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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Jan 08, 1944
Page
3
A Tit-Bits item notes a Confederate Life scene with a colonel observing a long queue of men outside stables. Each man holds sugar lumps while joking that the horse receiving it is the regiment’s pet, the recruit replying that the animal “kicked the sergeant.”
The Governor in Commission issued regulations under the Crown Lands Act 1930 altering timber cutting rules. Pending further inquiry, wood cutters must leave a four inch top on felled trees, replacing the prior two inch top recommendation from the 1943 Commission of Inquiry. Dated St John’s December 21 1943.
The document outlines forestry rules for the Bonavista Bay area restricting tree cutting under ten feet high, requiring whole tree removal or selective top limbs, banning pitprops and pulpwood, forbidding cut near roads, defining saw log standards, prohibiting unsanctioned railway sleeper work, and mandating permits from the Commissioner for Natural Resources to cut railway sleepers plus post permit removal duties.
The text notes restrictions on cutting timber from Crown lands with exceptions for wood by holders and limited top-portion removal. It emphasizes a penalty up to 50000 dollars and possible three months imprisonment for breaches under the Crown Lands Act as amended by 1943.
A collection of quotes on redeeming time and prudence in company. Thoughts from Clarke Chesterfield Jeremy Taylor Mary Baker Eddy and William Dewirt Hyde urge living fully in the present and making careful, thoughtful choices to improve life and future success.
Mrs Roosevelt described plans to visit five prisons but missed the President that morning. Later the President asked where her wife was, and the secretary replied she was in prison. He responded with surprise asking what for.
A Mrs Roosevelt tale recounts a joke where a soldier trying to shoot a Japanese is advised to shout defiance against Hirohito. The soldier reports he shouted To hell with Hirohito and a Jap jumped up. When asked later he said he shouted To hell with Roosevelts, and a Jap replied To hell with Roosevelts, leaving him unable to miss a fellow Republican.
General Sir Maitland Wilson known as Jumbo accepted a cap badge from non European troops at a South African base camp. The elephant emblem symbolized strength and memory and was sent with a note praising small elephants growing to a great one.
Old talk recalls a Black man’s grim view of military draft during wartime. He explains that in every path there are two possible outcomes, from being drafted to potential front-line danger, injury, or death, with lingering doubt at each juncture.
A teacher struggles with a garbled lecture mixing phonics and mispronunciations. The fragment hints at lesson focus and student confusion as words blur into unclear sounds.
A veteran who spent 30 years in the East and New Guinea describes persistent malaria and black water fever. After years away he recovered and credits a daily dose of Kreschen in tea for steady health and continued fitness into old age.
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