Way to Obtain This Paper in Winthrop and Nearby Stores
Copies priced at five cents are sold at Baxter's Store in Winthrop Highlands and multiple Boston area outlets including Holmes News Agency Winthrop Beach Douglass News Agency Winthrop Centre Brown's Pharmacy Winthrop Centre W B Thayer Ocean Spray Pharmacy Ocean Spray Elizabeth Rippay variety store opposite Centre Station and at the publication office Lewis Block Winthrop.
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Baxter's
Winthrop Highlands
Boston
Revere Beach
Lyon Depot
Holmes
Winthrop Beach
Douglass News
Winthrop Centre
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W.B. Thayer
Ocean Spray
Elizabeth Rippay
Centre Station
Lewis Block
Winthrop
Saving a Cab Fare and Frost Affects Plants
A whimsical tale shows a man minimizing travel costs with his wife’s support while he shuns a bus and buys a box seat with a cigar. The frost piece explains how plants die from thirst as ice forms outside cells, with experiments showing varied tolerance to cold and bacteria surviving extreme cold.
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Chicago Tribune
Precious Plant Stones From Philippine Growths
The article notes strange plant stones found in the Philippines. Bamboo yields a stone like opal, rare and valuable, called tabashiri. Some coconuts contain a stone-like secretion as bright as the finest pearl, formed from siliceous deposits in growth interiors.
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Philippine Islands
Kultur
Natur
Wonderful Builders Conjecture on Ancient Pyramid Masonry
An English quarry owner argues ancient Egyptians surpassed modern builders. He cites pyramid blocks weighing three to four times heavier than Nile obelisks, including an 800 ton stone. He notes stones thirty feet long fitted so tightly a penknife blade will not slip between them, and claims no machinery could replicate such flawless jointing.
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Nile
Twice In Jeopardy in Mobile Hen House Incident
An old man named Uncle Mose faced a Mobile Justice after a bulldog attack while entering a neighbor's hen house. He argues he cannot be charged twice for the same act, citing double jeopardy, and requests release.
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Mobile
Uncle Mose
Willyam
Time Place and the Gin Triumphs at Colonial Theatre
The Time the Place and the Gin has transferred from Tremont to Colonial Theatre and drawn packed houses in Boston. Richard Carle presents Hurdy Gurdy Girl with a strong summer show element, vivid costumes, and sixteen musical numbers led by a popular whistling piece The Apple of My Eye. Cast includes Jacques Kruger Mme Cottrelli Mrs Annie Yeamans May Boley Mae Botti Adele Rowland Henry Norman Harry Stone Walter Lawrence John E Hazzard and the Constantine Sisters.
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Colonial Theatre
Tremont Theatre
Colonial
Boston
Chicago
New England
Alb
Richard Carle
Tremont
Mr. Carle
Tokio
Lemon
Jacques Kruger
Mme. Cottrelli
Annie Yeamans
May Boley
Mae Botti
Adele Rowland
Henry Norman
Harry Stone
Walter Lawrence
John E. Hazzard
Constantine Sisters
Keiths Theatre Season Promises Bright Vaudeville Program
The coming week at Keiths Theatre will feature The Stunning Grenadiers a grand girl act with Meredith Meredie and eight assistants. Sidney Drew and Mrs Drew begin a three week engagement performing The Yellow Dragon. Sears Violet Allen present The Travelling Man aboard a lively railroad train setting. Boston Symphony four members form Karl Barleben String Quartet to perform petite programs.
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Keith
Grenadiers
Meredith Meredie
Sidney Drew
Sears
Violet Allen
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Karl Barleben
Winthrop Post Office Letters for Week Ending June 8
List of letters remaining at the Winthrop post office including recipients such as W. A. Brown Capt. O. H. Crocker David Green F. L. Hemenway Miss Mary Kelly Mrs. R. R. Lawrence Mrs. Charles L. Moore Mrs. M. O'Brien Miss Jessie Ouell Prop. Highland House Mrs. Thomas R. Swan Corp'L Toothill.
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Winthrop
W. A. Brown
O. H. Crocker
David Green
F. L. Hemenway
Mary Kelly
R. R. Lawrence
Charles L. Moore
M. O’brien
Jessie Ouell
Highland House
Thomas R. Swan
Corp’l Toothill
Newspaper Rule on Engagement Announcements
Editorial note states engagements and other news for publication must include a brief writer’s letter. Anonymous tips are routinely discarded as a standard practice across newspapers.
