11 Aug 1894
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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Aug 11, 1894
Page
1
The Sun minutes advertise a weekly publication schedule and rates. It notes annual costs, clergy rates, and per inch charges for first and continued insertions with special long-term arrangements.
A grand educator dictionary revision completed after ten years and 109 editors. It claims to answer spelling pronunciation meanings and provide facts about eminent persons places and quotes. The Globe Toronto and The Times Hamilton praise it as the best and a valuable household investment.
A fragmented notice from q. and C. Merriam Publishers Springville Massachusetts warns against purchasing low cost photographic reprints of ancient editions. The item mentions free prospectus with specimen pages and illustrations as part of promotional material.
Household cleanliness advice stresses weekly bed care to reduce illness and dirt. It covers brushing springs, washing cloth covers, turning mattresses daily, airing feathers, washing quilts, airing bedding, and keeping woodwork polished to deter pests.
The article discusses public confusion between nautical knots and statute miles. It notes a knot equals 6,082 feet and a mile is 6,280 feet, with a key difference around 2 miles being about 87 percent of a knot. It emphasizes the >0.5% discrepancy in length and its practical implications.
A New York Sun summary warns that European arsenals boast devices that would slaughter vast numbers quickly. It cites rifles capable of piercing multiple soldiers at long range, steam driven machine guns, a tailor’s bulletproof coat, torpedoes that fly in parabolic paths, and M Turpin’s electric war machine said to erase fortifications. It portrays sensational, unverified claims reflecting wartime fear.
Sayville summer guests witnessed a lively shark fight near shore as Captain John Oakley, a former fisherman, tried to drive it away. He struck the shark on the head and bit its back with a heavy boathook, the creature thrashed the boat’s sides and even leapt into the skiff before swimming off. Spectators cheered despite the danger, and Oakley then delivered a final thigh strike to send the shark headlong back toward deeper water.
After rainfall, surface soil should be cultivated quickly to shallow depth leaving a fine top layer. Prompt cultivation with successive showers can mobilize moisture upward and promote percolation, preventing rapid drying and helping maintain moisture in lower layers.
A Paris Figaro subscription marks M. Nicholas du Savin born in 1786 in Saratod as the oldest known man. A former French professor, he recalls the French Revolution and Egyptian campaigns, fought at Austerlitz and Jena, decorated at Saragossa, captured at Berezina, and has lived in Saratofa since. His daughter is over eighty. His father was a Louis XV guard colonel. He attributes longevity to early privations and lifelong abstinence from intoxicants and excess.
A survey compares heads of state pay across nations. France pays 1,200,000 francs annual, the United States 59,000 dollars, the vice president 3,000 dollars, Switzerland 600 pounds, and Chile about 3,000 pounds. The piece notes not everyone would want leadership at the South American level.
The advert extols Ayer's Hair Vigor as unmatched in merit and efficiency for preventing baldness and eradicating dun and druff. It claims to keep the scalp moist, clean, and healthy and to restore vitality and color to waning, faded, and gray hair. The product is described as the most popular toilet article.
A carpet valued at 1,000,000 sits in the Morharajah ag Barnds treasure room. Though only ten by six feet, it is woven from strings of pearls with diamond circles at the centre and corners. It took three years to craft and was intended as a gift to a Maharmeday beauty.
A fragment reflecting on cures and ethics. It contrasts Minard's Sintment claiming diphtheria remedy with two sentiments: petty minds and noble obedience to law. The text condemns hatred as a misused motive feeding tyranny, arguing that true souls reject vengeance and base provocations.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a veterinary or medical claim about Minard’s Lunimeti curing distemper and an Edison remedy. The text is partial and unclear, with scattered phrases about presentation and ages, not forming a coherent report or verifiable events.
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