Revolving sink strainer and other tech notes
A rotating center plate on a new sink strainer can close over holes to retain water. Other items note Algeria building 188 miles of rail, Anzio town banning political talk, many northern hemisphere observatories, Burma grass pulp process, thunderstorm electricity creating hail, Mexico exports list, a French alarm clock, Colombian cattle disease labs, Alma College bell ringer Robert Fredericks, and a wear‑under “detectaphone” patent by a Washington, DC inventor.
Anvil Spark of Faith and Hope in Everyday Life
A reflective piece from The Christian Herald on kindness, patience, and gender roles. It argues religion should permeate life before outward action, notes the woman as builder of home, and warns against waiting for luck, urging proactive virtue and hopeful eternity over material security.
Destruction of Rabbits Drives NSW Labor Force
A corps of 2000 men works in New South Wales destroying rabbits. The report highlights efforts to curb the pest and protect crops.
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New South Wales
Seven Seeming Maxim Fragments From Classic Authors
A collection of short literary lines on duty hunger love and work. Notable voices include Disraeli Jewett Tennyson Pascal Issa Jackson and Thackeray. The text juxtaposes virtues patience understanding and reward in compact aphoristic form.
How Man Is Blessed
A short reflective piece argues land and labor are gifts from nature to man. It frames ownership as blessing and mutual exchange where nature endows land and people must use brain and brawn in return.
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Helen Hunt Jackson
Ice chest remedy lowers cost with cement mix
A fragment advises mixing equal parts cement and sifted sand with water to form a thick spread for a surface, used as an ice chest liner. It claims the mix dries quickly and keeps feet longer, reducing bills.
Growing Dishrags From Luffa Gourd A North Ohio Bride
An Ohio woman cultivates luffa gourds to make dishcloths and bath sponges earning money by supplying a garage company with over 1000 gourds used for car washing. The plant's vines yield lace for millinery and are suited for flower baskets.
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Ohio
Rough on the Puppies in New York Domestic Relations Court
A New York wife recounts in court how her bulldog Ida’s litter died from alcoholism after her husband fed the pups with a nipple and milk in his mouth, a detail she says influenced their troubled marriage and led to the case.
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Boston
New York
Ida
Inklings and Thinklings from a Scattered Page
A collage of quips on alibis military talk and odd notes. A mock report mentions Japan buying a Chinese island from Portugal and a professor claiming rice isn’t a diet ally. A Wisconsin man jokes about kitchen confinement, while others joke about hay fever prunes and backyard farming.
Eskimos Festival of Masks At Winter Solstice
Eskimos of Alaska prepare for a grand festival of masks as winter solstice nears. Dancers wear carved god and animal masks including wolf and bear. A man in the sun mask leads the rite to lure the sun north, with sun god finger masks and a moon mask also featured.
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Eskimos
Alaska
Blue eyes cheerful and forthright in odd sayings
A playful collection of quips about appearance and behavior. It notes that blue eyes signify cheerfulness and tombstones praise a man in decline. It also mentions long Chinese banquets, aging as advice givers, the elephant beetle’s weight, and the average man’s annual word count.
Fragmented Advice Note on Gardening and Age
A fragmented column discusses gardening effort and perseverance. It includes remarks on aging and expectations for women in heaven, and cautions about steady progress despite life’s rough patches. The tone feels like a reflective helper’s voice, with scattered aphorisms.
Notable Newspaper Snippets from Around the World
Britain reports 276 electricity eee and a watch winding alert feature. New Zealand wharf gets ten 100 foot concrete piles. A Japanese inventor patents an artificial sick production method using vegetable essences and mulberry bark. Aero Club of America seeks a $10,000 prize for a fuel superior to gasoline. Splitzberg specimens show minerals found but none in pay quantities.
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The
Aero Club of America
Pointed Paragraphs of Odd Prose Fragments
Fragmentary lines discuss departure, transformation, and work ethics in quirky, disconnected phrases. Images of turning to salt and rubber appear, alongside a cryptic remark about Cordelia and a civil engineer. The text reads as a loose mosaic of aphorisms and misquoted sayings.
