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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 05, 1940
Page
6
Forests regulate water flow keeping trout streams steady through seasons. Snowmelt, rainfall, and forest litter slow runoff, while springs recover water months later. Aquatic invertebrates feed the trout, but heavy floods and summer droughts threaten populations, revealing overall water scarcity.
The common housefly spreads diseases such as typhoid and cholera and breeds in filth. It can carry germs and lay thousands of eggs. control relies on removing breeding sites, disposing garbage properly, and using heat or borax treatment in manure piles.
The report notes wartime demand boosts for bacon cheese and eggs, with higher volumes and margins in the second period of war. It details Canadian hog production, export quotas, and the shift to British purchases while warning of storage and import limits affecting prices and profits.
The Vancouver Province reports a new place name in a North American context as readers are invited to deduce its identity. Two possible candidates are suggested, reflecting regional speculation about an eastern Canadian port's designation.
A Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph line laments urban congestion caused by crowded streets, excessive driving, and citizens rushing in disparate directions without clear destinations, highlighting a critique of modern transportation culture.
The Farmer's Advocate argues that weed inspectors in some municipalities must be superb diplomats and condemns lax enforcement, implying severe punishment for ineffectual duties.
Social workers observe neglected children transform under care into healthy, ambitious individuals. The Toronto Star notes aiding British or refugee children in Canadian homes can yield capable, productive citizens of the Empire as mothers may not recognize them after progress.
Dr Garry C Myers argues that memory can be trained and that methods of memorizing can improve skill with practice. The article notes that ease in memorizing one material type does not guarantee ease with others and that memory capacity varies by individual with limits.
Canadian Navy expands from 15 vessels a year ago to 120 now, with plans to reach 215 vessels next year. Minister Macdonald says destroyers rise from seven to nine with two built in England. a mosquito fleet of fast torpedo craft is under construction. Personnel grow from 10,000 to 19,000, with 15,000 workers active in shipyards nationwide.
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