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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1956
Page
10
A reader writes on retribution for neglecting aging parents, citing a widow who funded a daughter's education while the mother suffered. Anne Hirst responds with examples of both punished and cherished families, urging compassion and respect for elders.
Ad offers tissue pattern with embroidery transfers for girl flower designs and boy teddy bears. Includes directions and sizes 6 months 1 year 18 months. Send twenty five cents for this pattern to Laura Wheeler at 123 Eighteenth St New Toronto. Also offers Laura Wheeler Needlecraft book 1956 with dozens of designs.
The article features Jim Hack, a veteran agent with New York Life, recalling his early sales in Peoria Illinois. A bluff Sales Manager challenges him after he asks a hesitant prospect if he wants life insurance, then offers a pivotal break by signing for a $10 000 policy.
A dinner table conversation ponders the absence of frogs across the district and considers whether a broader downturn in amphibian song signals a delayed spring. Nest-building sparrows and flowering bulbs amid cold weather highlight small signs of life as calves are released to pasture.
Audrey C Hawkins of Lincoln Illinois kicked a pair of old trousers and was injured when a ten inch catfish hidden inside sprang out. The odd encounter ends with Hawkins seeking relief for the foot wound.
In a reminiscence from Charles P. Everitt, the author recalls discovering galley proofs of Kipling in a magazine publisher’s waste basket, striking a bargain with the printer, and witnessing the early copyright printing of The White Man's Burden. The tale emphasizes Kipling's prominence and evolving copyright protections.
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