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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Nov 14, 1891
Page
3
Fragmentary notice discusses international jealousies and the risk of a future war linked to Russia. References possible naval passage concerns and British interests in the Orient with mentions of the Czar and Europe, but specifics are obscured by garbled OCR.
Local and General, Royal Scarlet LOA members urged to meet. Fall venison hunting active with market at a low figure. Coastal steamer Volunteer trips between St Johns Tilt Cove, Sisters bring cargoes for Dutler and return from Herring Neck. Weather on Labrador coast cold and stormy. mail backlogs noted. Wedding in St Peter's Church William Blackler and Louisa Purchase. Mary Roberta Chamberlain awarded Third Grade Certificate. Henry Dalley of Pike's Arm passes after long illness. funeral at Green Cemetery led by Rev G S Chamberlain.
Telegraph reports Hattfax notes Flaver BoGarthrice elected in Cork with claimed 1200 vote majority. McCaines’ Waterford convention guarded by police. Dillon escorted to railway with 100 priests. O'Brien accused of suppressing Parnell letters. Japan cites 6300 dead 9000 approved 7000 houses destroyed 12000 injured from quake. Britain warns China over punishment of trade leaders. Shanghai risk of bombardment. Andaman shipwreck drown 52. Brazil declares Paro independence. Bahi to follow. Russian famine brigandage rises. hunger typhus mortality increases. Liberal Unionists meet. Ireland local government extension debated. Wheat drops in Manitoba. Winnipeg ships wheat hourly. November 12 storms flood rivers. Canada Thanksgiving. Brazil unrest and China civil war loom. Shanghai peril. Rome Peace Congress opens. Harcourt eyesight failing. Athens conspiracies against dynasty implicate Fricoupes. East London tenement fire renders 200 homeless. Lord Lytton to be succeeded by Lord Dufferin.
A surge in shooting has reduced furs and other sea birds along the shore with notable activity at Crow Head on Monday and Tuesday where hunters were fairly successful.
Firesky WerkLY offers a weekly Poetical Puzzle with cash prizes from 150 to 5 dollars plus 50 dollar daily prizes and a silver kettle giveaway. Participants must send six months of Canada’s popular weekly poetry and story paper with a six cent sample copy request to The Fireside Weekly in Toronto.
At Back Harbor on the 8th inst the wife of Mr James Anstey gave birth to a son. On the 9th inst at Codex Cove Change Islands the wife of Mr John Foursons bore a daughter.
Nov 9 at St Thomas Church Moreton Harbor Rev R Temple pairs Thomas Henry Penny with Matilda Jane. Nov 13 at St Peters Twillingate Rev Temple joins William Blackler of Back Harbor to Louisa Purchase. On 2nd inst St Mary the Virgin Herring Neck Rev Chamberlain weds Elijah Locre to Hannah Stuckey. On 9th inst St James Apostle Islands Rev Temple unites Morgayt Hawkins with Miss Hawkins.
The notice outlines the Egress Act for churches theatres and public buildings in St John s requiring outward opening doors inner exits two doors for large congregations and council oversight with penalties up to one hundred dollars the act takes effect January 1 1892 and is signed by R Bond Colonial Secretary.
Notice requires a householder to report infectious disease to the Board of Health or a Justice of the Peace. Penalties up to fifty dollars. Also penalties up to one hundred dollars or three months imprisonment for exposing or mishandling contaminated bedding or items, with exceptions for proper disinfection. Stipendiary Magistrate.
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