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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Feb 23, 1946
Page
2
Hillgrade January 31 1946 letter from Mrs Gorpon Sansome requests space to publish a WPA house to house collection list for Hillgrade and nearby areas. The list items include names and amounts totaling 9.10 with collectors named and a lobster harbor collection also itemized.
A local list from Burnt Cove records collectors and names of residents with various price values. Notable names include Mrs Josiah Rideout Mrs Isaac Keefe Rev Pond John Burt and Family Mrs Fred Earle Isaac Keefe Frances Mehaney Mrs Saul Mehaney Mr Abel Tarrant and several others. Total amount not provided.
A long catalog style list shows collectors and bidders at Tilt Cove Fairbank with prices 100 to 10 cents. Names include Mrs Willie Adams Mrs Mary Burge and many Sansome and Gidge family members. Totals indicate multiple lots and a grand sum around $525 with additional Friday's Bay L O L entries.
President Truman argued price and rent controls must be renewed for a year to avoid a national disaster similar to postwar collapse. He urged Congress to act promptly, saying lifting controls would slow production, raise unemployment, and trigger widespread business hesitation. The piece frames continued controls as essential to stabilize prices and employment.
Published by Authority under Defence Regulation 2 the Defence Price of Goods Regulations 1941. The Commissioner for Supply J S Neill issues a further amendment to the Goods Current Prices Fishermen Motor Fuel Order No 2 1943 dated February 7 1946.
The Goods Current Prices Order No 2 1943 as amended by earlier orders is further amended by replacing the schedule. Retailers may add freight and insurance to prices in column four when selling outside specified places. The order takes effect midnight February 9 1946 and does not absolve penalties incurred before the amendment.
Government agencies can speed production through wiser handling of price control matters. Until supply better meets demand, the welfare of the country requires price controls and reconversion to proceed together. Source: C.S Monitor, Yanuary 26th.
The excerpt presents a series of maxims on virtue and behavior. It begins with “Gems for your Scrapbook” and attributes a quote to Balfone about forgiveness, tolerance, love, respect, and charity. The text ends mid thought, suggesting a broader meditation on liberality.
A compact montage of literary and biblical lines on generosity and the motives behind giving. It contrasts vanity with sincerity, noting gifts originate from above and that true value lies in the will and heart behind the act. The snippets include La Rochefoucauld, James, Eddy, Lessing, and Luther.
In a fragmentary exchange a character notes the fuelsoldier crisis yet says no one shouts for horses. Mazle asks if the crowd walks around with a grouch, Nellie responds with a remark about divorcing him, highlighting social mood amid hardship.
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