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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1908
Page
7
District fire alarm box locations listed with streets and intersections from Shirley to Ocean View. Includes bell signals for alarms and fire department response steps, box testing schedule, and contact numbers for Central and Beach stations.
Winthrop post office hours open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily with money orders and registrations available. Collections at 7:30 a.m. 11 a.m. 1:30 p.m. 4:20 p.m. and 6 p.m. daily. Sundays 2:30 and 6 p.m. Street boxes collected at 9:30 p.m. Sub Stations: 95 Crest Ave opposite Highlands, 144 Shirley St, 56 Shirley St car. Mails close times listed, Sunday and holiday variations noted. Dayz Brtoune, Supt.
Beautiful window screen designs cost little using blue lawn with a frame. Designs like storks cattails grapes and dancing figures create shadow effects when light passes through. Use white lawn and colored inks, or cut from paper and iron in place for a wrinkle free finish. Lampshades can follow the same method.
Electric devices are inexpensive to run and easy to use by simply swapping in a light socket. The list includes a temperature controlled iron, an electric teakettle and chafing dish, a coffee percolator, and an electric heating pad, all cited as costing about 2 cents per hour.
The article counsels plain women to favor a stylish, well proportioned figure and well cut garments. It urges quality materials, skilled dressmakers, a few good dresses, modest youthful styles, neat hair, immaculate collars, and a thorough nightly facial routine with soap rinsing and skin food.
What is the most religious state Mass. The prompt asks to convert lines into questions starting with What is before each item.
A historical health note warns that eating a heavy meal while tired leads to indigestion and poor nourishment. After fatigue from shopping or travel a light option like beef tea sandwich milk or wine is advised before a fuller meal later. The piece notes many women overeat at inopportune times.
Theosophical Society elects Annie Besant as world president at sixty, noting her wide religious journey from atheism to spirituality. Besant, living in Adyar, describes personal experiences confirming soul existence and control over the body. She embraces scrutiny and continues spreading Theosophic ideas from India to Europe.
A booklet-style recipe segment outlines boiling macaroni or spaghetti in salted water for thirty minutes, then various methods: with milk butter and seasonings. baked with layers of cheese and milk or cream. fried with gravy. or with white sauce and cheese. It also covers a fish layered bake and hints at crab or lobster substitutions. A short anecdote follows about a young woman in a jewelry store seeking repairs for two rings, with the jeweler quoting a pickup time.
A socialite explains her method of reviving drooping houseplants by steaming them. She suspends pots above a tub of hot water in a bathroom with books on the walls, closing doors and windows except for a crack, and steams for an hour, repeating until plants recover. The practice suits painted walls to avoid loosening wallpaper.
Guidance on applying court plaster to mending fabric. Do not apply when wet. After waiting seconds for stickiness, avoid moisture that could soil the material. Fold right side toward you, place a clean cloth, and iron flat. Clip frayed edges and baste mending tissue in place for easy removal.
A historical note describes curing facial neuralgia by placing the opposite hand in very hot water. If the neuralgia is on the right side, the left hand sits in hot water. if on the left, the right hand. Relief is claimed in under five minutes, with the antiquated explanation that stimulating the opposite hand influences the opposite face.
The piece urges balanced self confidence as a key to success. Start tasks with belief in success and avoid fear of mistakes. It notes some risk is necessary and that failure is not final, but should be met with renewed energy and long term determination.
A collection of household tips covers careful handling of books and marks, medicine pouring with improvised tools, adenoid concerns linked to soft foods, infant throat development with crackers, cocoa butter for neck hollows, and making rubber gloves waterproof by dipping old gloves in hot linseed oil.
Mrs A Gregory of 2355 Lawrence St Denver says she was nearly invalid for six years due to female troubles and an operation. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her to health and urges other women with backache bearing down and periodic pains not to fail to use it.
For thirty years Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills and has cured thousands of women troubled by displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities backache nervous prostration and indigestion. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
The account recalls a defense plea where a man accused of drawing a revolver and threatening to kill faced a jury verdict of guilty. The prosecutor’s tactics and the judge’s sentencing drew criticism, while the foreman warned the speaker against overstatement, noting the jury’s decision hinged on the gunman not firing. This excerpt from the Detroit Free Press highlights community tension and the vigilante mindset in older Western towns.
A mix of notes on ballet footwear and general witticisms. The excerpt discusses leather soft shoes with thin soles for flexibility, preference for space between toes, and avoidance of heels for true dance form. It also contains scattered maxims on life and a breach of promise court quip.
The time table lists departures from Winthrop Centre Winthrop Beach and Highlands to Boston and other points with frequent intervals through the day and late night. It notes the schedule is not guaranteed and the company bears no liability for delays. H L Hoyt GT A Joan Benno superintendent.
The notice outlines Orient Heights to Scrllay Square Tunnel and Gladstone Street to Scollay Square routes with daily and Sunday intervals beginning at 4.23 am and continuing through night service. Special cars may be chartered for balls and theatre parties at reasonable rates. applications accepted in person or by letter to Transportation Superintendent, 101 Milk Street Room 701. Dec 7 1907.
The Winthrop Sun and Visitors announce they will publish suitable reports of upcoming entertainments by local societies churches and lodges for charity and other causes. If preliminaries list admissions the paper will charge based on space used, emphasizing fairness and low rates for all groups.
The paper invites readers to send in items for print and urges signatory names on submissions to be printed.
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