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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Aug 27, 1938
Page
3
A 22 year old mother describes severe rheumatism pain confining her to bed with calf wool and sleeping draughts. She credits Kruschen Salts with a two week recovery, enabling a first walk with her husband in eight weeks. The ad claims the salts dissolve needle point uric acid crystals and aid kidney elimination.
A poetic piece extols sunshine and cheerful thoughts with sunlit skies and singing trees. It includes a misquoted Bible reference and a humorous auction exchange about a bust labeled as Burns or Shakespeare, ending with the auctioneer admitting his error.
A Windsor bank deposit on Saturday saw a woman list her bills and checks in their slots and mark the specie as Female. The odd error follows a note about George Bernard Shaw being warned by physicians not to work or engage with controversial topics.
A halibut demonstrates camouflage by altering skin color to blend with its environment. Researchers note rapid color shifts aiding in predation and protection from predators. The finding highlights adaptive coloration in flatfish.
Will Do Repairing in Tam area for boots shoes and horse harnesses. Fred Jenkins guarantees good jobs at reasonable prices. Darrell Twowate.
A reflection urging today’s youth to pursue education, responsibility, and Christian principles. It warns against pride and easy shortcuts, stresses parental faith and the need to resist temptations, and calls for courage to meet future duties with integrity.
Advert reads a 40 cent package of Gold Medal Smarter Capsules promised to flush poisons from kidneys and stop night urination. It claims to ease backache and urinary symptoms, acting as a diuretic and kidney stimulant to remove uric acid.
A sermon urges youths to keep Christian faith amid provocation, referencing Noah’s era and the example of Newton and other greats who attributed success to home godliness. It exhorts finishing life well to say I have finished my course and fought a good fight.
The Red Sea is blue and the Black Sea green, a misnaming traced to a translation mistake. Orient direction names used colors, with red for south and black for north, but topographers long ago translated their meanings literally.
A poem notes two men living in every town. One wears a smile and sings after work, the other frowns and toils. Smiles leaves cheerful, Grouch mutters, both share the day’s labor, inviting readers to choose which they are.
Citizens petition the Commission of Government proposing a scheme to provide work for 2600 men in St Johns over three years. A public meeting will be held soon to present full particulars of their proposals and suggestions. Public Bureau, July 30.
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