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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 24, 1953
Page
13
A cookbook like page lists pork spareribs veal scallopine pork chops ragout and pork hock ragout with step by step prepping and simmering notes. Chicken almond Canadian version adds mushrooms almonds with rice. A safety note warns Christmas trees pose fire hazards and offers handling tips.
In excerpts from Commander Campbell’s memoirs, an admiral’s love of fruit leads to a German torpedo attack after a steward forgets a fruit basket at sea. The piece also recounts fakir entertainment aboard ships, early medical kits, Tierra del Fuego dog stories, BBC broadcasts, albatross legends, marmalade jokes, and Kanaka funerals observed during World War I era patrols and voyages.
A playful tour through vanished things from elephants in Camberwell to ships at Batavia. Anecdotes recall a railway engine mislaid on a track and a California glass factory stolen brick by brick, with police bemused by callers seeking missing wonders.
After three years of experiments a Bury St. Edmunds farmer built a stock of 5000 fruit trees. Each tree yields five varieties of the same fruit including apple pear or plum.
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