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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Feb 24, 1917
Page
3
A sailing ship was torpedoed by a German submarine on Saturday in heavy seas, leaving 16 survivors from an original 23. The crew, exposed to a midwinter gale, endured days at sea before rescue. The pledge by Germany to spare merchant ships has been broken before, but never with such brutality.
A fragmented ad claims a throat cure relieves nervous disorders and a cough instantly. It promotes a product named Mur's Pharatone Cotygh Care as fast acting relief, urging readers to keep it ready for colds and suggesting it is sold by outport merchants.
OCR fragment shows a rough note about lumber types and stock levels at a hardware or lumber supplier. Mentions pricing like 10.57 and references to equipment or tools but text is garbled with missing words. Indicates inventory and service limitations affecting customers.
Report mentions German raiders allegedly active in the Atlantic, with no proof of capture. It claims Amethyst encountered three raiders in one night, possibly sinking one, damaging another, and leaving crew casualties with many wounded.
A Wednesday event is linked to a mass casualty incident with unclear details. Names and places are fragmentary in the OCR text, but the report notes a significant casualty outcome and ongoing response by authorities. Further readable specifics are not present in the excerpt.
A partly coherent World War I dispatch from New York describes German forces smashing at Verdun near Reims with over 30 prisoners and machine guns seized. The report notes dubious tone and questions its reliability, suggesting the tale may be inflated or misreported by newspapers of the period.
A brief death notice states a child of Mr and Mrs Harold Baird died at Beak Hr on Twestey Feb. The notice provides minimal detail and preserves the family names in a concise, period tone.
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