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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Feb 12, 1944
Page
2
A fragmentary memoir scene follows Louie and Ethel Bell in wartime New York and on a perilous 1942 sea voyage back from Africa. The Bella family recounts faith, hardship, and hope as a passenger ship nears danger, with Mary Bell dreaming of cream puffs while a shipboard disaster unfolds.
The piece notes differing American and British uses of the term "billion" from a thousand million to a million million. It recalls partisan debates on fiscal policy, praises the London Economist adopting the American standard, and suggests such change could ease cross cultural understanding between Americans and Britons. C. S. Monitor.
Mr Alphonzo Keefe returns from the north where he aided the McNamara Can Company in hiring 150 workers as he prepares to resume duties there. Letters say workers enjoy good pay and lodgings at 160 dollars monthly. Robert Keefe spends winter at home after three years with Atlas & B M Cape Co at Botwood and Royal Stores at Grand Falls. Windsor’s growth continues with new or remodeled buildings including Salvation Army school and citadel, Pentecostal school with three departments and 85 pupils for one teacher, and a debt free Pentecostal church costing 6 to 7 thousand dollars. R C School enlarged by Claude Jenkins. Mrs Joseph Hambrack returns from Montreal after 35 years visit to her uncles.
A Windsor correspondent describes a family history from Picto Nova Scotia. The mother left for Picto at fourteen, returned home before Christmas, and later her husband died of a heart attack on the street. Son Stanley visited Windsor about three years ago and unknowingly stayed near his relatives. Parcels have since been sent to him.
Experts advise knitting a thread of ordinary sewing cotton into heels and toes of socks for men on active service. The cotton must match the wool shade to blend in and strengthens wear resistance for longer life.
A fragmented clipping discusses tin use in wartime gear and armor and captures a period voice through jokes about women voting and military life. It includes jokes about dogfaces, ship optics, a weather bureau discharge, and a German telephone exchange anecdote.
Because mechanics in Australia are overworked, managers of men's clubs had to take less offs in repairing slot machines when they get out of order.
By November 1942 more than 2,750,000 houses in England and Wales had been damaged by bombing since the war began, reflecting widespread destruction and disruption across major cities and towns.
A Chinese hawker pleads for pills for his mother while a maid and mistress react with tension. A late Private Jones faces a stern sergeant as jokes and slang echo on the parade ground. The scene shifts from home duties to military life, recalling worries about monthly car payments and a washing machine.
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