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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1907
Page
6
A train of home cooking steps outlines Creole Rice with bacon drippings onion tomatoes and cayenne then a beef dish called griades. The guide details browning, simmering, adding flour onions and tomatoes, then finishing with boiling water and seasonings. Garlic may add flavor.
Corsican burial practice requires a new gown within twenty four hours. Funeral processions feature improvised prose poems by women called improvisatores and death hunters who challenge mourners. Hair tearing at graves and paid mourners with self inflicted injuries are noted. Widows wear a black blindfold for a week and households are not cleaned during that time. Cemeteries hold tombs with rich hangings and lamps.
Practical tips on kitchen care and prep from an old guide. Warming knifeboard before use, snuff in chinks to deter crickets, folding tissue over knife blades for cheese, whipping egg whites, adding grated coconut to Waldorf salad, hanging utensils on fine wire, turpentine in starch for gloss, and shocking shrimp with hot water before draining.
A Washington Star tale compares a skillful ruse to a beer cellar deception. A master uses a whistle code with a new butler, who whistled Home Sweet Home while quietly altering a tune, revealing the bluff when the master bursts in.
Professor Friedrich Delitzsch notes that cuneiform literacy was not universal yet scribes abounded especially at temple gates. Clay tablets and flexible writing media show widespread correspondence and a thriving system of written documents for commerce, legally binding only when witnessed and written.
A wholesale dealer explains champagne makers in Reims use clean sponges to collect spilled wine from broken bottles. They squeeze the sponges to recover about 1,000,000 bottles worth of wine yearly, recarbonating and bottling it as a second quality drink. The tale, sourced to the Cincinnati Enquirer, treats the process as curious but plausible.
A young mother shielding a sleeping infant encountered an elderly matron at the side door seeking a rental. The matron explained the house was occupied and not for rent, noting the blinds were down while the lace curtains were being washed. The encounter ends with apologies and good day.
The essay extols the ox as the most useful animal postmortem, noting its flesh for food, blood as manure, bones as margarine or fertilizer, hooves for buttons and glue, and other parts used in leather, vessels, roofing, and even tallow. It emphasizes how every part of the ox serves human industry and daily needs.
A Natal public library catalogue lists curious titles such as Lead Kindly Light and Mill On the Human Understanding. The amusing list also includes On the Floss with attribution to Publisher and Register.
A London Mail quip notes a husband who counts to ten before speaking due to dyspepsia turning home life into a math exercise. The joke highlights domestic irritations and the habit as a running joke.
A convict tells a prison visitor that he is in for flattering a woman and attempting to imitate a man’s signature on a check. The exchange centers on the inmate’s claim of flattery rather than any violent act.
A fragment shows dialogue about a friend who "puts on a good man" and a remark that he dies. The scene involves a demonstrator in a phonograph store.
Dress Magazine advises minimal packing for long trips abroad and cautions against nonessentials. A fashionably practical couple shared a three month European journey with one suitcase each, using a single dinner gown and few changes, while large trunks held skirts hats veils and lingerie for comfortable, stylish travel.
A Good Housekeeping tip suggests handling the toughest part indoors. Use a strip of strong muslin about eight inches long to hang small items on a line, reducing the drudgery of outdoor hanging and speeding up the drying process.
Instructions describe a 1 inch wide strip with safety pins spaced six inches apart along one side. Articles hang from pins with half pin extending below strip. Collars and cuffs hang by buttonholes, then the whole set is hung with clothespins. Items stay put and can be removed when warm air dries laundry.
The article advises keeping a large pair of kitchen scissors always accessible by suspending them over the work area. Use sharp, good quality shears and hang them from a leather strap or cord for easy reach. Keep them scrupulously clean and wipe after each use. They aid trimming roast edges, cutting pastry, and preparing various foods.
A thrifty mother of a large family discovers a method to make embroidery on children’s underclothes last longer. She stitches the scallop edge on the machine with fine thread and a small stitch, preventing tearing and matching the fabric’s wear.
