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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 04, 1952
Page
14
A reader asks Anne Hirst for guidance after confessing a passion for a coworker and facing marriage trouble. The columnist condemns the affair, urges the husband to resign the other position, and to devote effort to repairing his marriage while noting the wife’s hurt and the risk of losing her trust.
Colorful 1920s style ad offers Kasra Winer iron on patterns for sheets, pillow slips, and daughters cot ton skirts with eyelet ruffles. Pattern 624 contains eight motifs 2% by 10 inches. send twenty five cents to Box 1 Ont with name and address for the Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog.
In this ad style notice a drug seller claims over a million T R C units used monthly to ease rheumatic pain arthritis neuralgia and sciatica. It urges keeping T R C on hand for prompt relief and lists a price of 1 dollar 85 cents at drug counters.
Readable clues mix across entries with errors and jumbled letters. This fragment lists many crossword hints such as prefixes and animals, plus misprinted names and numbers, indicating an old puzzle page with corrupted OCR and scattered entries.
The British Standards Institution set clear teaspoon sizes in 1949 but many everyday weights remain illogical. Stones vary by item from meat to hay, tons have multiple definitions, and goods like celery peppers and glass use odd units such as rells tranks kits and sieves. The piece notes the public is dizzy while trades cope with the system.
This column offers etiquette answers on table setting the outside spoon or fork first and waiting for the host to pick up utensils. It discusses pallbearer choices six to eight close friends, and notes divorced women may keep or discard rings, with wedding rings placed below engagement rings at the ceremony.
An elderly writer recounts mild weather, a snowy comparison to last year, and watching a Santa Claus parade on TV. She jokes about buying a TV set, hosts visitors including a Gwen, and notes car troubles from battery corrosion to a mocked $30 relief, ending mid story about a hilly drive.
A narrator notes drought and contour ploughing lessons from a Guernsey visitor while recounting farm disputes. The piece recalls a fat Ottawa trip, a knotted oak log contest, and a running joke about rubber boots and a dripping dead chicken, highlighting stubbornness and rural humor.
A dispute arises over the order of placements with boots allegedly placed first and a chicken hung above them. The visitor asserts his boots were there before, while Partner contends the chicken was intentionally positioned to obscure or challenge that claim.
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