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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Jan 25, 1941
Page
4
The Twillingate Sur notes a weekly publication from Twillingate North Side office offering notes of thanks memoriam notices and announcements at 25 cents each. It reserves no guarantee to print late letters and disclaims responsibility for correspondents opinions. Dated Twillingate January 25 1941.
The Bell Island magisterial inquiry at St Job's notes potential mare rules for passenger boats, including proper registration and crew safety. Witnesses say some vessels lacked side lights and right of way discipline, with no boats carried for the two and a half mile crossing from mainland.
The U S auxiliary vessel Richard Peck arrived at Argentia with supplies for the American base construction. Former New York passenger liner with 12 ft draft moors at Argentia to house Construction Co personnel, carrying about 500 passengers and 40 crew. The George E Fuller Co of New York holds the base contract led by E E Davis with 35 staff at Argentia. another vessel with machinery is due shortly.
Captain John Butcher and crew traveled from St John’s on Wednesday. Mr Alfred Young and other teams moved to Lewisporte for them.
John Peyton of the Fleet Air Arm, once listed as in hospital in England, is now reported to be recovering according to the latest information.
Considerable freight hauling is likely in the coming weeks if travel holds from Lewis porte. Large quantities of fish remain unsold until navigation opens at Hertley Neck Moreton's Hr L. B. Islands and other locations.
Mrs B D Kruschen writes that her husband shed 21 pounds in a year on Kruschen Salts, improving digestion appetite and temper. He dropped from 210 to 159 pounds and now eats pastry freely, with lasting health benefits and no rushed dieting.
Edward James Brett Sr. born Twillingate June 11 1870 died January 9 1941 at his son Bennett W Brett’s home Toronto after a five year illness. Survived by wife Amelia Mantel Forward seven sons five daughters and ten grandchildren. He served as school board chair lay reader and elder and was a sea captain in earlier years. Funeral at Newtonbrook United Church Toronto with pallbearers listed and interment in Westminster Memorial Park Lansing Ontario. He was praised as a steady reliable man and compared to Joseph Conrad as a man of strong character.
Residents are asked to reserve February 13 for a Valentine party at Marechal Hall. The event invites neighbors to join a small gathering with decorations and refreshments.
A 1941 appeal from the Twillingate War Savings Certificate Committee urges residents to buy War Savings Certificates to support Britain in its life and death struggle. It promotes buying as a loan with interest and highlights future profits when victory and peace return.
Rheumatic fever is a noncontagious disease often hitting children and youths with fever and joint pains while the heart may be affected. The cause is unknown, it follows throat infections and scarlet fever, and it can be acute or chronic with variable recovery.
The text explains heart inflammation risks in acute rheumatic fever and stresses medical supervision. It covers bed rest during fever and joint pains, blood tests to gauge heart involvement, and resumption of activity. Home remedies include aspirin for pain, oil of wintergreen, cold chest applications, and nutrition plus gradual care during convalescence.
Admissions list includes Miss Bernice Hodder Miss Doris Arnold Miss Doria Young Twillingate South Edmund Small Summerford Mrs Alfred Freake Boyd's Cove Solomon Hurley Gander Bay Mrs Garland Warren Herring Neck Mrs Albert Linfield Jenkins Cove Discharges include Miss Hazel Loder Pikes Arm Harry Randell Twillingate South J AS Peyton Twillingate North Miss Eglah Woodford Mr Garland Warren Herring Neck Mrs Samuel Gidge Fairbank Miss Edith Ludlow Fogo Mrs Andrew Pearce and infant Exploita Mrs Cecil Edison and infant Botwood Miss Mabel Sharpe Crow Head
Travellera and Woody Baulers face a long hazardous ice rent from Bluff Head south toward Matthew's Island. Some markers exist but the passage remains unsafe with parts newly covered.
The notice records acknowledgment of calendars received from G. J. Carter Ltd, T. and J. French and Sons, A. Manuel, E J Linfield, and Ashbournes Ltd. The action confirms receipt and credits the named companies.
The report notes Sealamere scarce nets and prior trouble filling the Bight but nets captured several hundred fishers and one bedlamer. The Bay fills with arabs as conditions shift. A southwest wind moved the first ice field, though ice reformed quickly two weeks ago with temperatures below zero.
British raids on Axia aerodrome at Catania Sicily reported with fires and explosions. German losses cited at seventy thousand in Albania. Churchill rally in Glasgow decries ongoing bombardment and uncertainty of victory. Knox urges aid to Britain. Trans Atlantic mystery note from 1927 discussed. Mussolini and Hitler rumored to meet. Kasaala retaken in Anglo Egyptian Sudan. Ethopian resistance grows. Malta harbor raid inflicts civilian damage. Asturias captures French freighter Mendoza. blockades and cargoes. RAF total raids exceed fourteen hundred by January 1941, mostly Ruhr. Roosevelt inaugurated third term amid large Washington turnout. call to defend democracy.
Daily dispatches describe British desert forces advancing into Eritrea and Tobruk falling to British control. Greek forces destroy a convoy in Albania while Romanian Iron Guard revolt rages in Bucharest with widespread street fighting. Haile Selassie reportedly in Ethiopia as revolts spread.
Mr Wm. Smith of Lobster Harbor Maine suffered a total loss when his store and contents including winter provisions nets and other fishing property were destroyed in a recent incident.
Mr. H. J. Howlett, longtime commercial man and former Traveller, is appointed Manager for Newfoundland for the T. H. Estabrooks Company. The notice appears on page three in a Daily News writeup.
Reserve Wednesday night February 19 for St Pater’s sanctuary guild social event in the community notice.
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