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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1908
Page
5
A portable photograph car advertises portrait and group photos with all work guaranteed. It sells 30 ping pong items for 25 cents and invites customers to view samples in the car parked across from Winthrop Beach Station.
Town brief lists residents and visitors, including John Petersen and family vacationing on a Woburn farm, Ruth Whitman returning from Castine, and various locals hosting guests or planning moves. Several families sail or travel to New York, Italy, or Europe, with notices of new residences on Centre street and community events at Dorchester and Winthrop lodges.
Pleasant street residents travel to Margaretsville Nova Scotia while Litchfield rests. Caldwell family to Boston for winter at The Commonwealth Hotel. Winthrop hosts receptions and visits from New York, Boston and Cambridge figures. clubs hold first meeting. many guests frequent The Cliff Club Marblehead and Ocean Viewside Marblehead Neox. An auto party at Lookoff Highlands plans a second lease year.
A string of travels and guest stays fills the week from Lincoln street to Norwell and Provincetown. Local residents enjoy vacations with relatives and friends while Mrs Newton hosts a Vacuum Cleaning Process demonstration at 182 Pauline street Winthrop Centre on September 8.
A magazine manager urges readers to demand exact products and reject substitutes. A traveler finding a dusty road visit ends with a village clerk offering a feather duster when linen dusters are out, illustrating the perils of inferior substitutes.
A British Watch and Clock Makers' guild meeting debated whether watches should lie flat or hang at night. The consensus favored lying flat for most watches as it reduces wear by placing run time on end bearings and keeps the mean rate nearly constant.
A humorous tale about an old gentleman visiting a furniture shop to buy a sofa for his daughter's courtship. The shopman pitches a sofa named Cupid's Retreat whose covering wears off in a year, exposing a card reading Time to get married. The piece ends with a note on Oregon's first settlement at Fort Clatsop on March 23, 1811, linked to John Jacob Astor's Tonquin expedition.
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