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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1944
Page
3
A small girl watches her mother apply lipstick and asks why she wears makeup. The mother explains she uses it to look pretty, revealing a simple domestic moment.
A collection of light exchanges and jokes from a college student working as a farmhand, a farmer named Raymer Blunt, a horse rider, and conversations with a prospective landlady, a rich uncle, and two Irishwomen. The humor hinges on wordplay and situational irony.
A guard dog described as sharp and menacing guards war plants. The Army trains these dogs and feeds them dehydrated dog food to ensure alert protection against any threat.
The digest explains methods to remove wallpaper stains with ammonia paste and alcohol polish, rust from fabrics with boiling water and lemon juice, soften putty with soft soap, clean a glass kettle by boiling with a bleaching solution, and treat grass mats with chalk or talcum powder and benzine while avoiding flames.
Advice urges prompt treatment for itching piles and rectal soreness. The advertisement promotes Hem-Roid tablets as internal relief, claiming quick relief and healing of sore areas, with a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
Various methods have been devised to halt fast moving motion photographically. Spark photography uses brief electric sparks to freeze a rifle bullet in flight. Flashing intermittent light can also stop motion. A new camera now records 8000 consecutive frames per second with 33 microsecond exposures.
The device captures rapid movement and allows slow motion projection for detailed analysis. It differs from ordinary cameras by flashing film past the lens at a steady 70 mile per hour pace for precise timing.
Questions on social protocol include whether a guest should accept a cocktail or cigarette, serving corn on the cob at a dinner, placing the date on a social note, the meaning and pronunciation of canape, and when to light candles on the table. Roberta Lee answers these points in modern etiquette guidance.
The answer lists six items about social etiquette and phrasing for inviting a dance. It includes gracious refusal, serving food choices, where an inscription sits, an appetizer description, timing before dinner, and sample phrases for requesting a dance.
A shipload of scrap from the North Africa battle area reached a Brooklyn pier for rebuilding and processing to aid the war effort. The shipment was described as significant by observers including a Times correspondent.
A description notes a vast scrap pile including wrecked airplanes, motors, plane parts, empty ammunition containers, rubber, dead batteries and about 100000 worn shoes.
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