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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 25, 1946
Page
3
A humorous comic dialogue features Rastus and Liza's misfit wedding gift choice and a pompous witness in a police court. The magistrate jokes about standing, demanding payment for contempt, as absurd exchanges reveal social bravado and a tumble of misfortune.
An park audience member explains his adherence to the straight and narrow path while describing his occupation as a tight rope walker. He says it was hard at first but now comes naturally and that staying focused is essential.
A pastor greets a long-absent parishioner who reappears claiming repentance and explains he has started work washing a chicken coop and building a fence around a watermelon patch. The scene shows renewed faith and a call for perseverance in daily labor.
A father tests his son Bobby with coins, asking which he would choose. Each of six rounds the boy takes the penny, claiming he has already made threepence and noting the threepenny piece’s value depends on the lesson.
A husband returns late from work and is teased by his wife. She then abruptly shifts topic to mention a rumor about Mr. Jones whose wife has been killed. The husband responds with a sour remark, exposing a bleak tone in the exchange.
A battered would be world champion mutters through a damaged scene that a private detective has been hired. The second man ridicules the plan and claims the detective will locate the foe the fighter has been trying to hit for days.
Hallo greets an older man and asks after his health. Fin replies he has been bedridden for seven weeks. He adds the period of illness ended with a crash or setback.
The Detroit News notes the challenge of building millions of houses while wartime production already hard pressed ships and planes are produced with ease. The paper contrasts war demands with peacetime housing needs.
A satirical snippet from St. Catharies Spectator notes deodorized pets sold at 0 apiece in Oregon as household companions, claimed to be gentler than cats and harmless to birds. The Hamilton Spectator mocks Nazi war criminals aging, while the Quebec Chronicle Telegraph notes a columnist definition of courtship as a phase in which a girl wraps a mati around her little.
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Excerpts note a woman manipulating a man before a preacher with him tied in a knot, a quip about a five day week neglecting the Fourth Commandment, and a Nuernberg dragging trial viewed as wartime deterrence while urging hope from the Quebec Chronicle.
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