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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1913
Page
7
A periodical prompt urges readers to cease worry about daily hardships. It contrasts common complaints with historic figures and biblical references to exhort reliance on divine blessings. The piece ends urging cheerfulness and gratitude for life’s blessings.
A fragmented reflection on time wasted and domestic strain. It laments the sink overflowing with dirty dishes and urges a partner to return from vacation. The piece contrasts robbing Peter to pay Paul with hurting Paul’s feelings and notes the paradox of loving enemies.
The Suez canal tolls last year reached 26 million dollars. Nearly 1000 girls are learning machine work in a New York trade school. A Berlin doctor claims sleep can be induced by brain stimulation. Home electrical gear costs about one and a half percent of construction expenses. Paris researchers link gout to a germ from experiments with small animals. Cleveland builds the largest US locomotive crane for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Camels imported from Asia tested in Australia for wagon haulage. World raw silk output last year nears 59 million pounds, a record. Brass dies can print wood up to two million impressions with care.
A column of aphorisms on youth guidance, hard work, schooling, character, and self improvement attributed to Oma. It urges keeping youths from bad company, valuing education, and building virtue through effort. The piece notes small beginnings are pivotal and compares value to gold versus brass.
The column jokes about domestic chores and male behavior, noting short marriages and modern rings. It mocks talk of women as troublesome, rejects excuses for bad conduct, and references Mr Bradstreet and Mr Dun on The Good Fellows while urging readers to spot true statesmanship.
A column of humorous lines on time, clever quips about a dumb-waiter, bargain boat rides, aging kangaroos, and children’s soap use. The tone is light and observational, delivering brief witticisms rather than a narrative.
Miss Helen Spalter faces a night of danger as a felon breaks into the farm house. Robert Heulin races to the rescue in a touring car, arriving just in time to help and sealing the moment with a kiss after his safe arrival.
A collection of quick statistics and curiosities noting butterfly varieties watch components and roadside data. It lists numbers on butterflies watches streets miners matches car output Montreal area chicken farming and French poultry income with figures from the period.
A collection of witty quotes from 19th and early 20th century papers. The Cincinnati Enquirer New York Press Chicago Ledger and New York Tribune offer jests about marriage money Eve and suffrage pageants.
A Chicago News line notes a young man visiting a girl who removes cigars from his vest and places them on the mantel, while she pretends not to notice. This vignette captures a coy courtship moment with social humor.
The piece recalls emperors of China and notes Theebaw of Ava who rose to power in 1878 and murdered relatives. British forces under General Prendergast later deposed him, annexed Ava, and exiled Theebaw to India where he remains under guard.
A man named Fulmer employed at an abattoir suffocated after a freight elevator descended into the shaft in Philadelphia. He could not move as the machine crushed him, his cries drowned by the noise, his body crushed almost to a pulp.
A compact quip filled piece lists humorous "directions" for common tasks. It parodies practical advice by pairing chores with absurd or risqué remedies, reflecting a light satirical tone typical of old newspapers. The lines mock everyday logic and social norms.
A new law in Lower Austria imposes reforms on household staff naming them as employees. Employers must feed the servant properly and the servant is barred from gossiping about the family’s private affairs. Enforcement details are not provided.
A collection of brief quips. Estelle Klauder notes that money silences query and a Greenwood Lake line praises a successful man as a balance of backbone and cheek.
The Mexican Herald reports residents of Guanajuato have complained to the ayuntamiento about turning off the public clock lights after 10 PM. They say the lights being extinguished makes it impossible to tell the time after that hour and have asked clocks inspector to review the practice.
A traveling preacher agrees to marry a couple in a nontraditional arrangement, noting he is not a regular pastor. The fiancé responds that being a traveling man suits him fine, highlighting a casual, vows-based union.
A child in the country misinterprets sounds from farm animals. She believes a hen cackles with every egg laid and, when the cow moos, she exclaims that another egg has appeared, revealing playful misunderstanding.
Joseph M. Sheeran of the St Joseph's T A Society in Boston swam from Nahant to the Revere Yacht Club house at Beachmont in 4 hours 25 minutes. He went overboard at Nahant at 11 05 and finished at 3 30 with attendants John A Ryan Neil Haggerty James Lane and Patrick McLaughlin. Miss Margaret Cummings of Neponset swam from the Revere Breakwaters to the Yacht Club with Dennis Cummings and Lucy Haggerty accompanying her, starting at 11 05 and finishing 30 minutes later.
Robert B. Muir a 15 year old from Roxbury says he swam from Nahant boat landing to Revere Beach near Ocean Pier a distance over three miles in 1 hour 55 minutes corroborated by his brother in a rowboat. He began at 11 o clock Sunday morning and finished at 12 55. He has five brothers all strong swimmers and has been swimming about two years.
A banker’s son studying art abroad sent a 20,000 sight draft via London. The bank telegraphed to honor it, but the father’s quick reply distinguished currency meanings, approving small French drafts yet suggesting the funds be sent home if the amount were pounds.
Two French seaweed cutters, a man and a woman, survived three days and nights at sea off St Malo after their small boat could not reach land. They drifted into Plemont bay Jersey exhausted with no food beyond a crust of bread and kept wet and weak throughout the ordeal.
The Sacred Heart Church parish outing at Point of Pines drew about 10,000 attendees last Saturday with an all day sports program and 12 hours of dancing by an orchestra and the St. Vincent Boys Band. Guests included Rep William F. Doyle and several state and local officials. The event faced a tides-related disappointment as water sports were canceled, leaving only sandbanks.
Sam Richards, Boston's aquatic champion, swam 24 miles to Boston Light and back in 13 hours 9 minutes. He battled headwinds and rough seas off Long Island Head yet maintained the English overarm stroke without faltering. The feat surpassed all prior long distance records and is expected to stand for years.
The undersigned state they have not received any benefit from the stated offer of hundred dollars for catarrh. They declare the claim false and refuse to fulfill any obligation.
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