Patience and Technique For Mending Woolens With Woolen Thread
Guidance on repairing rents in woolen goods using short woolen threads. Emphasizes patience, correct color, stiff paper backing, fine needle, and slow stitches to avoid thread breakage and keep repair on the wrong side. Waxing thread improves needle passage.
The Borrowing Habit Warning Against Neighbors’ Goods
A domestic morality note warns about borrowing from neighbors and the slide from small favors to a habit. It cautions that borrowing leads to unreturned items, with the maid and mistress sharing the practice, and labels chronic borrowers as sponges.
Points on Massage for facial beauty and health
The article advises proper instruction for massage of the face and notes medical benefits in the morning, beauty routines best at night, and potential improvements in wrinkles and complexion. It explains how blood vessels, muscles, and fatty tissue affect appearance and suggests many women lack knowledge of facial anatomy.
Corset Cover Fashion with Pompadour Ribbon
A pretty corset cover for fashionable girls features pompadour ribbon, two wide ribbons sewn lengthwise into three pieces, fagoting at the arm joins, and lace insertion shoulder straps. Beading, narrow edging, and batiste threaded waist finish the look, paired with white silk petticoats and flowered flounces for evening wear.
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Batiste
How to make sealing wax from wax and resin
A method to produce a white sealing wax by shredding white wax finely and mixing it with one third its weight in resin. The light colored mixture is melted together over heat to form a durable sealant that can be stored and reheated for use on jars and bottles.
Cream Apple Pie from Frugal Home Kitchen
Step by step to bake an apple pie. Prepare crust, bake, cut a pastry ring, fill with thick custard, top with paste ornament, dust with sugar, and serve hot or cold. Yields enough for twelve persons.
A Warning to Mothers on Early Walking
An article warns mothers against making babies walk too soon to avoid bow leggedness and weak bones. It advises delaying outdoor mobility, using stiffened leather shoes, indoor practice, and gradual stair exposure until the child is physically ready.
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Ciill
TO IRON LACE
Guidance on ironing lace to preserve width and design. Use the width of the lace, iron from the wrong side, and press the toe of the iron to keep selvage straight. Use flat placement and pressing across the width. for raised patterns slip felt or blankets underneath. very fine lace iron through muslin and avoid bare metal.
Household Notes On Cleaning And Cooking Tips
A series of practical household tips covers cleaning bamboo furniture with salt water, washing paint brushes in hot soda water and soft soap, and cleaning white paint with warm water and whiting. It also advises boiling potatoes in salted water for ten minutes before baking, and using jam scrapings with lemon juice and hot water as a sauce for boiled pudding. A method to imitate new potatoes uses old potatoes soaked, boiled in cold salted water, then served with cream sauce.
Pretty wall papers at ten cents spur bright bedchambers
The article praises inexpensive wallpaper at 10 cents a roll as a catalyst for attractive rooms. It cites a bedchamber where a light pastel blue ground with yellow-daisy motifs guides the furnishing, including white muslin ruffles on the dressing table and blue white enameled or maple furniture.
Codfish Omelet on Toast in Rich Cream Sauce
Rich cream sauce made from flour butter and cream is simmered until smooth then folded with minced parsley and paprika. Beat eggs and mix, pour into buttered pan, cook until set, and serve on hot buttered toast with the omelet folded on top.
Grape Sponge dessert preparation steps
A historic recipe describes dissolving grape jelly in hot water, simmering, soaking gelatin, combining with the jelly, cooling, then beating in egg white sugar and wine to flavor. The mixture is beaten until stiff and spongy for serving.
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Educato
Golden Rule
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Wissner, Schoninger, Krell
Ludwig
Winter
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Blake's Piano
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Crawford Range
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Frank H. Lambert
Shirley St
Underhill Street
Frank P. Anthony
North Centre Street
Sargent St. Winthrop
T. J. Mahaney
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Court Road
Floyd & Tucker
Massachusetts Wharf Coal Company
School Street
City Hall
Neerinthrop Centre
Winthrop Sun & Visiton
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