06 Jan 1894
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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Jan 06, 1894
Page
1
Fragmentary newspaper ad text shows terms on publication frequency payment and rates. Mentions Saturday editions and per annum charges. References clergy and rack-rate pricing for insertions. Contains garbled words and unclear entities.
Post Office advertises tenders at the General Post Office St John s for weekly mail service by steam or ship along the coast from Gan et Bay to Twillingate and Fogo with stops at Herring Neck Islands Botwood Exploits Laurencetown Little Bay Tilt Cove and intermediate offices. Service to begin around January 1 1894 for a round trip price in dollars with two sureties. September 26 1893.
C B Stickney of Picton Ontario reports severe winter asthma and chronic cough improved after trying Boschee's German Syrup. He states first dose brought relief and restful sleep, cough loosened, health and weight improved, leading to excellent health and gratitude for the remedy.
A 10 year revision with 100 editors and over $300000 spent Laboring to present a comprehensive dictionary. It answers questions on history spelling pronunciation and meaning of words. Includes facts about eminent persons places countries cities towns and natural features and translates foreign quotations and phrases. Invaluable for households teachers scholars professionals and self-educators.
The Globe Toronto extols a new dictionary as the best of its kind in English for families who have mastered reading, promising it a profitable purchase. The Times Hamilton lauds it as possibly the best working dictionary and the cheapest book in the world, urging its presence in every school and home in Canada.
A note urges readers not to buy low cost reprints of ancient edition pages. It advertises a free prospectus with specimen pages and illustrations to illustrate offerings.
A winter day inspires a devout poem seeking calm, steady life, and a future of blessing. The speaker asks for truth, courage, and unselfish striving while turning to God for guidance and strength. The verse contemplates tempering toil with a faithful, earnest life and vision of a hopeful dawn.
The Home Queen urges quiet, kind parenting to shape temper and conduct. She warns against overreacting during a child's distress and favors calm discussion, early praise, and selective discipline. Emphasis on letting children remain children while guiding with sympathy and consent.
The piece argues that parents win lasting influence by being trusted confidants and friends to their children. It urges few, firm rules and consistent enforcement, avoiding vain or unenforceable commands to maintain authority through childhood.
Consul Bedloe reports Chinese cash coinage from 2300 B.C. to later dynasties with over 150000 kinds preserved. Coins range from one twentieth of a cent to 25 cents, many with square holes for stringing. A Canton mandarin owns 25000 specimens. Han coins can reach 100 dollars in fine condition. Local diggings yield hundreds of coins in Amoythia jars, sold for a dollar apiece. collectors face severe labor.
Washington patent office displays ancient styluses wax-writing instruments and steel pens. Quill pens with steel points attempted to avoid frequent pen repairs but failed as points would not stay sharp. U S spindles count reaches about 15,407,300 with steady annual increases.
The Havark, first of two new gun boats by Yarrow, made a swift trial showing over 26 knots on three hours rough water with 27.565 knots fastest mile. Engine 3 400 HP, 362 rpm. Length 180 ft, beam 18 ft 6 in, three blades, twin screws, turtle-back bow for dryer decks. Fuel 60 tons, radius about 3 500 knots at economical speed. eight hour test aimed to gauge endurance.
The article describes China’s military caste treated as outcasts, with soldiers trained as swordsmen rather than educated, who exterminate grasshoppers using hemp bags on bamboo poles. Regiments of ducks are kept for pest control, and farmers receive four cents for grasshoppers or eggs dug from the ground.
A German chemist claims a new paint process uses common house paint to create an indestructible fresco coating. It resists temperature and chemicals, is impervious to damp, and withstands scrubbing. Walls treated this way can be washed to remove germs and cleaned easily.
An old advertisement extols Minard's Liniment as strengthening the body and increasing resilience to sickness. It claims gradual exercise boosts physical power similarly to mental training for the mind, suggesting the product educates and fortifies the body through routine use.
A fragment speaks of requests for Minnard and calls for gracious words and sympathy, valuing quiet attentiveness over direct confrontation as a sign of care and restraint.
Fragmentary note shows Minard's Liniment used by various individuals amid unclear dialogue. The text includes phrases about someone hurrying and attempts spanning years to find relief, leaving the origin and scope uncertain.
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