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Newspaper

Orono Weekly Times

Location

Orono, Ontario, Canada

Date

Jul 08, 1954

Page

10

Grass legume silage proves valuable at Smithers Station

The Smithers Experimental Substation in British Columbia reports three years of successful grass legume silage making. Moisture control reduced losses, improved herd health, better cow milk, and calves. Packing, moisture, and weather affect shrinkage, with factors like trip length and animal condition influencing weight loss.

Smithers B.C W. T. Burns Smithers Station

Not Empty Space Amid Interstellar Dust and Particles

The Carnegie Institution studies reveal interstellar space is dense with matter. A cubic yard contains 20 million free electrons and hydrogen atoms, plus sodium potassium atoms and photons, with trace calcium and titanium. Eddington and Hubble comments frame the vast yet particulate cosmos.

Carnegie Institution of Washington Arthur Eddington Edwin P. Hubble Space Earth

Nine Year Old Montreal Boy Nearly Blinded by Blasting Caps

A nine year old in Montreal nearly lost sight after playing with blasting caps at a construction site. He and companions, mistaking them for firecrackers, dropped caps into a fire causing a fatal chain explosion. Officials warn blasting caps are dangerous even when handled by workers.

Montreal

Explosives and Firework Caps Warned by Police

The article describes two types of blasting caps and explosive cartridges, noting caps measure two to five inches and can be fired by electric current while cartridges range eight inches to two feet and are wrapped in paper or tubes. It warns against handling by untrained individuals and urges reporting finds to authorities and keeping work areas off limits to reduce danger.

Is There Life On Other Worlds

The article argues Earth may be the only world with living creatures. Mars is unlikely to host humans or life, though some plants might grow there. It notes astronomers speculate about planet systems around other stars but lack proof with current telescope capabilities.

Earth Mars

No Stone Unturned for Lost Purse

An elderly woman reports a lost purse at a police station where the officer reassures her they will search thoroughly. On leaving, she notices workers tearing up the street for a sewer project and muses that they do not waste time.

Tabby Highway Patrol

Are We Growing As Christians in 1 Corinthians Edition

Rev. KR Barclay Warren preaches on growth in grace and knowledge. The sermon notes that Corinthian divisions show babes in Christ, urges growth in virtue patience godliness brotherly kindness and love, and urges living as temples of the Holy Ghost under Christ.

Jesus Christ Corinth Paul Christ

He Knew Too Much Sammy Epstein Law Joke

Sammy Epstein, a cautious lawyer, discovers his wife walking on the ceiling. She insists she is enjoying it but he warns it violates gravity. She falls with a bang and laments that his knowledge of the law has forced him to speak.

Sammy Epstein Sammy

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the Farm Front John Russell B. J. Hargrave Lethbridge Experimental Station Alta KR. Barclay Warren Carleeton West
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