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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Dec 19, 1936
Page
3
A reader letter extols Kruschen Salts for gout and rheumatism claiming knee pain eased after three years of use. The note, signed Mrs A W, asserts daily half-teaspoon doses in hot water rejuvenate health and complexion. An editorial paragraph explains uric acid crystals cause rheumatic pain and the salts aid liver and kidneys.
A meditation on risk citing explorers and innovators like Columbus Peary Lindbergh Scott Pasteur and Pasteur as examples. The essay argues risk reveals character and opens knowledge while selfish or fearful people play safe and miss progress. Pathfinders test themselves and push discovery forward.
Britain's wartime prime minister Lloyd George in the sixth volume of his memoirs accuses Field Marshal Haig of ordering many bloody battles while taking part in only two. He also says Sir William Robertson never saw combat, criticizing generals for avoiding personal jeopardy as a debatable novelty of modern warfare.
The Smithsonian Institution reports the sun is gradually losing mass as radiation and heat. It projects the sun will shrink to half its current size, a process that will take about 40 trillion years.
An excerpt discusses Sir William Osler's 1913 Yale University address “A Way of Life.” It highlights his philosophy to live in the present, forget yesterday, and avoid retroactive worry. He cites Carpediem and Horace, and emphasizes daily focus to protect mental and physical health.
Short excerpt discusses patient care and effort, noting that outcomes depend on will and wisdom. It suggests that dedication by caregivers and optimism by patients influence results and justify the effort involved.
The Bishop of Birmingham urges that General Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army be included among coronation church dignitaries. He says her organization reaches and helps the masses more widely than any other agency.
A German school book notes forty six bombing planes each with five hundred bombs weighing one and a half tons. Total bomb weight equals three thousand nine hundred tons. If every third bomb explodes and every twentieth starts a fire, the number of fires and explosive events can be deduced by counting interactions among the bombs.
A devotional meditation on the Lord as shepherd who holds the universe in His hands and cares for each person like a shepherd tends his sheep. It expresses that such care should banish fear and need, inviting faith in divine provision.
An exchange about tires opens a meditation on self restraint and inner silence. The speaker urges cultivation of disciplined imagination, keeping focus on present duty and work rather than distracting thoughts.
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