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Orono Weekly Times

Location

Orono, Ontario, Canada

Date

May 15, 1952

Page

3

Dundee Jute Boom Powers Big Textile Shift

In Dundee the jute industry thrives amid rising prices and Japanese competition. About 18,000 workers are employed, with many vacancies for weavers spinners and spreaders. A modern industrial upgrade replaces obsolete machines, producing ten million seamless jute bags yearly, while India remains a rival in coarser sacks.

Dundee India Bengal Assam Calcutta

Etiquette Q and A: thanks notes and table manners

A columnist outlines proper etiquette for wedding showers thank you notes guest lists introductions bananas at table chicken leg handling gift exchanges and greetings. Guidance includes sending notes optional and hosting a lunch if not written, always introduce the younger to the older, and proper banana and chicken-eating practice.

New Organdy Updates Spark Fashion and Home Decor

RGANDY fabric gains life with new finishes and uses in fashion and interiors. Swiss Heberlein finish allows repeated laundering without starch. Flocked organdies from Switzerland offer spring patterns for drapes tablecloths and napkins while casement types remain less desirable for decor and fashion.

Rgandy Heberlein Company Switzerland

Wheat Cereal Dishes Add Flavor To Main Meals

Readable from a wheat cereal recipe set showing savory uses beyond breakfast. Dishes include Wheat Fig Pudding, Wheat Sandwiches, Pecan Loaf with Sauce, Spicy Raisin Pudding, and Wheat Cutlets, detailing ingredients, oven temps, and yields.

New Hope For Poison Ivy Sufferers

A zirconium ointment shows 85 percent success in treating urushiol irritation from poison ivy oak and sumac in 88 patients at Syracuse University Health Service. Researchers warn not foolproof but promising, while urging continued vigilance against shrubs. Poison sums grows across Canada to the Deep South with clusters of berries and varying leaf shapes. Poison oak and ivy are described with their regional growth and identifying signs.

Syracuse University Student Health Service Bob Gilmore Canada

Poison plant care and protective steps for handling

The guide describes three poison plants with orange smooth or hairy features and green flowers with white berries. It warns that leaves berries bark and roots carry poisonous oil and advises avoiding contact. If needed wear loose clothing and gloves and wash clothes in hot water after handling.

Fools and Wisdom Clash in a Garden Sermon

A lecture titled fools by one of the country’s wisest men sparks humor when the chairman jokes about the speaker. The lecturer retorts that he is not as great a fool as the chairman implies, capturing a theme of peace in a garden versus turmoil beyond it as quoted from Publius Cornelius Scipio.

Publius Cornelius Scipio

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