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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1908
Page
6
A Washington Star description explains a simple plaything. Two cardboard disks join by a paper strip with a wire and lead ball for a drum. A light cardboard bird is mounted on the wire top so that as the drum rolls the bird bobs and hops.
A tale of a clever pig and a dog on a ship where a kitchen kennel race decides ownership. In the West Indies a trempler bird shakes its wings in comical fashion while Longfellow’s school days note his early Portland education. The page also offers child craft tips and light verse from Home Magazine.
A 1920s style wedding gift guide notes cut glass preferred to silver, ivory monograms, copper and rare china tableware, leather goods and purses, dressing cases and jewel boxes. Antiques rise in fashion, with coral and turquoise jewelry and bespoke hair combs popular. Sport themed items, motor cars and personal safes appear among novel gifts.
A druggist warns women to avoid stale face creams and other cosmetics kept too long at room temperature. He notes rancid oils and germs can enter the blood through skin, especially with abrasions, and urges storing perishable preparations in cool spots or refrigerators and making one's own toilet cream within six weeks.
Practical tips for homemakers include removing rust from copper with ammonia, avoiding salt in soups before skimming, washing silver in potato water, restoring yellowed piano keys with turpentine, keeping cupboards camphored to deter moths and mice, removing paraffin from floors with bath brick, and cleaning paint from glass with hot vinegar. Stain removal relies on acetic acid or lemon salts and pumice stone for ink.
An article argues pure sugar and candy are essential foods and link sugar intake to satiety and reduced alcohol desire. It notes workers prefer meals with desserts and claims bars and saloons steer patrons away from sweets, suggesting higher candy consumption lowers alcohol craving.
A discussion of Berlin mayoral standards notes unqualified integrity as essential and outlines selection scrutiny by the town council. It explains the twelve year term, pension scales after six and twenty years, and the practice of choosing mayors from other cities rather than Berlin residents.
A letter from a West African chief sent through a merchant praises the spread of culture and commerce in the region. The caller notes the chief’s request for general samples and a catalogue, promising prompt remittance for goods and urging quick response from London merchants.
A London Express report describes Jack Tabbs, a young sailor, arriving in London on leave and calling to his mother from the Camberwell third floor. He asks her to lower a rope to the main deck, declaring he is in the bane and needs to come ashore urgently.
A clipped proverb from Harver's Weekly warns that a man should think twice before speaking and a woman three times before singing, reflecting gendered cautionary advice in a dated periodical.
Arthur P. Schmidt of Boston deposited the musical composition May Song with the Library of Congress on December 27, 1907. H. W. B. and Schmidt claim rights as proprietor under U.S. copyright laws, with renewal sought for fourteen years from May 8, 1908.
Library of Congress notice records deposit of the title Eugene Thayer's Complete Ore School Part 1 Manual Studies. Arthur P. Schmidt claims Boston as proprietor under U.S. copyright laws. Herbert Putnam signs as Register of Copyrights. Renewal term set for fourteen years from June 21 1908.
Mass. library records show Eugene Thayer's Complete Organ School Part 2 Pedal Studies by Arthur P. Schmidt Boston renewed under Federal Copyright Office rules. Thorvald Solberg signs as Register of Copyrights with renewal for fourteen years from June 21, 1908.
Be it remembered that on December 13 1907 White Smith Music Publishing Company of Boston Massachusetts deposited for copyright renewal for 14 years from December 13 1907 the Grand March for Pianoforte Fall River Line by C D Blake. Librarian of Congress records the proprietor claim in conformity with US copyright laws.
A 1907 copyright notice from the Library of Congress records Julius Eichberg's song Above in her Chamber for soprano or tenor with piano and violin, deposited by White-Smith Pub Co Boston, renewed for 14 years from December 6 1907, signed by Thorvald Solberg.
Jean White of Boston Muse filed in 1907 a claim for the rights to White's Amateur Song Album No 1. The record records renewal for 14 years from December 24, 1907 under Thorvald Solberg at the Office of the Register of Copyrights in Washington DC.
A fragment from Class C XXv No 168573 dated December 4, 1907 appears. The readable portion indicates a formal notice or entry line but lacks full context or actions.
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