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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 11, 1940
Page
3
A compact quiz style excerpt detailing etiquette rules. It covers conversational attention, hostess responses after visits, gift timing before weddings, tipping for attentive Pullman porters, dating restaurant choices, and attire for formal luncheons.
Alaska residents gain a direct air route as Pan American's Alaska Clipper connects Seattle to Ketchikan and Juneau with regular airmail and passenger service. The new line completes a 16 year aviation history in the territory dating back to 1924 when Carl Wielsen flew the first ship, replacing dog teams as the fastest transport for isolated posts.
Miss Charlotte Whitton of the Canadian Welfare Council cautions Canadians to host refugee children from the British Isles only in homes that can provide genuine care. She warns against placing children in relief or aid households or where the child’s labor has monetary value. She notes homes with elderly residents or single-parent households may lack proper support and companionship.
The northern shrike or butcher bird is a bold bird of the far north that migrates south to the northern states and Canada in fall then returns north in spring. It kills sparrows, shrews, small rodents, grasshoppers, and other large insects, often impaling prey on thorns or fence barbs.
A string of light jokes about a dog that won’t chase a cat and a husband searching for an encyclopedia in the attic. A man and his wife face a practical joke of a neighbor and a kitchen raid that exposes a hidden stash of silver plate, ending with a startled confrontation.
A Belgian refugee girl in England, listening for a familiar voice, is startled by a dog bark and exclaims in French that the dogs talk as in Belgium, discovering a moment of recognition.
Pan American Airways launches trans oceanic service over 8000 miles to Australia and inaugurates a daily schedule to Argentina. New routes run four and a half days from San Francisco to Auckland with layovers at Honolulu Canton Island and Noumea, while Argentina service began July 1 and New Zealand mail service started July 12.
Practical quick tips on adhesives for paper and cloth to metal wood or glass using gelatine sugar solution. Methods to prevent olive oil rancidity with sugar add life to oils. Remedies for heel blisters soap paraffin and tar top sticks. Brass cleaning vinegar salt polish and wax fuse tips.
Dr I P S Cathcart chief neuro psychiatrist urges wartime health measures to prevent avoidable sickness and accidents. He links underfeeding to ulcers and stresses vitamins especially C plus good food as cures and prevention. He condemns fast meals and noisy dining as digestive disruptors and calls for a national campaign against indigestion and related health wastes.
Weather affects mental states via tissue oxygen tension and air quality, claim AMA findings. An artificial human ear replaces bone with a canal path for enhanced hearing and voice change. A newly named vitamin M in liver may combat nutritional cytopenia and dysentery. The heart is identified as a powerhouse of negative electricity per AAAS report.
Astronomers from Mt Wilson and Canada described a new hydro carbon molecule found in space. The discovery marks the first combination of elements detected in interstellar regions and reveals carbon previously undetected in that area, signaling a key advance in understanding cosmic chemistry.
Canada reports 1,258,708 ounces of gold produced in the first quarter of 1940, up from 1,216,508 ounces in the same period of 1939. The note contrasts early 1940 gains with the prior year's figures as observers discuss cosmic elements and stellar matter.
Advertises end of season sale for high quality chick breeds from Guelph Ontario. Lists prices for White Leghorn, Barred Rocks, New Hampshire, White Rocks and hybrids by pullets and cockerels. Mentions larger bees and profit adders with cents adjustments.
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