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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1885
Page
1
Address all business communications to Publisher S E Cowell at 71 Oliver Street Boston. The Winthrop office is on Winthrop Street next to A Tewksbury’s Boot and Shoe store.
Advertisement rates list prices for one inch, quarter column, half column, and full column placements per year. Shorter periods incur a 10 percent surcharge. Reading notices cost per line for first insertion and reduced per line for subsequent insertions. The Visitor offers free dissemination to all advertisers during their ad term.
Fragmentary notice notes postal pageants or distributions at a church and private homes on a recent Wednesday. Details are unclear due to garbled OCR.
The Visitor announces gifts for new subscribers and advance-year payers including Tennyson poems bound in cloth two juvenile story books five Robin series books a gilded scrap album and invites purchases at the office. O'Brien re-elected Boston mayor by 8580 majority. John W. Daniel noted in Virginia Senate election coverage.
Rupert Toomis died in Washington Georgia on Tuesday at an advanced age. The notice promotes Orchard and Garden, a horticulture paper for landowners, promising fruit, flower, and vegetable cultivation tips and a nut culture department, with subscriptions offered via Dr. Lovett of Little Silver New Jersey.
Albert 1D Floyd occupies his new house Tuesday while P M Haden trips to Yarmouth Nova Scotia. Ezra Whittier moves to the city for weeks and various carpenters upgrade homes on Shirley Beach Cutter and Crest. The Winthrop cash fare to Junction drops to five cents. December 5 marks Dr Baldwin’s final Peoples Course talk. New baby to Mr and Mrs Monroe Treworgy. Boston Winthrop Shore RR adjourns. Yacht Club ball tickets sell fast for January 14 at Odd Fellows hall. Local repairs on Crest Crest avenue and Ocean Spray bulkhead under town direction. Electric railroad debate grows. Episcopal services well attended. library trustees plan Dewey decimal system catalog with card index.
Citizens debated sewerage and town hall alterations while the Enos Electric Railroad Company offered guarantees to the selectmen. A Map of the World was donated to the library by John Ritchie as carpenters prepare the town hall for new uses and lighted reading rooms.
Enthusiastic Knight of Honor Todge club moves to engage Read's block hall with cherry furniture designed by W Bacon and a six light chandelier. Seven new members expected at the December 18 meeting. An ante room may become social assembly space with members given keys. A grand January concert at the town hall and a January 22 ball are planned.
Rev Mr Clouse of Newton preached at the Baptist church on Haggai i 9 urging care for the soul over worldly fame and perishable aims. At the Methodist church Rev S C Cary read Luke xvi 1 8 on the parable of the unjust steward and the test of true doctrine.
Town meeting draws large non-resident voters to sewerage debate while heavy attention centers on granting location to Enos Elevated Electric Railroad Company. Officials, bidders, and residents discuss routes through Main Revere Shirley Taft Washington Pleasant and Hermon to Payne’s corner with adjournment planned for Tuesday evening.
The Methodist church hosts a Thursday evening Christmas festival featuring the traditional tree and fruit distribution, short addresses, and children’s singing. The Baptist church plans a joyous event for children and adults with a committee coordinating free provisions and tree trimming assistance.
At the United Order meeting the following officers were elected W. C.-P. Floyd 2d W. U.-Mrs. Crosby P.-Frank Tewksbury.
Fragmentary OCR lists names associated with a local election slate. Individuals include Floyd, TK of Ro Warren Belcher, A. Ke Crosby Wo, N. Sturgis, T. Floyd, W. Magee, dc Nelson, and E. BE Crosby as trustees and treasurer roles.
The article explains Bangkok wats or temples with tiers of roofs and slender prachedees, often reaching 20 to 30 feet in height. It notes the architecture’s towers, pagoda-like spires, and the dramatic skyline formed by colorful roofs and needles against the horizon in a landscape influenced by war. There are over a hundred wats in Bangkok.
The article notes a paper piano made in Paris with a compressed case material that took a perfect polish. It describes the tone as very sweet and soft, a quasi continuous sound resembling that of the organ.
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