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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 31, 1952
Page
11
Sports columnist notes Grantland Rice once wrote a poem ending each verse with The records wait. The reflection centers on enduring standards and the allure of breaking marks in athletics.
Elmer Ferguson weighs whether faster times come from superior training or better athletes. Paavo Nurmi backs training over raw strength, while Ferguson argues for the value of specialized technique and enduring legacies like Jim Thorpe and Nurmi. The piece also discusses Bucky Harris and the Washington Senators’ unexpected midseason performance as of July 22.
The notice advertises Dupont nylons and weekly baby chick brooders with reduced July prices. It lists clinics and medical cures, plumbing supplies catalogues, real estate brokering in Weston Ontario, and various drugstore remedies with mail offers and money back guarantees.
Biologist Radcliffe R. Robinson reports that concrete with 10 percent copper acetoarsenite can prevent epidermophyton in terdigitale, the fungus behind athlete's foot. Leaching studies suggest the fungicidal effect lasts two to three years.
Thix praises Moone’s Emerald Oil as a nationwide antiseptic for eczema barber’s itch salt rheum and itching toes. The oil is advertised as pleasant to use and penetrating, capable of transforming old stubborn cases, with sale through druggists and money back satisfaction.
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