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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1908
Page
6
Walter Crane recalls Robert Louis Stevenson as a central figure in a sociable circle. Stevenson spoke with artful precision, often weaving audience comments into new sentences with a conjurer’s flair. His long pale face, lank hair, penetrating eyes, and sardonic smile contrasted with the era’s white shirts, as he wore black ones.
A Times-Democrat clipping recalls an Italian organ grinder who advertised a cough mixture. The placard claimed interior relief after a dose and the agent notes the ad’s ingenuity could have yielded 50 percent more returns if used in legitimate newspaper advertising.
A trainer explains that a grown lion fears a boarhound from cub days, the hound protecting trainers later. The piece notes Fahrenheit’s 1795 zero thermometer origin and his coldest day experiment, naming the scale from zero to 212. Also includes a London gossip quip about Miss Wealthy Plainwoman’s Brighton wedding tour.
A fragmented compilation lists several copyright deposits in 1908 by Boston publishers White-Smith and others. It names titles such as Happy Return March for pianoforte and The Old Oaken Bucket Transcription, with dates in January and February 1908 and registration by Register of Copyrights Thorvald Solberg.
The Winthrop Sun and Visitor invites readers to send in items of news and to include their name with submissions. Prompt readers to contribute their local notices and updates for publication.
The notice lists weekly weekday train departures from Boston to Wood Island and Winthrop with numerous times, plus Sunday routes via Highlands Ingalls and others. It includes caveats that timetables indicate expected departure times but are not guaranteed and the company bears no delay consequences, signed by H. L. Hoyt and John A. Fenno Superintendent and G. T. A.
The Boston Elevated Railway Company posts service changes to Scottay Square Tunnel and Gladstone Street to Court Street routes, with specific start times, intervals, and Sunday timings. Special cars may be chartered for balls and theatre parties at 101 Milk Street, Room 701, with rates and routes available by telephone.
In a London Mail style exchange Mrs Wags cites a floctor’s warning about entering water after a hearty meal. Waggs counters to go to a first class restaurant instead if one has the price.
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