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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 30, 1955
Page
8
A 15 year old complains that her father restricts fashion and makeup as the generation gap grows. The piece offers practical beauty guidance for teens, stressing clean hair, light makeup, modest perfume, diet, and self care to cultivate a favorable impression and avoid parental or peer scrutiny.
A farm diary describes selling the milking cows to a single buyer. The truck is due after dinner on a hot day, while two helpers await loading. The writer weighs animal welfare and the disruption to farm life, noting only young stock remains and rumors of a sale.
A Ponchatoula Louisiana child with a rare stomach condition has eaten nearly 20 000 bananas since age three and may reach 70 000 by age ten. The State Welfare Board provides eight dollars monthly to buy bananas, with doctors hoping the issue fades by fifteen.
A Build It Yourself aeroplane movement grows from coast to coast with 1200 members in the Experimental Aircraft Association headquartered in Milwaukee. Groups spread across cities, with plans and home built planes showcased at an annual Milwaukee air show. Norman Bluhm in Cleveland works on a wrecked 1932 Mono coupe, aiming for a plane worth twelve hundred dollars that could outperform small commercial aircraft. The Civil Aeronautics Administration oversees testing, licensing planes for non passenger use.
A narrator weighs rural living versus highway proximity weighing dust nuisance from gravel roads and dust concerns for children. The piece contrasts country scenery with road travel discomfort and ends describing a farm with cattle, hens, water, and a shade stream, leaving the choice open.
Advertisement for sewing patterns from Laura Wheeler’s 1955 catalog. Promotes pattern 760 with flower embroidery, teddy bear designs for boys, tissue transfers, and directions. Encourages sending 25 cents for a catalog and 25 cents for the pattern book, with order details and location in New Toronto Ontario.
Doughnut twists rise on floured sheets then fry in hot shortening until browned. Drain on paper and coat with sugar cinnamon or hot syrup made with sugar butter water and vanilla. Yields about three dozen doughnuts.
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