On the cusp of our summer issue
June 2024
Join us on The Signal next Friday (June 14, noon in Newfoundland, 12:30 in Labrador) where we’ll be discussing the upcoming theme.
Image: Sortie de l’opera en l’an 2000, by Albert Robida (c 1902)
The Codfish Splitting Machine
BY Matthew Hollett
IN THE FALL 1922 ISSUE of Newfoundland Quarterly, anchored between a lament for the drowning of a local businessman and a brief history of Puerto Rico, I found a curious article titled “The Iron Splitter for Dressing Codfish.”
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