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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Dec 24, 1943
Page
3
A reflective verse by Evangeline Booth retired Salvation Army general titled The Only Thing. It laments fame and wealth bringing grief and urges love as the supreme grace. The poem references spring and autumn of life and concludes with War Cry December 5th, 1937.
A collection of quotations on sincerity and truth from Confucius Kent Hovee Mary Baker Eddy Colton and James Russell Lowell. The snippets discuss sincerity as the basis of virtue, conscience, religion, and integrity.
A teacher asks about two genders and a student answers with a dated rigid taxonomy. The exchange labels masculine and feminine as primary, with feminines split into frigid and torrid and masculine into temperate and intemperate.
In a historical moment, Winston Churchill writes a speech by dictation to a typist due to distrust of shorthand notes. The exchange highlights his careful approach to recorded language and public address during a tense era.
A rural teacher prompts sentences with beans. A pupil cites "My father grows beans" and another says "My mother cooks beans." The class chorus ends with "We are all human beans."
Captain Platner reports over 157 Canadian nationals have joined the Corps in England alongside drafts from Canada. The CWAC selections abroad include women chosen from thousands of CWAC members to fill this important task and more may be added as needs arise near the firing lines.
A short devotional verse asserts trust in divine guardianship on life’s voyage. It pictures God guiding sailors through storms and dangers, offering peace and protection. The author Rav. F T Puce signs the reflective piece.
An unusual method for wrapping small gifts for a large Christmas box uses plain red holly silver or gold outer envelopes with plain white tissue inner wrappers. Envelopes are created by tearing and resizing ordinary envelopes and sealing with contrasting peals.
A year after the first detachment of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps reached Hogland these women and others have become vital to the Canadian Army. They serve as tradesmen clerks drivers and laundresses performing tasks once deemed men’s work and enabling able-bodied soldiers to join the fighting fronts.
A Southern man struggled with a draft questionnaire, sweating and worrying until he finally gave up and returned the form with a note saying Tie ready when you is.
A concerned mother asks if Randolph will ever learn to draw and the teacher responds with a vivid analogy about harnessing him to a truck. The exchange reflects a rough, old fashioned conversation style.
The CWAC overseas corps has grown to over 600 members as three more groups joined the pioneers. Pte Minnie Howe was reunited with two sons on Commando sorties since October 1940. Capt Natalie Platner, from Toronto, returns from England and will train at a Canadian CWAC center. She notes CWAC in the UK are skilled, content, and making a positive impression.
The Foreign Economic Administration issues amendments to the export schedule from the USA to Group K countries including Newfoundland Rum and Whiskey and other distilled liquors. It adds items such as baking powder Epsom salts Glauber salts perfumery and toilet water red lead sodium sulfide and cork stoppers to the General License list. Signed W. B. Curtis Supplies Officer.
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