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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1908
Page
6
A six to ten player peanut themed party features a rotating leader, record keeping, and prizes for top performers. Games include guessing guts count, holding largest peanut, dropping a suspended nut into a vase, shelling five nuts quickly, moving five nuts across a room, pitching at a floor pin, catching shells in the mouth, and tossing peanuts into an open mouth.
A series of wordplay jokes and puns. A father gives 19 and 6 cents prompting quarter tour. A postmaster at a menagerie is eaten and the time Eight p m. A lob ster dining guest yields the second guest’s telephone 8 1 2. Spelling barge with thirteen letters becomes Bee aye are e barge. Maidens and bachelors go to Mary land. Borrowed money is like a man alone.
In a chateau setting, the monthly wash day unfolds over three or four days. Four peasant wash women toil with wooden ash tubs, under watchful supervision by the Mere Michon and Mme Hubert. Linen emerges white and smooth, unlike city washed clothes.
The piece traces fear of the number thirteen across cultures from Norse myth to Christian traditions and global beliefs. It cites Loki at a thirteen table, Baldr’s death, Turk and Aztec aversions, and notes regional practices such as Italians avoiding it in lotteries and Parisians omitting it in street numbering.
A mother returns to the cupboard to find it emptied by her dog and cat, who had previously visited and left shelves bare. The scene hints at ongoing pet mischief and a depleted home pantry.
A child named Ethel tells her mother she is not afraid of darkness. She recalls a childhood fear of the pantry for a tart and admits worry that the tart might not be there.
A curious claim that spider silk is incredibly light shows that a pound of silk could span the globe and still have enough remaining to stretch from New York to San Francisco.
An anxious mother questions the dirt on a rowdy scene as Willie explains Johnny Jones fought and threw dirt on him, leaving the face stained and the child distressed.
A New Zealand exchange notes that laughter and relaxation beautify and protect nerves. Women forced into perpetual motion risk tense features sharp voices and hurried manners. Rest is essential. rearrange work or delegate to avoid physical break down and preserve health, happiness and appearance.
Women can reuse worn shirt cuffs to make a durable quilt. Cut cuffs at buttonhole edge and length, separate, and stitch pieces into colored or figured blocks plus plain white sections. Each shirt yields multiple usable pieces, and washing remains practical.
The column argues sincerity makes power and strength, noting a life built on lies drains energy and self control. It contends that sham and shoddy behavior fail, while genuine truth gives lasting value and force.
The article argues choosing a gift book requires knowing the recipient. A boy gains a library access and learns to love high quality literature. It warns against shallow selections or poetry for non poetry lovers, and urges discovering the recipient’s preferences through conversation.
Practical sewing tips cover shoulder seam placement, cutting on paper, collar lining bias, finishing buttonholes, bending steels at the waistline, pressing seams with a hot iron, using a rolling pin as a seam board, bias and straight piece joins, and determining neck depth by trial and pin outlines.
A woman known for originality crafts gifts of fine sheer lawn turnover collars. She hems the lower edge and embroideres hearts and clubs alternating about an inch apart. The design is drawn over the card to suit the hem, using mercerized cotton in red for diamonds and black for clubs, finished with a black neck tie. The result is smart and stylish.
A jumble of domestic sketches shows Sallie Pes Scieliter eluding suitors due to her father’s porch control and Newton Brown’s awkward attempt to win her. In a separate scene a downtown office worker’s ice miscue reveals a hidden market-day prank with a celery laden ice chest, shocking a thirsty employee.
A child questions why the sun sets and a mother’s reply that it rises again seems useless. He imagines a reason then suggests the sun sets to batch all the days, reflecting a whimsical folklore answer attributed to Washington Suir.
Copyright record notes Arthur P Schmidt of Boston deposited the title Eugene Thayer's Complete Organ School Part 2 Pedal Studies with the Library of Congress on December 27 1907. The work is claimed as proprietor under U S copyright law and renewal is registered for fourteen years from June 21 1908 by Thorvald Solberg Register.
Class C XXc No 170569 dated December 27 1907 records Arthur P Schmidt of Boston Massachusetts depositing a musical composition titled May Song for U.S. copyright protection. Renewal term set for fourteen years from May 3 1908 under federal laws.
The WhiteSmith Music Publishing Company of Boston Massachusetts deposited on January 6 1908 a piano transcription titled Charity by E H Bailey claiming ownership under U S copyright law.
The document records a copyright renewal for E. Mack Boston White Smith Co creators of Mack's New-ive Finger Recreations for Strengthening the Fingers and Lady Bird Waltz. The library official Herbert Putnam signs the renewal statement through Thorvald Solberg noting a 14 year term from January 12 1908.
Entries from the Register of Copyrights noting deposits by White-Smith Music Publishing Co. Boston for pieces including Hermit's Dream, The Ol Oaken Bucket, and America Grande Fantasie de Concert. Records reference titles, authors, and renewal terms under U S copyright laws as of January 1908.
Copyright notice notes Six Solos for Violin with Piano by Julius Eichberg published by Wheaton Smith Music Pub Co. on January 23, 1908. The proprietor claims rights under applicable laws.
Library of Congress records a renewal filing by Smith Music Publishing Company of Boston for the pianoforte work Corinne Waltzes by Alfred W. Sweet. The filing notes a 14 year renewal from January 1, 1908 under relevant copyright law procedures.
A notice from January 16 1908 asserts Walter Bray is proprietor of The Magnolia of Tennessee song and chorus published by White-Smith Music Pub Co Boston, under U.S. copyright law.
Copy of a copyright renewal entry dated January 16 1908 for sixteenth day year identifying titles Little Acorns and Song of the Sea Barcarolle by Thorvald Solberg Register of Copyright Boston firm Thorne White Smith Co renewal for 14 years from February 28 1908 under US copyright laws.
Fragmentary item notes a work titled Briar Blossom Barcarolle by William Gooch published in Boston by Smith & Company. It references copyright claims and Librarian of Congress notes dated January 23, 1908.
The notice recalls that the contralto work As Strange, Strange Dream with words by RS Lakin and music by J L Gilbert, published by Boston White Smith & Company, is claimed as proprietor under United States copyright laws dated January 16, 1908.
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