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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Mar 15, 1947
Page
2
A public notice publishes an Act to Amend Chapter 121 of the Consolidated Starnies Third Series on the Solemnization of Marriages. It invites comments on the proposed enactment received through March 31, 1947, to be directed to W. J. Carew Secretary for Home Affairs.
The bill amends statute to clarify that underage means under the full age of twenty one and to grant Salvation Army officers the authority to perform marriages. It restores a less formal licensing path by confirming existing governor issued licenses or certificates and recognizes prior commissions.
A 1947 act amends Chapter 121 to raise marriage age to twenty one and extends authority to Salvation Army officers. It repeals Section 11 and creates new provisions recognizing Salvation Army officers with proper commission to solemnize marriages in Newfoundland. The measure clarifies certification and deposit of commissions with the Commissioner for Home Affairs and Education.
The amendment recognizes duly appointed officers of The Savton Army religion as legally authorized to solemnize marriages in Newfoundland. It validates marriages previously performed by sick commissioners staff officers or captains despite licensing or location requirements. The act is cited as Solemnization of Marriages Amendment Act 1947 and reads with Chapter 121 of the Consolidated Statues.
After two hours of quarrels the town council abandons disputes and proposes joining efforts with the neighboring village to construct a concrete road. The chairman urges unity and action to end the wrangling.
The landlady guides a college student through a room, noting its overall nicety while the student adds the room itself is not so good, highlighting a contrast between general impression and specific detail.
A young usher at a wedding faces a delicate disruption as he politely moves an elderly guest from reserved seats. Nervously he taps the woman and misreads the seating, offering to help her find a different area and apologizing for the mistaken placement.
In a South American town an earthquake unsettled residents and prompted an English family to relocate their young sons to an uncle’s home nearby. Two days later a telegram arrived reading I am returning your boy. Send earthquake.
A daughter credits Kruschen Salts with a dramatic revival for her nearly seventy year old father once crippled by rheumatism. She and her husband took the salts for a month and report relief from rheumatic twinges, while a long time user in the family claims the treatment restored his vigor and youth. The ad attributes relief to uric acid dispersion and natural expulsion of acids through the body.
The Newfoundland Railway will start a daily express service from St John’s to Port aux Basques on May 11, year. A weekly foreign service operates now with plans for daily service once the new SS Cabot Strait arrives. The railway also outlines switching 37 locomotives from coal to fuel oil, building large oil tanks at multiple towns, rock ballast programs, rail replacements, and a new Lewiston station to replace the old wharf site.
The General Manager expects increased freight and passenger activity in 1939 noting no drop in civilian passenger traffic since the war. He sees a busy year with more pulpwood hauling and construction materials transport, as reported by the Daily News.
Motivational couplet urges perseverance through doubt and hardship. It emphasizes staying in the fight when hit hardest and remaining hopeful even as outcomes look distant. The verse frames success as proximity to failure, reversing perspective.
Mabel beams about her new vehicle claiming she is wildly in love with it. The line reads as a playful take on romance versus modern machinery replacing human partners.
A fragmented note from a rejected suitor shows a late plea in a frat romance scene. The dialogue hints at a strained match as the girl responds with a wary question, leaving the outcome uncertain in this terse reminiscence.
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