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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 24, 1940
Page
3
Canadian researchers study the origin of the kiss as an old human practice. Ancient Aryan and Semitic records show fervent kissing across lands. Arabs discouraged using kissing for affection, reserved for divine worship. Indian hill tribes use lips teeth and tongue and even nasal sniffing as a form of greeting.
Billie Burke shares a family recipe for rice pudding on her cook night out. The dish uses eggs milk raisins rice and spices with a meringue topping baked to brown. The recipe notes timing and steps from separate egg whites and yolks to final serving cold.
Dr. Arthur B. Elliott of Chicago reports that women live longer than men despite high blood pressure and die less from hypertension related causes. He notes pressures are not higher in women and cites early surgical advances that sever sympathetic nerves to dilate vessels, though this method remains experimental.
The engagement of Miss Ethel Mary Hamilton of Briarcliff Junior College and Harold Spurrier Anderson Jr. of Stanford University was announced with a sky writing display at the bride’s mother home in Lake Arrowhead California. Forty guests witnessed the airplane sky writer script the couple’s initials inside a heart.
Lee Hollister returns from abroad to find Matt Blair dead by suicide and Circle V in danger of ruin. Virginia Blair, now owner, resists pressure from Milton Bradish and Slanty Gano as Lee fights to expose a killer and reclaim the ranch. A clatch of allies rallies as Virginia and Lee face danger and a long night of peril.
Mrs Alfred Watt president of the Associated Country Women of the World urged Canadian women to use national resources to help the country and sustain war support. She praised Women's Institutes for conserving food and creating substitutes to keep Canada financially sound and able to continue aiding the war effort.
Mrs Watt, visiting Ottawa after a U S tour, praised American interest in Canada and urged women to study their own country's economic structure to keep it strong. She said her organization encourages such study and supports Canadian women in exhausting possibilities through one large effort.
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