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JUNE 3-4
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT
"LOVER COME AACK"
Coluur
Starring; Rock Hudson - Doris Day Tony Randall
Edie Adams
This is a really tunny film about a boy and a girl and the
advertising business.
SAT.-MO.N.-TUES. JUNE 544
• ADULT ENTERTAINMENT
Colour - Cinemacope
"THE PRIZE"
Starri g; Paul Newman Edward G. Robinson
Eike Sommer
Pulse ting entertainment as a best seller comes explosively
to the screen.
WED.-THUR.-FRI , JUNE 9-10.17
'TARRY ON CRUISING"
Colour
Starring: Sidney James
There's a laugh a minute as the "Carry On" gang take an
ocean cruise. THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
The Provincial
ceremony
nn Friday
flag of Ontario. shown. here, was raised at a
m front: of the Parliament Buildings in Toi:Mt:0,
morning, May 21. The ceremony Nvill commence
at 9.10 a.m., in the presence of the Honourable W. Earl Rowe,
tietuenent Governor. Prime Ministir John Robartsi members
Of the Ontario Legislature, and othets,
T8111 BRussays POST, BRUSSELS,
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es bottles with questionnaires
inside to find out necessary in-
formation about currents from
captains at sea. In one year
alone, almost 400 "Bottle Pa-
pers" received replies—in eight
languages.
Recently, a bottle dating back
to the Civil War and bearing
the name E. R. Squibb & Sons,
was recovered from a Union
gunboat sunk in 1862. Four
years earlier, Dr. Edward. Rob-
inson Squibb, former Massed
Assistant Surgeon in the Navy,
had founded what was to be-
conle the world-famous pharm-
aceutical firm which bears his
name.
An. Old Drug
The molded, green glass bot-
tle contained an almost color-
less liquid. Smelling , very faint-
ly of brackish water, it was
thought to contain nothing but
water from the river, But tests
conducted, together with ex-
amination of drugs available in
Squibb's price lists for the early
1860's, confirmed that the bot-
tle contained Potassium Chlor-
ate, a drug prescribed at that
time for a great variety of dis-
eases.
In the U.S.S. Cairo, sunk by
a Confederate mine in the Yazoo
River,. north of Vicksburg, this
messenger of history was pre-
served for more than 100 years
in mud and water.
The Bottle Parson
In 1940, George Phillips (nick-
named. the "Bottle Parson")
started sending his sermons to
sea inside empty whiskey and
beer bottles. Over 16,000 bot-
tles were cast on the waters,
and more than 1,400 replies
came back! The bottle-borne
crusade is reported to have
mended broken marriages in
Chicago, London, Montreal and
other far-off spots.
Most profitable catch from a
sea-borne bottle? Jack Wurm,
a restaurant worker, found it
in 1949 on the Pacific shore not
far from San Francisco. Inside
the bottle he found, written in
pencil on brown wrapping pa-
per, these glad tidings:
"To avoid all confusion, I
leave my entire estate to the
lucky person who finds this bot-
tle and to my attorney, Barry
Cohen, share and share alike."
(signed) Daisy Alexander,
June 20, 1937
After long investigation it
was revealed that Mrs. Alexan-
der, a childless widow living in
England, had long been a float-
ing bottle enthusiast who fre-
quently tossed bottles into the
Thames River "to see where
they would show up."
At last count, lawyers were
still wrangling over the legality
of Daisy's will, while Jack
Worm waited to find out whe-
ther he would inherit 50 per
cent of her $12 million estate,
plus half interest in the $160,-
000 annual income from her in-
vestments!
Bottled Romance
Besides curiosity and wealth,
romance has been bottled too.
Some. years ago a mate on a
freighter in the South Seas
wrote his wish to find a wife,
slipped it into a bottle and toss-
ed it overboard. An Australia-
bound British liner 'found it,
and the captain posted the mes-
sage. It was read by a stew-
ardess who, a Iittle While later,
invited the thip's srtrw to tor
REPORT ON BOTTLES
ADRIFT IN' THE SEA
(The Yarmouth Herald)
A fierce hurricane shook the
tiny ship. A group of sailors
wrote their fears on a scrap of
paper, slipped the note into a
wooden cask and committed it
to the sea. Their captain. Chris-
topher Columbus, recorded the
deed in the ship's log — and
right now, somewhere on the
seven seas, the historic docu-
ment may still be floating.
There have been other fascin-
ating messengers from the sea.
One bottle, for example, was
iound resting on the bottom of
a river in America—where it
had gone down in a ship sunk
during the Civil War. Another
contained a piece of paper
worth over $12,000,000. And
others have patched up mar-
riages on the brink of disaster!
Before Christ
In 300 B.C.. the Greek philos-
opher Theophrastus, walking
along the shore, decided to use
bottles to test his theory that
Mediterranean Sea got most
of its water from the Atlantic
Ocean. Tossed at intervals from
a cruising Greek ship, the bot-
ties drifted many watery miles
in .the proper direction—to
wove Theophrastus' point.
Centuries 1. ate r, Benjamin
Franklin used the fleating bot-
tle method to gather informa-
tion on the little-understood
t currents of the Gulf Strewn.
iInside his bottles, Franklin seal-
ed a paper containing his name,
address and a request that the
finder let him know where and
when the floating questionnaire
!had been picked up.
From Far and Near
The answers came from as far
off. as Newfoundland and Ice-
land: together with water tem-
perature studies conducted by
Franklin. they helped define the
dimensions of the Gulf Stream.
Franklin forwarded the facts to
the British Post Office, and
English mail boats which had
been bucking the Stream, had
easier, faster trips thereafter.
Trace Currents
To this day the U.S. Navy's
Maritime Security Division us-
Money isn't everything, and the Beverly Hillhillbies prove it
every Saturday on the CEO-TV network. Buddy Ebsen, Max
Baer,Jr., Donna Douglas and Irene Ryan star in this series
about a multi-millionaire Hillbilly family, who have set up
their own peculiar brand of housekeeping in sopbisticaaed
Beverly Hills.
can I be sure you speak the
truth about the other thing
when you write of your lovely
blonde hair—in a peroxide bot-
tle?"
wedding—with that sailor from NOTICE --
the South Seas.
But wooing by bottle has its
drawbacks, as well. Take the
California girl who entrusted
all her attributes — height,
weight, age, measurements, col-
or of eyes and hair — to the
Pacific Ocean.
Ten months later she receiv-
ed a neatly penned letter from
a Bolivian Sailor. "You sound
delightful," he wrote, "but how
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