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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1886
Page
4
A column of anecdotes and quips from a humor page touches on lovers, gifts, and misunderstandings. A raspy exchange about redeeming features leads to a romantic moment where a napkin ring becomes the modest token accompanying a proposal.
In a Detroit Free Press account, three white men taunt a Native American as a staged roughhouse turns into a chaotic parlor and saloon performance. A fake feint ends with mayhem and comic misrule, though no real injuries occur.
A string of scattered vignettes from street scenes and domestic humor. A chilly treasury tale ends with sneezing clerks while a boy hawks snow cleanup for fifty cents, and a Christmas pudding debate unfolds at Mrs. Smiley’s table. An Indian in Canada crosses streets with mats, framed by a broad comic sketch of urban life.
A New York Mail and Express interview notes a sharp drop in borax price from eleven to five and a half cents per pound over three years. California and Nevada on the Western coast lead production, with 4,500 tons extracted last year, and exports to Europe continue despite Italian supply. Borax finds growing use in welding, glazing, pottery, cleaning, packing meats, and new applications emerge, while crude deposits remain inexhaustible with major focuses at Tees Marsh Nevada and fields in San Bernardino Mono County and other counties.
Mr Benjamin Baker, presenting to the British Association Section of Mechanics, explains that iron beams show strength under static load but fail with intermittent or moving weight. He notes trains moving over girders wear down resistance, criticizes three times heaviest weight rule, and says many English bridges are unsafe from faulty construction or rigidity, contrasting with Indian carpentry insights.
A well dressed man guides a hungry boy to the Alderney lunch hall on D street and buys him food and goods. A dining companion remarks the boy’s father owns a large Maryland farm, sparking memory that the father is a deadbeat professional.
A short, fragmented literary note presents two chapters titled Disappointment and ROMINCE. Roston Courien references a father figure exclaiming Ah there and Pa there as a closing moment indicating a personal, intimate scene. The piece reads as a brief, experimental sketch.
A letter from William B. Piper written Jan 18 at Pueblo, Colorado, explains the delayed notice to the Gardner association due to Kansas snow blocking mail for weeks. Piper reports extended train delays, two round trips in 18 days, and describes the severe Kansas winter, with frozen deaths and large cattle losses, contrasting milder conditions in Winthrop and Mexico reminiscences of bullfighting.
Sunday church services at 10 45 a m with holy communion to follow. Sunday school at 10 30 a m. Mr Safford spoke on Psalm 102 urging diligence to God amid affliction. Rev Cary preached on loyalty to God from Matthew 22 21 stressing steadfast character and duty.
In a quotation fragment, the text contrasts duties to Caesar and to God, invoking a misrendered or corrupted phrasing of the biblical chapter and verse. The passage discusses render unto Caesar and render unto God, reflecting on the balance of earthly and divine loyalties.
The Episcopal Society hosted a social evening in Winthrop with a fine chowder supper and decorative tables. Mrs Wentworth welcomed guests as Rev Hewlett mingled warmly with strangers. A sleighing party of 19 visited from East Boston to join Mrs Clark’s hosts for the event.
Pime Yables reports a winter schedule for Boston to Winthrop Junction and back, listing multiple departure times from Boston and Winthrop Junction. Sundays feature hourly service from 10 A M to 10 P M with a workingmen's train option.
Timetables show departures from Boston via the Boston Revere Beach and Lynn depot for Winthrop Junction Cottage Hill Point Shirley with daily and Wednesday Saturday runs. Morning departures begin at 6:50 A M and continue through 7:30 P M with returns from Cottage Hill and Point Shirley at varying times including Sundays.
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