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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1913
Page
3
Daily and Sunday train times from Boston to Revere Beach and Lynn with frequent intervals through the day. Recurrent departures begin at 12.35 am and run until late night with a Sunday pattern of varying intervals. John A. Fenno, Superintendent.
Time table dated January 27 1918 shows Orient Heights to Scollay Square via tunnel and Orient Heights Gladstone Street to Scollay Square. It lists departure times from early morning to late night with intervals 3 to 8 minutes and special Sunday schedules. Night service from Gladstone Street and notes on reduced Monday morning service and special charters. Contact at 101 Milk Street Room 701 for rates routes and connections.
The Madre de Dios River forms the Beni and joins the Amazon where law is self defense. Slaves are bought and sold for prices of 300 for a man 200 for a woman and 50 for a child. Owners employ slaves in rubber camps where flogging and murder occur when harvests fail or fortunes rise.
A peasant Grusniejoff traveling with his wife and four year old child near Volchuni is beset by wolves. He tosses the child from the sleigh after his wife urges the act, but wolves attack the returning sleigh, dragging him away. The mother is found unconscious, while the child remains uninjured and asleep on the road.
In Cas tlepollard County Westmeath Thomas McCann sued Mrs Mary Brady for injury to his stock by a sow. He claimed the sow threatened to eat his children and even his house. The magistrate awarded McCann half a crown and costs.
A University of Nevada bread-making contest saw a male student win second prize among eight girls and nearly take first. The piece argues women, educated or not, know little about bread making, preferring tennis or Ibsen, and suggests men may pursue the craft as a life work.
A fragmented dialogue imagines New York with all blind or deaf telephones and Gotham noting salt and hive themes, reflecting unclear traces of a public or humorous street exchange.
The speaker cites a San Quentin joke to contrast stock exchange trust with a notorious crime tale. A thief of a watch and a thief of a cow share a prison cell and exchange inuendo about time and milking, illustrating how gossip can distort perceptions of brokers.
A joke from Harper's Weekly features a negro before a priest asked if he had stolen since confession. He denies stealing, listing no chickens watermelons eggs or turkeys. Outside, a companion asks how he fared and the man replies Bully, adding ducks would have changed everything.
The daughter of the family has a marriage proposal under discussion at breakfast. Freddie objects, noting the suitor has visited for over a year but given only 17 cents, prompting the father’s measured reply.
A confessed suitor recalls years of courtship ending in engagement. He explains the breakup came from his own absent mindedness as he later again asked for marriage, prompting disbelief from a friend in this humorous exchange from Youths Companion.
A humorous exchange between Hobart and Albert as they debate trimming the word obey from wedding vows. Albert notes removing it might seem odd, while Hobart accepts the suggestion, reflecting lighthearted views on traditional vows.
In a comic exchange Mr Dippy asks how to show regard for his sister and Miss Snippy suggests he stop lingering six nights a week and give another fellow a chance to please her.
A witty exchange about cheap tuition and freshman dance etiquette shows a student learning to dance with those who are grateful for any partner, implying humor about social awkwardness and acceptance.
The Old Snarl asks a sharp question about suffrage action and its use arguing whether votes should be used meaningfully or decorative, reflecting wartime suffrage era political tension.
E Simpson of Rochford Hundred Golf Club dreamt of holing a shot from a water bounded pond hole. He refused bets but on the Pond hole he drove in from about 20 feet, achieving a hole in one amid cheers, later lamenting the bets he rejected.
A calcareous formation near Constantine Algeria resembles a forced cascade turned to stone. Locals call it Hamman Meskhatin the bath of the damned and tell of a legend that impious tribes were petrified and later revived. The feature is formed by deposits from hot springs at 95 degrees Celsius known since Roman times.
A wife praises her husband for quitting smoking and abstaining from alcohol since the new year. A friend notes his apparent strong will, but the wife laments his ongoing habit of nodding yes on the phone, a small, persistent habit she cannot break.
A recently wealthy man named John Johnson, seeking literary prestige, buys an old dictionary. After it is bound he discovers the binding reads Johnson's Dictionary. Enraged, he asks the messenger why the full name was not printed as John Johnson's Dictionary.
A famed Nebraska campaign speaker canceled a Lincoln event and William Jennings Bryan was chosen to fill in. Bryan, aware he stood in for an older, more popular figure, grew nervous as the chairman announced him in self deprecating terms.
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