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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Dec 30, 1893
Page
1
The Sun B printed and published every Saturday from the office of publication North Ride Twilingite Notre Dame Bay Nild J P Thompson Editor Trews. Two dollars per annum payable in advance Clergymen one dollar.
Post Office notice invites sealed tenders at St John’s General Post Office for weekly mail conveyance on routes from Gan der Bay to Twillingate, Twillingate to Fogo via Herring Neck and Change Island, Botwoodville to Exploits via Laurencetown, and Little Hay to Tilt Cove. Service starts Jan 1, 1894 for four months. Tenders must state dollar amount per round trip and include two surety signatures. J O Fraser P M G issued Sept 26 1893.
Advertisement argues August Flower cures dyspepsia a stomach and liver remedy. Claims twenty years of trust from a small town to national presence with large manufacturing plant. Highlights honesty and single purpose as reasons for success attributed to G. G. Green sole manufacturer Woodbury New Jersey.
A promotional piece extols Wesster's International Dictionary as a comprehensive reference with 102 editors, over $300,090 spent, offering history spelling pronunciation and meaning of words, plus facts about eminent persons and places. Toronto Globe and Hamilton Times praise its value for families schools and households.
A slanted OCR rendering of Alfred Tennyson's poem Ring Out Wild Bells urges bidding farewell to the old year and ring in the new with calls for redress and noble conduct. It mixes readable lines with garbled spellings and stray names while emphasizing renewal and peace.
Varied reflections on sympathy discipline and self control urge changing work and play to build strength and health. Aims include resisting sickness through exercise and temperance, nurturing warm sympathies, and pursuing happiness via education and steady mindset.
The article outlines Princess Kaiulani's potential return to the Hawaiian throne if the monarchy is restored. It covers her age, appearance, lineage through Princess Like-Like, and her mixed Scottish heritage, plus her visits to America and England as she awaits a constitutional restoration and her place among royal families.
The article surveys early nail manufacture with shift to machinery after 1810, noting patent milestones from 1606 to 1792, mass production by Reed and Dyer, and Birmingham firms hitting 40 million nails weekly. It also covers old nail sizing terms, French soft iron wire nails, and global rail mileage, population density, and beef consumption in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Minard's Liniment cures Distemper.
A visitor asks to see a doomed prisoner and proves kinship by saying that the prisoner's father is his father's son. The riddle invites readers to deduce the relation. The Agriculturist Publishing Company solicits solutions with a tiered prize system, offers substantial rewards, and outlines entry rules and judges for a 1893 competition.
The Bank of England destroys about 350000 notes weekly at seven p.m after prior cancellation by punching through the amount and tearing the chief cashier signature. Notes are burned in a closed furnace with minimal waste, five years’ circulation kept for reference. Daily inflow about 60000 notes, annual destruction around 18 million, with five year paid-note stock around 77.7 million in 13400 boxes. If stacked, they would form miles of height or length. the figures come from Chambers Journal.
The article notes India absorbed about £344 million in precious metals between 1859 and 1889, £117m in gold and £227m in silver. Most of the gold is hoarded wealth not in circulation, while silver sits as fixed wealth and ornament. It asserts the people hold the gold, using it as keepsakes or pawnable treasure, with much hidden under peasants' floors in Punjab and Eastern Bengal.
A fragmented note suggests Minard's Liniment cures garget in cows. The text warns against seeking distrust or appearing pretentious, urging plain attire and steady effort for those aiming to improve their lot.
An antiquated note extols Minard's Liniment as a cure for diphtheria and praises collective benevolence and effort, asserting usefulness without station limits and marveling at the good achieved by united, well‑intentioned people.
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