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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Dec 07, 1935
Page
3
A health guidance piece advocates daily exercise to combat fatigue and aging. It outlines a routine including neck stretches, head tilts, lip pursing, cheek blowing, and eye exercises, emphasizing toned muscles support facial tissues and offering a product plug for a beauty consultant in Toronto.
James E Barrett managing director of the Biltmore Hotel in Oklahoma City argues modern cities offer investment opportunities and require citizen participation. He urges residents to join in developing bigger, busier cities and support worthy undertakings to strengthen the nation and inspire progress.
The city’s growth rests on a thrifty, industrious populace working together for the common good. Future development depends on utilities, business and home districts, keeping the city a good place to live, work and prosper.
Mrs. Caroline Merriott, believed Britain’s oldest woman, marked her 110th birthday at Mayday Hospital Croydon hosting a tea party. She eats three meals daily, drinks much tea, recalls historic events from Waterloo through Queen Victoria’s era, and worked in a laundry until age 85.
A boss scolds a new worker for lateness while the employee jokes about start times. Willie visits his cousin in town and learns the cousin’s remark about hand-painted pictures contrasts with a rustic remark about their chicken house.
Poetic meditation on day turning to night and the moral self. It contrasts earthly vanity with the humility revealed at eventide, imagining a curtain over life and the hope that final thoughts leave a radiant trace in time. The verses evoke nature, faith, and memory as the day ends.
Johnson asks about a new baby name and Dave reveals Edison. Johnson jokes the name implies traits of the inventor. Dave notes Edison claimed four hours sleep suffices for any man.
A devotional meditation on recognizing God as the universal reality revealed in every moment not limited by place or part. It urges the soul to adore and feed on the divine in all events and to seek God as an ever present, eternal fact beyond heaven, earth, or underworld.
A quip contrasts national stereotypes: the Englishman and beer and Bible, the Scotsman devout on Sabbath and diligent in work, the Irishman unsure what he wants, the Welshman kneeling on Sundays, and others remaining generally in the week.
A sharp exchange about wives and in-laws reveals humor about large families. One man notes his wife’s kin rival the size of the other’s clan, prompting a lighthearted affirmation of luck and kinship.
Rev W Edgar Mercer writes a 176 page centennial souvenir on Methodism in Twillingate and Notre Dame Bay. The book includes history of the church and bay plus sections on industry politics education business scenery sport and Great War references. Copies bound at this office cost one dollar plus mailing.
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