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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Sep 08, 1945
Page
2
A physician plans to operate on a patient himself at Breene Cottage Hospital without a second opinion. He coordinates with the matron and an anaesthetist to prepare a private ward and ambulance. The surgeon dismisses worry and proceeds to the operating theatre with Dr Overton.
A medical drama unfolds as Dr Stephen Crayne completes an ether surgery with nurse and matron in attendance. Crayne plans to return at midnight to confirm the patient’s progress while insisting the patient never learns who operated. The matron doubts the risk but agrees to see the plan through.
A boastful man and his henpecked friend discuss his injured face from a recent motoring mishap. The exchange touches on marriage secrets as they joke about honesty and conflict in married life.
Josies says his wife is fine with lessons as the road begins to turn when she closes.
Eloie asks what sort of husband to seek and Grandia urges her to leave Banda alone and find herself a “single man.”
The Commissioner for Supply issued an Order fixing maximum prices for white granulated sugar and brown sugar imported from America or Canada. Wholesale at import port $12 per 100 pounds. elsewhere $12 plus transport cost. Retail at import port 13 4d per pound. elsewhere 14d per pound. Amendment follows rise in American export price.
Published by Authority a Defence price order dated August 10 1945. The document states powers conferred by the Defence Price of Goods Regulations 1941 and is signed by Geo E London Commissioner for Supply.
The order applies to Newfoundland including Labrador areas and adjacent islands. It caps sugar prices from the U S and Canada: import port sales at 12 per 100 pounds, non port sales at 12 plus transport, retail port 13.5 cents per pound, and retail off port as specified.
The document revokes the Food (Current Prices) Order No. 60, 1945 issued April 4 1945 and retains penalties for infringements under Defence (Price of Goods) Regulations 1941. It becomes effective at midnight August 12 1945.
A grocer asks a young job applicant for his name. The boy replies Scott Walter Scot, notes the grocer, and the boy boasts he has delivered groceries locally for two years.
A German prisoner of war toiled on a farm near Nampa Idaho thinning sugar beets and said Hitler promised a march across North America but not on hands and knees.
The speaker notes a long road trip reaching five hundred and ten miles since morning and plans to reverse toward the five hundred mile mark to change the oil. The exchange highlights travel fatigue and mechanical maintenance concerns during a journey.
A towering battleship requires inhaling air to sustain buoyancy, breathing out enough gas daily to offset nearly half its displacement weight, roughly 48 000 tons of air-inflow over a day.
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