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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 25, 1944
Page
7
A collection of brief humor vignettes and exchanges. A child asks why makeup is applied while a farmer jokes about true farming success. An uncle notes a spelling error in a cash request. Irish neighbors trade quips about work and permanence in lighthearted exchanges.
A description of trained guard dogs used at Army war plants. The text notes their sharp fangs and growls, with dogs fed dehydration dog food to keep them alert and ready to deter any threat.
Practical home remedies for wallpaper stains rust on fabrics and old putty cleaning with ammonia water and salt lemon juice and sunlight. Guidance includes cleaning inside glass kettles with chlorox and bleaching solutions and treating grease spots on grass mat with chalk talc and benzine caution to avoid flames until benzine evaporates.
Do not delay treatment for itching piles or rectal soreness. Hem-Roid tablets, taken as directed, ease itching and soreness while aiding healing. The remedy is pleasant, highly recommended, and backed by a money back guarantee if unsatisfied.
Science captures fast motion with spark photography and intermittent lighting. A new motion picture camera now records 8 000 consecutive pictures per second with 33 millionths of a second exposure, enabling precise study of rifles, machinery, and other rapid movements.
The device records rapid movement for slow motion analysis. It differs from ordinary cameras by flashing film past the lens at a constant 70 mile per hour speed for detailed study.
Roberta Lee answers five etiquette questions about accepting favors from hosts whether to drink or smoke, serving corn on the cob at dinners, placing the date on social notes, the meaning and pronunciation of canape, and proper timing for lighting candles on the dinner table.
Question prompts on dating etiquette and phrasing for asking a partner to dance. Choices include gracious refusal, menu guidance, signature placement, hors d oeuvres, pronunciation hints, dinner timing, and two formal dance asking phrases.
A shipload of scrap from the North African battle area arrived at a Brooklyn pier to be rebuilt and reprocessed for the war effort. The head of a scrap drive observed the scene last week, noting the shipment as a sign of mobilization.
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