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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1923
Page
2
Lettie pitches a grand scheme to Mr. Abbott at the Wideawake Advertising office to cut steps with a card delivering device. After frustration and a dog’s kindness, she demonstrates a crude contraption that may save time and earns a dollar, the key to her holiday dream.
In a lively exchange Lettie jokes about Christmas language while Mrs. Penfield urges restraint. They plan to act by New Year and discuss how to buy a very large Christmas, noting they now have money and will proceed with careful planning.
In a humorous household vignette Mrs Penfield explains thrift while Miss Lettie Penfield watches funds shrink from one dollar to eighty six cents as they plan a no cost country tree. Drink and Thad contribute small amounts from chores, and Lettie holds sixty six cents in a purse guiding hopeful plans. The group traces a path from debt to possible joy.
The Park Commissioners purchase a new motor driven lawn mower run by Patrolman Louis Donovan who is moved to day duty. A horse was shot on Taylor street after being kicked. River road is nearing completion with Lewis Elmwood and Chester avenues nearly done under inspector C Porter Tewksbury and contractor C S Sargent Co. John B Haigh to serve as extra policeman in summer. Town Hall notes include upcoming Board of Selectmen meeting and local mischief.
Monastic orders in the tenth and eleventh centuries split medicine and pharmacy into distinct professions. Constantine Afer of Carthage is cited as a progenitor of apothecaries, who prepared potions for the rich and donated remedies to the poor. France records no apothecaries before 1484.
A compact remark on candor and memory in the Besten Transcript, noting how a storyteller’s excess reveals selective recollection and bias. The line suggests readers may wish the narrator withheld certain details to improve balance.
Ostriches have only two toes on each foot and one toe is much larger than the other.
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