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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 08, 1948
Page
6
Joan invites a last minute misc shower for cousin Ethel. A string of worn pearls, said to bring happiness, is revealed as the grandmother’s heirloom. Ethel suspects the narrator, who admits the gift and asks forgiveness, noting the pearls won’t be duplicated.
The Duchess of York, then a future queen, visits the French Colonial Exposition at Vincennes. Marshal Lyautey entertains with tea as the sun mysteriously hides behind a cloud, prompting the Duchess to thank him with playful gratitude.
At a New Delhi conference, Indian educators decide English will remain the university instruction medium for five years and continue as a compulsory subject after transition to local district tongues. They cite English as a unifying national language amid India’s many languages and its use in trade, science, and national gatherings.
Sir James Jeans argues that most universe matter is in stars. The number of stars is unimaginably large, likened to all sand grains on Earth and all London rain in a heavy day, with average stars about a million times Earth in size.
The Plant Breeding Institute of the Agricultural University of Wageningen in the Netherlands reports crosses between wheat and rye. After fifty years of sterile results, a partially fertile variety has been developed and is expected to enter large scale plantings this year. The crop thrives on poor soils and offers high nutritive value.
A youngster asks to view a dining room rug, surveys it in silence, then tells Mrs Brown the rug does not make him sick. The moment follows a night when his parents visited the neighbor.
The article warns that home heating fires killed as many people as highway crashes last winter and urges homeowners to overhaul and clean heating systems in summer. It outlines chimney and pipe cleaning steps, checks for leaks, and recommends hiring a contractor if needed. It also notes upcoming Old Home Weeks in Ontario towns Lindsay Elmira and Bruce County with dates in July and August.
Nebraska inventor Robert Frock runs a dehydrating plant turning half a million egg shells daily into flour for livestock feed and some for hospital nutrition. He claims egg shell flour is cheaper and more digestible than bonemeal or limestone. Wheeler McMullin urges soils needs more humus and a new crop of deep rooting plants. Halley’s Comet last appeared in 1910 and will reappear in 1986.
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