28 Jul 1917
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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1917
Page
1
The Boston Herald urges continued home garden efforts and emphasizes canning and drying as vital to a coming food shortage. It notes many gardeners will have surplus perishables to store for winter while gardenless residents face waste unless children sell garden surplus door to door, with ladies encouraged to buy.
The Providence Bulletin notes a new ready made pie crust invention that could stay fresh a year. The item hints at long experimentation by cooks and suggests origins of various new compositions. The report connects the breakthrough to expanding culinary experimentation.
A reflective passage argues that wealth power and knowledge matter only as they develop sensibilities and broaden consciousness. It emphasizes the unity of life and the purpose of experience in personal growth.
At the Winthrop Yacht Club a Friday evening concert drew about 300 attendees for a program from 8:30 to 10:30 pm, followed by dancing until midnight. Somerville’s Orchestra provided music including tenor John F. McDevitt, Miss Norma Goddard, Miss Rosamond Beddoes, Miss Maud Murray, Miss Anna Steinauer, and Mr. J Harry Law led songs.
The Winthrop fire department reports 1916 alarm response tallies with Capt F H Haskell at 43 of 45 calls and J P McNichol 42. The board seeks bids to sell three gray horses from Shirley Street firehouse as the department moves to motorized equipment. Have you anything to sell. An ad in this paper will sell it.
In East Boston District Court on Monday several residents faced fines for traffic related offenses. Samuel L Sneirserson, John Heaslip, and Peter F Delorey were fined five dollars each for failing to sound horns and for not endorsing licenses. Morris Katz paid ten dollars for not endorsing his license and laboring on Sunday. Sidvin Tucker, O C Smith, John W Naenpas, and Louis Levi each paid five dollars for not giving signals at intersections. William Lount was placed on file for a similar complaint. Waldo C Dodge was found guilty for not having his operator license in possession and for failing to signal at an intersecting street.
A new opera glass reverses magnification to reduce image size so front row moviegoers in moving picture theaters can view pictures in their true proportions.
A Boston Globe note reports Beverly Massachusetts children aged eight to twelve show varied bedtimes with 13 in bed between five and six, 5240 between eight and nine, 156 between eleven and twelve, and 45 between twelve and one. The item hopes all children are in nighties and tucked in by one.
The article outlines exemption paths for those called up, listing groups eligible to claim exemption within seven days through the local board. It enumerates federal and state officials, ministers or divinity students, military personnel, aliens, local officials, customs clerks, transmission workers, armory workers, pilots, mariners, dependents, and religious sect members. A second window of five days after name certification allows filing if engaged in essential industries.
A friction clutch with a spring release is used so the tool stops driving when pressure is released while the motor keeps running, making work quicker and smoother for the user.
Read sisters in law Mrs. Sophia A Read 72 and Mrs. Maria Read Vinal 84 of Washington were killed when their car was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio express near Berwyn Maryland. The train, traveling about 60 mph, split the auto in two. Mr. Edmund Read and niece Miss Nellie Vinal survived with injuries as the crossing deaths in Maryland rose to fifteen. Continued on page 4.
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