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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 21, 1951
Page
2
A column recalls royal slip ups and social mishaps from Queen Victoria to Princess Elizabeth. Incidents include hats blown away at ceremonies, stockings laddering, accidental confinement in a robot door lock test, and nerves at public events.
A roundup notes 70 challengers from 21 countries enter the 1951 English Channel Swim sponsored by the London Daily Mail. It recalls prior feats, including Hassan Abd El Rheim’s triple crossing and Florence Chadwick’s women’s record, and mentions potential conditions and preparations for August 13.
A fifty three pound Hewson Clinitron speeds diabetes testing. It can test a blood sample in thirty seconds. In a mass screening, a single technician processed 4 300 specimens in about forty hours, far faster than the usual ten to fifteen weeks. The device features a small table sized aluminum base with a turret of twelve tubes and a sequence that heats shakes and cools samples with zinc hydroxide potassium ferricyanide and tartaric acid reagents.
Classified notices show egg and broiler stock, turkey poults, penned livestock, tractors and combines for sale. Properties include a 3 storey lodge with 25 rooms in Minden Ontario, and a Beaverton Fenelon Falls Road stock and dwelling sale. Also offered are kitchen sinks, rubber stamps, dog and cattle pedigrees, and nurses for an 18 bed hospital in Eastend Saskatchewan.
A flexible fluorescent rope, 5/32 inch diameter, forms lettering and designs and holds its shape. It claims to be four times brighter than ordinary colors in dull light and shines even more under black light.
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