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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1908
Page
3
Lena V. Henry of Norristown Ga writes of suffering female troubles and an operation being avoided after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports immediate improvement and full recovery and urges other women with similar troubles to try the remedy.
An advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a thirty year standard remedy for female ill ness including displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities and various pains claiming thousands cured and urging readers to try it.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat reports that dogs frequent smiths shops due to craving hoof odor and parings. Detectives tracking lost dogs first visit blacksmiths to locate them, citing Landseer’s The Smiths Shop as an illustration of a dog nibbling toasted hoof slivers.
A fashion feature highlights two unusual hats a straw sun hat with rose embellishments and a white brimmed hat with pink roses. It also reviews Scotch tweed walking suits in cream brown stripes blue greens and cream with brown accents plus a cream and brown striped suit with onion velvet trims and patch pockets.
A strange fashion shift adds leghorns and tuscans to tailored hats, with horsehair trims and bridesmaids hats in white hues. Cerise dominates accessories, appearing brazenly on hats of many colors, including bold black shapes accented by cerise wings.
A simple linen tub gown in Copenhagen blue or white eyelet costs about five dollars with eight yards of linen and eyelet embroidery. New frocks feature deep plain yokes with high collars in one piece, some with chiffon or net details, and a back point extending to the girdle.
A London Standard note on the frequent use of e before i in seventeenth and eighteenth century texts. It cites examples like feild, neice, atcheivement, releif, greife, and proper names Feild Purfeild Feilding, and mentions cieled in some eighteenth century writings such as the Burrell manuscripts.
A cautionary article urges women to avoid sharing prescriptions or giving others drugs from their own bottles. It warns that doctors tailor medicines to individual cases and that mistaking formulas can harm children or adults. Seek professional medical advice for sick children and avoid self prescription.
A woman explains how to feed a husband, arguing he earns the right to the best cooked meals in a home he supports. She frames marriage as a bargain where the wife uses his trust funds to ensure health and happiness, noting a grumpy man often signals unacceptable cooking and dull meals.
The column offers practical household advice. It covers stain removal with hot milk, air-drying books, cleaning pearl knife handles with salt and chamois, clearing spice mills with rice, deter ants with salt or cloves, scouring painted floors with turpentine and pumice, transferring feathers between pillows, tea leaf wash for varnished wood, whitening boards and marble with soda chalk and pumice, making a soap paste, and using a pumice cloth for lamp and glass surfaces.
A little known American vegetable, kohlrabi, is praised for easy cultivation and high market value. It combines cabbage and turnip traits, tolerates frost and drought, forms a large fleshy head, and is best when the size of a coconut. Planting guides include soil needs, transplant timing, and two sowings, with Early White and Early Purple as common varieties.
A new handbag design features a two section hollow handle with locking latches and an interior catch that prevents opening without the owner’s knowledge. The outer handle portions swing outward to release the latches, keeping contents safe and deterring pickpockets.
Pathfinder notes describe a honeycomb image where viewers flip between seeing six or seven diamond cells. The piece explains how perspective tricks the eye into perceiving different solid counts and the brain’s relief illusion.
The mock orange family includes about thirty hardy shrubs from five to twenty feet tall. Philadelphus grandiflorus grows about six feet with large white fragrant flowers in June, while P coronarius reaches about ten feet and blooms May or June. Gordonianus native US plant reaches ten to twelve feet with abundant white flowers in June or July. Pruning after flowering is advised.
The passage discusses how a wife mother or sister can inspire men to produce their best work and achieve success, while noting that influence can also lead to cruelty and crimes when directed by an unhappy influence. It emphasizes the power of personal relationships to shape behavior and history.
In a western Kentucky town Ben Watson saves Myra Underhill from drowning after she sinks for the third time. Aunt Tabby Wilson praises the heroism and urges marriage, but Ben resists, saying they should not marry yet.
Article details how eagles and other birds of prey protect their eyes from sun glare using a membrane under the eyelids and can adjust focus for distant vision. It explains a natural mechanism in their feet: tendons lock the claws to grip perches involuntarily while sleeping.
Describes a candle nut timing method used by Liberian natives where kernels on a palm leaf burn sequentially, marking minutes, with black cloth markers. Also notes Singar Malays use two connected bottles with sand that transfers every half hour after swapping.
The riddle compares a throne heir’s view of his father’s government to a sun refracting in a rainbow. A second quip asks why inner matters stay mysterious, answering that we cannot fully make them out.
A fragmentary verse recalls a girl who lost her temper on the way to school and caused a minor commotion. No witnesses saw the moment when it vanished, leaving only a sense of a sudden flare and consequences felt by a cross teacher and those nearby.
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