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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 08, 1954
Page
15
The article surveys Canada’s 87 years since Confederation, noting wealth growth and the rise of sports. It lists early popular games and traces hockey’s emergence after 1867, its rapid development in the 20th century, and its current international stature alongside other modern sports born post founding.
The story follows Joe O'Malley who gets a job as a road sweeper in Dublin. Foremen tell him to keep sweeping and he will be fine. He disappears after his first day, sending a telegram three days later from Cork asking for another brush.
A scrambled puzzle list appears with numbers next to each clue and several stray phrases. It includes items like Deadly white, Crosswords, and an assortment of cryptic hints, likely from a vintage puzzle page.
The Ontario Jockey Club introduces two innovations for its fifth harness season at Woodbine. Evening post times begin at 5 o'clock except Saturdays and holidays, with a 2.30 finish and a race every 20 minutes. Woodbine Trots will run a half mile inside the main oval, with 26 entries for the Canadian Cup worth 8500 dollars and favorites Argyle Grattan High Lee Baldwin.
A portrait of Lew Jenkins rising from poverty and hard labor in Texas to boxing fame. He fought poverty by joining itinerant work crews, endured harsh days in cotton fields, and pursued boxing after learning of Jim Braddock’s exhibition. The piece hints at his gritty path to stardom.
Weekly chick and poults hatchings offered with prompt ship ment of breeds. July promotions for egg and meat birds, from Nichole New Hampshires broilers to Broad Breasted Bronze turkeys. Includes feeder pullets day old started, August-September broilers orders. Also listings for purebred English Yorkshires and related breeding stock with disease-free guarantees. Job ad seeks registered nurses for Canora Union Hospital Saskatchewan with salary and benefits details.
Well kept property twenty five miles from Toronto near Newmarket features a five room bungalow with garage utility rooms and modern storage. fruit and vegetable rooms large barn new steel roof cement pens and a flowing well 92 gallons per minute. health forces sale asking up to ten thousand down with possession August 19 1954 contact owner Chas K Sutton Sixgly Street Newmarket after 6 pm for details.
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