A Philadelphia Ledger feature describes a hand carved swinging bird toy powered by a pendulum weight and string. Instructions include body frame, head and tail pieces, legs, glue feathers, red flannel comb and wattles, and painting. It then previews a Travel Magazine note on Constantinople dervishes performing a 7:30 pm whirling ritual for ten cents admission, detailing the pose and rotation.
A naked throated bellbird specimen from Brazil arrives at the London zoological gardens. The bird’s voice is a powerful metallic note heard up to three miles away, likened to a blacksmith’s hammer. Males are pure white while females are brownish green, with breeding season throat skin green. Darwin cites white as rare in small terrestrial species.
The article notes a cat displaying intelligence and patience by observing a barn bird nest. After daily watching, the cat finds the hatchlings and preys on them, illustrating typical feline behavior toward prey.
A young girl named Flossie ponders creation and asks if all people are made of dust. Her mother confirms, and Flossie speculates heaven must be a dreary, dusty place.
A brief reminiscence from the New York Herald describes a unique ice cream experience described as colored pink and pretty, recalled as a vivid nocturnal treat. The fragment captures a personal, sensory moment tied to a specific newspaper voice.
A Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt notes English pupils hide barometers to predict fair weather for football after two hours of recitation are lightened on clear days. When the barometer shows change, no outdoor play follows, giving boys a practical weather edge.
The American Magazine cites Dr Woods Hutchinson noting nearly 100 named giants with ages at death listed for only eighteen. Giants such as the Irish, Minnesota, Norfolk, and Peruvian figures show ages ranging from 18 to 80, averaging barely twenty eight years.
In Mexico City early 1530s Juan Fables printed the first American book using a European press brought by Fra Julan de Zumarraga. The Mercurio Volante in 1698 marks the first American newspaper. Indian schools began in 1524 with industrial schools by 1543. A Spanish colonial mail system spanned Paraguay to San Francisco, about 5,800 miles.
In Vienna professor Rokitansky, father of two famous singers, also had two sons who became noted doctors. When asked about his sons, he quipped that two heal and two howl, with the howl ers earning four times as much as the healers.
The old man completes marriages for two of his seven daughters. The clergy blesses the unions while the father quips that such blessings brighten as the girls depart. The remark reflects a wry, philosophical tone from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A New York firm offered a shipping clerk post to an inland graduate who declined. He explained he is always sick when on the water, replying via a friend who conveyed the job offer.
The excerpt contrasts a woman's refusal to marry claiming the suitor is old enough to be her father with a retort about future perception. It also cites Emerson on how a man justifies fortune as either good or bad.
The description highlights a white shantung dress featuring a filet bodice trimmed in pale brown shades and a changeable brown and pink silk girdle. Enameled buttons decorate the corsage as the current vogue of draping the figure in an oriental style gains popularity among English and French women, with many Paris-made models influencing English designs.
In midsummer light Clara sings a plaintive old song to her fiancé Cyril. He praises the tune and she recalls the night they became engaged, two lines bending her mouth as she speaks softly.
A man quips that women are not good listeners while he sits with a woman and her mother eavesdropping at the keyhole. The scene captures a sharp social moment reported by the Chicago News.
A New York policeman quips that lynchings never occur because officers arrive first. He notes multiple patrolmen per block and the difficulty of obtaining a rope, with the joke that even a clothesline would cost cash on delivery.
By virtue of a power of sale in a 1896 mortgage, George A Hall et al. defaulted. David Floyd Auctioneer announces sale of a one fifth undivided interest in tracts of land in Winthrop, Suffolk, on Tuesday January 7, 1908 at 3 PM. Sale subject to taxes, with $800 cash due at sale and balance in ten days. For details contact Fred W Wood Boston.
The Winthrop Sun and Visitor explains that many local societies lodges and churches plan entertainments for charity and treasury needs in the coming months. It notes that preliminary announcements with admission fees incur small charges based on space used, offering low rates for all groups.
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