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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 30, 1952
Page
3
Fort William on Oct 20 reports a 27 year old man Melvin Barnwell shot dead before his bride near an old bush road by Robert Webb 17 who mistook him for a deer with a .300 rifle. Barnwell died moments after injury in the woods.
The article traces bathing from ancient tiled bathrooms in Greece and Rome to the rise of tubs in Europe and North America. It notes Archimedes in a marble tub, royal patronage of bathing, portable tin tubs, slipper baths, and the shift from wooden to metal and cast iron enamelled tubs around 1870.
In the Kalahari near the southeast corner travelers hear a desert roar as sand on slopes slips in slow jerks. Moving sand slowly produces a hum that stops when motion ends. Samples sent to Pretoria once caused a room filling roar that faded after weeks.
A compact Q and A of home remedies covers cleaning marble with a soda pumice paste, preserving leftover paint by sealing with water, separating stuck stamps with heat, treating dust cloths in furniture polish, removing iodine stains with ammonia solution, silencing shoe squeaks by oiling leather hollows, and making a lemon milk shake with eggs lemon juice sugar water and milk.
Franz Binder of Munich won a beer drinking contest in Munich by finishing 10½ pints in exactly five minutes. The article recalls historic feats from 1602 when Marechal de Bassompierre drank 13 bottles of wine while toasting the Swiss cantons and Novellus Torquatus reportedly drank 3 gallons in one draught before the Emperor Tiberius.
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