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Postal note indicates mail leaves GAM and SPM mail arrives with a BAL Ms 680 P.M. delivery by carrier at 8 30 a.m.
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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1886
Page
1
Postal note indicates mail leaves GAM and SPM mail arrives with a BAL Ms 680 P.M. delivery by carrier at 8 30 a.m.
The Visitor announces premiums for new and renewing subscribers who pay one year in advance. Choices include Tennyson poems bound in cloth, two illustrated juvenile story books, five bound The Robin series books, or a gilded scrap album. Premiums available at the office as holiday gifts, with immediate acceptance urged.
Rates for cards and columns listed per year with various column widths. Shorter periods add ten percent. Reading notices priced per line with first insertion ten cents and subsequent insertions five cents. Minimum 50 cent charge. Visitor copies mailed free during ad term. Rates to be strictly observed.
The piece argues advertising sustains business and permeates daily life, urging merchants to invest in local papers. It notes varied rail project opinions, citing Superintendent Richards and Metropolitan connections, while stressing ads transform distant places into thriving locales and reflect town enterprise.
Locals note a new Knights And Ladies Of Honor lodge planned with an installation Friday January 15. Readers report community events, weather lore, church activities, and local families coping with illness and bereavement.
Rev. Mr. Cary led a New Year service urging sustained grace to resist temptation. He preached from a sermon text about keeping one’s eyes straight ahead and threading life toward a clear ideal and objective. The discourse stressed active faith, continual progress, and following a divine chart for life.
Mrs Shackford, longtime wife of Richard Shackford, dies after bronchitis and peritonitis in Winthrop. A devout Christian and active Baptist, she came from Surrey Me to Winthrop and served her church. her death leaves the foster child and community in mourning. Dr. Soule delivered the fatal diagnosis as she calmly asked if she was going to the upper world.
A garbled dialogue segment depicts a funeral procession with banter about appearance and ambition. A Massachusetts dinner table remark notes a sharp practitioner’s shift toward circumspection, while a Brooklyn couple contemplates a jeweler’s shop and a cryptic remark about the name Gawgie tamb.
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