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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 13, 1946
Page
3
A German officer asks a Oslo hotel resident to dance. She declines and he repeats with a threatening tone. She quips it is not personal but that she is Norwegian. Later the husband quips about her being an angel and jokes about clothes.
A hostess remarks on a guest’s clever card skills as he feigns fortune telling. A hired girl gazes at the stream while the mistress and husband joke about the waiting pail and the woman’s apparent daydream. Dimno is mentioned.
The scene features a wealthy young heiress and a young man arguing over a costly gift. She challenges the claim, while he asserts their engagement has boosted his standing locally.
Robinson admires Thompson’s composure amid stress, crediting training and family duties including a wife five children two dogs and a cigarette lighter. A celebrated vocalist survives a motorcar accident and plans to perform again the next evening after recording the incident.
An old farmer resists new tech as a caller and a soldier hear voices from nowhere. A dialogue unfolds about a mysterious telephone scene and an upright piano becomes a focal point.
A Lancashire soldier and his sweetheart Jane spend the day together. On their return, Jane’s mother asks how she felt about Joe. Jane says he is mean for giving only sixpence. The mother suggests reclaiming ixpence. Later Jane confronts Joe at his door asking for the sixpence back and hints at his lack of funds. Joe retorts that the cat cannot afford it and jokes about morning dying.
Word list style crossword clues refer to stage star and abbreviations. The grid hints include across and down entries for actors roles and measurements with many abbreviations and foreign terms. Answers span botanical terms metals and animal names to complete the puzzle.
A compact list of crossword style clues with abbreviated and full forms matching Greek letters common nouns and verbs. Includes entries such as Ontario abbr moisture male deer cognomen winglike part exam operatic solo let it stand and gods of war plus more clues and their abbreviations.
A man bound a boy in his garden to steal apples and handed him to police. The magistrate pardoned the boy due to first offense and warned against temptation, saying he should have flown from the Evil One. The boy retorts he tried but the Evil One gripped him before he could flee over the fence.
A teacher calls on Jeffries to pay attention during a math lesson. The pupil답answer jolts him from daydreaming and he responds with a quick, reflexive affirmation.
A girl complains to her mother about a new flour brand. The mother asks why and the girl says the crust was hard to cut for Roger, implying it produced a tough crust.
A lawyer cross examines a farmer asking how long thirty men would take to plough a field if fifteen did it in five hours. The witness replies that the field is already ploughed by the fifteen, so the question is moot. the courtroom erupts as a humorous logic quip ends the exchange.
The piece uses the kitten chasing its tail metaphor to critique how wage increases prompt price hikes and more wage demands. It argues the cycle benefits no one and stifles workers while looping through costs.
A brief 1960s style op-ed fragment ponders if Churchill shaped India’s fate, suggesting without his presence India might have remained under British rule or fallen to Japan, highlighting alternate history ideas from St. Thomas Times-Journal.
Windsor Star quips that while science praises inhaling oxygen as a hangover cure, the paper prefers a brisk walk home to bed after the second drink. The lightweight editorial blends humor and a practical tip for readers.
The British announce plans for a world’s fair in London in 1947, expressing optimism about the postwar world while the Ottawa Citizen questions whether a world still exists.
The Ottawa Journal notes Britain ships three times as many motor vehicles as the United States due to labor difficulties in the US. It suggests the slower Britain is rapidly reclaiming the world trade once abandoned for the War, highlighting a shift in automotive exports.
Lethbridge Herald notes twenty six flights daily bring passengers into and out of the city. The item hints at aviation activity while stray quotes reference industrial and labor topics from unrelated sources.
More than 1,000,000 workers are now idle in the United States as the result of strikes. Woodstoeck Sentinel Review.
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