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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1912
Page
3
Weekday service runs at 12.35 1.20 2.35 3.50 5.05 5.35 5.50 6.05 6.20 and 6.35 a m with gaps to 8.35 a m and 4.35 p m and 6.25 p m and 11.35 p m Midnight at 12.05. Sundays show 1.20 2.35 3.50 5.05 6.05 7.05 8.05 8.35 a m with 15 minute runs to 11.86 a m and 13.06 midnight. Official timetable by John A Fenno Supt.
Time table for Boston Elevated Railway detailing Orient Heights to Scollay Square and Orient Heights Gladstone Street to Scollay Square routes with morning and Sunday intervals, night service, and notes on omitting Monday morning and special charter cars available from the Superintendent of Transportation at 101 Milk Street.
The Indianapolis News quotes a sermon stressing practical faith. It urges seeing labor as a path to reward and notes the preacher must draw personal Bible insight to guide others. It includes pithy maxims about burden bearing prayer and self-improvement.
A discussion argues against the common belief that stars regularly disappear and new ones emerge. Most "missing" stars in older catalogs are tracing errors or misprints, with some cases caused by planets or temporary stars like 55 Hercules. The author concludes few if any true new stars brighten permanently.
A collection of satirical witticisms on politeness deception courtship and daily life. Observations range from a man’s earnings to a widow’s behavior and a woman’s disposition. The quips lampoon social conduct and human foibles with playful sarcasm.
The Rockefeller commissioner reports startling Kentucky conditions with seventeen hundred fifty cases found in a single county in 28 days. Rockefeller fund work and state health boards fight the disease, but eradicating it remains extremely difficult in districts where it is fixed. The malady decimates communities and is a major social and scientific challenge.
The article defines Hercules as a purely mythical Greek figure chosen by Zeus for kingship of the Argives. It notes his labors, his role in Homeric works, and his superhuman stature as depicted in literature and art. It mentions a leonine head, curly hair, a lion skin, and a club as iconic attributes.
A collection of quips on rumor work and reform, noting idle trouble, sticking to words, and marriage norms. It observes men who boast of not needing to work and jokes about marital trade and conscience in a pointed, wry tone.
The article notes Chauvin as a character in Cognard's La Cocarde Tricolore performed at Follies Dramatiques in Paris on March 19 1831. It describes him as a braggart veteran of the empire boasting of Austerlitz and Jena and vowing revenge for Waterloo. It also cites a Figaro notice claiming knowledge of the real model. The term Chauvinism thus shifts to denote extreme patriotic bias and hostility to foreigners.
An engaged girl reports that life has become fierce as everyone in her circle changes. She notes her sister improves, her mother also shifts, and she herself differs while the bridesmaid dress excites particular attention.
Sir James Murray seeks the inventor of the phrase Tom Dick and Harry. He cites US usage from 1815 and England before 1865, noting memory of earlier colloquial and newspaper use here before 1860. He doubts the proverb crossed the Atlantic in fifty years.
A nostalgic poem set beside a tranquil fishing hole invites dreamlike peace away from city life. The speaker seeks harmony with nature, urging readers to find joy in simple moments and daily tasks, ending with a gentle call to be glad.
If all the earth is blue and cheer is scarce the piece suggests reading as a cure for gloom. The Denver Republican notes poems offer relief from drear life and bleak days. It invites troubled readers to seek comfort in literature.
A collage of verses and excerpts cross the page: patriotic odes to battle and victory from Hary Kemp and Atlanta Constitution, romantic quatrains by Robert Herrick, mournful nature imagery, and a Teresa Hooley poem about enduring love. The mixed pieces shift from war’s roar to peacetime solace.
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