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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1908
Page
7
The notice lists fire alarm box locations in Winthrop areas including Shirley Avenue, Harbor View, Crystal Cove, and many streets. It describes bell signals for school days and alarms, station contact numbers, testing dates, and procedures for signaling responders and a central station.
Office open daily 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays 9.15 to 10.15 a.m. Money order window 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Registration 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Deliveries at 7.30 a.m. 1.45 p.m. 4 p.m. Collections 7.30 a.m. 11 a.m. 1.30 p.m. 4.20 p.m. 6 p.m. Sundays 2.30 p.m. 6 p.m. Holiday hours 7.30 a.m. 2.30 p.m. 6 p.m. Street boxes collected 9.30 p.m. daily. }
Supsect 70 Coaner WitsovT ,NoTice. Orient Mneights to Scolla Square via Tunnel with morning and daytime intervals and night service. Gladstone St to Scottay Square, special cars, Monday changes, office details at 101 Milk Street. Information by telephone for rates and connections. We Feb. 1 1908.
Time table lists weekday and Sunday departures from Boston to Wood Island Harbor View Winthrop Highlands Highlands and Winthrop Beach stations with multiple frequencies and service notes. Line ends with caveat about delays and signatures of Hoyt Ta John Fenno.
The Society of American Women in London backs a two year postgraduate program in Oxford Cambridge or London for American women with a reciprocity scheme to send English women to Johns Hopkins or McGill. Mme Thayer leads fundraising in Louisiana as the General Federation of Women's Clubs pledges support. The plan mobilizes 800,000 member federation to foster international amity through education.
The excerpt outlines a recipe for a light yolk dessert using sugar and sherry or port or orange juice with lemon. It shifts to decor items featuring silhouette embroidery and decorative arts, describing bewitching profiles, incoyable figures, and Punch and Dickens scenes on moire and satin in pastel tones for tea trays, blotters, and tea cozies.
The piece discusses forehead lines as signs of years or bad facial habits. It warns that frowning and raising brows create vertical furrows and horizontal lines between the eyes, while excessive expressions leave lasting marks. It encourages restraint to avoid unwelcome wrinkles.
A practical guide describes a heavy weight wood flannel bath blanket apron for infants. It uses two yards of flannel, folded into two one yard lengths, with a one inch tuck and wash ribbon trim. Edges may have ribbon binding or simple buttonhole stitch in matching color.
The article promotes using pure white Vaseline nightly to improve lashes by reaching the roots and claims eyes become brighter. It also describes a novel pincushion design: four small silk cushions folded into triangles, edged with ruffles, joined at tips, and finished with ribbon rosettes.
A recipe for heating gravy with chestnuts mushrooms currant jelly and sherry served on toast with lemon and watercress. Also tips on using tea leaves to clean varnished paint and reviving artificial flowers with steam from boiling water.
A printer urges businesses to use quality paper and careful presentation for bills, notices, and announcements to maintain a professional image and gain customer trust.
A local printing office advertises reliable service for any order size with a modern assortment of type and materials and a competent staff ready to handle all jobs.
Prompt attention is urged to renew letter heads bill heads and envelopes and to review supplies. The notice directs readers to place orders at the office for all work to be completed there.
A young man in a mirror finishes his attire for a marriage proposal to a widowed mother. He weighs two cravats one black and white he bought and one the mother gave him. He finally chooses and the mother cries with hope as the daughter sees him as best dressed.
A London advertisement offers exorcism services for mansions and castles in England and Wales haunted by evil spirits. A European tour gentleman skilled in sacred science promises to render premises free from visitations and tenantable within six days. Letters to R John Jones, 30 St Martin's Lane, to arrange interviews.
The text notes old window panes in a London house once linked to Jack Sheppard still bear a glazier's inscription reading John Wool Brand, Painter and Glazier, March 1706. This marks a record of a craftsman from centuries past, preserved on fragile glass.
A curiously told tale places the future conqueror at a Macedonian banquet with Philip. Alexander allegedly taunts a guest, provoking his father’s strike before drunken chaos. The piece connects such peril to later peasant pawnbroking origins in England via Archbishop of London Michael Northburgh.
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