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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Dec 06, 1930
Page
2
Pure vegetable Castoria soothes colic and aids sleep with a mild taste children love. Useful for diarrhea, constipation, and to keep the system running smoothly during colds. Sold in every drugstore, authentic Castoria bears Chas H. Fletcher’s signature.
Edith Drayton voices bold ambition and disillusion with wealth as she recalls choosing a life of luxury, fame, and social ascent. Her mother worries over Clifford Revel’s suit as a penniless suitor while Edith seeks a coronet through high society.
In a morning scene Edith and her mother discuss the enigmatic Edgar Rane, a potential heir with a reputation for danger, and the distant rival Clifford Revel. Their talk hints at family tension, courtship stakes, and social maneuvering within titled circles.
In a clipped dialect exchange, an elderly man asks about his neighbor Pat’s wife. The reply notes she is very ill but not in immediate danger, described as too weak to be dangerous anymore.
A dialect note asks what a baby named Electricity would say, with Mose declaring his own name Mose and his wife Dinah, pondering who makes electricity if Dinah and Mose fail.
A record of vegetables collected for a hospital in 1930 lists contributors from Gillard’s Cove to Back Harbour. Names include Henry Hopkins, Ernest Hopkins, Elijah Greenham, John Gillard, Mrs. James Spencer, Mark Rideout, and many others. Items include potatoes, cabbages, turnips, beets, onions, and buckets of produce. Collector teams feature J Gillett and Stewart Young among others.
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