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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Sep 02, 1933
Page
2
A Bermuda resident, Matthew McDonald of Smith Hill, Bermuda, recounts severe stomach and liver distress with back pains and fainting specks. He credits Dr Hamilton's Pills for restoration of health, sleep, appetite and nerves and urges friends to use the remedy.
Marshal notes threatening mail found after mail at Otter Creek Farm and suspects John Applegate. Orrin and Lorenzo plan cautious inquiry. Susan Applegate appears to host a private conversation as the investigation proceeds, with community language details reflecting local concern and tension.
Susan discusses Jonas and their arranged marriage with Lorenzo. Jonas wants to marry for inheritance, while Susan resists. She notes their uncle John Applegate's influence and his concern to keep property within the family. Uncle seems ill but not drinking, and avoids harsh talk about alcoholism.
Lorenzo probes the aging uncle’s mind while family debates inheritance and control. John Applegate contemplates bookkeeping upgrades and a broader social shift, touching on prohibition and personal freedom amid village gossip and fears of mental decline.
A wild tale unspools about Miss Peak Lizzie Walter and a cunning brood in Sheeby. The narrator describes unusual behavior and a boy punished for misbehaving, hinting at sly schemes and surprising cleverness among locals. The piece reads like a colorful neighborhood vignette with colorful idioms.
The fragment notes a person was poisoned with an unnamed substance and that someone had bought a quantity of it about a month earlier. Further details are not provided in the surviving text.
A man described as aymatch lacks usefulness without a head containing proper ingredients, implying intellect and guidance are essential to fulfillment and effectiveness.
A humorous overheard classroom exchange about digestion and sugar origins. The boy jokes he borrows sugar from the next door while the teacher prods for the West Indies connection, highlighting playful wordplay about food and geography.
A distraught man rushed into a political meeting at the Friends Meeting House then reappeared with a broad grin saying the creditors' meeting on the floor above wouldn’t admit him. A policeman noted his unusual reaction as observers heard he was indeed glad due to the creditors’ assembly.
A 176 page cen ten nial souvenir by Rev W Edgar Mercer titled A Century of Methodism in Twillingate and Notre Dame Bay is offered. Printed and bound at this office, 96 illustrations, copies available for $1.60 with mail service.
A Paris based group led by Grand Duke Cyril and M. Alexander Kasemberg claims to have built a Europe wide network for a social monarchy coup aimed at toppling the Soviet regime. They describe a hidden enrolment in Russia and a favorable chance during Russo Japanese tensions.
Article notes the Atlantic herring scales now used to make artificial pearls. Canada Week by Week reports manufacturers buy thousands of pounds of discarded scales to produce necklace components. Fishermen on the Atlantic coast earned about $2,000 for fifty thousand pounds of scales transformed into pearls.
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