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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 29, 1938
Page
3
Bangor dentist Dr. Briggs claims emotional distress from love disappointment accelerates tooth decay. He notes women may be more affected than men due to higher emotional sensitivity and explains depress mood disrupts parathyroid-regulated calcium balance, increasing decay risk.
Ontario Attorney General Gor don Conant suggested at a Toronto traffic safety conference that pedestrians might need license plates or tail lights at night. He noted the concept could empower municipalities to regulate pedestrian traffic to cut auto accidents and said the idea warrants consideration for walkers over a certain age.
An Imperial Economic Conference report says exact global cattle sheep and pig counts are unknown due to incomplete data. Rough figures place cattle around 600 million, sheep about 750 million, and pigs near 250 million, with the British Empire hosting roughly two-fifths of cattle and between one-third and two-fifths of sheep and pigs. It notes trend shifts from 1925 to 1981 in trading countries, including declines in U S hog and cattle numbers and uneven changes in sheep and pig stocks.
Fisheries Minister Michaud reported at Ottawa that Canada's fish exports climbed this year and overall fisheries conditions improved in the past month. He said last year fishermen earned more money for the total catch than since 1930 and that exports in 1937 rose by nearly 3.5 million dollars, with larger markets the key issue.
Brief Q and A on social duties for a bachelor, dining manners with a small apple, child visitors at home, best man gifts, and carving turkey etiquette. It covers hosting usefulness, fruit eating with knife, when children may talk, best man gifts, and choosing turkey portions without causing embarrassment.
Practical homemaking tips from a period column. Soak color items in cold water with a pinch of salt before washing to prevent fading. Add a tablespoon of paraffin to water when washing stained linoleum to protect its surface. Store garden tools clean and dry with kerosene or grease for winter. Oil peppers before baking to keep green peppers from browning. Sew lace on linen with hem turned up for neat finished edges. Test mushrooms by stirring with a silver spoon. if the spoon tints, foreign substances are present.
A list of ten traffic safety rules for children issued by Dr. Herbert J. Stack of the National Centre for Safety Education at New York University. The rules cover planning safe trips to school crosswalk use safe lights attention at crossings obeying officers avoiding rides from cars, playing in safe areas, bicycle safety and rural highway walking direction.
The Ontario Department of Agriculture reports a serious water shortage for livestock across many western central and eastern counties. A light snow last week melted, improving well water flow but not enough to ease the shortage significantly. Plowing proceeded across the province as ground thawed by December 15.
The article argues switches should be near the most used entrance after dark. Living rooms should have switches by the main living room entrance, with vestibule or street lighting sufficient for safe entry. Kitchens require switches by the dining entrance, and when rooms have both outside and inside doors the inside entrance is preferred.
Reports from multiple fields include artificial spawning of bass by Wisconsin fishery division, discovery of sleeping sickness in pigeons linked to human encephalitis, a new long‑lasting local anaesthetic from New York, and Eleparin shown to prevent clot formation in vascular surgery.
The review lauds van Loon as a liberal historian who attacks dictatorship. It argues Hitler and fascism threaten world domination and urges democratic action in 1938 as Mussolini is noted too. Toronto Musson Book Company price is listed at $1.25.
A light column of jokes and misreads from a sports gathering. A famed athlete errs in heat order. A Scotsman bleeds after a shave and jokes with a doctor. A witty exchange questions the cost of blood transfusions and a guest quizzes a host’s daughter.
A vagrant appears before the magistrate amid a long record of offenses including drunkenness burglary and assault. He responds to the judge with a terse quip about imperfection asserting no one is perfect as the case proceeds.
Thousands of dead minnows clog the waters of Kincardine Ontario harbor puzzling local fishermen. A past mass death prompted tests on fish and water with no clear cause found. Fishermen, normally eager, avoid the carcasses as inquiries proceed.
Morpeth Ontario hunter Clifford Ashton testified in St Thomas court on November 80th that while aiming at a rabbit in an Elgin woodland near No 3 highway a deer was struck and killed. Game Overseer Sir Dorland of Rodney doubted his account and pursued a charge under the Game and Fisheries Act.
Matthew Moody & Sons Company of Terrebonne Quebec offers threshing machines hay presses root cutters feed cutters corn shellers rollers saws mowers binders potato diggers and sorters with direct farmer sales at agent prices. Demonstration machines at bargain prices plus a free catalogue on request.
Harvard Observatory in Cambridge reports pursuing a hidden sun behind dust clouds. Dr Bart Bok explains the coal sack as the Milky Way’s dark patch near the Southern Cross. Separately, building permits in fifty eight Canadian cities totalled 52 696 759 dollars in ten months of the year, up from 47 362 820 last year.
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