03 Mar 1894
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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Mar 03, 1894
Page
1
The notice lists annual publication terms and rates for North é Notre Dame Bay, noting a two dollar per year price with variations in currency and charging structures. It mentions weekly or Saturday issues and special arrangements, with per inch pricing and adjustments for twelve months.
Public notice under the 1878 act calls creditors to show claims on the estate of Louis Joseph late of Pilley’s Island who died in December 1894. Probate was granted by the Supreme Court on February 20 1894. Executors Horace M Pilley and Richard D. Walsh warn claimants to send claims before March 1 to the undersigned solicitor, or distribution will proceed and they will not be liable for claims after distribution.
The notice outlines a Jubilee Scholarship at the London University funded with four hundred pounds for the top Matriculation examiner. It rewards the student ranking first in the matriculation exam held in June each year if competition exists. If no competitors, the scholarship is still awarded to the passers, with stipulations about residence and pursuit of higher study. The scholarship details are proclaimed in the Royal Gazette prior to the exam.
Public notices fragment discusses appointing officials to prepare affidavits and related documents for legal conveyance. It references a general appointment and the need for proper documents to proceed with a transaction. The tone resembles a legal or probate notice.
A grand education in one volume ten years for revision with 100 editors and substantial cost. It answers spelling pronunciation history and meaning and provides facts about eminent persons places and countries worldwide. It is praised by The Globe Toronto and The Times Hamilton as the best working dictionary and a worthy family purchase.
An advertisement from G. and C. Merriam of Springdale, Massachusetts USA urges readers not to buy cheap reprints of ancient editions and invites sending for a free prospectus with specimen pages and illustrations.
Outport stores advertise prompt tailoring and city orders. Self‑measurement cards were sent by post to customers seeking a real good cloth and a perfect guarantee of fit.
A reprint extols mothers to guide children’s athletic education inspired by Eugene Sandow. It argues physical training builds capable husbands and fathers, urges boys toward strength and civic virtue, and urges girls to develop robust health. It cites gymnasiums and calls physical culture essential beyond language or arts.
A historical guide lists precautions for winter living including avoiding back exposure to cold, eating breakfast before travel, not drinking warm beverages before going out, covering the back and neck, nasal breathing in cold rooms, avoiding wet feet, regular bathing, not riding in open air after exertion, speaking softly when hoarse, warming the back by the fire, keeping the mouth closed when moving from warm to cool air, and avoiding prolonged standing in cold wind. It emphasizes gradual warming and avoiding sudden cold exposure.
In Grosslaswitz, Germany a village bell story unfolds. A schoolmaster named Gottfried Hayn used a corn stalk gifted by a bird to fund a second church bell after persistent farming of six ears yearly. Over eight years the crop grew enough to buy a bell with its birthday and inscription, plus a coat of corn stalk.
A mob tortured and executed Segers a Black man after a fatal assault on a 12 year old girl. He was tied to a tree, limbs hacked off, burned, and shot as the crowd displayed extreme brutality before leaving the body to hang.
A boy overtakes a market wagon and asks the driver to name the snowball thrower. The driver offers fifty cents to settle the matter, and the boy admits he threw it while lamenting his sick father and no Christmas tree. The driver agrees to pay and calls it square.
Debate on whether married women should teach or work outside home. The essay argues that barring married women from teaching is unjust and harms communities when a married woman is capable and both spouses agree. It contends many married individuals would be misused if removed from schools.
A Guelph man advertised in a Toronto paper seeking a wife. A local man and friends posed as a Toronto widow with $4000 of insurance money and courted the widower, sending a photo of “CB” to entrap him in a deception.
A middle aged farmer Perignon fell for Marie Angele Liegois but was refused. He shot her and her mother with a double barreled gun at a hut in the forest and then killed himself after a pursuit by the woodcutter and his son. Perignon had previously fired at another woman who rejected his suit.
The Italian army faces high losses from smokeless powder, with up to 500 guns damaged and orders to cut practice. Restoring effectiveness could require as much as 8,000,000 pounds, impacting artillery development and late 19th century military spending. A mix of advertisements and anecdotes follows.
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