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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Aug 16, 1952
Page
2
The passage blends odd dialogue with jokes about onions and a faux hymn. George recalls a ditty about a bloody choir while discussing onions from shallots to chives. A medieval myth links onions to Saint Francis and wedding dreams for maidens at festivals.
A compact quip suggests men misjudge romance and marriage dulls carefree youth. It hints that revealing a woman age is best done softly, while warning about the consequences of youthful bravado in love.
The contributor asks what will be given for the jokes. Editor replies with the phrase ten yards start.
At the association’s Saturday session a motion to push Department of Education to improve conditions in small outport schools narrowly failed. Read letters described one and two room schools with inadequately trained staff, poor quarters, and limited supervision. Delegates urged prompt action to attract qualified teachers and fix inequities in remote regions. Walter Hudsole pledged action, and a resolution proposed unifying teacher licensing under a single board.
Fragmentary text depicts Mose purchasing a rabbit’s foot and a spouse’s reaction. The snippet hints at secretive behavior and quarrel as night unfolds, with a quoted exclamation about a mote in the eye of the relationship.
Dr. Rowe reports Labrador’s labor picture bright with fishing and iron ore activity boosting jobs. He notes new geological teams seeking finds, population concentrating in larger centres, and a Pastor led community as a sign of forward momentum and improved services across the region.
A bolt of lightning hit Merl Sedore’s farm in Sutton Ontario. It ripped part of the barn wall, drove a shovel from his son’s hands, freed two calves, shattered barn windows, started four fires, knocked over 12 cattle drinking bowls, and sent a fiery arc 150 yards to the Sedore home. The bolt damaged the electrical fuse box and filled the house with smoke.
President Truman signs a fur labeling act set to take effect soon. Coats from animals like Arctic seal and beaver must be sold under the true English animal name such as rabbit, with about 100 official names list guiding consumers. Sellers must state if fur is used bleached or dyed and origin if imported. Canada already brackets the correct fur name after the trade name.
The tale traces romance of romaine and its royal ties from the Aegean birthplace of Hippocrates to English royalty in 1529. It notes Henry VIII awarding a gardener for a lettuce and cherry dish, plus Roman and Greek dining customs and the practice of watering lettuce with sweet wine during droughts.
On a front porch Little Diana shouts for her mother to rush outside. Abe warns that Bill is stripping, and unless help arrives he will be barefoot and exposed.
St John’s Bush pilot Eric Blackwood, 30, announces retirement from commercial flying after a near fatal fire destroyed his pontoon aircraft while fueling. He built a famed mercy flights record in Newfoundland and Labrador, learned to fly after WWII, and led Ena International Provincial Airways, a mercy mail charter subsidized by government.
A World War II Normandy mine injury left a toe fragment embedded in a soldier’s chin after the foot was blown off and the chin and shoulder were wounded. London surgeon Dr. J. Me Roberta described the case in the British Medical Journal, noting the toe grew within the wound and required surgery before healing.
Arthur Scott and a five crew completed a 1700 mile journey aboard the Nonchalant from Toronto on July 15 to Fortune Bay on August 4, sailing Lake Ontario St Lawrence and the Gulf. Scott, longtime Alberta and Newfoundland worker, previously served with ALN, D. Co and the Royal Canadian Yacht Club before taking command of the yacht.
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