misses dresses with a curvy neckline fitted bodice and flared skirt. Rayon print faille or cotton options sizes 12 to 40, 35 cents for pattern plus mail order to Box 1 1238 Eighteenth St New Toronto Ontario.
A column offering etiquette guidance on mourning paper use, name retention for married professionals, napkin handling during meals, introducing a guest to friends, bridegroom fees to clergymen, removing gloves during handshakes, signing a photograph for a college-bound friend, and dining alone with a purse. The tone is concise and prescriptive with practical tips.
The Elora Museum in Wellington County showcases basement tools, farm implements, pioneer kitchenware, and extensive period rooms. Cabinets hold firearms, porcelain, and a Currier and Ives print while articles belong to Elora’s early settlers, giving each piece an intimate local history.
An English morality commissioner's accusation of drunkenness against a workman is offset by the man placing his wheelbarrow outside the accuser's door all night. In Beau lieu France a nude farmer in a cinema cites absent mindedness as he watched a nudist film. In New York a theater manager finds a boy in the audience and learns he has the measles.
A pretty young woman seeks medical help from a doctor who reveals three issues she faces including poor eating and excessive makeup. The punchline flips expectations as the doctor announces a veterinary sign outside, implying the patient is not human.
In Aleppo Syria households keep sheep as pets with bright color dyes often on ears muzzles tails and bodies. Families walk their painted sheep through the streets creating a vivid public display.
Signora Anne Pisano, living in Salerno, cannot claim $1.2 million from a U S trust because the will requires her to travel to America, a trip she fears to take. She remains a maid while the fortune stays unclaimed. Harold Murphy from Kentucky endures a week of calamities including job loss, house fire, a car crash, and his seven children contracting chicken pox.
A letter extols Elora’s community museum efforts, noting donated items once scattered in attics are now cared for and publicly displayed. It urges neighboring counties to replicate the model to foster local pride and historical understanding.
The wealthy Mr. Lotsabucks sits by an open window in a wheelchair. A pretty girl passes by and he frantically pulls the bellrope. The butler arrives as he commands for his teeth and a whistle.
In court the defendant stood when his name was read and confessed he thought the summons was a stroke of luck. The clerk corrected him, noting he could not sit to judge his own case, and the defendant agreed.
Joe Frisco the stuttering comedian claimed he would follow Caruso on the bill and asked him to skip Darktown Strutters Ball. The anecdote recalls Frisco’s ignorance of Caruso’s fame until a stagehand clarified he is a singer.
Edgar Bergen drives calmly when a woman driver rear ends him on a clear road. After the bumper entanglement the woman admits fault but Bergen humorously takes all blame saying he saw her from three blocks away and could have dodged.
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