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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
May 19, 1894
Page
3
Bayde crowds gathered to honor two prominent Workingman's Party figures, WBS leaders Whiteway and Bond, amid a lively political rally. The article predicts electors will cast votes next Tuesday to return representatives to the House of Assembly.
A reader's charge to the editor describes a Newfoundland election controversy where promises of a carriage were allegedly made by candidates Goodridge and Knight to influence a voter. The letter, read by the owner and signed with witnesses, claims repeated persuasion and bribery attempts, prompting questions about fraud and electoral integrity.
The report notes plans for a formal opening of a canal linking Manchester with Barton and a royal visit that will not occur as scheduled. It mentions traffic concerns, limited inward shipments, and local reactions to development.
The mail per Grand Lake for the South closes at seven this evening. Several schooners remain at St. John's for here, none yet arrived. The Five Brothers left on a trading venture north last Thursday. A new schooner built at Patrick's Island for James Blackler will be launched tonight. Grand Lake's voyage may return south to morrow or Monday weather permitting. Notable passages include Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Scott and others to Little Bay, Wm. Pond to Pilley's Island. A Methodist School meeting is set for Saturday at 8 pm in the South Side School. Simon Legg spoke on Life Experience to over 100 in Town Hall last Saturday. The Sleaming Queen, owned by Mr. Owen, arrived from a sealing trip earlier in the week, after leaving Werring Neck around March 20 and turning back due to poor catch. An England Juvenile Missionary Meeting was held in St. Peter's schoolroom with a full turnout and a pleasant program.
A new temperance volume titled Ten Years of Temperance is announced by The Templar of Hamilton. Gantet will publish in seven monthly numbers with illustrated sections, starting with a first issue featuring thirty photos of Canadian prohibition endents. Specimen copy costs twenty five cents if mailed. five copies cost a dollar. Remittance to W. W. Buchanan, Hamilton Ont.
The Telegram reports Robert Munn and associates traveling to Bay-de-Verde to intimidate voters into supporting Ayre and Macpherson. They allegedly use leverage and threats to coerce supplies and votes, with warnings of retribution and revelations to come.
The June Delineator is the Summer Number with expanded reading. It includes A Girls Life and Work at Sith by a recent graduate, Grammar School Commencement, Nursing as an Employment for Women by Louise Darche, Dress for Summer Sports, Trunks and Trunk Packing, Vocal Culture, Typicnic Living, Mother and Daughter theme Bearing that title A Rosebud Party, and additional dainty patterns and guides for summer.
Special to the Sun from St. John’s May 16 reports a strengthened Liberal outlook with Bay de Verde solid for their cause. Marine Morine drew a revolver at Broad Cove and was mobbed, while crowds cheered Sir William Whiteway and Mr. Bond as they toured the line. Two thousand people paraded, bands played, and speeches followed in Harbor Grace and Carbonear. The crowd-friendly mood foreshadows a expected five to one Liberal majority and a prompt resumption of railway and other work if they win.
Reports describe a royal reception in Bay de Verde with perfect ovation. News notes include a fire at Tamage's tabernacle Brooklyn with losses over a million dollars, cholera spreading toward Russia's frontier, and various international tensions from Britain to France and Italy.
Advertisements claim Ayer's Pills prevent irregularities of the stomach liver and bowels and ease indigestion constipation headache nausea biliousness and vertigo. The tablet is described as purely vegetable sugar coated easy to take and quickly assimilated with a testimonial from M A Brockwrxu Harris Tenn praising relief from sick headache and neuralgia for her and her husband.
The notice bans killing five caribou per season, venison export before September 15, and requires a $100 annual license for nonresidents, with a $400 penalty. It lists permitted hunting for locals, ship personnel, and destitute settlers, and details prohibitions on dogs traps and specific birds and fish. Issued by the Portier Office Twillingate March 30 1894.
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