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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 30, 1952
Page
11
Fort William, Oct. 20. Melwin Barnwell, 27, was shot dead before his bride by a youth who mistook him for a deer. Robert Webb, 17, fired the fatal shot with a .300 rifle as Barnwell walked toward him along an old bush road. Barnwell died moments later.
The article traces bathing origins from ancient Greek and Roman tiled baths to modern bathrooms. It notes Archimedes in a marble tub, medieval bathing norms, Francis I’s disdain for washing, and the Crusades spreading the practice. It covers English innovations like the slipper and sofa baths, America's slow start, shipboard baths, and the shift from wooden to cast iron enameled tubs circa 1870.
In the Kalahari Desert near the southeast corner travelers hear a roaring sound as sand slides down slopes. A slow, jerking descent creates a loud hum that stops when movement ends. Sand samples taken to Pretoria yielded a roar that faded after weeks.
A collection of simple household remedies covering marble cleaning with a soda salt pumice paste, preserving leftover paint by water and stirring, separating stuck stamps with a hot iron and paper, dust cloth conditioning with furniture polish, removing iodine stains with ammonia solution, stopping shoe squeaks by oiling hidden holes, and making a lemon milk shake by beating eggs and lemon juice then mixing with milk.
Franz Binder of Munich won a beer drinking contest by consuming 10% pints in five minutes. The piece cites historic feats such as Marechal de Bassompierre drinking 13 bottles to toast Swiss cantons and Novellus Torquatus taking 3 gallons in one draught, witnessed by Emperor Tiberius.
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