Musical and literary New Year program by Queen Esther Circle
Under the Auspices of Queen Esther Circle at First M. E. Church Mrs Ernest Anderson led a New Year program in Wadsworth Hall before about 150. Performers included J J Stockwell Beatrice Creighton A Nickerson Pauline Tucker and Miss Pontifex with stage decor drills candy sales and a flag tribute marking the Circle's charitable aims. The event ended with a curtain call and praise for the organizers. A Monday meeting at Mrs Ernest Anderson's home on Seymour street planned the year's work.
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M. E Church
Ernest Anderson
Wadsworth Hall
Bessie Stafford
J. J. Stockwell
Miss Stockwell
Beatrice Creighton
Queen Esthers
A. Nickerson
Nickerson
Pauline Tucker
Dorothea Smith
Joshua Remby
Wellington D. Douglas
Pamber
Douglas
George W. Goldsmith
A. S. Nickerson
Queen Esther Circle
Queen Esther
Winnie Davison
Marjory Belcher
America
Mies Pontifex
Arlington
Miss Douglas
Anderson
Seymour Street
Dollar No 2 and Dollar No 12 Resolve a Debt
A humorous exchange finds a lender recalling an old debt after loaning a dollar. The borrower replies that the remembered dollar is now Dollar No 2, claiming the two debts cancel each other and leaving both parties amused at the arithmetic of borrowed money.
Late Arrival Pleads Offering Francs for Singer
A hapless admirer apologizes for being late to a concert and offers a thousand francs for the pleasure of hearing the singer. The response hints the singer is unphased and deaf to the plea, leaving the exchange muted.
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Hutter
Cam
Winthrop High Defeats Melrose to Extend Winning Streak
Winthrop High School won its 17th straight victory last Friday by defeating Melrose 14 to 9 in a rough game. Mahoney Kimball and Milliken stood out for Winthrop while Jordan and Phillips starred for Melrose. The Winthrop second team beat Melrose 2d 40 to 2.
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Winthrop High School
Melrose High
Winthrop
Melrose
Mahoney
Kimball
Milliken
Winthrop 2d
Melrose 2d
Melrose H
Marks
Stautiat Mahoney
Wentworth Anderson
Milliken Kimball
Knapp Taillacq
Gooals
Locke
Mulroney
Crowley
Davis
le Cour Timer
Leonard
Melrose H. S
Belcher
Towle Phillips
Boylan Jordan
Wardwert Snow
Hanson Thompson
McEtchie Kershaw
Holte Baker
Anderson
le Cour
Jordan
Phillips
Hanson
Tis Only Kindness that Pays Poem Tribute
Poem praising kindness as a virtue, noting how it elevates the speaker above criticism. Attributed to Jessie Lenore Leonard from Winthrop, dated January 29, 1908, urging readers to embody kindness on life’s journey.
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Jessie Lenore Leonard
Winthrop
Uncle Hosea Gives Little to Mission Cause
In a Chicago Tribune item, Uncle Hosea says he cannot contribute much to a missionary fund. A deacon urges generosity, but Hosea replies his six sons are all preachers and he does not feel ungrateful.
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Lose
Hosea
Chicago Tribune
Winthrop Real Estate Transfers Reported
Edwin A. Carkin transfers to Harry L. Pit kin two lots on Tappan street with $1 consideration. Hawes Kelley et al as trustees convey to Letitia J. Livermore parcels on Loring road and Loring terrace. Rise to Emma M. Rich on Jefferson street with nominal $1. R. Fisher K. rises to similar small amount transfers.
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Edwin A. Carkin
Harry L. Pitkin
Tappan Street
Hawes Kelley
Deacon Charles Perkins and Walter Sampson Pass Away
Death notices report Deacon Charles H. Perkins age 74 of Winthrop died February 2. Also Walter B. Sampson age 73 of 16 Wave Way Winthrop died February 2 at his residence.
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Sampson
Winthrop
Wave Way
Walter
Jamaica Sight and Teamwork Tales from the Artist's Studio
The article recalls De Scott Evans, the artist, who painted Jamaica scenes after a trip. A visitor insists a Jamaica street scene matches reality in Jamaica town, prompting a joke about mistaken geography. It also critiques local artists for lacking teamwork and practical sense, as Captain Maybury laments their bungled efforts and urges collaboration.
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de Scott Evans
Jamaica
New York
Mr. Evans
Dive
S. Nu
Almanac Faith and Seafaring Weather Test
A farmer recalling old and new school faith in almanacs contrasts June predictions for Christmas weather with a voyage anecdote. He recalls testing weather by experience after meeting a captain who has no almanac, noting the old man’s cautious optimism and the sailor’s pragmatic approach.
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Los Angeles Times
Dickens and His Beard Meets Landseer in jest
Frith painted Charles Dickens with a new beard as the novelist joked about Edwin Landseer seeing it. Dickens sent for Landseer, who studied the beard and called it a great improvement yet noted it hid much of Dickens’s face. Dickens wasn’t offended and let Landseer say anything.
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Dickens
Frith
Charles Dickens
Bean
Edwin Landseer
Charles Landseer
Edwin
Italy
Lanny
Landseer
Every One a Prime Minister in the Surgeon’s Eyes
A surgeon recalls Cardinal Du Bois of France asking for a delicate operation. The Cardinal warns against rough treatment, but the surgeon replies that each of those wretched patients is a prime minister in his eyes. The tale appears in Success Magazine.
