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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Feb 10, 1945
Page
3
A South Pacific veteran who kept writing to his wife found no replies until a Bible verse mixup was corrected. He told her to read John 25:24 but meant Romans 25:24, prompting her to respond and resume letters. The error was discovered in his Bible and letters began again.
A poetic fragment recounts new snow and childlike first words in a blue shadowed hollow. The poem notes layered snowflakes forming perfect patterns and constellations as stars move in their solo paths yet follow a night cycle. Published under Sara Van ALSTYNE ALLEN.
Disconnected facts cover salt as common mineral and its usefulness incandescent lamps heat output versus light, wood growth in forests, turf grass for airports, tin cans composition, and a first electricity powered household clock from 1916.
A Nova Scotia Christmas greeting references naval blood donation efforts at Portsmouth during and after D Day. Admiral Little lauds the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar blood bank for saving hundreds of Allied casualties, with volunteers from ships, establishments, Wrens, and VA D nurses supplying blood and aiding transfusions during peak periods.
A Boston Transcript poem laments the neglect of boys at home and the lure of street life. It argues that if homes remain dainty and closed to boyish activity, boys will find a place in the streets where temptation and vice flourish, costing parents and society later.
A 1944 survey places Canada's industrial workforce at about 3.5 million. The figure reflects broad employment across manufacturing and related sectors during wartime production.","
A manager seeks a vigilant, distrustful night watchman, deeply alert and hard to please. He wants a large aggressive, trepid, dangerous man with keen hearing and a ready temper, capable of acting as a fiend incarnate when needed. The Little man suggests rotating the wife.
Fragmentary OCR shows a kitchen remark about taste being terrible and a question about galling and cooking, mentioning Epsom salt. Contents are garbled and unclear.
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