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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Nov 04, 1950
Page
2
Regulations issued under the Social Security Assessment Act are voluminous and largely unintelligible. The piece of legislation will be hard to enforce and needs simplification and clearer citizen obligations. Experts doubt full enforcement will be feasible given current text and administration costs.
A diner describes being ignored by a waitress while others chat. He endures sour soup and slow service without complaint, choosing patience over confrontation.
The writer recalls polite behavior in stores, a bad experience returning nylons, and a toaster failure. He laments unfriendly staff and costly ads while noting his own restraint and reluctance to complain or return items.
The piece explores how the word fast has varied meanings beyond speed including tying a boat to a wharf, fasting from eating, and describing colors, people, clocks, and friends. It notes the semantic range and social connotations of the term across contexts.
The Navy aims to persuade Japanese troops around a small Saipan harbor after years of fighting. Leaflets and loudspeakers were used, but the Japanese remain unpersuaded, with machine gun zones guarding the harbor and the effort deemed hardly worthwhile by command.
The article notes that 12 rabbit pairs were introduced to Australia in 1859. Rabbits became a major pest with strict protection waning, a fine for snaring a rabbit once, and now a bounty of one shilling per rabbit. Annual rabbit trade amounts to 15 million pounds, while crop damage reaches about 450 million. Under favorable conditions, one pair could yield 8 million descendants in three years.
A fragment from a narrative describes a conversation about a nurse's trip to Labrador and loss of British citizenship, with a whaling tooth tale and a plaster window mannequin. A bachelor host shares quirks about a window display and two snooping ladies in the hotel courtyard for contrast.
Rawleighs department announces a new operation in Twillingate offering full time positions. The opportunity emphasizes a well established trace and invites applicants to write at once to Montreal labeled MLL-10-189.
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