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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 24, 1941
Page
3
A reader asks how to secure nails in plaster walls and receives a tip to remove, wrap with steel wool, and reinsert. Additional questions cover substitutes for castor oil prune juice, egg preservation, coin cleaning, wool shrinkage, and reviving dying houseplants with castor oil around roots.
A collage of old time gags and roadside anecdotes. A traveler seeks Hard Pete and Rough-House Joe with a quip about pioneers and trains. A driverless car, a Pole, a Hollywood director mistaken for a writer, and a jab at a tall girl’s ambition wrap a slice of social humor from a bygone era.
A concise poetic fragment using a single vowel to shape mood and imagery. The piece paints idle twilight scenes with birds circling and light winds, ending with a vivid night vision and pilgrim imagery.
Rockefeller Institute journal details a kidney-derived chemical that lowers high blood pressure in humans. The finding fits a wider view that kidneys can both initiate and reduce blood pressure changes.
A reader questions etiquette for age inquiries hosting guests and dining. Answers advise tact about age, host duties, offering help, welcoming uninvited guests, escort invitations, and using a fork for French fries. The piece also mentions the origin of nom de guerre linked to war service.
A St Thomas hospital researcher reports seeing through waves with a sensitizer enabling observation of 300 millionths of a millimetre. He believes thought transmission could become scientific probability, amid notes on links between thought waves and solar radiation. Princeton geologist Jepsen identifies a Wyoming fossil as the oldest bat skeleton at about 60 million years.
Morris W. Wilson warns of tougher year ahead and urges drastic retrenchment and higher taxation or compulsory savings to support war finance. He cautions about inflation, calls for tax reform, and supports War Savings Certificates. Sydney G. Dobson notes unprecedented activity and staff contributions as Canada powers through wartime economy.
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