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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Sep 17, 1927
Page
3
The New York Times editorial remarks on the visit of the Princes and Premier Baldwin to Canada. It notes America warmly welcomes the royal guests and reflects that they might have swayed colonial leaders a century and a half ago with their reasonableness and charm.
A Scotsman sought to end his engagement after his fiancée grew so fat he could not bear to marry her. She refused to release him, forcing an arranged marriage instead.
A fragmentary dialogue shows patrons and a young boy discussing a rubber band and a request to stand on his head. The text centers on a minor scene with a family and audience member remarks.
The saying notes money is easy to borrow when not needed yet nearly unavailable during times of demand, reflecting the paradox of credit access. It emphasizes how liquidity shifts with economic urgency and borrower strength.
A Scottish Boys’ Work Que member who recently emigrated to Australia wrote home claiming he saves $5 a week. He details a day that begins with waking at five, milking 47 cows, taking milk to the station, collecting the mail, returning home to feed the cows, then starting to work.
In common justice it should be recognised that all automobile drivers who meet with accidents on the highway are not fool drivers.
The vicar tells William he is tampering with several girls in the parish and nearby towns Crompton and Muddlington. William replies he has a motor-bike, implying his freedom to visit them.
In China begging is a recognized profession with organized guilds in most districts. Each guild has a president and officers, and members pay an annual subscription of 4 in local currency. Guild officials wield police protection, and there have been no strikes by beggars, a quaint feature of this unique union.
A concise aphorism notes a man keeps a sharp memory for certain facts yet chooses to forget others, highlighting selective recall and strategic memory.
A farmer rushes to an undertaker at night claiming his wife is very ill. The undertaker refuses a direct service, but the farmer insists he wants only a doctor, then declares he will cut out all middlemen after what he read in the papers.
A man hailed the departing steamer shouting that fifty more people were to come aboard. The captain asked for the rest of the party, and the man replied that he was the party, claiming he was fifty today and part of the group.
A physician approved remedy offered as a practical alternative to soda for acid stomach. Phillips Milk of Magnesia is claimed to neutralize stomach acid and reduce gas with a gentler, tastier option, available at drugstores through distributor Gerald S. Doyle.
A philosophical note compares the soul's balm to attar. It says many small deeds and thoughts over time build a sweet, lasting result, like acres of Persian roses yielding a single ounce of fragrance.
A quarrel follows a failed wedding march split as a husband returns with a peace offering, a small blue packet. The wife snubs the gift and coldly asks if she should know its contents, hinting at tense estrangement and stubborn misgivings.
Advertisement notes Asaya Neurall as a remedy for nervous exhaustion aimed at women. It invites readers to write for a free sample to Davis & Lawrence Co. in Montreal.
The office manager warns the stenographer not to write her young men during business hours. The report from Reilly & ONeill says a shipment of love and kisses was sent instead of axle grease.
The text notes the global population nearly doubled over the last century, rising from under one billion to about 1.7 billion people. It highlights the rapid growth as the era's greatest change in human demographics.
The Department of Agriculture and Mines advertises blueberries at 20 cents a gallon for export, shipper to pay freight, while domestic sales run 50 cents a gallon. Local berry-pickers number about ten. housewives fear higher prices at home, as export pricing limits domestic supply.
Newfoundland leads with an amendment to the Crown Lands Act prohibiting export of timber from privately held lands unless manufactured into paper pulp, lumber, or saleable products. A penalty of at least twenty dollars per tree applies, with enforcement by the Minister of Agriculture and Mines. Frank J D Barnjum of Annapolis Royal, N S, commends Newfoundland and its representatives.
A barred Plymouth Rock owned by the University of Saskatchewan set a new record by laying 390 eggs in her pullet year, with a month remaining. The world trapnested record is held by No 6 on Agassiz, BC, which laid 351 eggs in 365 days.
Bargain sale offers a 24 ton fishing boat aged sixteen with gear in good condition. For particulars apply to this office referencing wa jays.
A fragment reports the Stag Harbor tickle coordinates Lat 49 33 32 N Long 51 16 40 W with the body and superstructure of the buoy and lantern described as bone red. The note references CG Winsor in connection with the buoy work.
An 18th or 19th century notice describes sale or transfer of a dwelling house, sail loft, and part of a store located near Willin Gate, South Side, formerly owned by William Young, a sail maker, with further particulars promised.
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