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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Jan 22, 1949
Page
3
The 34000 ton Cunard White Star liner Caronia undergoes final fitting at Southampton with craftsmen and artists shaping its completion for the January maiden voyage to New York. The ship features green exterior paint and a large gravity davit lowering a 45 foot diesel launches for sixty passengers.
A scanned reading room listing shows numerous titles and authors arriving at St Johe's Library. Names include Agatha Christie Joseph Conrad Andrew Croft Shirley Clarke Isabe Shannon Damon and Winston Churchill era works alongside modern fiction by Goudge Innes Kent and Maynard, with references to classics like The Secret Agent The Heart of the Matter and Mysterious Rider.
Eleven year old David Western of Allison Road Acton London received the Albert Medal from King George for bravery after diving into a frozen Caterley Park lake to rescue three friends. He saved one and twice returned with a rope to aid the others, becoming the youngest recipient of the award.
A partial OCR line shows a confused query about a woman and a man, with indistinct punctuation and missing context. The readable bits reference a woman described as girlish and a man named Ken, but the overall meaning is unclear.
Fragmentary dialogue shows someone asking for next day off work tied to a silver wedding anniversary. The exchange mentions a recurring event every twenty five years and questions about repeating the request.
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