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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Sep 13, 1947
Page
2
Instructions to prepare Parker House rolls using Royal Fast Rising Dry Yeast with sugar and lukewarm water. Mix and activate yeast, scald milk, sweeten, cool, combine with yeast mixture, add flour and shortening to form a smooth dough. Knead, rise twice, roll to 1/4 inch, shape into pocketbook forms, arrange on pans, let rise, bake at 400 F for about 15 minutes.
Household hints advise testing broom quality by pressing edge to floor, preferring fibre brooms for durability, boiling and cooling to harden, and mounting a broom supporter with two large empty spools near the door top. A bore hole and string hang assist, and an extra broom upstairs saves steps.
A dense hospital note lists multiple patient names and locations with discharges and operations. It names individuals from Fortugal Cave to Twillingate and various communities, followed by discharge entries for Springdale Twillingate Fogo and others, plus a section noting operations and staff references across multiple outports and towns.
A customer testimonial highlights substantial savings on Chesterfield furniture and accessories including beds, dressers, chests, and dining room sets. The ad promotes reconditioned bicycles, Chesterfield chairs and sofas, and complete dining room sets with modest prices and free crating for shipment.
A Montreal mail order ad lists winter helmets airforce blue with ear flaps and extensive furniture items. It markets kitchen tables breakfast sets studio couches radios porcelain tables and more with prices and delivery notes.
Britain informs Canada it cannot buy any canned salmon in 1947, freeing about 750000 cases for home use or export to the United States. Canadian housewives will see roughly double the salmon on grocers shelves, but prices will be substantially higher. For years Canada reserved 500000 cases for home use while the remaining 750000 typically went to Britain.
A compact scrapbook entry collecting sayings on bearing injuries provocation and forgiveness. It cites C Simmon e Tillotson Mary Baker Eddy Edward Thomson and Dickens, offering reflections on mercy, self control, and enduring kindness within everyday life.
A conductor tells a passenger not to worry about paying twice, joking that it may never be seen again. The passenger considers the odds and responds gallantly, suggesting it won’t break his heart if the payment is not made.
A fragment mentions a taxi fare change and a passenger paying fare changes over time. The odd phrasing and quoted terms suggest a note from an old Confed era life brief, with minimal readable details about the transaction and timing.
An unclear fragment records someone on the strand shouting in a loud voice, with the line Nol Nol, roll repeated. The readable portion hints at a casual street scene or performance but lacks context or complete names.
A brief excerpt describes typographic constraints in terms of proportion and curvature, noting a contrast between round and flat shapes. The passage reads as scattered OCR fragments without clear context or complete sentences.
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