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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 26, 1940
Page
3
Bird banding in Canada remains a year round effort with 23 433 birds landed in the first ten months of 1940 and a full year total expected above 40 000. Waterfowl receive special attention as banders cooperate with hunters nationwide.
James PD. McLean, an investigator for the Canadian National Railways at Yale, was saved by Alaska the 92 pound Malemute after a rowboat struck a submerged log on the Fraser River. The dog pulled McLean to shore, saving him from drowning as he regained consciousness with the dog licking his face.
Canada’s stargazers will see the Cunningham comet with the naked eye in mid January. R Meldrum Stewart of the Dominion Observatory Ottawa says it will be the brightest object in the southern sky. Discovered last September by Leland Cunningham of Harvard Observatory the comet may have a tail millions of miles long and could move toward the sun at over 30 miles a second.
A brief guide by Josephine Lowmn lists practical steps to avoid colds and maintain health. Key advice covers simple eating, stress management, moderate house climate, adequate sleep, alkaline foods, protective clothing, daily saltwater gargle, sun exposure, fish oil, hydration, and seeking a doctor for fever or sore throat.
An Arctic discovery ends 80 years of searching by explorers and hunters for Ross goose breeding grounds. Hudson's Bay Company post managers Angus Gavin and Ernest Donovan located the nesting birds on unnamed islands in a lake at the head of an unmapped Perry River tributary, about 24 miles southeast of its mouth in Chester Bay on the Arctic Ocean.
Canadian National locomotives travel more than twice as far without refueling due to increased tender capacity. The longer range reduces stoppages for coal and water.
A string of humorous vignettes unfolds in a bustling shop and street scenes. A new customer orders six chickens and jokes about toughness and tenderness while a clerk jokes about license papers. A guide answers a question at a castle, a rummage sale yields a cloakroom, and other quips touch on pilots licenses tuna fish pianos and an explorer lost in a jungle.
A reader queries etiquette for guest home radio use finger bowls privacy condolence talking about health and wedding reception duration. Answers advise turning off radios, proper finger bowl use, avoiding personal questions, offering tactful consolation, avoiding lengthy health talk, and a bride staying at most two hours. Also notes 1940 Canadian vehicle production: 175,999 units in ten months, including 87,659 passenger cars and 88,340 commercial vehicles.
The value of work performed by power laundries and cleaning and dyeing establishments in Canada during 1989 totalled 22,926,474 dollars.
In a Your Life Magazine essay writer Fred C. Kelley notes a paradox where a $5 reward for every wolf killed leads farmers to raise wolves, highlighting how plans can backfire when incentives are misaligned. The example shows unintended consequences from economic incentives.
The Federal Communications Commission reports more than 3 million dollars to be spent by ten experimental television licensees this month, bringing total outlays to eight million dollars. This follows over thirty earlier licensed projects, showing broad investment in the field despite the sense of slow progress.
Stockholm uses methane from sewage disposal plants as motor fuel for forty buses. Each plant yields 3,500 cubic meters daily, compressed into drums. One cubic meter of gas equals 1.8 liters of gasoline in power terms.
A brief note describes city blackout measures during air raid protection drills. The piece emphasizes visual darkness, street safety concerns, and the perseverance of residents as lamps and lights go dark for security.
Researchers in Schenectady New York test two color lights against window glass to neutralize rays so they become invisible from outside.
The annual international snow shoers congress will be held in Quebec City January 25 and 26. The Canadian National Railways plans special trains from Montreal and the Eastern Townships to carry enthusiasts, with many travelers also expected from the New England States to the Ancient Capital.
The town of Colmar New Mexico with 75 residents boasts the world’s smallest library, the only library housed in a boxcar funded by pennies. A drive by local women raised money for a mile of pennies to buy the boxcar, move it to a vacant lot, and install books. The library now holds more than 1,700 volumes.
The Mint received jewellery and scrap totaling 7,468 ounces of gold in the first eight months of the year.
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