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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1909
Page
7
Public notice detailing weekday and Sunday train departures from Boston and various beach stations to Orient Heights Beachmont Crescent Beach West Lyn Lynn Winthrop areas. Lists numerous times, baggage note, and a disclaimer on delays. Includes signatures H L Hoyt and John A Fenno.
Public timetable from the Boston Elevated Railway Company outlines train intervals from Orient Heights to Scollay Square via tunnel and Gladstone Street runs. Night services from Court Street and special cars for events are noted with contact at 101 Milk Street, Room 701. August 8, 1908.
The Winthrop International money order office offers weekday hours 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. with holidays 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Sundays restrict stamps general delivery 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Mail dispatches run various weekday times including a 3:45 p.m. extra for Revere. Sub stations listed with addresses and box collection times. Carriers deliver at 7:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. and 4:10 p.m. Superintendent David Belcher urges customers to include street and number on mail to avoid delays.
Edward W. Douglas named executor of the will of Hattie Douglas late of Winthrop Suffolk deceased He has given bond as required All creditors must present claims and debtors must pay to Edward W Douglas Executor 107 Putnam Street Winthropean Massachusetts May 25 1992
The heirs and interested parties are cited in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to appear in the Probate Court in Boston on June 17 1909 at 10 AM to show cause why the will presented by Fred Ehwett of Malden should not be granted letters of administration with the will annexed. Publication is required weekly for three weeks in the Winthrop Sun and Visitor with copies mailed to known interested parties seven days before the hearing.
A long list details streets and locations in Winthrop for fire alarm boxes plus a note on school schedules. It includes Shirley Street, Harbor View, Crystal Cove, Ocean View, Cottage Park, and other area intersections. Also contains directions for giving an alarm and a brief copyright notice.
Mrs. Mary L Gilman was elected national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, the auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, uniting 168 90 women across the states. Since 1883 the group has spent about 3 500 000 in relief, provided homes, food, clothing, and support for veterans families and orphans, and led Memorial Day observances and patriotic teaching in schools.
A health column offers various home remedies for skin care and blemishes. It covers mixtures with castor oil and egg, talcum use, pimples treated with blood tonics and carbolic acid rosewater, moth patches with rum and sulfur, and simple two tablespoon oatmeal washes with borax rose water and optional almond meal.
A newly married couple, newly moved in, is approached by a baker who offers daily delivery. The wife, cautious yet polite, agrees to a trial run and asks how much bread they will need a day. The husband contemplates and suggests five loaves daily might suffice for two people.
Women with narrow heels often find ready made footwear rides at the heel causing painful blisters and crippling discomfort. The remedy is to place a strip of velvet between the heel and shoe by tucking or pasting it in place, providing comfort without reducing shoe size.
A shopper at a Deansgate shop requests a blue fabric in a precise, varied range from navy to robin egg blue and turquoise, describing a complex mix of tones and insisting on a shade between several blues. The assistant shows a slide labeled London milk as the example.
Frederic S Ishaan and Ishaan visit Pekin where a Chinese man claims the monument commemorates a triumphal deed and a powerful foreign death. The Celestial remarks on the monument as a Chinese people basking in its shade with placid humor.
The New York Sun notes coffee first drank in Europe at Venice late in the sixteenth century. Moresini records the beverage called cavee in 1585 as used by Turks, later introduced from Egypt by a Venetian doctor. Venice soon housed many coffee houses where patrons settled annual bills rather than per cup, with a standard cup priced at five soldi.
A witty exchange from Pearson's Weekly reports a professor praising a hostess after a private performance. He claims she played excellently and fits the part, while she modestly counters that a young and pretty woman is needed for the role, highlighting social missteps in flattery.
In mid fourteenth century Paris a new ordinance mandating street cleansing and swine control was neglected. The medical faculty advised the king that plague arose from the hostile conjunction of Mars and Jupiter.
The article explains ill fitting windows and doors result not from faulty wood or workmanship but from timber that is unseasoned or only partially seasoned when made up. This causes ongoing drafts as the wood adjusts.
A Boston Transcript clip recalls Ig Jones an optimist who found a ticket for a car drawing and starts building a garage. The piece echoes simple versus strenuous life through a father son exchange and ends with a stoic line about fame's temple resting on dead men's graves.
Mortgagees Samuel Berkowitz and Nathan Berkowitz foreclose a lien on a parcel lot 3 in Winthrop described on a plan by Goldfine Whitman and Howard. Property bounded by Winthrop Street and adjacent lots, containing 3000 square feet. Sale set for June 21 1909 at premises with $200 cash due to purchase and balance within ten days at 294 Washington Street Boston. May 27 1909.
Public notices announce two foreclosures on real properties in Winthrop Suffolk. One involves Roscoe G Johnson’s mortgage to Alden A Mills dated 1908 with sale June 3 at 2 PM. the other covers Louis Rifkin’s mortgage to Berkowitz dated 1904 with sale June 21 at 3 PM. Both require cash deposits and set terms for redemption and completion.
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