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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1908
Page
5
Floyd C Woods promotes Columbia phonograph Co products at 164 Trenant Street Boston offering disc and cylinder records and repair service. Winthrop headquarters move from 499 Shirley Street to 521 Shirley Street Winthrop Beach.
Winthrop updates include town meeting scheduled for next Tuesday evening and the main Fourth of July celebration at Point Shirley. Frost library hours shift to 2 30 p m. locals discuss pianos and various visits, parties, and trips across Winthrop, Beachmont, and nearby towns.
Mrs H B Hudson and daughter spend a month at Millis Falls. Mr and Mrs Joseph Green and family occupy their Crest cottage. L E Griffin and family rally at Livermore Me for the season. Mrs T E Tucker relocates from 65 Fremont to 35 Hermon. Mrs G W Goldsmith and children return from Manchester by the Sea after visiting relatives. Floyd and Tucker sell land on Shirley Street to Delia Daw of Winthrop. Harold C Bartlett family depart for Freedom NH and White Mountains trips by car. Captain Spinney family visit Province Town and attend Mrs Spinney's sister wedding. Quartet members Rosetta Key Edith Louise Munroe David Newland William Walker perform at Symphony Hall Sunday vesper for Woman's Federation Club. two locals Rosetta Key and William Walker.
Metropolitan Park sewer and water taxes show Boston covering more than half of the bill this year while the Town of Revere must contribute 49052 dollars and 22 cents. The levy highlights intermunicipal cost sharing and the financial burden on Revere.
The Revere Assessors completed a census while listing poll tax payers finding a total population of 16489. Precinct 2 shows the largest population, Beachmont the smallest, with 4772 polls assessed—439 more than last year. Precinct figures detail population and polls by precinct.
Folklore credits the surviving twin with special powers such as healing and second sight. In Essex a left twin is said to cure thrush by blowing into a patient’s mouth. Other beliefs claim a boy girl twin pair implies the girl never becomes a mother and that twins’ intelligence is often viewed as below average, though evidence is doubtful.
Dr Bigwig questions Bates after a boy from Cramton village claims he was attacked by Bates in school. Johnson’s son says Bates did not thrash him, yet a letter from Johnson’s father claims Bates was responsible, while the truth points to Beauchamp.
A Dutch student prefers beer to reform and jokes that his dog Wilhelm will choose. the Wilhelm test leads to continued idleness. The section on Landseer describes how an eccentric woman pursued the painter with extravagant wedding plans until her friends stopped her and he remained a bachelor.
A remarkable tableland forest six miles wide sits 800 to 400 feet above sea level. Trees here have trunks up to four feet across but reach only about one foot in height. No tree bears more than two leaves, each leaf up to six feet long and two feet wide. Flowers form vivid crimson clusters.
In a brief exchange Molly and Cholly discuss Navy service and a failed admiralty inquiry. Judge’s note laments a “lost legion” of unwritten works, a literary regiment of wraiths.
The excerpt features a dialogue discussing how to address a father about marriage and hints at legal statutes on assault manslaughter and murder. It frames intimate consent and parental authority within a newspaper voice from the Atchison Globe.
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