Imperial Tobacco Circular Details Post Confederation Price Shifts
A circular from Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd. explains post Confederation price changes for tobacco products. It notes Canadian taxes on plug tobacco rise about 100 percent over Newfoundland, predicting roughly a 40 percent price increase for locally made plug tobacco, while local smoking tobacco prices remain similar. Papers taxes rise, cigarette prices align with Canada, and U S cigarette duties rise modestly. U S smoking and plug tobaccos expect about 57 and 90 cents per pound increases, guiding price adjustments.
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Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd
Newfoundland
Canada
U.S
Confederation
United States
Alcohol effects on the brain and behavior at social gatherings
The article discusses confederation life alcohol at cocktail parties in Hogland, noting connoisseurs who identify wines and the dual nature of alcohol as medicine and narcotic. It cites Gaddum and Osler on alcohol as a disinfectant, nutrient, and depressant causing brain degeneration, with lasting effects on nerve cells and behavioral control.
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Hogland
Gaddum
Edinburgh
William Osler
God
Family Allowance to Aid Hard-Pressed Homes
Officials report high promptness and accuracy in family allowance returns with four-fifths filed by the weekend. Delays possible in remote districts but overall strong progress toward April 20 payments. The scheme, once ridiculed as a procreation premium, is praised as vital relief for families facing food, clothing, and debt pressures amid spring shortages.
My Kingdom for a Horse Agriculture note on fixed farming and soil humus
An old farmer argues Newfoundland farming requires fixed farming to succeed, stressing keeping animals alongside land work. The piece notes manure scarcity as mechanization rises in England and at Cormack, warns that commercial fertilizers erode humus, turning soil to gravel. It praises horse drawn tools for fertilizer and soil health, cautioning against overreliance on labor-saving tech.
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Newfoundland
England
Cormack
Trade Review
Young Girl Questions Dress Then Granny Jokes About Kneecaps
A humorous exchange features a girl asking if her Granny ever wore a cap for a suitor and Granny deflects with a witty line about kneecaps. A road map quip follows about folding maps. A prison governor asks inmates what they’d like to be, and a convict brightly says a travelling salesman.
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Granny
Funeral Verse Turns Obituary Into Verse
The editor, on holiday, left instructions to brighten the obituary page by verse notices. Mrs. Macadden has left this life and all its sorrows. The verse recalls a pink shirt and a nine shoe, with a pink wart on the nose as the Death Angel takes Alexander Glue to protracted repose.
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Alexander cGlue
Russia claims Alaska as secret weapon in world war plan
Deputy Marshal Maul Herring asserts Alaska is pivotal to U S defense, arguing Russians may use a route across the Bering Strait and through Alaska and Canada to invade. Madeen voices fear, saying Americans could be overwhelmed if defense in Alaska remains weak and open to invasion.
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Russia
Maul Herring
Alaska
Herring
United States
Madeen
Bering Straits
Canada
Two People Debate Timing of a Young Marriage
A young couple questions marrying quickly while a mother anxiously worries about a baby and a father jokes the child may be a great politician. The dialogue centers on readiness, expectations, and social pressures surrounding marriage and family.
Esquire Opens At Grand Falls
The new men s furnishing store known as Esquire opened on High Street in Grand Falls last week. It is owned by Reginald and Ferdinand Davis and their father John P. Davis, a Balmoral Tailor of Montreal representative. The shop is modern and features a neon sign. Reginald Davis is a World War II veteran with the 166th Regiment RA. Ferdinand previously belonged to the Newfoundland Ranger Force.
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Grand Falls
Reginald
166Th. Regt
Ferdinand
Newfoundland Ranger Force
Sion In a Scotch Church Button Dropters
A note to worshippers in a Scotch church urges those who habitually drop buttons in the collection plate to drop their own buttons and not those from cushions on the pews, a light quip on church conduct.
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Sion
Atom bomb the size of a golf ball report
Lieut. Colonel William R. Stark of the Armed Forces Industrial College noted in an Los Angeles industrial leaflet that an atom bomb could be as small as a golf ball yet contain about 5,400,000 pounds of TNT. He warned the blast and heat could affect targets up to three miles away. Radio activity accounted for ten percent of wartime deaths in Japan after atom bombings.
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T.N.T
William R. Stark
Armed Foces Industrial College
Los Angles
Japan
Plane Crash Kills Montreal Family of Seven Near Ontario Farm
A single engine monoplane carrying Wallace C. Siple, his wife Annie, and their five children crashed six miles north of Ontario, killing all aboard. Siple, president of Siple Aircraft Co., was at the controls when engine trouble began thirty minutes after departing Ottawa at 7 p.m. HST. Residents reported fire in midair and a violent impact. Five bodies were found at first and the rest later with ages from 4 to 15 for the children and about 35 to 40 for the parents. The wreckage lay near a farmhouse as the plane aimed for Dorval Airport in Montreal.
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Ont
Montreal
Anight
Ontario
Wallace C. Siple
Lakeshore Road
Beacon’s Field
Que
Siple Aircraft Company
Annie Steve
Graham
Siple
Ottawa
Before the War Rail Costs Reveal Rising Transport Bills
A prewar Canadian rail purchase of ten first class day coaches and a locomotive cost $693 577. Today the same items would total $1 081 20 according to a PRR compilation cited by a newspaper. The piece notes that locomotives and coaches are useless without fuel and labor, highlighting sharply higher operating costs postwar.
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the Twillingate Fire Insurance Co., Ltd
C. R. Facey
Radway
Maritime Life Assurance Company
Clayton
Mer
Hospital Lane
Eliza Boyoe
Purity Factories Limited
Mistoleen
T. McMurdo’s
P.O. Box
St. Vols
Brackacha
Dodd
Rodney
Bilt
Jude
Vady
Confederation Life
Muir’s Marble Works, Ltd
E. J. Linfield
Dr. Chase
Gerald S Doyle Ltd
Esquire
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