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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1917
Page
5
A 1916 report notes manganese ore output in the country reached 27 000 tons, triple the 1915 figure. Other items include a Kentucky man seeking a Connecticut mayor to find him a stepmother for his four daughters and advances in engineering and military footwear.
Advice encourages seizing opportunities and warns against waiting for a perfect moment. It urges readiness, persistence, and alertness to avoid missing chances that arise in life and work.
A humorous note on building houses of rock on sand and the courage to let go. The column satirizes critics of kissing and mocks blame games from breakfast food fears tied to the Kaiser for exaggeration.
The passage railing against Western lies and "Oriental" deception contrasts male scheming with claimed female vanity. It quotes Sir William Richmond's The Silver Chain, suggesting poetry that mocks civilization, while praising primal human impulses and moral intoxication in women as they dress or write letters.
Winthrop residents read of enlisted service in the Quartermaster's Department, a naval reserve flyer, and a dedication service flag for 79 church members. Local deaths, retirements, Holy Name Society meeting, and the Consul General Louis Nettement’s appointment to Petrograd are noted along with holiday recess for Food Thrift Tens and winter coasting developments.
The London Graphic reports that the Swedish almanac adds a Christian name for each sex for every day of the year. Names must receive royal approval, aiming to broaden parental choices and reduce repeated names. A similar almanac exists under royal authority in a German state.
Sumner Young son of Mr and Mrs Wiley S Young died Thursday morning of pneumonia. Charles A Hagman clerk of the Board of Selectmen and recently commissioned second lieutenant left Sunday for Camp Dix New Jersey. Building Inspector C F Hargrave had a narrow escape Tuesday when he fell through an open trap door in a Winthrop public garage and suffered bruises and a severe shaking up.
A physical instructor urges maintaining full lung capacity by proper breathing. He explains that dropping shoulders forward hinders full inhalation and prevents emptying the lower lungs, leading to residual air and reduced oxygenation.
Eskimo dancers prepare for the winter solstice festival of masks in Alaska. Masks depict gods and goddesses, devils, and animals like wolves and bears. The sun mask tops the pageant, with sun finger masks for rays and a moon masked figure a key ceremonial presence.
A humorous Tit Bits snippet describes a bizarre method to boil an egg. It joke quips catching thirteen eggs, heating water to precise degrees, peeling left to right, building a wooden chute to drop the egg into the kettle, and boiling to various consistencies before serving.
Claude King in Springfield receives a letter from his brother Ralph a yeoman who has just returned to the Atlantic works in Boston after a trip to the Azores. Ralph is serving on a converted steam yacht that escaped the Halifax disaster by hours and his younger brother Frank gsing has been called to the colors as a petty officer on the Aristock. Ralph sends a poem praising voluntary service and reflecting on being a volunteer rather than drafted while imagining a future child asking what he did in the great war.
A patient hears from the doctor that his fate will be known in a week. The physician orders complete rest and insists there is no need to worry, advising calm and avoidance of stress during the interim.
Jimmie notes the beau of his sister Minnie arriving in a roadster, not the touring car he expected. He rushes inside shouting that Mr Parker has come and only the front seat was brought.
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