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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1908
Page
4
Unitarian Church of Winthrop Massachusetts lists services at 10 and 12 with a 6 pm Young People group. Rev W C Litchfield hosts a sermon from Rev A D K Shartleff tomorrow evening in the vestry. Next alliance meeting two weeks hence at St Johns Episcopal Church Bowdoin Buchanan.
Rev A L McKenzie leads morning worship at 1030 on site with a 7 30 praise service and soloists Miss Croley and Miss Brainerd plus a young choir anthem. Biographical talk Marcus Whitman Frontier Thinker follows. Sunday school at noon. Offers to join active membership and prayer meeting details. Proceeds from Armstrong lecture go to church debt. Little Wanderer Home offering totals 226 08.
Pastor Rev. Frederick M. Waite heads the church at 179 Hermon Street in Winthrop. The note lists contact details and a schedule of worship and activities including morning worship Bible school Christian Endeavor evening worship and weekday study and prayer meetings without further context.
The annual midwinter entertainment of the Winthrop Town Government Association will be held at Crest Hall on Wednesday evening February 19. Members and friends of the association and all citizens interested in good town government are invited. An elaborate vaudeville program will run from 8 to 10:40, followed by dancing with music by Nutter's Orchestra.
Mrs Wylkyns Why is It Herbert that you never call me dear now Mr Wylkyns Well I don't like to twit you with it
The paper urges early week submissions for ads and news items due by Thursday 8 30 PM to ensure insertion. It notes rejected manuscripts are not kept. Subscription rates and postal details are listed, with editor names and contact, plus a plea for a branch library and easier access to Frost Library for Beach Station residents.
Notice calls all residents to file articles to be inserted in the next town meeting warrant. Submissions must be with the Board of Selectmen at Town Hall Winthrop by Monday February 17 at 8:00 p.m.
Master Vernon Kenworthy celebrated his sixth birthday at 85 Waldemar Avenue. Friends Dorothy Butler Winifred Butler Marie Campbell James Cody William Hanson Ethel Richardson Frank Richardson Frances Smith Stanhope Williams joined the party with music dancing gymnastic stunts and a magic lantern show in the Kenworthys home.
The 1818 battle off President Roads drew Boston watchers on shore as the Chesapeake collided with the Shannon. A flag captured in the clash sold in London for 4250 dollars, with Winthrop and Chelsea residents recalling the event and the hill now known as Winthrop Highlands.
The tale recounts Bishop Burnet dining with the Duchess of Marlborough after Marlborough's disgrace. Burnet compares him to Belisarius, prompting the duchess to ask how a great general could be abandoned. He replies that Marlborough had a cursed brimstone of a wife, stunning the listeners with the analogy.
A foreigner entertained nightly at a long corridor hotel vanished. Creditors tracked his whereabouts and aimed to bring him back, asking for funds. A Wall Street creditor balked at returning him but offered a $25 donation to send him to France if he would sail from Boston.
The piece advises to first catch capital from savings and place it secure, let it stand, skim profits, and mix with business, judgment, hope, and enterprise. Stir briskly with fresh energy, monitor closely, keep the fire steady until fully cooked, then enjoy the result.
A London Chronicle note recalls James Puckle securing a patent in 1718 for a breechloading rapid fire gun. The device reportedly used two breech plates: square bullets against Turks and round bullets against Christians, reflecting conflicting aims of increased destruction and ethical distinction in use.
The text traces stereotype printing from 1711 claims of awareness to Ged of Edinburgh about 1786 with Ged's plates shown at the Royal Institution in London. It mentions James attempting Ged's process in 1735, Dutch and Dutch Bible printing in Holland, Wilson reviving it in 1804, and post 1850 electrotyping with copper or silver enhancing durability.
Professor W E Grange recounts a Boston lecture on modern views of love. He recalls a bricklayer and a plumber debating love with distinct, contrasting cures for heartache.
A culler asks where Mr Middleman is and a clerk replies he is out on a matter of wheat. The clerk notes he was short, not long, so he is out. The brief exchange underscores a wheat trading twist observed by the Philadelphia Press.
In Prestbury churchyard near Macclesfield England an epitaph on a chemist reads Willie’s dead we’re full of woe we’ll never see him more He thought 0 drink of H 0 “Twas H SO. The note hints at a chemistry related wordplay or misprint in the inscription.
A Philadelphia Record clipping notes a playful exchange where Patty and Patricia discuss staying awake late and the habit of thinking unkind thoughts before sleep, contrasting idleness with the grindstone of daily life.
A citizens meeting nominates candidates for selectmen and other town offices for the March 2 election. It endorses Carr Dawson Thayer for selectmen, McNeil for Water Commissioner, Churchill for Town Clerk, Aiken for Treasurer, Floyd for Assessor, Bartlett for Tax Collector, Clapp for Tree Warden, Howard and Phinney for Library Trustees, Flanagan for Board of Health, Newton for School Committee, Tewksbury for Park Commissioner, Floyd and Dowling for Constables. The Citizens' Committee urges support for candidates who oppose political machines and pledge impartial, efficient service.
The London Express notes that van Dyck's infant James II portrait, known as the Baby Stuart, is the best known picture in the world. It states about two million copies circulate in American homes and that the image is equally popular in England and continental Europe.
A reflection in Chicago News on the hesitation to act today and the potential good left undone by delaying decisions. The piece urges decisive steps now rather than postponement tomorrow.
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