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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 12, 1950
Page
6
A 20 year old seeks guidance on dating and marriage. He notes ease in making friends, struggles securing dates with women, and describes himself as tall with blue eyes and wavy hair, good looks, a stable job, and an interest in nice home furnishings. He asks for dating tips.
Advertisement copy for pattern 4655 describes a wide collar, deep wing-up cuffs, a guace rai flare skirt with a wide band and sizes 12 through 20. Includes fabric yardage for size 16 and requests 25 cents with mail-in box for order from New Toronto Ontario. Also contains extraneous dating style dating article excerpt and advice column text.
Puzzle text shows scattered phrases and partial entries across and down. The readable fragments seem to be a collage of cross word clues and hints with mixed typography and misread letters, offering little coherent narrative or complete clues.
A quirky list of slang terms with clues and hints aimed at readers to guess meanings. The compilation includes terms like black Maria and box cars alongside obscure phrases, framed as a memory test printed upside down to prevent pecking.
In a personal column the writer recalls holidays past and thanks readers for cards. The piece surveys the history of Christmas cards from Henry Cole to modern U S makers, noting evolving styles, envelopes and postal changes like the Penny Post.
British Admiralty develops self contained breathing frogmen for underwater work. The divers film submerged wrecks ships and marine life using new apparatus and mobility during wartime operations.
A sermon contrasts the early believers in Acts 2 42 47 and Acts 4 32 35 with modern claims of communism. It notes voluntary sharing among Christians without confiscation and stresses that giving is a divine expression of love, not a command to replicate today. It cites Ananias and Sapphira’s death as divine judgment for hypocrisy.
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