05 May 1955
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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 05, 1955
Page
1
Ledford lived beside the Butte Montana Anaconda copper mine river, gathering thousands of discarded cans filled with copper-laden mine water. After sixty days he dredged the riverbed, producing copper worth thousands and selling it to Anaconda before returning to Kentucky a wealthy man.
The Pacific Coast League scene erupts as Seattle Rainiers manager Freddie Hut chinson finds a $100,000 knothole target cut through the left field fence at their home park. A West Coast philanthropist reportedly arranged the 0.5 inch larger opening to test hitters and draw attention to the team.
The piece describes a $100000 cash bonus in Seattle tied to a baseball sign near the left field fence and recalls players like Ted Williams, Kiki Cuyler, and anecdotes from Braves Field. It mentions PCL roots, local wealth fever, and historical oddities of balls landing in unusual places. It ends with a young Ukrainian named Joe Muzyczuk and a circus backstory.
In Stirling a man nicknamed Cowboy Joe is famous for an extraordinary hunger. He consumes twelve eggs and a loaf at breakfast, another loaf at tea, a loaf at supper, and a gallon of milk daily. Summer sees him spend five shillings on salted herring and eat it all at once, plus two pounds of cabbage and potatoes, two rounds of bacon, bread, and two pints of buttermilk as his snack. He lives in a hostel claiming landladies cannot supply his whole diet.
A column answers etiquette questions about second marriages wearing white, veils, and orange blossoms, simplicity of ceremonies, appropriate birthday card wording, handling hot food, and paying for a train companion's vendor purchases. It cautions against making others debtors and underscores discreet, considerate conduct.
An advertorial fragment markets exclusive houseware appliances with up to 500 percent profit and a free color catalog from Murray Sales in Montreal. It also promotes September broilers with hatchery options Bray Hatchery in Hamilton and New Toronto offering weekly hatching eggs at premiums. The piece ends by noting Dixon's neuritis and rheumatic pain remedy from Munro's Drug Store in Cuane priced at 1.25.
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