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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 31, 1941
Page
2
London shops on major thoroughfares recover quickly after damage. Three large stores reopen within days, while a safety measure using bright wooden boards with a glass viewing slit protects wares and reduces flying glass risk.
The Right Rev Archibald Lang Fleming bishop of the Arctic Church of England in Canada visits Grace Episcopal Church in New York after arriving from Toronto. His diocese spans 2 250 000 square miles of Arctic Canada and All Saints Cathedral is in Aklavik near the Mackenzie River below the Arctic Ocean adjacent to Alaska.
Canadian apple producers face war disruptions with overseas markets nearly closed. Fixed domestic prices replace exports from the 1940 crop while about 6.75 million bushels go to fresh fruit and 4.75 million to processing. Montreal reports 85 traffic deaths in 1940, with 58 linked to risky crossings.
A Sunday school lesson urges personal duty to avoid intoxication and to protect others from drinking harm. It links Habakkuk’s woe to causing drunkenness with Cain’s murder and emphasizes self discipline, love for others, and abstaining from all evil per Thessalonians.
W P Macdonald Lambton agricultural representative urged retired railway workers and others on pensions to raise poultry as a hobby and potential profitable industry. He cited Lambton’s poultry stats: 1,004,000 birds producing 362,000 dollars in 1981 and 1,029,000 birds yielding 649,000 dollars last year, noting a 12 eggs per hen yearly gain could add 180,000 dollars.
A Madisonville Texas woman Mrs Grizzle keeps a bantam that rides on the car radius rod to town each morning. The hen nests under the auto while the owner works, and Mrs Kizzie retrieves the eggs at day’s end before they ride home together.
A fragmented OCR list assigns clues and numbers to words describing traits and objects. The vertical section catalogues terms from native Hawaiian to Portugal abbreviation and New Testament, with various definitions and cross-refs.
Canadian Broadcasting Industry will present a nation wide series on Friday nights at 9 00 featuring variety and production talent. Rupert Caplan J Frank Willis Ray Purdy and James Finlay lead. The piece also reflects on radio influence with anecdotes about Edward G Robinson Tom Harmon Bing Crosby Rochester and Edgar Bergen.
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