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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 30, 1941
Page
2
A collage of jokes and short scenes. Farmers, soldiers, and families share quips about magnets, fame, misheard words, and classroom banter. Quick one liners and light anecdotes capture everyday humor.
Practical Q and A style notes cover waterproofing shoes with wax and mutton fat, cleaning a felt hat with sandpaper and salt mix, icing protection during interruptions, veggie health values, and a method to mend a loose umbrella handle. It also notes 1941 maple syrup production in Canada at 2,276,400 gallons.
Mrs Sophie Barthlott 73 sought divorce from Henry Barthlott 86 in Superior Court Chicago citing cruelty. She testified he deceived her before marriage claiming to be 80.
A collage of etiquette questions with concise answers covers hotel reservations when delayed dining room exits gender order in dining car travel child amusements on trains use of place cards and a note on a gem singing trick. Also reports ocean magnesium recovery at Freeport Texas by Dow Chemical with Dowmetal alloys for defense castings.
Miss Mary D. Waller of the London School of Medicine for Women explains how dry ice heat turns to gas instantly, creating high pitched vibrations when contacting a metal plate. She notes that metal and dry ice interactions produce squeaks, while glass or non conductors do not.
A Thanksgiving service was held at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Toronto on Thanksgiving Day at 10 30 in the morning. The program included a governor general proclamation reading by John Carleton and readings from the Bible and Science and Health. The lesson sermon centered on Thanksgiving with Psalms 50 14 as the Golden Text and concluded with readings by Mrs Jean Wright and Mr Carleton.
The event features a solo by Miss Hileen Law and a closing hymn No. 272 Our God shall reign where e er the sun does his successive journeys run. The gathering ends with the benediction as God is love and sustains all good.
In fall some grasshoppers enclose their eggs with an insulated air bubble wall to shield them from winter cold. The behavior creates a protective barrier that helps eggs survive freezing conditions.
The Bureau of Standards and Textile Foundation of the United States announced a chemical treatment showing promise in making wool less edible for moths and more resistant to alkaline soaps and shrinking.
Product ad claims Aeromatic meter boosts power and mileage across autos trucks tractors buses and ships while reducing carbon. Appeals to agents for territory info from Dept 9 Box 163 Vancouver Canada and promotes quilting patches plain broadcloth textiles from Textile Jobbers 516 Queen W Toronto with four pounds for one dollar post paid.
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