Dear Annie Hirst Helpful Advice on a Shattered Marriage
A husband writes that after nearly five years and a three year old daughter his wife left for her parents and now loves an 18 year old. He asks whether to grant the divorce or try to win her back to keep their daughter together. The columnist urges considering the child’s welfare and possible reconciliation.
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Annie Hirst
John
Anne Hirst
Eighteenth St
New Toronto
Ont
Crochet Hats and Patched Letters in One Note
Reader advertisements offer crochet patterns and a needlecraft catalog with 25 cent patterns and a 55 cent catalog. The page includes a sample letter about domestic conflict urging support for a wife’s choice and family duty.
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Menille
Highteenth St
New Toronto
Fig Tree Curse Ends in Newlyn East Legend
In Newlyn Hast Cornwall villagers once feared a staff grown fig tree in Tressillian Chapel wall that supposedly bore a death curse. Legends tie the tree to Saint Newlyn and a long line of deaths among vicars and visitors who touched or pruned it, though church records say nothing.
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Newlyn Hast
Cornwall
St. Newlyn
Newlyn East
Tressillian
Robert Tressillian
England
Richard II
Australia
Laburnum and Lilac Echo From England to Canada
A letter contrasts blossoms and birds between England and Canada. The author notes lilac and laburnum bloom together in England, recalls a childhood laburnum, questions if it grows in Canada, and laments wallflowers primroses and bluebells not surviving Canadian winters while praising Canada’s trilliums. Birds like skylark and nightingale evoke nostalgia.
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England
Canada
Echoes of birds and labor in a small town diary
The writer contrasts memories of nightingales and skylarks with wartime notes and a Canadian reader's Globe and Mail piece about a sky lark sent to cheer an immigrant boy. The entry covers farm work by John and a hired man, cattle sales, calf births, hen eggs, and Partner’s misread information, ending with a remark on Partner’s dumb moments.
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Love
Zeps
Globe and Mail
Canada
Wordsworth
Wood Street
Susan
John
Johnny Eame
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Bermuda
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Manent Chita
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