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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 30, 1948
Page
3
At each christening Pastor Brooks presided in his Boston parish and felt obliged to praise the infant without overdoing it. His famed rhetoric yielded only the line that he had paid the baby a special compliment, as he held the infant and gazed at its wrinkled features.
A confused scene at a racetrack feature gate shows an unticketed man attempting entry as Vin Citations’ owner and trainer interact. The gatekeeper stops the intruder and questions his claim to access.
A Mexican Indian from a small town travels to Mexico City and is awed by modern amenities. He questions the telephone’s function and recoils after hearing the operator ask for a shoe request, exclaiming in astonishment.
A shopper recalls holiday scenes inside and around a department store. Crowds jostle while couples, youths, and clerks show small acts of decency amid last minute buys. A streetcar ride reveals ordinary kindness from strangers and a final return to Ginger Farm.
A lieutenant at an Army Air Forces navigation school learns his secretary’s phone rings daily just before noon for the post fire department to time their neon siren. She verifies the clock by the siren, while the officer questions clock accuracy.
Practical tips for laundering white and colored table linens to preserve color, stiffness, and embroidery. Advice covers washing, rinsing, drying, ironing, handling lace and embroidery, stain removal, and when to seek professional dry cleaning.
A Woman’s Club column shares make ahead Date Pudding recipe with filling, Sand Tarts, Cocoa Doughnuts, and a Peanut Butter Sauce. It notes a Newburyport cooperative bank renovation misstep, revealing the bank spent 500 on a vacant house later found not owned by them.
Many people suffer backache from faulty kidney and liver action. Dr Chase's Kidney Liver Pills claim to treat both organs, purifying the bloodstream and easing tiredness headachy joints and aches. Available at drug counters for 1 cent.
A reflective poem expresses a wish to be kind every day. The speaker seeks to help others, brighten strangers, and live true and fair. They pray for divine guidance to keep these acts as daily practice and aim to make the world a touch better.
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