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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1886
Page
1
Publication notice lists Mrs S E Cowen as publisher with address 71 Oliver Street Boston and Winthrop Street office next to A Tewksbury boot and shoe store for communications and notices published Fridays.
A local shop advertises Ready-made Wrappers Kitchen Aprons and Hosiery from 10c to 25c and more. It highlights Laundered Shirts Overalls Gloves Linings Buttons Corsets Dr Warner’s and other brands with fittings for stout ladies. Bustles priced 25c to 50c. Tin Ware Notions also stocked. Mrs Frenel attends dress-making in the rear Tuesdays and Fridays.
Oak Grove Farm Co announces it will supply milk to Ocean Spray and surrounding areas from May 1 with delivery in glass jars. The season price is 7 cents per quart. Specialties include pure milk rich cream and fresh churned butter in various forms. Orders may be mailed to the Boston office or left at Hamarox's Bakery Great Head.
Rates for card and column ads are listed per year with yearly adjustments. Shorter periods add ten percent. Reading notices cost ten cents per line for first insertion and five cents each subsequent. minimum fifty cents. The Visitor offers free readership to advertisers during their ad term and reserves strict adherence to the rates.
The article muses on the value of gold in ancient and modern times and imagines Vanderbilt funding a giant golden shaft. It then notes the staggering number of newspapers and periodicals in the United States and Europe, citing counts for the US Canada Germany Great Britain France Italy Austria and a renowned Austrian journal with multilingual contributors.
A petition from many New York artists to Congress asks altering circulating coin designs. They urge embedding artistic quality in daily objects to cultivate taste while praising the current spidolar but criticizing the facing figure on the silver coins, who has supposedly twisted her neck viewing her own hair.
On Monday morning April 26 Sam George will run his through trip from Great Head to South Ferry East Boston to aid market men. The trip will start from coffer Sturgis street and avenue bridge Great Head at 4 o clock a m with connections at Buchanan Pleasant 4 05 Pleasant 4 15 and 4 59 ferry boat returning from Maverick East Boston at 5 55.
Medical Examiner Harris will not occupy Bartlett House rooms but has rented a Park cottage. The season will see Messrs William H. Allen George P. Gross John B. Goodrich and Major Edward J. Jones of Boston occupy cottages at the park. Belcher and Huckins invest heavily in embellishments as the Bartlett House grounds may become a summer pleasure drive.
The piece argues the Boston Revere Beach Lynn Railroad may control Winthrop and encircle the town with a broad gauge road. It weighs electric versus steam options, urging public patience for a trial and backing a steam route that circumvents central streets if the electric fails.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union adopts resolutions mourning the loss of sister Mrs. N. Almira Irwin. It honors her earnest quiet labor and faithfulness, expresses sympathy to her husband nephew and relatives, and commends them to God. Resolutions are to be recorded and published in local papers. Signed by Alice W. Macns Hartiz M. Frorp Many P. Gurr.
The community reports many arrivals and moves to summer cottages along Cottage Hill Great Head and surrounding streets. Rentals and purchases surge as the Great Head Yacht Club plans a busy season and locals seek nearby grocers and services. A theft incident at the beach ends with arrests, while schoolhouse relocation debates stir concern over a larger town school.
The undersigned thanks friends for their expressions of kindness during his bereavement for his beloved wife who has gone to her eternal rest. Messages of sympathy came from many, with some watching at the bedside others sending flowers and contributing music at the funeral. May God bless them all.
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