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Newspaper

Orono Weekly Times

Location

Orono, Ontario, Canada

Date

Jun 26, 1947

Page

7

Various Ontario classified offers lure readers to work and invest

A collage of advertisements seeks buyers and agents for diverse ventures. John R. Creasy Company invites exclusive Cressy dealership applicants from Canada. Flu O Ray Corporation entices door to door agents with postwar electrical lines. Medicinal plant prospectors offer up to 12 per pound. Chicks and poultry deals list prices and shipment terms. Electric power plants advertise 6 000 watt units. Flags from John Leckie Limited and a harness shop for sale appear. Hairdressing school promises great opportunity with Marvel system. Patent solicitors Fetherstoneaugh & Co offer inventor assistance from Toronto.

Subsidies and Cost of Living Upturn Reported

The Ottawa Journal notes that April’s cost-of-living index rose 2.5 points amid higher prices. It cautions the index understates subsidies and tax reductions that also affect households.

Ottawa Journal April Bureau of Statistics

The Fellow Who Dropt the Match

Poem notes a man dropping a match that ignites grass and a fire in a mountain pass. The blaze consumes a patch as the wind fans it, melting his buttons and revealing the culprit. Timber Topics.

Sports And One Thing or Another by Frank Mann Harris

A column by Frank Mann Harris on overpaid athletes, golf’s mental strain, and the Open Golf Championship. He compares golfers Lew Worsham and Sam Snead, mocks nervous announcers, and explains stall walking in racehorses, linking old slang origins to a light political jab.

Frank Mann Harris Lew Worsham Sam Snead Nowaday Henry Tallace Toronto Star O.K Stalin Hungary Huggins

Train of Tomorrow Like Hotel on Wheels

General Motors unveils a four car diesel powered train tour then travels to thirty major U S cities as a rolling hotel. The car design emphasizes space glass and level changes with new suspension and articulation for smooth starts and stops. Features include astro domes observation roofs and the names Moon Glow Skyview Dream Cloud and Stardust.

United States General Motors Skyview

Protected Forests Protect Industries

A speaker notes that about 800 forest fires occur annually in Quebec and nearly 200,000 acres burn. Fires are mainly caused by human actions, and protecting forests safeguards industries worth around 200 million dollars yearly plus tourism revenue.

Quebec

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