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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 17, 1958
Page
6
A husband writes that heavy drinking after long truck shifts provokes tension and his wife has left him twice. He claims not to drink daily and fears losing his one year old son if separation continues. He asks if his wife is overreacting to his drinking and notes exhaustion and nerves.
A sewing pattern offer from Laura Wheeler promotes child pinafores with embroidered details and a two pattern giveaway in her Needlecraft Book. The piece shifts to a domestic advice column on drinking, marital trust, and dating, featuring Anne Hirst's letters and guidance for readers.
In a narrative from Pamela Macgregor Morris the author recalls Ditta the cat breaking free from a crate with slats too close for comfort. Ditta chews and claws until a pane gives way and she escapes. The piece details the trip home with Ditta roaming the car, perched on laps, and the husband driven to back roads as the cat stays safe. The story ends noting Ditta’s happy return and hints at a future tale about a bedroom window view and a Midlands doctor.
The piece recounts a community corner about Partner and Johnny sharing labor in the hayfield with unpaid but willing help. It recalls a recent open house at Woodbine stables, a horse ride for a child, a Milton trip, highway 401 grading, and a veterinary visit for Ditto, highlighting daily rural life and local figures.
A Viennese bareback rider who later married circus trainer Albert Schumann suffered a fall at eighteen and never rode again. A doctor in the audience fell in love, followed the circus, proposed, and was rejected. She chose to stay with circus life and later married Schumann. The couple recalled circus paintings and shared lifelong fascination with the circus. Includes an unrelated note on a printed baby pattern.
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