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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 01, 1955
Page
7
Calvert sports column recalls Lou Thesz of St Louis challenging world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano to a mixed wrestling versus boxing match. The piece notes Marciano ignored the challenge and argues the wrestler would dominate, ending with a wrestling move forcing a knockout.
Stella Martin survived a shark encounter when a man named Carl swam to her aid and helped drive off the predator. After the rescue he received a medal and the couple wed months later in a Durban church, tying a dramatic tale to lasting love.
A widowed mother thanks Tom Shelton after he saves children at sea then writes her a letter and they marry months later. In a separate account, 26 year old stewardess Kathleen Mackie dives to rescue ten year old Terry O Halloran from shark filled waters after he falls from a freighter Taiping. Terry’s father bonds with Mackie and reveals plans to marry.
A man read a remarkable artifact from 1964 recovered from a long surprise. The item is a brick inscribed with a courtly marriage proposal to an Egyptian princess. The British Museum houses this oldest known love letter in the world.
In a French court a deserter’s wife laments no love letters from him while a stationbound soldier in the Far East receives hundreds from his fiancee, tracing a shift from handwritten notes to gramophone messages and long Elizabethan epistles.
An Alpine guide notes that sudden illness kills climbers high in the Italian Alps. Even seasoned guides like Silvia Pedrott are swept away. The illness hits novices hardest, causing extreme fatigue, impaired breathing, and in some cases fatal sleepiness leading to dangerous missteps on peaks.
An Ontario advertisement promotes Shaver strain chickens for high egg yield and low feed, plus dual purpose birds, broiler breeds, and turkey poults. It touts capacity to house more birds, and invites dealers with a Box 138 listing. Also listed are a 298 acre dairy farm for sale in New Brunswick, a 1956 Ford and Monarch autos, and gift items from Don McDonald in Bowmanville.
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