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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1908
Page
5
Two family houses with sixteen rooms and modern improvements in a good location. Three minutes to the station, seven minutes to the beach. Open Sunday. Rent sixty eight dollars? eighty and eighty five per month. Investment or home Stafford Atlantic street.
A fragment from the Sunerville Journal shows Higgins noting no clients visit his office while Spriggins claims an electrician’s bell signals both staff and clients. The oddly phrased exchange suggests confusion over who actually enters the office.
A humorous exchange reveals Billings says a man never learns his wife until after marriage, regardless of engagement length. Darrow retorts that sometimes a girl has a little brother who may shape outcomes.
Winthrop Elks helpers return from Seattle and plan a May opening for the Argyle. Residents relocate to 86 Fair Oak Street Newtonville, and Mrs Ida A Noves moves with family. Chelsea fire benefit features reader Mrs Joshua Remby. McKenney Waterbury promote annual half price lighting fixtures sale. Mrs Henrietta W B Frost speaks on The Trees of New England. Mrs J D Young and daughter relocate to Winthrop Shore Drive while active in Golden Cross. Handel and Hayden chorus members from Winthrop assist Samson and Delilah in Boston. Massachusetts Suffrage Association hosts May 4 reception with Prof Charles Zueblin. The Coffins return to Rochester after Winthrop residence. Coffin and Mrs Coffin active in church and Masonic circles. St Johns Guild hosts turkey supper with dance and candy sale. New Ocean Spray bowling alleys near ready April 27 with H S Horn running the facilities. Q and Q Club visit by Mrs Urania Stearns and Edwin Stearns of New York. Continuous community report on local social and cultural happenings.
Kathrine Heslom joins Bustos Theatre Block Company and a relief fund seeks clothing and furniture for Chelsea fire victims. Mrs Catherine Gillen and granddaughter Henrietta open a confectionery in Roxbury after moving from 271 Shirley Street. News covers local society events including the Equal Suffrage League Guest Night and Cottage Park Whist Club gatherings, plus charity entertainments at the Hotel Tuileries and a Chelsea aid benefit with Grace Chamberlain and Marion H. Croléy performing.
Mrs Sophie W Morse residing with Mr and Mrs GA Harris at 28 Trident Avenue died Saturday evening at 8 due to general debility from old age. A German native who came to America with her husband Coleman Morse a Boston restaurant keeper. Survived by two sisters in Dayton Ohio and Philadelphia. Funeral Tuesday at 8 pm Wakefield Cemetery beside her husband. Rabbi Charles Fleischer officiated. O R Bennison in charge of arrangements. Floral tributes noted.
In Winthrop on April 24 Herbert A. Sweetland aged 89 has died. Funeral services are set for Sunday at 2 o'clock from 22 Vine Avenue.
A St. Louis Republic excerpt describes a girl given apples for kisses by Willie and a stranger boy. The scene shifts as the girl discovers Willie is away, replaced by others offering kisses for apples, exposing a troubling social dynamic. The tale critiques expectations placed on women and the uneasy exchange of affection for payment.
A London Tit Bits snippet shows a father urging his daughter Mary to end a year long courtship with Mitchell. She defends him as sweet and nice but hints at engagement signals as they discuss a future cottage and a tentative proposal. The father assigns a brief trial period.
A New York fidelity company suddenly canceled bonds issued for a fiduciary, prompting the holder to seek an explanation. The bond issuer replied that the convict had previously been found guilty of forgery under another name and served a prison term. The recipient felt deeply hurt and remained silent.
In a London Standard noted reflection on great salaries and charity, Mrs Tofts is depicted as a celebrated soprano with a money making craze and vanity. Pope’s epigram mocks her avarice, arguing such pride would starve beasts and deprive the poet of fortune.
A Chicago dinner retold by a Persian consul recalls Lady Drummond Wolffe obtaining permission to visit the late shah’s harem. She, with a fiancée-to-be friend, wandered the palace until the shah halted them with a crude French remark, noting the engagement as “It's late.”
A London Globe quote centers on a self made man denying a story that he forged his rise to prominence. The exchange features a reporter, an interview, and the man’s sharp insistence that he is not a forger.
A Kansas City Journal excerpt warns against premature coal trust actions. It notes Old Gotrox left a thousand tons of coal in trust not to be touched until the youngest child comes of age. The snippet captures prudence in handling large resource endowments.
A compact aphorism style note emphasizes strength through union and peace not obstinacy or turbulence. It contrasts firmness with rashness and discipline with excess, quoting Mirabeau on restraint and Cowper on mercy to avoid harming even a worm.
A grave father explains payroll woes as a solution from his wife leads to a fair split of funds. In another vignette, a shabby man wins entry by claiming to be Starlight, exposing the disguises of racecourse pretenders in a club official’s tale.
A grandmotherly anecdote recalls a son promoted to first lieutenant sending Florida navel oranges with a note signed Jack. Guests marvel at the fine fruit while the mother jokes that he cannot spell naval with an e, yet his status remains impressive.
The article surveys early attempts to square the circle dating from 2000 B.C. Egyptian and Babylonian sources, noting Hippocrates of Chios around 500 B.C. and the Papyrus Rhind by Ahmes about 2000 B.C. It cites the lines of Hippocrates and a Babylonian rule that shortens the diameter by one ninth before constructing a square, with references to Babylonian and Talmudic attestations.
Henry VIII plans a fierce embassy to Francis I with a trusted English bishop as envoy. The prelate fears for his life but Henry vows to execute every French head in England if needed, while the bishop quips that none of the severed beads would fit his body better than his own.
The text traces Mem the Hebrew name for M to water and notes the ancient wav ing line as a symbol for water. It discusses philologists positing Phoenician M deriving from a picture of a human face with strokes for features. The old Phoenician form reportedly resembles a face in a comical way.
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