25 Aug 1928
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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Aug 25, 1928
Page
1
A Clyde line steamer arrives today with North Sydney screened coal as the main cargo. Expect fresh beef oranges apples bananas plums and tomatoes aboard. Orders are being taken for delivery and stock plans noted.
A catalog of medicines and care products for animals and households is offered by Ss. GC. MALEY on the North Side. The list includes cough syrups tonic pills ointments soaps creams dentifrices and various health and grooming items plus poison pests control and pure clover honey.
Telegraph dispatch notes Wm Hodge Coates head of a vast cotton business dies at 62 in London. He was among the Coates family's twelve millionaires over 104 years. Also reports Brigadier General Gough in Quebec working as a dishwasher, and the Dominia, the world’s largest cable ship, arrived at St John’s after surveying a new 1340 mile cable route from Bay Roberts to Horta Portugal. The project costs about 2 million dollars and will carry five messages each way.
An appeal promotes a free one year subscription to The Golden Book monthly magazine for youth. Readers are urged to order 24 Webster pocket dictionaries at 25 cents each to sell, then receive the magazine for 12 months. The leather bound dictionary features nearly 200 pages and 40 000 words.
Five American tourists were killed and others dying as a train collided with a motor near Montreal. British authorities have no record of Brigadier General Gough in Quebec. No word on missing plane Greater Rockford. Ten Chinese were killed and six wounded when a cook ran amuck on a ranch near Fairfield California with rifle and hatchet. Scotia plans rail use in Bay de Verde and Bonavista lines.
Law office contact details listed for the Board of Trade Building in St. John's with a P.O. Box and phone number from 1929.
Wanted female teacher with experience in first grade or junior matriculation. Salary listed as $300. Wire application instructions provided.
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