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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Sep 07, 1940
Page
3
A reader reports dramatic weight drops using Kruschen S alter and Krauchen Salts. A 230 pound husband shed to 200 while wife fell from 153 to 144 pounds after three weeks. The ad touts Kruschen as aiding internal organs to expel waste and poisons turning into fat.
A letter from Miss Hilda Barrette notes Massachusetts residents supporting Newfoundland and Labrador relief via the Grenfell Association. Groton ladies of the Congregational Church prepared 14 infant wrappers 10 jackets 10 bonnets 12 blankets and 18 bands for the Memorial Hospital at Twillingate under Dr and Mrs John Olds.
The Ladies Benevolent Society, with member Mies Barrette, funds and ships supplies to Twillingate Hospital for its nursery. The second year of such gifts highlights Mrs Arms praise of Newfoundland and its people. Guests from Winsor Connecticut and Detroit aid hospital efforts this summer.
A collection of brief quotations on fidelity and virtue from Cicero Bonaventure Henry Van Dyke Mary Baker Eddy and others. The passages emphasize honesty small duties daily actions and steadfast character as foundations of success and noble living.
Heavy Work solution saves hours by clearing clogged drains lifting grease and baked-on food from pots and pans. It reduces rubbing and scrubbing by cutting through dirt quickly. Keep a tin handy for routine cleaning tasks.
Poem reflecting on longing for home and the home town paper. It recalls neighbors, memories, and the comforting news of distant readers, ending with thanks to Albert M. Carl for the tribute
The piece reflects on persistence of beauty above gloom with lines about blue skies, starry lights, and silver linings. It contrasts dreary days with small flowers, mountain tops, and landscapes where shadows meet sunshine.
A vintage gingerbread cake recipe list with butter or lard and corn syrup, brown sugar, molasses, sour milk, and spices. It suggests creaming butter and sugar, beating eggs, adding syrup and molasses, then alternating dry ingredients with milk before baking in a slow oven for about forty minutes.
Confederation Life Ham Bran Cakes combine ground ham and pork with egg cloves brown sugar milk and All Bran. Shape into small cakes bake 30 minutes in a 375 400 F oven. Bake peach halves 10 minutes in same oven. Serve two cakes with one peach half. Substitutions include grilled bananas or pineapples. Yield about sixteen 1 3 4 inch cakes.
Leon Trotsky, famed former Bolshevik leader in Russia, died at age 60 after a Tuesday night assault in his study. Authorities say the assailant, posing as a trusted friend, was a member of the Soviet secret police and was captured by guards after the incident in exile in Mexico.
In Paris, Otto Strasser arch foe of Nazism and Herschel Grynszpan, whose 1938 assassination sparked anti Jewish riots, have fallen into Nazi hands after German forces seized control. A Paris-based informant, in Germany’s orbit during the transfer, provided the claim as authorities declined comment.
A parade of light humor from Santa Fe Magazine and other papers features a candidate quip about agricultural policy, a farmer wanting rain, and humorous exchanges. Sequences include Mrs. Younge and a cook, a maid recalling Mr. Browne with an umbrella, a classroom joke about opposites, and a farmer with a scarecrow.
Ole Olsen, 53, shouted Heil Bitter at a busy Oakland street intersection last night. Three policemen needed to restrain him before placing him in a jail cell for safety.
A brief fragment reflects on how not the size of troubles but spirit shapes response. It cites a misattributed or fragmented quotation attributed to Jeremy Taylor, emphasizing inner resolve over external hardship.
Pots, pans, kettles and jugs lie in a fast-growing heap at an aluminium collecting centre. Given voluntarily by British housewives, these articles form part of the vast quantities sent to aid the build of Britain's mighty air force.
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