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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1908
Page
7
The notice lists fire alarm points by streets and intersections including Shirley Ave Harbor View Ocean Ave and more. It covers Schoolhouse signals Box No 22 test times alarm procedures box testing dates and central and beach station contacts.
City mail office hours listed with daily times for service windows and deliveries. Includes hours for money orders registration and carrier deliveries, Sunday and holiday schedules, street box pickup times, sub stations for stamps, and mail close and arrival times managed by Superintendent Davi Butouze.
A 27 year tale follows Jan Kubelik a Bohemian market gardener who becomes a famed violinist married to Countess Marianne Czaky. They live in Kolin with twin daughters and support each other amid a life split between music and family.
The article guides girls in shaping a private room to reflect personality through wallpaper, color, and fabric choices. It notes that small rooms benefit from space-enhancing patterns, with striped papers avoided unless balanced by borders, and recommends plain moire or cartridge papers with coordinated chintz hangings for tiny spaces.
A house occupant notes common pest issues, especially bedbugs, that arise when a woman moves into a residence. The piece discusses annoyance and potential remedies or strategies to handle infestations.
The article explains widespread private baths in Japan with wooden tubs and daily lathering before immersion. It notes a historical shift when Western critique led to a law limiting public bath water heat, followed by a commission of European and Japanese doctors confirming high heat as beneficial for skin cleansing and pore opening.
The article explains hanging portieres with fabric loops instead of rings. Use loops 1.25 to 1.5 inches wide sewn at the top to slip over the rod. Demonstrates pink denim trim with cretonne in pink and white. loops can be made from cretonne stripes or tape for smaller curtains.
The article contrasts the wife who greets her husband with a smile at day’s end and a morning smile, with a nagging counterpart. It argues parental geniality influences children, noting that homes with smiles pass along a brighter heritage than those with frequent cross words and frowns.
A decorative floral diabola crafted on a pasteboard spool is described with yellow chrysanthemums and mauve tires for table display. A light dialogue follows about keeping wolves at bay, then practical notes on water purification, ice for coal bottles, and slow stewing prunes with milk aiding silver cleaning.
The article traces green greenware and the rise of green china among collectors. It notes green china’s popularity, its decorative pairing with white walls, and the role of makers like Sevres Chelsea Worcester in creating green wares. It contrasts with blue and white and mentions common items like tea services and bowls.
A detailed antique lace technique called incrustation is described for attaching lace to fine fabrics such as handkerchiefs. The method uses back stitches to fasten lace along an edge, creating a hemstitched look, with a raw edge left visible on the back for a graceful finish.
A health and beauty column recommends nightly eyebrow dye with vaseline diluted in almond oil applied with a camel hair brush. It advises slight lip puffing and finger massage to reduce mouth lines and suggests rinsing a dark throat line with a weak hydrochloric acid solution. It praises vocal exercises for the throat, and offers nail care steps including cuticle work and cold cream after a five minute finger soak.
A timetable lists train departures for Boston, Winthrop Centre, Winthrop Beach, Lynn, and surrounding areas with varied frequencies. An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for women's health with a testimonial from Mrs Bertha Muff of Louisiana Missouri. The note closes with a generic disclaimer about timetable reliability and company responsibility.
In Personal Adventures Colonel J P Robertson describes a crude practice to shoe a horse. A rope loop is placed over the horse’s head with a knot on the chest, then pulled to bring hind legs forward, the animal falls, four feet tied, horse propped on its back while old shoes are removed and new ones fitted, then untied.
A crab like the scale tailed apus, thought extinct in Great Britain for fifty years, has reappeared in two ponds near Southwick in Kirkcudbrightshire. About two and a half inches long, it resembles the king crab with a semicircular carapace and back-swimming stance, noted for its many legs and numerous spines.
A fragmented excerpt contrasts striving and vanity with life’s disappointments and a somber epitaph idea. It weaves Stevenson’s lines about a man who meant well yet failed often, and ends with a London joke about a nurse and a stubborn window.
Public notice from the Boston Elevated Railway Company lists transit times and intervals for routes via Scol lay Square and Gladstone Street tunnels. It notes early morning to midnight service, special charter cars for events, contact details at 101 Milk Street, Room 701, and information on rates and connections.
A large number of local societies lodges and churches plan entertainments for their treasuries charity or other goals. The Winthrop Sun and Visitor will print suitable reports if notified or if tickets are received but will charge for preliminary announcements with admission fees based on space used.
The Winthrop wun and Visitor 1 invite readers to send news items and signatures when submitting for print. This notice urges subscribers to include their names with submissions to ensure publication.
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