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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 30, 1954
Page
6
A vintage collection of cold meal ideas includes potato salad with Swiss cheese and tomato, macaroni salad with dill pickles and corn chips, and a chicken or fish loaf bake. Salmon loaf with lemon and watercress garnishes is featured, plus a mild curry French dressing option for lighter heat.
A visit to Old Bleach Mills in Randalstown highlights a linen maker rooted since 1864 by J. Webb. Robinetta Bradshaw leads the studio creating machine embroidery designs now used in ships cabins hotels and aircraft, preserving a handcraft heritage in a modern age.
The article describes Stuart ladies stitching crewel embroidery on Old Bleach linen, with patterns for the annual issue. Girls work in sunlit rooms, using frames to keep linen taut while machine and handwork combine. Experts dye and fix colors to ensure pastel, fade resistant finishes.
The article explains how refraction makes objects underwater appear shallower or closer than they are. Light bends when passing from water to air, causing the eye to misjudge positions as if light traveled straight. Pebbles and fish seem nearer due to this optical effect.
The article explains that snakes number about seventeen hundred species inhabiting temperate and tropical regions. They vary from inches to thirty feet and up to 300 rib pairs. Each rib end connects to a horn shield under the body, enabling forward wriggling by gripping the ground in a horizontal motion.
A concise science note traces the origin of electricity from amber and Thales to William Gilbert and Walter Charlton. It explains electrical resistance with temperature, superconductivity at near zero, and basic magnetism noting iron, nickel, cobalt are magnetic while gold and silver are not. It also gives a rule of thumb for blood pressure.
Alfred Brewer long time Hackney Superintendent Registrar, famed for marrying about 30 000 couples, remains a bachelor at 65. He hints at no firm plan to marry after retirement while anecdotes on bachelorhood and antics of lovers, both side of the era, fill the piece.
Mrs. V. Dobson of Louisville denied a roll of notes found on the pavement. She later learned the 156 dollars she had tucked in her coat sleeve weeks earlier belonged to her after all.
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