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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 29, 1940
Page
3
Stratford Herald recounts Sir Harry Lauder's thrift maxims from past decades. The benevolent comedian urged frugal living and prudent spending, urging neat dress, careful entertainment, saving habits, and value from tradesmen, with emphasis on hard work and self restraint.
The Annual Totem Pole Golf Tournament will be held at Jasper Park Lodge Alberta from September 4 to 7. Amateurs only with qualifying rounds, women play equal numbers as men, 36-hole final for the men,18-hole flights for others. All inclusive CN Railways package includes transportation and lodge stays.
Councilman George F Young acting superintendent of the Meadport Pa water department says a meter reader had not read a meter for five years and guessed figures until a book change forced actual readings. Resulting bills show a jump from 4 to 13 dollars.
World activity in chemical research has slumped about 13 percent since the European war outbreak last September. Professor E. J. Crane of Ohio State University reports the decline using international scientific and trade publications, comparing it to a 24 percent drop after World War I began in 1914.
University of Oregon Medical School researchers described a muscle regulating substance likely a vitamin found in apple seeds. Feeding ground seeds or oil pressed from them produced remarkable recoveries in near death animals with wasted muscles.
The U S public health service reported a bedbug as the grand father of all bedbugs. It is several times larger than ordinary insects and carries the sleeping sickness germ from person to person and from animals to people.
A Q and A on dinner timing greetings illness sympathy gift etiquette and dress. Tips include arriving to apologize to the hostess, sending flowers or a note for illness, children entertaining on anniversaries, handshakes at work, not wiping silver at table, and avoiding bold patterns or tight sleeves for stout women.
A compact page of practical answers covers preserving needles by using chamois in a needle book, making whitewash by slackening lime with water and thinning, adding bluing and salt for whiteness and adhesion, keeping cretonnes stiff by rice-water rinse, mixing a simple toilet water from elder flower and distilled water, and securing nails in plaster by wrapping with steel wool before re-insertion.
Summer weather makes skin shine and trap dirt as pores relax. Cleansing is essential. wash the skin three to four times daily to prevent greasiness and blackheads and keep makeup smooth in heat.
A man who never believed in bites finally hooks the biggest trout in the lake. He is shocked by the catch and discards it as a lie before the boat sinks his prize. Also brief moral vignette shows a girl crying over a nickel and a joke about mosquitoes and a screen test.
In a wartime message from Health League of Canada president Justice Riddell the call goes out to shake off apathy and raise national health standards. Ontario Health Minister J Harold Kirby cites a concerted health program as essential to prosecute the war efficiently and reduce preventable sickness.
Grandpa laments wild slang from the young while the grandson argues progress. The exchange touches on morality and language across generations and a shopkeeper notes a debtor’s habits. A Bible reference to Job is invoked as contrast.
The article notes widespread removal of signposts and milestones across Britain. Distinctive locality indicators such as directions to London Bristol Moreton-in-the Marsh and Stow-in-the-Wold have been erased, leaving both locals and enemy parachutists uncertain of routes.
Canada reports a 46.6 percent year to date increase in building contracts through July 1940 totaling 154 741 100. Ontario led July with 11 985 700 while Quebec followed 4 319 200. Toronto and Montreal saw strong private construction amid war related activity.
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