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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1907
Page
7
Fire alarm box 22 signals three rounds with 8 00, 11 15, and 12 45 schedules for school closures and readings. Box locations include Shirley Street Tewksbury Crest Ocean avenues plus Main Emerson Sargent and Washington streets. Central and Beach stations listed with contact numbers. weekly box tests on the 1st and 15th at 9 00 a.m.
Office hours and mail services listed for Winthrop including delivery, collection times, and Sunday and holiday schedules. Multiple street boxes and sub stations named with locations and connection notes to major cities. Post Office routes and closure times stated with registered mail and arrivals.
At a college alumnae luncheon the phrase can't afford it is debated as economic hardship. Speakers discuss rising costs, frugality, and the value of simplicity, contrasting essential needs with fashion and luxury while urging steadiness amid high prices.
A Japanese college girl entertains a fudge party with vivid reminiscences about preparing a daily toilet. She details washing and styling hair, rouging cheeks, powdering neck and bosom, shaping eyebrows, reddening lips, tying the obi, white stockings and lacquered clogs, then leaving with a demure fan salute.
Old fashioned onion sirup with minced onions cider vinegar and molasses aids hoarseness and sore throat. Hot lemonade with lemon juice in hot water helps break colds. Burning camphor fumes relieve head cold. A hot garbed cloth on the forehead and a neck bath soothe headaches. After exercise avoid cold drinks and lying down quickly. keep moving to cool gradually.
If the enamel is intact it can be cleaned with a cloth dampened in turpentine then salt. Ensure the bath is dry before turpentine application and rinse with warm water several times. Discolored brass should be washed in hot suds with washing soda, rubbed with a paste of whiting and paraffin, then polished with brass paste for a bright finish.
London M A P recalls a holiday spent on a farm with his old aunt where simple, traditional cooking wins over modern dietetics. He contrasts balanced meals with “forbidden” health foods and notes he felt renewed and restored after two weeks of unscientific, home cooking.
In a Pearson's Weekly vignette John Ludlam gifts his wife a clock on her birthday. An argument over the clock’s value ends with violence when the clock fails to chime, and the ambulance surgeon notes a near miss that could have killed her.
The article describes multiple nonracial color distinctions in Cuba and how social life centers on clubs. It notes negro, mulatto, and white clubs with varying membership rules, sometimes excluding spouses or including children, seen as conventional and accepted within Cuban society.
A Brooklyne Citizen humorous exchange features a wife asking for a hundred dollars for many needs and a husband balking, then collapsing as she asks him to make it payable to her order. The brief joke hinges on financial fuss and marital banter.
The Persian language is not very difficult and resembles English in its lack of inflection. It has no gendered noun or adjective endings, and all inanimate things are neuter. In other respects Persian conforms to English.
Exchange from Judge's Library recounts Ethel explaining a sixteen year old asked for marriage and Edith asking if she rejected him. Ethel confirms she refused, saying it was against the law to marry lobsters so young.
A pithy Baltimore American quote compares a man’s mood to a soda water clerk who attends to drinks. It asks if pessimism is the issue, then answers no, hinting failure stems from lack of effort rather than lack of resources, echoing La Rochefoucauld on applying oneself.
The report recalls William Allen amid a political challenge in the early seventies as he addressed a Cincinnati crowd at Mozart hall. The six foot tall former governor, nicknamed Foghorn Allen, used a thunderous voice to defend his vigor and manhood, asking the audience if he talked like a man and if he looked like a man. The speech impressed listeners and showcased his lasting vitality.
In Cassell's Journal a bookbinder famous for half a century in and out of jail captivates Mr. Holmes. Holmes treats him as a friend yet he returns to burglary, drawn by the night’s silence danger and alertness, declaring burglary the grandest fascination.
The article explains the dealer in obsolete securities known as cats and dogs. These remnants of old stock bonds and notes vary in value from worthless to valuable with a few gold worths. Experts in obsolete securities spot bargains at Wall Street auction rooms where brokers monitor offerings.
A Chicago Tribune quips that subscribing to magazines costs $4 a year, with yearly binding and bookcase expenses pushing total to $85 over ten years. The couple argues reading could be done by borrowing instead of buying, highlighting frugal planning.
A group boasted of the world’s largest telescopes until a quiet man shared a memory from a telescope he used. He recalled the moon showing a man gesturing and crying don’t shoot, mistaken for a big cannon by an old duffer.
In Newtons own words the law states that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other with a force along the line joining them. The force is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of their distance.
A Washington Herald remark cited in the Statesman mocks restrictive lawmaking. The exchange imagines turning a law into a crime by making it illegal to request a haircut on Saturday afternoon. The quip highlights public reaction to government limits.
A quoted exchange notes Rhimer presenting his final poem titled Sonnet to but One, while another quips if honest it would be Owed to Everybody. The remark references Horace on the value of necessities.
A reader explains that his watch, worn by routine, loses about half an hour daily. After visits to a jeweler without cure, he discovers the watch needs rest. He hides it for a day or two then winds it. it runs perfectly again. The idea is that the watch is simply tired and benefits from downtime.
The passage describes bees producing wax at great cost to the colony, noting that twenty one pounds of honey are needed to make one pound of wax. It also mentions flour and grist milling starting near Jamestown, Virginia in 1621 when Governor Yeardley built a windmill.
Train times listed for Boston Revere Beach Lynn routes and Winthrop areas from Wood Island to Highlands with departures from Winthrop Centre and Sundays. The timetable warns trains may depart as scheduled but company not responsible for delays. Signed H. L. Hoyt G. A. John A. Fenno, Superintendent.
A fragment from Stray Stories presents Jessie and Tom debating marriage until the right partner appears. The exchange underscores a humorous, timeless pursuit of "the one in a million" match.
The Boston Elevates Railway Company announces train times and night service between Orient Hercuts and Scotway Square Tunnel with trains at 5.35 a.m. and various intervals to midnight, plus Sunday schedules and special charters for balls or excursions. Inquiries to Supt. Transportation at 101 Milk Street Room 701. information by telephone. December 7, 1907.
The Winthrop Sun and Visitor invites reports of upcoming entertainments for treasuries and charities. Preliminaries with admission fees may be charged based on space used. The paper offers low rates for service to societies and churches planning events.
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