Beside Grace Schooner Mission in the Bay Disaster
A fragmentary wartime reminiscence recalls a schooner named the Besere Grace, its voyage from Canada, a cracked bowsprit, and a perilous return to B D Cove. Crew members including Brigadier Wiseman Major Wellman Pilfrey and Adjutants endure light winds, towing, and a harrowing night at sea.
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Adjt
Wiseman
Major Wellman
Adit
Pilfrey
Canada
Black Duck Cave
B. D. Cove
Hospital Notes Week of January 3 Admissions and Discharges
Admissions include Harry Moore Three Arm John Hamlyn Crow Head Mia Bennett Anatey Purcell s Hr Miss Marion Blake Herring Neck Baden Wall Wallace Brett Moreton s Hr Mra Chesley Laie Change Tairnide Hedley Davis Botwood Joseph Eveleigh Mac Eveligh Comfort Cave Discharges feature Mrs Edward Elliott and infant Richard Boyde Summerford Mrs Gilbert Pryor and infant Olive Hale Newstead Miss Rita Bau er Black Island Mrs Adam Peckford Birchy Bay Mrs Martin Luscombe and infant Toon Bay Adolphus Stuckless Bridgeporte Harry Moore Three Arms Mrs Lindsay Mu ef ford and infant sec Port Albert George Steadley Triton Miss Catherine Batstone Springdale Miss Muriel Miles Miss Lillian Fudge Eric Crossley Merring Neck Miss Tess ie Lilly Exploits Miss Vera Baird Twillingate North December 31 birth to Mrs Bennett Anstey Purcell s Harbour (mother and infant well). December admissions 65 discharges 63. Total care 2710 days. Average patients per day 87.4. There were 9 births and 1 death.
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Harry Moore
Three Arma
John Hamlyn
Crow Head
Mia
Bennett Anatey
Purcell
Marion Blake
Baden Wall
Wallace
Brett
Moreton
Chesley Laie
Hedley Davis
Botwood
Joseph Eveleigh
Mac Eveligh
Comfort Cave
Edward Elliott
Richard Boyde
Summerford
Gilbert Pryor
Olive Hale
Newstead
Rita Bauér
Black Island
Adam Peckford
Birchy Bay
Martin Luscombe
Toon Bay
Adolphus Stuckless
Bridgeporte
Three Arms
Lindsay Muégford
Port Albert
George Steadley
Triton
Misa Catherine Batstone
Springdale
Muriel Miles
Lillian Fudge
Eric Crossley
Merring Neck
Misa Tessie Lilly
Exploits
Vera Baird
Twillingate North
Indian Congresses Rebuff to Goebbels Propaganda
The Bombay Chronicle rebukes Nazi tactics in wartime broadcasts that claim German sympathy for India. It notes Berlin’s historic perfidy and hypocrisy and reminds readers that Nationalist India's anti Nazi stance remains firm despite attempts to praise Gandhi and Nehru as agents of world Jewry.
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India
Goebbels
Indian Congress
Bombay Chronicle
Berlin
Germany
Mahatma Gandhi l
Pandit Nehru
German clothing rationing tightened by dual permits
Reports describe buyers must show ration cards and wornout garments to replace, with official recognition of wornout status. Applications go to two offices for permission and touchers. Penalties heavy for improper applications or excess clothing. Gestapo raids accompany the permit process, reflecting rising bureaucratic control.
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Germany
Gestapo
8Fex
Confederation Life Government and Bank Holidays List
Government and bank holidays listed with dates in January March May June August September Labour Day Armistice Day and Christmas observance. Notable dates include St Patrick’s Day Good Friday St George’s Day Empire Day His Majesty’s Birthday St John’s Day and Regatta day.
Christmas Church Services and Santa Gifts Across Town 1939
Town notes describe Christmas 1939 at St Peter and St Andrew and United Churches with festive decorations, choirs, and sermons. Sunday schools held trees and programs with Santa distributing gifts. door receipts totaled 27 dollars from ten cent admissions. A separate L A Citadel observance featured The guiding Star and Luke 2 8 17 with Band performances outside hospital and a children’s tree event. Adjt Rideout led songs, prayers, and national anthem. He visited the sick and aged on Christmas Day and Tuesday.
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Usta
St. Peter's
St. Andraw'a
Crow Head
Father Christmas
Irazer Hall
North Side
Santa Claus
Central Primary
Kettle Cove
Adre
Rideout
Adjt
Social notes from Comfort Cove to St John’s
Miss EH Eveleigh spent holidays at Comfort Cove and returned on Tuesday aboard the Northern Ranger. Mise M Loder accompanied by Mrs Arthur Gillett took the steamer to Lewisporte Wednesday week en route to St John’s. Ranger Sparkes arrived from St John’s aboard the Ni Ranger Toreday.
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EH. Eveleigh
Comfort Cove
Mise M. Loder
Northern Ranger
Arthur Gillett
Lewisporte
St. John’s
Ranger Sparkes
St.John’s
World War Front Briefing From January Weather and Skirmishes
A long dispatch reports confusion and deadly mistakes among Russian troops on the central Finnish front amid ongoing undeclared war. The piece notes hundreds of thousands of Turks facing starvation and blizzards. Finnish and British efforts, Soviet bombing of Turkey, and Finland's hold against Russian advances. Also covered are daily war updates, a Royal proclamation calling up 19 to 28 year olds, New Year RAF victories, refugee movements, and local Newfoundland fisheries and shipping news.
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St. John’s
Tacoma
Oral Spee
Mente
Montevideo
Walwys
Nild
United Kingdom
Britain
Royal Air Force
Shetland Lelds
North Sea
Kallio
Finland
Turkey
Tamoca
Joseph Roche
Port Blandford
Buchans
Glory
Germany
Helligoland Bight
Finance Department
Aki
Puerto Rico
Labrador
Bay of Islds
Eric Taylor
S.S. Northern Ranger
Philip Templeman
Edgar Templeman
St. John's
Heligoland
Fionfair
Russia
Murmansk
Sweden
Marquess of Lothian
Chicago
England
France
Placentia Bay
Marystown
King George VI Christmas message from Sandringham
The king delivers a wartime Christmas address from Sandringham praising peace and home life while urging unity among the empire. He thanks Royal Navy, mercantile fleet, mine sweepers, air force, and the British Expeditionary Force, and calls Allies a Christian civilization’s cause. He hopes for peace in the new year amid ongoing struggle.
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Sandringham
King George 6Th
Royal Navy
Ftng
India
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Bridgeport
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Hospital Notes
Bennett Anstey
Purcell’s Harbour
Confederation Life
Town Notes
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