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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1917
Page
3
Winthrop Savings Bank advertises savings as the key, noting dividends at 4 percent per year. It lists hours for deposits daily and evening hours on Wednesdays and Saturdays for deposits only, signed by Treasurer A. E. Whittemore, Jefferson Street near Centre Station.
Shares in the Trimount Co-operative Bank are offered with payments due on or before the second Monday of each month. Interest begins monthly and is credited quarterly. For details contact Treasurer George H. Wyman at 73 Tremont St Boston Room 527 or the Winthrop Director.
Two complete sets of controlling devices introduce a broom like automobile for instruction. A combined carpet sweeper and vacuum cleaner uses no other power. An air disinfecting liquid dispenses from a tank into a waving flag for fans. A typewriter table supports alternation of seating and standing. French mill men test moisture in cotton. Japan builds a 570 foot tallest chimney atop a hill 480 feet higher than its copper smelter. A textile tester passes fabrics under a microscope with intense light from above and below.
A column of pointed aphorisms covers caution in action and truth in judgment. It mixs humorous asides on voters, bachelors, and friends with lines about the clock and opportunity. The piece reflects urban wit and social commentary from Chicago News.
Clarence Devoe, a reckless rich young man, pursues Dorothy Davenport in a courtship marked by theater outings and debt tied to his father’s expectations. Dorothy’s cautious, bashful response hints at a complex romance as Devoe reforms yet boasts of wealth and status. A final note mentions a 3,000 ton reinforced concrete sea vessel in Norway.
The text offers satirical observations on religion branding, domestic life, frontline gifts, aging, grooming, masculinity, taxation, and journalism. It critiques hypocrisy and social norms as World War II era readers confront morale and national duty. The piece мыaves cultural commentary with pointed humor from a newspaper voice.
The figures list state and national counts of cheese factories creameries and dairy cows. It notes Ohio wheat production, US dairy product value in 1900, and married women in gainful occupations rising from 769000 in 1900 to 1890000 in 1910.
A popular science note states Meerschaum mining is key in Asia Minor. It also reports about 4 000 Aboriginal children educated under government contract in Queensland. It adds that vessels travel 12 knots hourly and are immune from submarine attacks since submarines travel only eight to nine knots.
A collection of curious statements covering Persia lacking distilleries in the home-made wine scene, Queensland fish riches, Canada supplying most asbestos, attempts to adapt steam engines to aircraft, California’s new picnic deposit industry, and Filipinos using 18 inch cigars.
The notice highlights women voters in Sycdet Norway near 1.5 million and a Canadian bill granting suffrage expected to add 450,000 voters. It notes Italian dressmakers earning 60 cents daily, British army women chauffeurs over 400, Red Cross work by 20,000 Baltimore women, and Polish women performing traditionally male tasks. It also mentions Vassar students yielding 4,440 bushels from gardens and Detective Sarah V. Farling linked with Washington police as a skilled sleuth.
A humidifier design uses a fan blowing air over water to moisten rooms. US platinum use totals about 165000 ounces yearly with 65000 refined domestically and the rest imported. An Ohio inventor proposes automatic signal lights for traveling cranes. A long handled trowel helps erecting concrete sidewalks stay upright. A French scientist notes tubes can be more flexible than bars of the same exterior size. Farm tractor wheels feature radiating treads. another model walks on four legged skids.
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