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Cardinal du Bois
France
Hotel Dieu
Success Magazine
Mermaid hunts vanity on a sunken ship
A mermaid rummages the sunken ship as she jokes about finding a hand mirror. Vanity is noted as not confined to dry land, reflecting a playful, seaside fantasy in a Chicago Tribune style.
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Bopths
Chicago Tribune
The Crowding Sey Reflections on Wealth and Merit
An observed view notes a wife of a millionaire who amuses herself by stealing and suggests women of wealth push men from employment. The piece contrasts quiet endurance with bold feats, marking a moral reflection from London Opinion and Tuckerman.
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London
Tuckerman
Writers in Doubt and Perfection: Eliot to Flaubert
The text recalls George Eliot confessing to unfinished work and self doubt in Daniel Deronda, Montesquieu lamenting the labor behind his civil law origins, and Gustave Flaubert's torment to reach perfection. It also notes Tur génet’s remark on Flaubert’s intense struggle and long, solitary writing sessions.
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Trigis
George Eliot
Daniel
Derenda
Montesquieu
France
Gustave Flaubert
Turgenetf
Ife
Traps of the Ant Lion from the Chicago Record Herald
The article describes tiger traps in India with pits hidden under bamboo and sand. It notes a light pitfall, brief observations of an ant lion hunting, its tiny circular pits, and the insect’s dramatic capture and digestion of prey.
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India
Haga
Chicago Record-Herald
Imagination and Science in Westminster's Corner
Lord Kelvin buried in Westminster Abbey underscores a debate on where scientists belong among poets. The London Saturday Review contrasts Newton Herschel Darwin Kelvin with Shakespearean archetypes, noting the public misreads imagination as emotion, not pure intellect.
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Lord Kelvin
Westminster Abbey
Corner
Newton
Herschel
Darwin
Kelvin
Shakespeare
London Saturday Review
Getting His Money's Worth
A New Hampshire man known for tightfisted business habits begins attending church, puzzling townsfolk. One merchant notes a $50 loan to the pastor left the man with nothing but pew rent to collect, suggesting his religion is a business matter rather than faith.
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New Hampshire
Ketchum
Comment on a couple by Dr Cy about spouses
Dr Cy notes a pattern in couples saying if one is good the other is no good. He speaks to a patient about a man and wife he recently discharged for drinking. The remark ends with the patient asking about his own wife.
Home Life of Genius The Actor
Dialogue fragment features a playful exchange about missing papers and a hidden secret. The wife, an actress, jokingly vows not to reveal the secret, hinting at a spirited domestic scene with a reference to Puck. The snippet showcases theatrical language and character dynamics.
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Jack
Puck
Pa using curfew in Henry quote sparks playful question
A humorous quip from the Chicago Record-Herald links Patrick Henry to a curfew joke. The page also notes Emerson on merit and the paradox of praising virtue, contrasting social praise with intrinsic acknowledgment.
Experiences the extract of suffering A Helps
An extract from a historical text examines the experience of suffering. The writing analyzes pain, resilience, and mental impact through reflective prose.
Lost One Pound Note Prompts Honest Effort and Doubt
A Scottish correspondent reports a man found a one pound note on the street and returned it to police. Later he realized the note was his own and had been drawn from his pocket unconsciously. He offered to wait six months for claim, pondering honesty versus self-interest.
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Recenlty
London
In Case of Accident Be tactful And Revive Wisely
The piece advises calm, tactful first aid and careful notes after accidents. It warns against hasty or excessive aid, stresses accurate street details for records, and notes the coroner should not be rushed. It ends with a counterintuitive line about inducing death to preserve family dignity, attributed to Puck.
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Puck
Porter’s boast over Millais painting price
An English artist recalls Sir John Millais painting Chill October by the Tay near Perth. A Kinfauns railway porter carried the canvas and grew fond of the artist. The work sold for a thousand pounds, prompting the porter to brag later that he would not give half a crown for it, a figure he repeats with growing exaggeration.
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Sir John Millais
Tay
Perth
Kinfauns
Sir John
Early Theories of Earth Shape and Motion
The text cites Thales of Miletus teaching a globular earth around 40 B C, Pythagoras inferring from star altitudes, and Aristarchus proposing heliocentric motion. critics in antiquity mocked the ideas until Galileo and Copernicus renewed this knowledge.
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Thales
Miletus
Pythagoras
Ristarchus
Samos
Galile
Copernicus
New York American
Murder in Germany and duel law differences
The London Chronicle explains German homicide: premeditated murder carries death, intentional without deliberation carries five to fifteen years penal servitude. Dueling is a special misdemeanor. killing in a duel leads to detention in a fortress for fifteen years.
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Germany
London Chronicle
Ruffled His Feathers Artist Debate Caption
A dialogue exchange quotes an artist and friend over a painting that one mistakes for a battlefield but is described as a basket of fruit. The banter highlights the perception of art and realism in a humorous note from a London Standard paragraph.
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Paul Rubens
London Standard
Reduction. The old nag and the elopers at parsonage
A humorous exchange from Chicago News features a talking old nag describing the elopers and the parsonage. The goose asks why the journey will be easier on the return, and the nag explains that after leaving the parsonage two will become one.
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Elopers
Chicago News
Editor regrets use of drawings in London Tatler
The editor thanks the contributor but declines to use the drawings. The office boy reports the editor said, Take 'em away, Pimple. They make me sick. The exchange appears in the London Tatler.
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Pimple
London
Tatler
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