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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 18, 1952
Page
2
An unnamed sender describes a daughter in Korea who is cheating on her groom to a fiancée’s father, saying the couple planned to marry last May before he was deployed. The daughter reportedly keeps the fiancé’s allotment and continues seeing others, with the family distressed and contemplating action.
A vintage pattern advertisement offers Misses' maternity jacket and skirt pattern 4880 with sizes 12 through 20 and yardage details, priced 35 cents with order to Box 1 New Toronto Ontario. The page also includes a readers’ column discussing loyalty and honesty in relationships, urging breaking engagements if a partner is unfaithful, and ends with a humorous shopwalker quip about wanting a bowler hat.
A farm diary narrates a hydro power outage lasting hours, milking by hand, and a cold house. Cows and heifers adjust, repairs arrive, and neighbors borrow heat. The author ponders reliance on electricity and weather driven choices during a long blackout. The piece ends with a family arrival and a tip to preserve candies with varnish.
A new book by Archer Wallace presents fifty two inspirational talks to inspire courage. Wallace, a famed Canadian devotional writer, is praised for accessible language and thoughtful reflections on religious life.
A fragment discusses how misplaced punctuation can change meaning in advertisements and statements. It cites a Glasgow newsagent ad and a young recruit’s written line, illustrating how word order alters interpretation and can provoke confusion among the educated.
Parish readers puzzling over a magazine note claim that people with missionary boxes should hand them in immediately as the rector intends to take holidays. The wording caused astonishment and confusion among churchgoers who question the rector’s meaning.
The widow of Will Rogers recalls a childhood fashion fix that cured him of not tucking in his shirt. At age ten, she tried pleading and punishment before sewing lace edging around the shirt bottom, which reportedly did the trick.
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