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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1908
Page
8
Scientific American clarifies that flying fish do not propel themselves by wing like fins. They gain momentum by leaping from water, spreading fins to glide until momentum ends, then fall back. Under good conditions they can travel about 500 feet before descent.
An English traveler on a Welsh excursion steamboat witnessed collier youths seize a companion and threaten to throw him overboard. He intervened, the victim recovered, and the ringleader apologetically claimed it was just a joke. The incident sparked reflective exchanges about humor and danger aboard the boat.
A late professor Greene, famed author of Greene's Analysis and the English Grammar, taught mathematics and astronomy at a New England college. In class, a slow witted student Jones failed to recall the next point in the text when the professor asked if he had ever been in Earth's shadow and where he spends his nights.
A New York Tribune excerpt recounts Elizabethan banquets detailing courses such as first course breads and gruels, second course fish including lampreys and porpoise, third course various puddings, fourth course meats like veal and mutton, fifth course sweets and jellies with drinks like ale and wine.
The article debunks the myth that chamois comes from Swiss goats. It explains chamois leather is produced by Peabody tanners in New England from sheep pelts. The craftsman is likened to a magician as he sources sheepskins from Montana ranches or distant plains and markets a storied product amid playful references to Mary’s lamb.
A chatterbox boy goes to a friend's house with his father under the rule he must stay quiet until asked. He remains silent for half an hour and then asks when people will start asking him questions, showing frustration at the waiting game.
The clipping threads fleeting lines from St Louis Republic Life and a Spanish proverb. It pairs a sharp social remark about earnings with a jesting exchange on living cheaply and a quip about amateur theatricals.
The Belcher Street church under Rev Frederick M Warre offers morning worship Bible School and evening services with special collections for missionary work. A weekend note invites Easter events, baptisms at the close of last week’s concert, and a Wax Figure show in Wadeworth Hall.
Sunday April 26 offers a Jubilee program at the Methodist Episcopal church 10 00am Odd Fellows anniversary and Tilton Clans address by George F Washburn of Boston at 7 30pm. Union Congregational at Winthrop Beach begins 10 30am with Essentials Lost in Details sermon and missionary committee in charge at 6 30pm. May breakfast planned May 1 from 6 to 9 am.
Rev W O Litchfield minister. Rooms 82 Hermon Street. Tel 242 1. Morning service at 10.45. Sunday school at 12.00. Young People's Religious Union at 6 00. Seats free. The church is supported by subscriptions and contributions. Everyone invited to come, Look for the Paragraph Pulpit tf.
St Johns Episcopal Church at Bowdoin and Buchanan offers services at 8am Holy Communion 10:30am morning prayer and sermon Sunday school 12:10pm and 7:30pm evening prayer and address. Easter music will be repeated. Rev C W Henry rector.
City editor suggests trimming redundancy by dropping growing from a headline about a scandal. The note implies the phrase already conveys escalation and wants a concise, sharper title. The source text presents a punchy newsroom instruction on editing.
Public auction will foreclose a mortgage held by Francie A Hunt assignee on May 11 1908 at 12 noon in Winthrop Suffolk County Massachusetts. Property includes two parcels: Lot 175 on Cottage Hill Lot Plan and Lots No 72 and 78 on the same plan with boundaries and sizes given. Tax and other liens to be paid. Terms announced at sale.
Notice of foreclosure sale by Louis Levy to Edwin M. Graffam. The property in Winthrop Suffolk County Massachusetts part of lot D block C plan by H T Whitman May 1891, about 7680 square feet, bounded by Revere Street Park Avenue and Graffam land. Sale set for May 11 1908 at 9 am at Malden Trust Company as assignee.
David Floyd appointed administrator of Harriet Jane George late of Winthrop Suffolk deceased intestate. Bond given as required by law. Creditors must present claims and debtors pay to the administrator at Winthrop. April 17 1908.
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