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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1908
Page
7
The notice lists fire alarm box locations around Winthrop including Shirley avenues Crest Oceanview and Harbor areas and adjacent streets. It details alarm procedures with box signals, test dates on the 1st and 15th at 9 o’clock, and contact numbers for Central and Beach Stations.
The Winthrop post office lists daily hours from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. with a money order and registration window, plus specific delivery and collection times including 7.30 a.m., 1.45 p.m., 4 p.m. deliveries and 7.30 a.m., 11 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 4.20 p.m., 6 p.m. collections. Street boxes are collected at 9.30 p.m. daily at numerous locations. mail from street boxes to New York is delivered next morning. Sub-stations 95 Crest Avenue, 144 Shirley Street, and 56 Shirley Street car serve stamp and money order sales and registration. Mails close at multiple times daily and Sundays. registered mail closes at 10.30 a.m., 1 p.m., and 8 p.m. daily.
Woman's World profiles Princess Victoria Margaret of Prussia a seventeen year old artist who paints miniatures on ivory. Her works shown for Berlin charity include royal portraits and she joins a trend of royal card art benefiting causes.
The text advises quoting others with attribution and warns against dulling your own discourse. It urges avoiding obvious repeated remarks, not undercutting kindness, and keeping attention on the current speaker. It emphasizes resisting poison in speech and staying present in conversation without seeking a higher social display.
Fragment from a historical newspaper excerpt notes a shift in expectations for marriage creations and social displays. The text contrasts luxury heirlooms and the dream of a prince with a deeper, practical reality revealed by a well worn chest, suggesting change in traditional female roles and material status.
Housekeepers should stock dust covers for furniture during turnout. Old thin linen fails to protect. Calico and print fabrics are ideal, with two widths sewn together yielding two yards square for an armchair. After washing the covers should be starched and ironed to keep out dust.
The article extols silk faced poplin as ideal for shirt waists. It highlights white poplin at 50 cents a yard, its washability, ironability when dry, soft cashmere look, and the ability to be tailored or laced with lace or velvet trim. It also notes color varieties and the appeal of white with madras patterned accents.
A dessert method describes making a rich plain cream flavored with coffee. Mint leaves are sugared by dipping in sugar syrup and drying on oiled paper. Ginger ice cream tops are finished with two candied mint leaves for a strong flavor pairing.
A bemused husband seeks in one woman the Venus of Medici charm and Hannah More prudence. He finds such a fusion impractical and becomes querulous, revealing the humorous tension between ideal and real.
The Women’s Medical Journal notes four wastes of human life: preventable death and sickness, preventable conditions of low physical and mental efficiency, and preventable ignorance. Ignorance largely drives the others.
A blend of moral exhortation on parental ideals and practical cooking advice. The text urges parents to live up to their children's expectations and offers methods for preparing salted fish by soaking in sour milk. It also gives tips on washing milk-stained glasses and notes a reflective sentiment about true friendship.
A 19th or early 20th century column argues that sugar and sweets are essential to meals and youth energy, citing Dr. Woods of Hutchinson. It links sugar to reduced alcohol desire, claims soldiers in the Philippines receive cheap candy, and condemns Puritan and stingy attitudes toward sugar as unwholesome.
Advice on brushing a baby’s hair upward with twists for better growth. Recommends egg shampoo, sparing use of borax and damphive, warns against ammonia, and advises against curling fluids for children. If hair is dry, a little brilliantine at the roots can aid growth and a light wave.
Practical advice on soap usage and storage, egg stain removal, feather leaching with naphtha and sulphur fumes, glycerin addition for longer lasting soap bubbles, kitchen layout for easier chores, and tips for making domestic tasks less tedious with labor saving ideas.
An old dental guidance essay warns that hollow teeth trap food and decay breath. It prescribes brushing with an antiseptic powder or wash, boric acid on the brush, and regular cleaning of the brush. It advises weekly dipping in boric or carbolic acid solutions to prevent decay spread.
A short excerpt describes American women in domestic life sacrificing daily, keeping homes neat, and suffering pains in silence. It argues women overwork and fear seeking help, urging recognition of their needs and support.
Mrs F Ellsworth of Mayville New York and Mrs W P Boyd of Beaver Falls Pennsylvania report relief from female trouble after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound The ad claims thirty years of use curing displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities pains backache and other symptoms and invites readers to write Mrs Pinkham for advice at Lynn Massachusetts
Medical Record notes long term pipe use alters lip alignment and facial wrinkles. The pressure from lips while holding the stem shapes the mouth and may cause one side of the face to deepen wrinkles radiating from the mouth. Protruding lips resemble thumb sucking in children.
A reminiscence sketches Leigh Lynch as a devoted husband father and businessman with ties to Anna Teresa Berger and Eugene Field. It notes his theater treasurer role in New York and a dinner anecdote about rising weekly gross receipts observed by his daughter Marie. The text blends personal memories with clipped family vignettes.
A Japan Times remark cites a Japanese saying on women describing them as unmanageable and prone to tears and flattery, suggesting the remedy is to love her. The tone reflects dated gender views embedded in early 20th century commentary.
A concise creed states man should expend every bit of strength given by God to do the work he is fit for and endure life with his best effort. It proclaims force of will as the measure of worth and duty.
An observer reflects on cat behavior during a passing encounter and asserts instinct, not higher reasoning, drives movements. A Gordon setter and a steamship screw illustrate similar limits, suggesting animals mostly act to avoid danger and survive rather than prove cognitive insight.
Conversation records a query about Deacon Jones who worked with the community three years earlier. The respondent notes Jones had left, possibly for health reasons, mentioning consumption as the last detail observed.
Boston Elevated Railway Company announces schedule changes and night service in the Orient Heights and Scott Square tunnels. Special cars may be chartered for balls, theatre parties, or excursions at reasonable rates, applications to Superintendent of Transportation, 101 Mill Street Room 701. December 1907.
The Winthrop Sun and Visitor notes many societies lodges and churches plan entertainments in coming months for charity and other aims. The paper will print suitable reports if notified or if tickets are sent, but ads for admission events incur charges based on space used.
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