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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1886
Page
4
The notice lists illness and confinement among residents Mr Mavor and Mr Hill with limited hope of improvement before spring. Services are urged for next Sunday morning at 1.49 and a move for Mr Mavor to Avery Fower. Community events include a parish social with musical performances by local artists and a reported positive reception, though several lines are garbled.
Dio Lewis argues against southern California for invalids, praising Northern climates and open-air routines. He notes New England’s resilience, suggests gradual outdoor activity and riding, and claims warmth harms those with consumption while cold, bracing air aids recovery.
A poem recalling children, a father’s sorrow, and the longing for a home. The speaker contrasts jewels in the window with absent loved ones, sobering through winter imagery as he prays for the poor and patient, and dreams of a heavenly, blissful home beyond earthly ills.
A collage of light jokes and quips from editorials and columns. Bits about circulation, aging, time and money, and playful exchanges between characters. Contains witty lines from multiple sources and observers like the York Graphic and Julies Journal.
An eyewitness describes a Turkish Bairam at St Sophia with the Sultan and officers in regal procession. The sultan rides a jeweled charger amid guards, a dwarf jester, and lavish dress, his face fixed in stern, marble-like calm as he surveys the ceremony.
A collection of assorted items notes that seventy four English ships were lost at sea last month. It lists ages and birth years of Congress members and observes the younger and older politicians. It then shifts to rural lore about wild horses and a Montana stallion leading herds, followed by remarks on dogs and hydrophobia, urging kindness and discussing Pasteur’s vaccination impact and dangers of bite fears.
A survey notes Geo Stanford's Palo Alto stud with 149 brood mares and 59 thoroughbreds. It cites a 2 million dollar offer by a Chinese syndicate for the Palace Hotel, Rothschilds’ vast capital and history from a poor Hanover clerk to wealth, and describes manuscript readers shaping publication decisions with multiple endorsements.
The selection surveys March 1865 Union army totals, an English fox terrier with childlike intellect, Paris deaf mutes’ Silent Club and electric servant shocks, pyramid monuments for kings and astronomical aims, lead poisoning from mill stones in Paris, sunspots rising in April to June, railway criticism of locomotive headlights, St Nicholas patronage theories, James Marshall's Sacramento gold nugget and California’s vast gold increase, physicians paying for apes, and the growing business of pitheberty preparation with tools.
Warning issued after multiple trichinosis cases traced to undercooked pork ham. Public health officials urge thorough cooking of all pork and warn diseased meat floods Chicago markets, risking nationwide distribution.
Returns from Cottage Hill on Sundays and daily departures from Boston. Runs listed include 6.10 6.50 7.50 and afternoon times 8.45 10.10 with several stops at Point Shirley and Acme. Names Betrick and Blake appear as president and manager.
Schedule listing Boston to Winthrop and Revere Beach trains with departure times from 7.30 to 6.996.50 and return times from Winthrop to Boston, plus Sundays service every hour from 10 A.M. to 11 P.M. and a workmen’s train note.
George & Collins advertises coaches linking Winthroy, Junction with the Boston Revere Beach Lynn Railroad. Schedules show weekday trains and multiple departures from Winthrop Street and Magee's store with hourly service from morning to night.
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