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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 12, 1946
Page
7
A mixed puzzle and joke page features a military word puzzle with clues for horizontal and vertical entries. A clerk loses the safe key but finds the duplicate key inside the safe, provoking a humorous exchange, ending with a brief quip about overwork and short sight.
A collection of short vignettes highlights a large family with names starting in h ish. a fishmonger's stale produce complaint. a traffic stop over a missing rear light and trailer. and a tense but humorous domestic exchange where a husband concedes only to retract.
An Irish visitor at a famous New York hotel with splendid but pricey accommodations jokes about leaving shoes outside the door. He asks if they risk being gilded, and his friend quips about enjoying the luxury to the limit.
A child asks about a so called financial genius and learns the phrase means earning money faster than a family can spend it. The exchange uses a humorous back and forth about wealth and spending.
Mrs. Jones notes the new residents appear devoted as she speaks to the paper about her silent husband. A rustling sheet hides his reaction while she recalls his kisses to the other couple, prompting his denial and a ironic retort.
Editorial notes the electric chair as a deterrent point while suggesting the real starting point lies with those in authority shaping punishment, using the Guelph Mercury as context. The piece muses on how early steps and governance determine criminal outcomes and public safety.
Farmers report fresh fruit sales fall due to sugar shortages for preserving with 10 pounds deemed insufficient. Some readers struggle to grasp the global sugar shortage and blame price increases for reduced demand while observers hint prices influence sales.
Donald Gordon, chairman of W P T E, warned that a high wage pattern would end price control in Canada. He said it would be criminal if 25 percent of workers caused 75 percent to suffer in a hole.
The Edmonton Journal ruefully notes the slow pace of postwar automobile production and predicts cars will return in quantity only when a rival invention makes them obsolete.
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