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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Jan 07, 1939
Page
4
Cryptic clipped text recalls a winter night scene with clarinet music and moonlit snow. Mentions a small whale ashore at Bluff with a harpoon, Anabelle Rideout as teacher, and a holiday program with Sagona next week. References to Facey, Mr Facey’s Tadell, and a Citadel event at 4 30 p.m. evoke a small town details snippet from 1939.
Fragmentary passage urges better promise and fair division for marketing and business readers. It expresses confidence in a prosperous new era for advertisers and patrons, inviting continued support and shared prosperity.
Christmas events in St. John’s area included calm holidays, church services, charitable dinners, and private giving. Two men, Allatt Ryan and Henry Keeping, were lost at sea near Salmon River after boat separation. A house fire displaced the O’Rielly family, while a French warship reportedly moved toward Djibouti amid regional tensions.
Editor voices public welfare concerns over a December notice promoting a cancer cure. Notre Dame Bay Memorial Hospital Medical Staff warns no cure exists beyond early surgery and radiotherapy. Newfoundland law and penalties under the Food and Drug Act are cited to deter such claims. The piece urges careful investigation before investment.
An elderly letter from Mia mentions slimming by Kruschen Salts, claiming hips dropped from 47 to 42 inches after daily use. The missive urges readers to take one half teaspoon in water before breakfast and warns of regulatory action for false health claims.
A dated 21 December 1938 document from W. S Monroe McNamara Geo William Leopard C Outerbridge H Brookes C C Pratt R B Job A Kean F H Steer J W Allan Geoffrey Milling states dispassionate review of the Agreement between the Commission of Government and B water's Newfoundland Pulp and Paper Mills Limited. The undersigned oppose passing an Act soon to confirm the Agreement and urge no early enactment.
A note of thanks from the Notre Dame Bay Memorial Hospital staff expresses gratitude through the Twillingate Sun to friends who supported patients’ Christmas with gifts of money fruit candy and other items. Names of generous donors include Magistrate Abbott Ashbourne Ltd Besaie Bert Ashbourne E Facey E J Linfield A Manuel W Je Minty Mrs Jane Osmond Rey T J and Mrs Fitt Little Bay Yalde NGI Stroup Mrs Chet Vokey Stanton M Hardy MD Hal Neti ED.
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