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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 05, 1955
Page
5
In Butte Montana a man named Ledford, living near the Anaconda copper mine, spent sixty days collecting thousands of empty cans washed with copper-laden mine water. He dredged the riverbed and recovered copper worth thousands, selling to Anaconda before moving to Kentucky with his wealth.
Seattle Rainiers manager Freddie Hut chinson faces a $100 000 knothole incident at home plate after a promoter cuts a half inch hole in the left field fence. The device targets coast league hitters, suggesting a bold act to influence the season.
The piece describes a $100000 post taxes cash bonus for a baseball sign in Seattle and jokes about players chasing jackpots. It recalls Ted Williams’s comeback notion and compares past feats, mentioning Brinks left field, Kiki Cuyler, and a home run tale involving a freight car near Braves Field. It also recreates Joe Patko’s long homer claim and ends with a Ukrainian performer turned laborer.
In Stirling a man nicknamed Cowboy Joe shows an extraordinary appetite. He drinks a gallon of milk daily and eats twelve eggs with bread for breakfast then bread for tea and supper. Summer includes five shillings of salted herring and a large snack heavy on cabbage potatoes bacon bread and buttermilk. He stays in a hostel claiming no landlady can supply his needs.
A reader asks about white attire for a woman remarrying, etiquette favors simplicity and private ceremonies. Other Qs cover sending joint birthday cards, swallowing hot foods, and paying vendors for a woman on a train, advising against creating social debt or insistence.
An assortment of direct sales pitches offers exclusive houseware appliances with up to 500 percent profit and a free color catalog. Also advertised are September broilers with immediate shipment from Bray Hatchery and a Canada wide hatching eggs program promising up to 33 cents per dozen premium. A drug store promotes Dixon's neuritis and rheumatic pain remedy at 335 Elgin.
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