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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1907
Page
3
The column reviews rebuilding the Constitution, the Guerrieres bell, and current navy counts. It notes six new American battleships slated for commission, compares old frigates to modern steel ships, and includes a Q&A on the national eagle’s sex and Pinchot’s travel plans.
Flowers combat pests with prickles sticky exudates and ant bodyguards while moth attracting blooms open at night and close by day. Bolivia’s Bolivian railways use Fairlie twin boiler locomotives to tackle steep grades. Chinese Jews of Kaifung fu are nearly extinct but records remain. Six autos inspired by a Long Island scooter target Arctic pole expeditions in 1908.
The report catalogs varied notes from the era: American tourists spending 1.11 million dollars in Lucerne, 10 000 ships entering London, and notes on tobacco origins in England. It mentions Maine’s oldest dog Jack, emigrants from Ireland to England, cocoa imports rising in the U S, and declines in tea and coffee. It covers Major Hume on Isabella I, Arbor Day in Boston, a 14 year old runaway in Bayonne, a Vienna army surgeon on fingerprints, a near complete set of signers’ signatures, and developments in Australia Queensland including maize and pineapple industries. It also notes Walcott of the Smithsonian, Keats House restoration in Rome, Baron d Esteournelles and peace efforts, a New York woman’s stance on Japanese servants, Indiana stump-removing records, a black railroad conductor in Connecticut, Anna Coston’s Staten Island distress signal factory, and the secrecy around its lamp formula.
Mrs. P. C. Holland is portrayed as the only woman expert in fingerprint identification, trained by J. K. Ferrier of Scotland Yard, with a year of study yielding hundreds of error free classifications. The piece covers her career, honorary memberships, and views on fingerprint versus Bertillon system, plus household tips on hair care and rubber hot water bags.
A sweeping portrait notes over 200000 matinee goers weekly in the metropolis with 225 matinees offered each week. The regulars, including many elderly women, attend for entertainment and social chatter, while fashion shifts show matinee idols give way to practical theater patrons.
Practical household guidance on dustless stair sweeping with short brooms and dustpans, drying floors before re laying carpets to prevent rusted nails, and using a hot magnesia and fuller’s earth paste for grease spots. Also sewing hints cover edge finishing of metal eyes, needlebooks, whalebone bending in cold water, and trying on skirts inside out before final completion.
Instructions for preparing sweetbread pate with mushrooms almonds and drawn butter then filling pastry shells. Also advice on mattress stain removal using starch paste and sun exposure plus a method to protect sleeves with velvet at elbows and glycerin-treated wooden vessels. Finishes with a method to remove fruit stains by boiling water.
The piece argues that thoughts and ideas require proper printing. It claims good printing at a reasonable price yields profit, while poor printing costs more in the long run. A businessman cannot afford poor printing, unattractive storefronts, shabby wagons, or untidy clerks.
A reflection on how individuality shapes life through language. It notes that many share similar thoughts, but value lies in the power to express them, a quality rarely shared by two people.
The schedule lists Boston to Lynn and Winthrop trains with varied intervals from 1.05 a.m. to 12.05 midnight and return trips from Lynn to Boston with hourly and frequent 15 minute intervals. All trains stop at Beachmont Crescent Beach and West Lynn. Officials H L Hoyt John A Fenno and G T A Superintendent are noted.
Men with lion experience warn that lions lack intelligence and taming is a terror craft. The piece notes no true art in taming and contrasts fear tactics with respect for the beast. A separate joke recalls a man doubting engagement vows as he watches his fiancée test a diamond in the ring.
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