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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 19, 1946
Page
7
A warm Christmas meditation shares how the season spreads happiness despite hard times. A little girl’s questions prompt family members to express why they love Christmas, from Santa’s magic to peace and togetherness.
A puzzle style list features clues and answers linking U S ambassador roles with naval, linguistic, and chemical terms. The mixed clues reference foreign language hints, abbreviations, and brandish nouns in a thematic grid reflecting diplomacy and alphabetic abbreviations.
A simple method uses one third cup soap scraps with one quart hot water. Mix, cool, and set to form a jelly that can substitute for hard to find flakes.
Poinsettia care tips from M. E. Moriarty advise warm bright windows at 60 to 70 degrees. Water when soil dries, avoid drafts, watch for pests, and use a dark period in early spring. Prune in late May, repot, and move to garden sun, then back to a sunny window by late August to encourage Christmas bloom.
A reader asks how to keep flat silver from tarnishing and is advised to store it with gum camphor. The column answers common kitchen issues including removing candle wax and preventing watery custard.
A stream of aphoristic lines covers frugal meals, procrastination, Hollywood stars, seafaring ambition, wordless songs, and love. It muses on quitting smoking for love, but notes a partner should not pressure. The piece blends social commentary with wry reflections.
The guidance covers monogram color and placement on letter paper, handkerchief waving as improper, serving ice cream in sherbet glasses, a standard of three pieces of flat silver per side, and signaling departure by catching the eye of the most important guest and pushing the chair back.
A 14 ton V-2 rocket loaded with navy instruments rose to 63.5 miles as U S and Royal Navy officers and U S Army observers watched. Officials noted fuel supply alcohol and liquid oxygen exhausted in 64 seconds. Flight lasted 6 minutes 38 seconds.
Joseph Gerl of the United States Radio Manufacturers Association says the average popular television set will cost 250 to 400 dollars plus tax. He notes industry could create 2,500,000 jobs if excise tax is removed and foresees 25,000,000 sets sold in the United States in the next decade.
The Netherlands reports only about 30 000 vehicles remaining today, a sharp decline from the prewar total of 100 000 vehicles, highlighting the wartime losses in transportation assets.
Nation of Consumers America accounts for 6 percent of the world population yet uses 72 percent of cars, 42 percent of radios, 54 percent of refrigerators, 52 percent of coffee, over half of rubber, and one third of all soap, reflecting vast per capita consumption.
Maxwell House offers the same marvellous blend in two packaging formats. Consumers can choose Super-Vacuum Tir drip or regular grind and Glassine lined bags for all purpose grind.
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