17 Nov 1894
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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Nov 17, 1894
Page
1
Websters International with Geen dictionary touted as the ultimate reference after ten years of revision. It claims to answer history spelling pronunciation and meaning of words and to function as a library for eminent persons places and geographical facts. Reviews praise its breadth and value for families teachers scholars and professionals across Canada.
Ker offers a free prospectus with specimen pages and illustrations for cheap photographic reprints of ancient editions.
Self-Measurement cards sent by post to persons desirous of having a real good fit of clothes. A perfect fit guaranteed.
The 1894 budget for Twillingate District allocates 5739.15 to road work across numerous road boards. Funds cover Tilt Cove Gull Island, Indian Burying Fluce, Nipper’s Harbor, Northwest Arm, Jackson’s Arm, South-West Arm, Three Arms, Little Bay Mines, Little Ward’s Harbor, Wild Bight, Little Bay Island, Ward’s Harbor, Lushe’s Bight, Rabbit’s Arm, Pilley’s Island, Boot Harbor Hall’s Bay, Wolf Cove, Triton, Arader Leading Tickles, New Bay, South-West Arm Southern Arm, Fleuris Bight Waldrons Cove, Exploits Burnt Island, Black Island, Samson’s Island, Kite Cove, Burnt Arm Exploits Bay, Northern Arm Exploits River, Botwoodville, Burnt Bay, Indian Arm, Cotter’s Island Comfort Cove, Loon Bay, Badger Bay, Seal Bay, Morton's Harbor Western Head, Tizzard’s Harbor, and Twillingate Island. Specific line items include branch road work, cross-roads, and regional extensions. Each board receives varying sums, with Twillingate Island receiving 1265 and additional allocations for several connectors and culverts.
Willard A. Lucas, son of a woolen manufacturer, wears an aluminum artificial hand. Built by his father after failed searches through global manufacturers, it mimics real hand function with movable joints, ratchet driven fingers, and a release spring. It enables grasping tools, handling objects, and operating a gun with natural ease.
A London hospital surgeon grafted part of a living finger onto a disfigured man’s face to form a new nose. The patient wore a plaster cast and maintained the finger to the face for four weeks, after which the graft took and connected to the remaining hand tissue. The nose now consists of the patient’s own skin and cartilage with ongoing shaping.
Advert appears to promote Dr Agnew and Wooley Ford's Sanitary Lotion along with Mivard's Liniment and Wag raenae claiming rapid cures for heart disease Palpitations and breathlessness. Multiple productos are marketed with no verifiable medical basis and generic assurances.
A humorous guide lists traits to judge a future husband by. It advises checking his linen, nails, voice inflections, tie color, trousers, rings, and friends. It warns against marrying a man with a neck bulge over his collar and emphasizes neat attire and quick movements.
Distressing kidney and bladder diseases relieved in six hours by the New Cue South AverwaN Kidney Cuns. The remedy provides prompt relief from pain in the bladder kidneys and urinary passages for both men and women including retention of water. Sold by all druggists.
Elwood Cooper of Santa Barbara California owns the world’s largest orchard a 1700 acre tract with 10000 olive trees 8100 bearing 3000 English walnuts 10000 almonds and about 4000 other fruit trees Olive trees yielded 40000 quart bottles of olive oil last year sold at 4 shillings a bottle Nut trees produced thousands of bushels of nuts including Japanese persimmons.
George Robb of Markham Ontario reports a bottle of English Spavin Liniment removed a curb from his horse and praises its quick action on hard or soft lumps blood spavin splints curbs sweeny stifles and sprains. Sold by all druggists.
The article warns against using coarse brooms on carpets and advises damp cloth wiping after sweeping. It notes monthly light sweeps for fine parlour carpets, frequent shaking in busy households, and the fall season as hard on the elderly, recommending Ayers Sarsaparilla to bolster energy. It cites the Western Union Telegraph Company’s extensive network and promotes Ayers Hair Vigor for styling hair, ending with easily digested meats list.
An advertisement asserts that two thirds of all letters handled by the world’s postal system are written sent to and read by English speaking people, praising Minard's Liniment and Hair Restorer as popular in such communication dependent markets.
Ad copy fragment touts Minard's Liniment for La Grippe with claims of automatic machines operating at ten thousand strokes per minute, a dubious symptom of the era. It mentions Boston origins and selling points in terse promotional language.
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