Herring Fisheries Rules and Penalties on Sound Island
The document lists penalties and procedures for violations of herring fishery rules on Sound Island Placentia Bay. It covers destroying gear, entanglement clearance, rope handling, anchoring during the season, sanitary board authority, time-based fishing bans, prohibitions on selling or using herring as manure, scaffold handling, disposal of waste, measuring and sale units, and general penalties with fines up to one hundred dollars and revenue allocations.
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Sound Island
Bound Island
Sound
Fisahéries’ Commission
Board of Sanitary Commissioners
Placentia Bay
The Consumption of Tobacco in France
Paris telegraph reports excise returns show last year French tobacco spending totaling 159 million francs across foreign cigars home-made cigarettes snuff and pipe tobacco. Old peasant women and priests top snuff use while coastwise pipe smokers include fisherwomen sailors and their hardships. Ladies cigarette orders jumped, hinting at higher tobacco revenue. one anti tobacco society exists but has few converts.
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Paris
Sisters of Charity
Nantes
Calais
France
Modern Miracles and the Golden Medical Discovery
An advertisement touts De Pieres's Golden Medical Discovery claiming it cures breath weakness, restores energy, and revives vitality for singers athletes and writers. It asserts dramatic patient recoveries and promotes widespread druggist sales. It also mentions watch factories in Paris and toy watches branded for various nations.
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G. M.D
de. Pieres
Delay in Mails Angers Northern Districts In 1891
The Northern Weekly Advertiser denounces slow foreign mail transit to northern districts. It cites the Curlew delays from St John’s, complains of three weeks local and coastal mail backlogs, and accuses the Coastal Steamship Company of monopolizing the route at public expense and harming business and public convenience.
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St John’s
St. John’s
General
North
Coastal Steamship Company
Lagos Territory and Hervey Group Join French Allocation
Public notice states that the Hervey group of Islads will be grouped with Lagos in the territorial allowance to France. Lagos covers 1,071 square miles with about eighty thousand people, revenue of £51,347 in 1890, exports £491,460 and no public debt. Administration is by an Administrator and a Legislative Assembly. The Hervey group is smaller and less important.
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Hervey
Lagos
France
Cook's Island
South Pacific
Friendly Islands
Society Islands
Captain Cook
Great Britain
Legislative Assembly
Teachers' Mas Ox Education Funding Promises Boost
Reprint from Daily Colonist discusses the 20,000 grant by the Legislature for teacher salaries across denominationsRoman Catholic 7600 Church of England 7000 Methodists 4970 and the remainder to others. Grade one $64 grade two $48 grade three $32 or $52 in some cases per year per teacher. The piece urges further salary increases to retain teachers and advance education in the colony.
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Whiteway
Peoples’ Representatives
Roman Catholica
Church of England
England
Banka
Russia
United States
United Kingdom
British Tedia
Great Britain
Negotiations reopen over French Shore question in Newfoundland
Lord Salisbury reopens talks with France to settle claims on Newfoundland West Coast. Britain proposes ceding Hervey group and Lagos in exchange for French rights in the colony. Liverpool merchants oppose the swap fearing trade disruption. Lagos described as a British colony with palm oil peppers cotton and other exports.
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Lord Salisbury
France
Newfoundland
Hervey Group
Lagos
West Africa
Liverpool
West Africas
Light
Benin
Gold Coast
Badagray Palma
Leckie
Bonus funds to raise teacher salaries reach outport staff
Superintendents distribute increased bonuses to town teachers today and plan to send cheques to outport teachers by next outgoing mail. Proportionate shares will be paid to those engaged at any point in 1891, delaying nothing and causing no hardship. The allocation is a pleasant surprise for many teachers who did not expect salary increases, and the modest sums are seen as a Christmas box to brighten holidays and inspire renewed effort.
Sed Burning Accident Claims Life Of Child In Fire
The only child of Mr. P. R. Bowers of the Colonist, a ten year old girl, died from burns after her skirt caught fire near the stove while she cleaned skates. Mr. Bowers and Mrs. Bowers acted quickly to extinguish the flames but she died the same evening. Funeral set for 9 am tomorrow. the family mourns deeply.
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Sass USA
P. R. Bowers
Evening Telegram
Bowers
Ep. Sun
Fish Demand in Malaga Boosts British Labrador Cod
The British Consul at Malaga notes rising demand for British Labrador codfish in the last two years. If Newfoundland fishermen improve shore fish curing, they could win shipments now going to Norway. The inquiry for British codfish is expected to rise in the early season.
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Newfoundland
Malaga
Norway
An Old Acquaintance Under a New 2 name
The steamer Diana, 275 tons formerly the Hector, captained by Ti. Bartlett, arrived at 7 am for Job Brothers of Dundee. Rebuilt from stem to stern with oak timbers and greenheart sheathing, new boiler and machinery except cylinders, essentially a new vessel. W Stephen & Co. of Dundee did the work, and on the voyage she averaged eight and a half knots, matching the days.
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Diana
Hector
Ti. Bartlett
Liessrs
Job Brothers
Dundee
Greenheart
W. Stephen & Co
Hvening
Dentist Opens Practice in Harbor Grace
De Lehs, surgeon dentist now located in Harbor Grace, announces readiness to practice all branches of dentistry. He has fitted up very nice rooms next door to Messrs Munn & Bros on Water Street.
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de. Lehs
Harbor Grace
Messrs. Munn & Bros
Water Street
Massive European statistics reveal global trade contrasts
A compendium of 19th century figures shows London outranking Rome in Catholics, Russia’s low physician density, and English summer oracle imports. It cites heaping coffee, tea, salt, and wine production, river tonnage in France, railway ticket volumes, and global literacy gaps, with Europe’s wine output reaching 125 million hectolitres and billions of bottles annually.
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Europe
France
Italy
Spain
Austria- Hungary
Portugal
Greece
Germany
Russia
Switzerland
Servia
European
Turkey
Roumania
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Speai
Parises
Avery
Flvg
Team France
Gor
Pillingate
Northern Weekly Advertiser
London
Rome
Palestine
Alaska
London and North-Western Railway Company
Midi
Pyrenees
Birmingham Canal
House of Commons
Durham
St. George’s Channel
Galway
Kilkenny
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