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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 31, 1946
Page
3
Narrator and partner finish cleaning chimneys and stovepipes and reflect on a contented life. They compare city living and farm comfort, recall visiting relatives and rainy days, and consider keeping busy to stay happy and useful in old age.
English experiments show tractors guided by radio control. A transmitter sends signals to relays on the tractor to steer straight or turn, lift the plow at furrow ends, and perform turning actions. Photos from Barnet, Hertfordshire, document the tests.
A narrative describes railway school cars serving migrant communities. Pupils, nearly all expert woodspeople, travel long distances by foot, canoe, ski, or snowshoe to weekly classes. Parents also attend, and the program teaches literacy and Canadian identity along with skills aboard the mobile schools.
The phrase tying the knot comes from priests tying the ends of their cords around the joined hands of a bride and groom during the wedding ceremony.
Seven railway passenger cars serve as mobile classrooms across Ontario from North Bay to the Manitoba border. Each coach hosts grades 1 to 10 for a week per month, with 14 pupils per stop and living quarters for teachers and families. Teachers travel circuits of 83 to 221 miles, earning up to 2000 yearly, enjoying free housing and utilities while educating children in remote settlements.
Aircraft makers on the West Coast have pursued noise research since early this year to reduce passenger fatigue and improve travel comfort. The article notes a shift from clapping to recognizing quiet flight as planes pass.
An advertisement urges being popular as a hostess by serving Maxwell House Coffee. It touts a Latin American blend described as the finest obtainable, blended by experts with traditional knowledge and skill.
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