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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1913
Page
4
The Winthrop Sun and Visitor notices publication details, contact info, and subscription rates. It prints a midsummer column reflecting on weekend leisure and weekday work steadiness. It reports six typhoid cases in Winthrop linked to returning vacationists and compares to Boston hospital case counts.
Members of the Winthrop Board of Trade promote a Merchants Day outing at Nahant on Wednesday September 10. The event aims for broad citizen participation beyond Board of Trade members and promises a big day. Details appear elsewhere in this issue.
The Boston Globe notes Winthrop townspeople enjoy unusually few mosquitos thanks to last year's Board of Health. It drained marsh lands around the town at substantial expense to reduce breeding grounds.
A long Saturday game at Ingleside Park between the Winthrop Athletics and Fore River produced extra innings and fan excitement. A Monday rematch at the same park featured current town officials facing former officials, adding to the local baseball buzz.
Federal authorities praise boat safety laws but lament the inability to stop unsafe or crowded boats from operating. The author notes significant boat traffic in Boston harbor and warns that without stricter enforcement more serious accidents are likely, especially on Sundays.
Adelaide B. Whittemore transfers Bartlett parkway and Bartlett road parcels to Ida F. Ramsay. Giovannia Janinin transfers rue de Mer property to Raffaele Janinin. Edgar F. Power transfers Court road property to Florence H. Welch. All involve nominal consideration.
Panic broke out as lights failed during dinner hour in Calcutta when a cat leapt onto a transformer and caused a short circuit. The outage triggered frightful speculation of Bengal terrorists before power was restored as engineers addressed the fault.
The piece urges readers to balance gloom with tales of courage and public good. It argues news covers both misery and noble acts, urging proportion in judging whether the world is improving. It emphasizes evaluating impact over sensationalism.
Two East New York detectives, while patrolling a burglary-plagued area, confront a man posing as Dr Leo Brewster with a gold lettered bag. He offers an engraved card and flees when approached. Stopped, he yields a surgeon case containing a complete set of burglar tools.
A reflective piece on the modern traveler shaped by ease and wealth. The author likens travel to a small world, with mirrored reflections of self, noting the ease of movement and recurring encounters with similar people as prosperity expands horizons.
A Wide World Magazine writer recalls seeing Cairo tailors iron clothes with their feet. Workers use a flat iron shaped tool with a wooden block on top and guide it by the handle while standing low to the ground. The boards are only a few inches high, yet the method yields neat, speedy results.
A family dispute unfolds as a mother learns her son in law plays cards nightly for money at the club. The married daughter explains the scheme with Mrs Next Door, where winnings are shuffled between households, effectively doubling their cash.
A hurried customer in a restaurant demanded absurd dishes using car related wordplay. He ordered a filleted fly a landau on toast two victorias devilled and a fried dog cart with wheelbarrow stew. The waiter fled as staff tried to interpret the bizarre order.
Miss Mildred Johnson of Providence spent summer with Mrs. Frederick Avery of Locust street. A surprise party Thursday evening at Mrs. Avery’s parlor gifted her a fine camera. Guests included Nellie May Stockwell Amelia Stockwell Ruth Broderick Marion McDonald Mary Barter Margaret Barter Catherine Doherty Elsa Pierson Marguerite Furniess Roger Pierson William Lyman John Flynn John Raynes John Broderick and local matrons Mrs. Avery Mrs. Broderick and Mrs. Barter.
List of new books and selected articles on capital punishment and related topics compiled by C. E. Fanning. Includes works by William Wood and Victor Hugo, plus novels and travel writings by Erckmann Chatrian, Joseph Conrad, Joseph A. Altsheler, and Josephine Gates.
Regular meeting scheduled on the second Monday of each month to discuss money sales and payments of dues. For more details contact Secretary George H. Wyman at 73 Tremont St Boston Room 628 or Winthrop Director Nelson Floyd in Winthrop.
The article notes that a cedar takes over a century to grow to a 30 foot pole while eucalyptus reaches larger size in 30 years and yields wood of lasting quality. It also mentions orange blossoms as a painless anaesthetic solution for weddings, citing a Johns Hopkins professor.
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