Coastal news items and maritime notes from the harbor
A Newfoundland coastal report describes shipments and arrivals. The Curlew from Sydney brings a North Sydney cargo for J B Tobin and will load fish for Halifax. the Volunteer reaches Battle Harbor on its final run of the season with mail and freight. Diphtheria cases rise at Back Harbor while steps to isolate affected families are urged. The Seven Brothers Test schooner, run by the Liver brothers of Fortune Harbor, foundered after sailing from Exploits Bay. crew were saved and cargo insured for 1000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curlew
Kean
Sydney
Wibrings
North Sydney
J.B. Tobin, Esq
Halifax
Back Harbor
Seven Brothers
Little Northern ‘Harbor
Jah Manuel, Esq
Exploits
Liver
New Bay Hunters Report Deer Kill and Charity Drive
A Nov 4 report from New Bay notes men hunted and killed twenty one deer, leaving much venison in woods for later retrieval. Seymour, a local resident with one leg lost years ago, is collecting aid items while residents help with bread flour molasses and clothing. A small schooner Blossom is mentioned and the community considers fall needs and gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
John
Savelin
Early European winter and world events noted
Telegraph reports heavy snows in Greece and frost in England with a forecast harsh winter in Europe. Cholera spreads in Damascus with ninety deaths last week. Financial and political turmoil cross continents including embezzlement charges at Maverick Bank Boston, fires in Somerset Bermuda and St Louis, and electoral shifts in Ohio Pennsylvania New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hauras
Greece
England
Europe
Damascus
Maverick Bank
Boston
Czar
Somerset
Bermuda
St. Louis
McKinley
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
First National Bank
Damarexet
Maine
Pittsburg
Lord Salisbury
United States
Canada
Newfoundland
West Indies
Flower
Towa
Brazil
Offera
Halifax
St. John
Bay of Fundy
Jape
Abbott
Halifax Board of Trade
Admiral Mont
Chile
IV. O'Brien
Parnellites
McCarthyites
Cork
A Brain Twister Poetical Puzzle Prizes Offered Weekly
The bimeshrE WEErELY offers cash prizes for its Poetical Puzzle with 350 dollars weekly. First prize 150, second 75, third 50, fifteen others 5 each, plus 75 in total from weekly entries. Also 50 dollars daily and a silver kettle for every fifth nonwinners. Each solution must include a six month subscription to Canada's popular story paper. Send 5c to The Fireside Vergey in Toronto for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bimeshre Weerely
Canada
Adelaide Street West
Toronto
Notice of Act Provisions and Effective Date
Text outlines penalties for violations not covered by prior sections, fines up to fifty dollars recoverable in summary form before a stipendiary magistrate or justice. It also states the act does not apply to convents or private chapels and sets January 1, 1892 as the operative date. Signed R. Bond Colonial Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Bond
Public Health Notice on Disease Reporting and Transport Sanitation
A historic legal text instructs householders to report infectious diseases to the Board of Health or a justice of the peace with penalties up to fifty dollars. It also penalizes individuals who expose others to contagion or fail to disinfect public conveyances, with fines up to one hundred dollars or up to three months imprisonment. The provision mentions disinfection orders by medical authorities and is signed by F. Berteat, stipendiary magistrate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
F. Berteat
Also Mentioned on This Page
Vvur
Volunteer
Battle Harbor
Telegraph
Wild Cherry Bitters
Billiousness &E
Co. C. Richards & Co
Yarmouth N
T. W. Cragg
Duckworth St
St John’s
WM. Campbell
Hettai
Honey Duber
Water Street
St. John’s
New Punt Office
Mark Chaplin
Bill Heads
The
Sux
Mason & Hamlin
J. P. Thompson
Sun” Office
Sueaf & Heavy Hardware
Englash
Malleta
Iroga
Arening
Disston
Todlferee
Joseph Rogers & Sons
Berlin
B. M. Lea
J.B. Martin & Co
Woods’s Hardware
B. M. Yenpote
C. G Bonouill
Majearyts War Department
de Bylmont
Dale
Dabbin
Snags
Edyé Butyer
Bovember
Pose
Public Health Act
Espinta
Office of Publicani
Schlaogate
Notra
Tromeso
Baizer
Gergymen
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