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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Feb 11, 1939
Page
3
An elderly man recalls being crippled by rheumatism for five years. After two bottles of Kruachen Salts he regained strength, could cook again, and even boiled tea with his crutches. He credits the remedy with dissolving sharp edged crystals causing pain.
Sydney professor W A Bailey proposes dùng radio waves to create a giant ionized region 44 miles up, producing a glowing arc-like light over 5000 square miles. With 1,000,000 kilowatts energy, or at least 500 kilowatts, the artificial aurora could serve commercial or military aims and advance science. An aerials array of about a mile square would drive a narrow beam.
A note describes enabling a controllable spectroscope and related investigations to study the atmosphere at heights around sixty miles, enabling measurements and analyses of upper air conditions.
The Sunday Chronicle notes the Anglo French alliance as crucial for world peace with a Britain strengthened by crisis years and a France showing mettle in armaments and finance. It argues equality with liberty and fraternity, urging citizens to avoid being the weak partner and to support a robust Franco British partnership.
The figure of a 50 year old man is broken into daily life segments. He slept about 6 000 days and worked 6 500 days while walking 800 days and allocating 4 000 days to other activities. He also consumed large quantities of bread meat vegetables eggs and fish and drank 7 000 gallons of water tea coffee beer and wine.
A British Columbia farmer attempted to warm potato rows with electric wires at night. He overpowered the circuit, baking the potatoes underground. Crows, drawn by heat and smell, dug up and ate the baked tubers, leaving him with costly wire and electricity bills to remember.
From Berlin the report shows only about fifteen percent of Protestant teachers responded to the Nazi unions demand to eliminate religious classes. The majority oppose dropping religious education, indicating persistent spiritual resistance despite Nazi orders.
The Gorvin Interim Report on economic reconstruction argues for reconciling capital, rebuilding the fishing fleet, and reviving trades such as shipbuilding and sail making. It urges government funding and private investment to reemploy fishermen, restore confidence, and renew Newfoundland's economy amid industry decline.
An ad promises a 40 cent remedy to flush waste and poisons from kidneys and stop night awakenings. It touts Gold Medal Haarlem Oil capsules from Haarlem, Holland, as a supreme stimulant and diuretic. The copy mentions symptoms like backache puffy eyes leg cramps moist palms and burning or scanty passage.
A London magistrate halted a detective as he prepared to reveal how a type of loge could be opened with celluloid. This echoes earlier limits on professional hints about committing crime. Dr Christison, who wrote the first modern poison detection textbook, warned of dangerous knowledge we must withhold.
The ad promotes Dr Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine as a quick relief for croup asthma and bronchitis. It claims the medicine loosens phlegm and eases coughing with continued use and asserts high sales and results. Gerald S. Doyle Ltd, St. John's.
General Lord Gort, chief of the Imperial Staff, states that wars show infantry must bear most fighting. Bombers and tanks exist, but the rifleman must foot it and dig in, a vow unchanged. This view reflects ongoing reliance on ground troops in modern warfare.
An English lord recalls Queen Victoria knighted his grandfather after a royal sword touch, while an American boy retorts that Red Wing the Indian touched his grandfather on the head with a tomahawk and inducted him into angels.
A fragment from Confederation Life discusses who writes bank advertisements. The exchange implies the ad writer is not the same as the loan trader, reflecting concerns over bank publicity and dealing practices.
London dispatch reports David Lloyd George attacking Dr Eduard Benes in his book The Truth About the Peace Treaties. He accuses Benes of broken pledges at the 1919 Peace Conference regarding Sudeten Germans and minority rights, while noting details of proportional representation language and autonomy debates in Czechoslovakia.
Singapore dispatch reports plans to place a crown of over ten diamonds and about 300 rabes on the head of the young Sultan of Selangaér at Klang at the start of next year. The event marks a royal coronation in the Federated Malay States.
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