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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 17, 1957
Page
6
A reader and a separate letter writer seek guidance on marital strain and finances. Advice urges women deserve personal allowances, healthy affection, and shared goals while suggesting leaving if harmony cannot be restored. A separate note asks for pen pals and recommends church or community activity to overcome loneliness.
Advertisement for pattern 4662 by Anne Adams offering a shirtwaist frock with yoke wide flaring skirt in winter weight cottons. Sizes 8 to 14 require yards and contrast fabric details. Includes illustrated instructions and fit testing. Send thirty five cents to Anne Adams 133 Eighteenth Street New Toronto Ontario with name address and size.
An American pastor highlights bizarre given names from Alabama to Utah to cities such as Boston, Chicago, Jones, and Washington Smith. Examples include twins Seventeen and Eighteen, and a Pennsylvania family with Vester to Lester, plus a Tennessee father naming six sets of twins.
An old Chinese tale about luck shows events seeming good or bad depend on timing. A poor man’s horse returns with wild horses, his son breaks a leg, and a tribal war spares him. neighbors rail at both outcomes, illustrating how fortune is unpredictable and often uncertain.
Crochet directions for a pineapple alternating with shell stitch Swan basket design. Heavy 4 ply Jiffy cotton, finished stiffly. Send 25 cents to Laura Wheeler, 123 Eighteenth St New Toronto Ont for Pattern Number and your name and address. Gift book offers crochet knitting embroidery iron-ons and novelties.
The Ginger Farm chronicle recalls a harsh winter with dense fog and slipping ice that injures Partner while a roadside collapse of television service adds to the hardship. The piece nostalgic yet practical notes past winters, Christmas cactus blooms, and days when coal oil lamps and old stoves defined life.
A discussion on polite introductions shows proper form with the woman's name first as in Miss Lake may I present Mr. Ford. It also notes that guests should stand when greeting the hostess entering a room, reflecting attentive manners.
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