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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 30, 1954
Page
14
A cookery note offers make ahead options for hot weather meals including a potato salad with tomato and Swiss cheese, a macaroni salad with corn chips, and a salmon loaf. It also introduces a curry flavored French dressing and a chicken loaf variation with baked garnish ideas.
A tour of Old Bleach Mills in Rand alstown reveals a 1864 founded linen mill now public, employing 1200 people and supplying fabrics to royal trains luxury hotels liners aircraft and homes. Robinetta Bradshaw heads the studio shaping traditional and modern linen embroidery designs for global clients.
The Stuart ladies warp Old Bleach linen into embroidery pieces using handcraft and dyeing, while machine rooms accelerate work. Miss Heather Webb, descendant of the founder, notes the popularity of schoolgirls joining in, with color set by steaming and pressing for fadeproof pastels.
A simple explanation of why objects appear shallower underwater. Light bends at water air boundaries, causing the eye to misjudge position. Pebbles and fish seem nearer due to refraction, while rays travel straight in water but bend on exit.
The article describes about seventeen hundred snake species across temperate and tropical regions. Ribs range from a few inches to three hundred pair in large species like large pythons. Each rib end attaches to a horn shield under the body, enabling forward wriggling by successive rib movements that grip the ground.
The piece explains early naming of electricity from amber and Thales, notes the term electrica by Gilbert, and Charlton’s later adoption of electricity. It then covers electrical resistance changes with temperature, including superconductivity near absolute zero, and contrasts magnetic properties of metals like iron versus gold and silver. It ends with a brief, odd note on blood pressure norms.
Alfred Brewer, 65, long time Superintendent Registrar at Hackney London, has officiated at about 30000 marriages yet remains a bachelor. The piece surveys bachelors postwar Britain, anecdotes of lovers and schemes to wed, and notes a judge's remark that men are not self-sufficient without a woman’s care.
Mrs. V Dobson of Louisville refused a roll of notes on the street saying they were not hers. She later discovered the cash totaling 156 dollars had been tucked in her coat sleeve for safekeeping weeks earlier.
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