Winthrop Sun and Visitor Paper Sales Locations
Copies of this paper, at 5 cents each, are sold at Highland Drug Store opposite Highland Station, Revere Beach and Lynn Depot, Totman and Ham opposite Beach Station, Brown's Centre Store Jefferson and Winthrop streets, Quality Shop opposite Centre Station, Williams Drug Store opposite Centre Station, Winthrop Pharmacy Magee's Corner, Brown's Pharmacy Wadsworth Block Centre, W. B. Thayer Ocean Spray Pharmacy and Ocean Spray, plus at the office of publication 466 Shirley Street.
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Highland Drug Store
Highland Station
Boston
Revere Beach & Lynn Depot
Totman & Ham
Beach Sta
Brown's Centre
Jefferson and
Winthrop Streets
Quality Shop
Centre Station
Williams Drug Store
Brown's
Wadsworth Block
Centre
W. B. Thayer
Ocean Spray
Winthrop News Co
Beach Station
Shirley Street
Mosquito Pest Exposed Causes and Control Methods
An explanation from Dr. Albert B. Dorman of the Winthrop Board of Health outlines how mosquitoes breed only in continuously present stagnant water for about eight to fourteen days. It details larval development, the habit of salt marsh species laying eggs on mud, and the need to ditch marshlands and eliminate small breeding sites to prevent future swarms.
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Wigeler
Board of Health
United States Drainage and Irrigation Company
Albert B. Dorman
Winthrop Board of Health
From The Pencil's Point
A column of wry maxims on love life ambition and social behavior. The snippets joke about theorists bohemians henpecked husbands and suffragettes with light aphoristic tone. It reflects humorous reflections on relationships gender roles and personal conduct.
Evidences of Disposition in Leigh Hunt Quote
The remark surveys the love of moral beauty and the youthful spirit behind indulgence in poetic taste as signs of good disposition and broad-mindedness in a man, attributed to Leigh Hunt.
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Leigh Hunt
Lincoln Boys Kitchen Recall Feeds Urchins in White House
Lincoln son Tad defies the White House kitchen staff by bringing hungry street urchins to dine, arguing the kitchen is theirs. Seward jokes about diplomacy as Lincoln approves Tad’s plan to feed the boys at a state dinner. Lincoln notes the kitchen is ours.
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White House
Lincoln
Cook
Tad
Peter
Mr. Seward
Department-Of-State
Seward
Mr. Lincoln
True Love and Domestic Peace in a Portrayed Sermon
A reflective excerpt discusses ideal love and steadfastness, contrasting romantic gestures with enduring commitment. It cites the home, daily life, and poverty as tests, praising a love that fights through hardship and remains constant despite life’s delays.
Cynical Sayings From a Daily Column
A collection of aphorisms on work effort repentance money and morality. The quips explore self interest pride and charity with sharp wit and social commentary.
Unclear Uncle Ezra Adages From Printed Snippet
The text presents a series of old fashioned maxims attributed to Uncle Ezra. It includes lines about criticism, cooking, weather talk, and modesty with misspellings and dialect, suggesting a humorous or folklore tone from a column or reader’s note.
Verse Worth Reading From The New York Sun
A wife decorates chairs tables and dishes with lavish laces and silverware while her husband grumbles over the decorative life. He finds ease only on the roof or in the cellar as she extols art and clatters at meals. He longs for simpler food and ordered meals.
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Shama
New York Sun
Mothers of Men and Dreaming Reflections
A Boston Transcript excerpt combines Theodosia Garrison poetry on mothers and loss with a verse about a dreamer boy. The piece juxtaposes deep maternal devotion and longing with a wistful dream sequence of love and escape.
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Mothers of Men
Theodosia Garrison
Munsey’s Magazine
Ancient slot machines before Christ era in Alexandria
A Springfield Republican note claims slot machines existed in Alexandria a century before Christ. A historian cites a sacrificial water vessel that flowed only when money dropped in. The piece then asks whether the ancients chewed gum.
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Alexandria
Tian
Springfield Republican
The Unspoken Names in Nature and Flame
A verse fragment explores engraving names Marie Suzanne Yvonne across sea sand forests and skies, with nature erasing and storms striking imagery. The speaker recalls a loverly figure seen in fire, a blood red pen tracing memory within the heart, attributed to George Harris in Harper's Weekly.
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George Harris
Harper’s Weekly
Song of Hope From Edmond Holmes Poem Fragment
A fragment quoting Edmond Holmes compares a thrush’s winter song to a heart resisting despair. It imagines a sunlit fountain of triumph and urges a sweet singing voice to transform sorrow into spring.
Eddie and the Forbidden Apple Pie Question
Eddie in the garden repeats his appetite for green fruit despite punishment. Papa approaches quietly and frowns, while Eddie hides the half eaten apple and asks with a guileless smile if pie can be made from turnips instead.
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Eddie
Papa
Wordplay Lesson Delights Pupils in Classroom
A teacher asks what an engineer and a pioneer are, and students answer with humorous misstatements. Johnnie says an engineer is a man who works an en gine, while Tommy defines a pioneer as a man who works a plano. The exchange shows playful classroom dialogue.
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Johnnie
Tommy
Willie Smith and Mother Debate Smoking Habit
A brief dialogue features a mother scolding Willie Smith about smoking while Jimmie defends him, noting he would quit if it made him as sick as Willie. The exchange captures concern and skepticism about smoking in a casual scene.
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Willie Smith
Jimmie
Not the Sun nor Storm but a Tender Action
The verse finds true beauty not in bright sun or loud tempest but in a gentle act of grace that lifts the veil from mortal sight. It awakens inner feeling and moves hearts, bringing tears of tenderness stirred by shared grief.
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Boston Transcript
Only of Thee and Me poem fragment
Fragmentary poetic lines speak of love and nature with repeated refrain Only of thee and me. The piece references First Love and uses imagery of wind earth and sea to convey intimate emotion and spiritual connection
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Thee
God
Also Mentioned on This Page
Winthrop Sun and Visitor
Winthrop Pharmacy, Magee’s Cor
Uncle Ezra
Deeps
Hunter of Curious
Marie
Suzanne
Promise
Edmond Holmes
What Is
Castoria
A. J. Young
Winthrop Office
Winthrop Beach
Floyd & Tucker Notary Public Justice OF the Peace
Massachusetts Wharf Coal Company
School Street
City Hall
Winthrop
Winthrop St
Firthreppen
Fort Hill
Frank P. Anthony
North Centre Street
Sargent St
ST. Whitman
Channing Howard
Whitman & Howard
Civil Engineers & Surveyors
Devonshire St
Revere
Revo
Main St
Ire
Winthrop. Hardware. CO
Grant
Magee
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