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Orono Weekly Times

Location

Orono, Ontario, Canada

Date

Jun 28, 1956

Page

6

Dear Anne Hirst Letter From a Seventeen-Year-Old Bride

A seventeen year old writes to Dear Anne about parental control over marriage. She loves her beet and fears disobedience as her parents intend her to wed an older chosen suitor four weeks after their disagreement. Her heart suspects a broken promise.

Anne Hirst Togo

Simple lawn chair pattern and romance advice

Pattern 620 offers easy instructions to build lawn porch or patio chairs with actual size pieces. Includes one pattern and a gift book offer from Laura Wheeler Needlecraft for 1956 plus a letters section with parental guidance about love and independence.

Laura Wheeler Eighteenth St New Toronto

Topper Norman Paul recalls Jimmy’s best laughs at opera event

Norman Paul praises Jimmy Durante as one of the great laugh-getters in show business at New York Opera opening. Jimmy jokes about a diamond hair ornament on Baby Mends and a ruby tiara on Abs. Vanderbilt while noting popcorn on his head from a leaky bag.

Norman Paul Jimmy New York Abs Vanderbilt Don Amethe Paul Henning Burns and Allen Gracie George Jane Russell

Princess dress pattern 4783 for full and half sizes

Advertises pattern 4783 for princess style dress with short and full sleeves. Includes sizes 14 to 24 four, yardage 4 1/2 yards 39 inch fabric, illustrated instructions, order form to Anne Adams 123 Eighteenth St New Toronto Ont.

Anne Adams Eighteenth St New Toronto Ont

Cracks Reported in Taj Mahal Structure in Agra

Three wide cracks appear in plaster inside octagonal rooms of the Taj Mahal amid heavy rains and emergency measures urged. A courtyard wall collapsed after autumn floods. the mausoleum was built by Shah Jahan for Mumtaz Mahal and took twenty two years to complete at a cost of fifteen million dollars.

Taj Mahal Agra India Shah Jehan Mumtaz Mahal

Queer Eyes of a Whale Describe Fixed Eye Alignment

The article explains whale eye placement with eyes set far back facing opposite directions. It notes they cannot turn to look forward or backward, requiring the whale to rise and turn to view objects on the horizon.

Mr. Heaplingfish

June 1956 at Ginger Farm a garden diary

The column recalls a cool early June at Ginger Farm with frost fears, garden tasks, and window cleaning. The writer notes plants surviving winter, geraniums in pots, furnace work, car troubles, and the arrival of a new grandson. A reflection on progress, weather paradoxes, and the St. Lawrence Seaway TV feature closes the piece.

House of Commons Ottawa St. Lawrence Seaway Ginger Farm

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