Boston Elevated Railways Timetable and Night Services
The notice outlines schedules for Orient Heights to Bowdoin Square and Orient Heights to Bowdoin via tunnel with frequent intervals throughout the day and night. It mentions Sunday intervals, night service from Gladstone Street to Devonshire, and returns with multiple time points, plus routes between Sullivan Square and Dudley Street via Tunnel and Atlantic Avenue. Transportation information is provided by Dana ibotee of see aaa December 15, 1917.
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Orient Heights
Bowdoin Square
Rio
Gladstone Street
Devonshire Station
Sullivan Square
Dudley Street
Atlantic Avenue
Forest Hills
Vis ‘Tamnel Fm
Milk Street
Dana
Ibotee
Aaa
Yoegk
Fragmentary Ad Note Signals Start of Trial Coverage
The readable fragments indicate a legal trial is starting, with references to a press event or advert for results. Names, dates, or locations are unclear, but the context suggests early stage reporting on judicial proceedings and media access.
Winthrop Post Office Mail Hours and Box Schedule
Post office hours are weekdays 7 am to 5 pm with 7 am to 10 am on holidays and Sundays set for special service mail. Carrier deliveries occur 7:30 am 10:50 am 2:50 pm, with 6:30 pm and 9 pm collections on weekdays. Several boxes are not collected at the 9 pm time, and numerous street boxes are collected at 9 pm on weekdays. Sunday boxes are collected at 6 pm. Saturday evening collections occur one half hour earlier.
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Thy $S
Delivand
Temple
Highland Avenues
Grover and Cliff
Quincy
Cliff
Cottage Park Road
Johnson Avenue
Court Road
Lowell
Maple Streets
Main
Pleasant Streets
Hermon
Centre
Winthrop
Ocean View
Magee's Corner
Revere
Cherry
Summit
Brown's Drug Store
Winthrop Highlands
Grover Corner
Crest
Locust
Beach Road
Ocean Spray
Shirley Corner
Mermaid
Gea Foam
Shirley RR
Ocean Avenue
Sturgish
Tewksbury
Crystal Cove
Cottage Avenue
Hillside
Washington Avenue
Bates
Winthrop and
Chester
Post Office
Center R. R
Pleasant and
Sunnyside
Bartlett Road
Pauline
Lincoln
Lincoln and
Read
Town Hall
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Algeria
Sulbara Desert
Anhio
Ciizens
Burma
Mexico
Robert Fredericks
Alma College
Alma
Mich
Washington, D. C
Winthrop Sun and Visitor
Appli
Cation
Winthrop St
Wadsworth
Herbert E. Emerson
Winthrop Fire
Triton Avenue
Triton Pathway
Shirley Street
Tafts Avenue
Harbor View
Terrace Avenues
Cottage Street
Hillside Avenue
Itar Cove
Farnbar Avenues
Beacon Street
Tewksbury Street
Shore Drive
Sturgis Street
Shirley
Cutler Streets
Dolphin Avenue
Seafoam Avenue
Mermaid Avenue
Locust Street
Grovers and
Crest Avenues
Floyd Street
Temple and
Rev
Cottage Park
Orlando Avenue
Woodside Avenue
Seymour Street
Winthrop Centre
R. R
Teeenven
A.m Des Ceniers
Alam
Christian Herald
Grand Banks
Newfoundland
Europe
Czar Kolokol
Moscow
London
Disraeli
Sarah Orne Jewett
Tennyson
God
Issa
Thackeray
Japan
China
Portugal
Nicholas Romanoff
Wisconsin
Fletcher
Heaven
Great Britain
New Zealand
Splitzberg
Lot
Cordelia
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Winthrop Post
McCall’s Magazine
And
McCall Patterns
McCall's
McCall
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37Th St
New York City
Sun & Visitor
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