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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Jan 28, 1939
Page
2
The notice lists subscription rates of 1.00 per year to Newfoundland, 1.20 to Canada, 1.50 to the United States and other foreign destinations, payable in advance. Advertising rates include display ads with long term contract discounts and fortnightly rate changes, plus short term ads at 25 cents per inch with length-based reductions.
John takes his six month old son Jack to Dr Young who explains that early diet and health affect teeth long term. They discuss teething myths, X rays, and the need for preventive care to stop decay before it reaches the pulp, with John viewing his own roentgenograms.
The passage discusses teething as a natural process for infants and notes possible drooling fussiness and gum irritation for a day or two without sickness. It mentions introducing new foods like cereals and vegetables around teething time and cautions that these foods can sometimes cause diarrhea.
Worry consumes nerve force interferes with appetite digestion and sleep. Dr Chase's Nerve Food is advertised as rebuilding nervous energy and restoring vigor by feeding the nerves and blood to banish worry and despondency and restore healthy living.
A dialogue contrasts dental choices with office standards. A young solicitor is sent to interview a client. The telegram arrives requesting the client’s name, and Lois replies with a prompt name clarification referencing Dame Whitehead and Burkey.
A playful verse urges choosing happiness over anger, advising to smile when annoyed, count to five or ten, and laugh. It promotes filling life with warmth, staying bright, and being alert and cheerful.
Teacher Tommy answers a young student's question about bats. The lesson describes bats as thick flying mammals and notes their air minded nature in simple terms.
On Battle Island Newfoundland a Lloyd George a young native holds forth as education apostle in a rugged church school. North at Hopedale an Eskimo village a Robert Louis Stevenson operates Labrador’s northernmost wireless station. Both namesakes are temporary Newfoundlanders stationed north.
A neighbor of Uncle Toby joins the church and is asked if he notices a change. The minister asks about Mr Brown, and Uncle Toby notes a rest difference, saying he used to carry an axe on Sundays when mending the fence but now keeps it under his overcoat.
A fragmentary newspaper item notes four year old Sonny returning home on a Sunda. His mother asks about Sunday school and the boy responds in a clipped way that implies he had a rough morning. The report preserves the child’s tense, cautious tone and domestic mood.
A snippet captures a barber discussion with a submerged custom remark and a faint reply about lunch, hinting at a tense moment or peculiar social exchange. The dialogue suggests an odd, possibly coded exchange and a prompt about time and meals amid the setting.
Manitoba cancer cure efforts described by Dr McDonald at the Municipalities convention. He notes about 100 cases per month with 60 deaths and 40 cures, and says treatment is available to all based on ability to pay, aiming to educate the public against cancer.
The text urges work for pleasure in painting singing or carving and warns that work for money harms the soul. It suggests pursuing the work for its own sake first so that the sought outcomes may come to you later rather than chasing wealth as the primary goal.
A terse court exchange records a magistrate fining a draper two pounds amid exchange about reductions. The prisoner pleads hardship, citing hard times, as dialogue reveals a struggling tradesman and a demand for mitigation. The fragmentary transcript hints at debt collection and local economic strain.
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