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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 26, 1946
Page
3
Home economists offer festive ideas and recipes for the days after Christmas. Dishes include Yuletide Tongue with Cranberry Sauce, Lemon Snow dessert, Holly Sauce, and spiced cookies with cornflakes and oats. The guidance emphasizes red and green decor and mindful portions for lingering appetites.
The columns list a word puzzle keyed by numbered clues for both horizontal and vertical entries. Read across for horizontal answers and down for vertical ones, matching clues like Fish eggs, Light brown, and Soldiers' me, with abbreviations and foreign terms.
A compiled list of crossword style clues and approximate answers spans numbers 16 to 58 with hints such as America poet and East Indies. The fragment suggests a puzzle or glossary often found in old newspapers alongside notices and brief items.
Chinese forces on both sides intensify buildup in Shansi as Nationalists hold central zones and Communists control surrounding areas. Photographer Warren Lee completed a 3,000 mile tour documenting the tense frontier and raids.
The New York Times notes cautious progress toward East West accord fifteen months after V Day. Foreign ministers finalize steps toward postwar peace, satellite treaties, Trieste settlement, Danube free commerce, and disarmament plans. A Trusteeship Council oversees eight areas as Spain’s Franco dictatorship faces censure. New helicopter mail delivery boosts in New York starting Jan 6.
In London there appears to be no doubt that Princess Elizabeth will marry Prince Philip of Greece at some future date though an engagement reveal is withheld due to Greece's political tensions.
Pandit Nehru speaking in Banaras said the Congress would fix a deeper gulf with Britain and Moslems. He asserted the Constituent Assembly would proclaim sovereign independence and refuse to submit its decisions to Britain.
The piece muses on New Year meaning as a wind up to Christmas and a fresh start. It contrasts children's mixed feelings with adult optimism, ponders time’s structure, and notes farming cycles and the paradox of hard work yielding little but funds to restart each year.
Northern Ontario and nearby Quebec mines raised wages by 16 cents an hour for hourly workers. The boost would bring the average miner’s yearly earnings to about 2500 dollars, a record in many mines. About 90 percent of northern mines granted the increase to lure new workers and boost production to cut costs.
Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson estimates Germany’s food needs at 300 900 tons of grain monthly to avert an occupation program collapse. He says US stocks in the zone are at warehouse bottom and British zone survival depends on US shipments.
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