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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Feb 19, 1944
Page
2
A mother guides children onto a sinking ship and describes the panic as the vessel goes down. Water rises, debris drifts, and the children struggle to reach safety while the mother searches for them amid the greenish water.
The readable lines show a childlike speaker addressed by a narrator and a mother figure, mentioning a long plank and Africa. The torn text suggests domestic scene dialogue encountered on a piazza with a playful yet cryptic tone.
A narrator recalls a submarine surfacing about two hundred yards away and firing on swimmers. The ship disappeared, leaving wreckage and panic as Captain Benjamin Bogdan and crew offered a makeshift raft. Survivors endured twenty days adrift while relatives urged courage and restraint.
Survivors recount a perilous night after a ship sinks leaving forty two aboard a fragile raft. A broken elbow and missing crew mark the grim tally as Captain Bogdan urges the men to stay together and hope for a reunion if fate allows.
Published under authority stating the Defence Regulations of 1943 and dated January 29 1944. J C Puddest er commissioner for public health and welfare and food controller issues the order.
Describes definitions for evaporated milk and tin size, area coverage including Newfoundland excluding Labrador, and rules for ration books and coupons. Establishes eligibility for households with young children or medical need, coupon values by age, exchange rules for distant retailers, compliance penalties, and effective dates January 31 1944 and February 14 1944.
A classroom pun escalates as the teacher asks a bird counting riddle. John corrects that two birds would remain if three are shot, noting the three would be left while the other two fly away. The joke turns on the interpretation of counting remaining birds.
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