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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Jun 16, 1894
Page
1
Saturday publication details show land listings in Notre Dame Bay. Payable levies include 1.50 NG per annuum and minor fees. text includes unclear amounts and references to taxes or dues.
An advertisement extols a comprehensive dictionary as invaluable for households and scholars. It highlights coverage of history, eminent figures, geographies, translations, and pronunciation, claiming it to be the best and cheapest dictionary for schools and families in Canada.
Reports detail extensive flood damage across Philadelphia, Lehigh Valley, and southern New Jersey on May 21. Widespread destruction includes washed-out rail lines, collapsed bridges, flooded mines, and halted industry with losses running into tens of thousands.
An OCR fragment references sheet iron described as very thin, mentioning weeks and a vague measurement or condition. It appears as a partial historic note with unclear context and lacks identifiable persons, organizations, or locations.
The Queen arrived by carriage to Manchester May 21 for the formal opening of the Manchester Ship Canal. Thousands lined streets as the procession moved from town hall to Trafford wharf where the Enchantress yacht carried her to declare the canal open to commerce. Mayors of Manchester and Salford received honors, and Joseph Leigh ALP, son-in-law of D Adamson, was knighted along the route.
The industry faces a low mood with mills like New Brunswick shutting due to 18 percent wage cuts. Stormont and Janwila mills in Cornwall run 35 hours weekly. Traders blame tariff reductions and weak trade in neighboring regions with overproduction keeping prices low. improvement is not seen until fall trade.
A fragmentary bone piece about six inches long was displayed at St John’s by Banvit of the Schoousr Hrassi Lacosta. It was found about half a mile from South Point Baroadus and is claimed to be the fourth bone of its kind located at the same spot. It was bought by Captain Bandt's son from a woman at Jacilandloe.
A Duxbury telegraph operator who dozed on night duty was jolted awake by a ritual globe spanning message route. From New York to Boston to Canso Newfoundland to Valentia and beyond, callers traced a circuitous chain to alert the sleeper, who blamed a fault in adjustment as officials investigated a vacancy at Duxbury.
A cryptic, era-tinged piece denounces the evils of stimulants and luxury, warning that excessive spending and nerve depletion ruin families. It attacks tyranny and urges temperance and usable trade as paths to prosperity, citing wealth diverted to stimulants and health harms.
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