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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1910
Page
3
In Seattle steep hills will be trimmed reducing 34 000 000 cubic yards of material via hydraulic sluicing. The plan aims for safer, more usable terrain with extensive cutbacks and improved drainage as part of a long term urban engineering effort.
John Wesley the founder of Methodism offered health maxims beyond religion. He urged cold baths fresh air and avoiding strong liquors. he claimed a quiet mind boosts health and longevity. His baldness remedy involved onions honey boxwood or electric treatment and he advised whey raisins and a white paper under the tongue for nosebleeds. He even linked milk with consumptives and described a turf-breathing cure for tuberculosis.
A dated notice notes the difficulty of locating important old manuscripts at the British public record office. Many documents are centuries old and fragile, some rescued from the 1834 House of Lords fire. Cleaning and preserving the vast collection would require immense labor and time.
A nurse at a Vienna hospital run by nuns burned money found in a deceased patient’s bed, thinking it rubbish. The mother superior had to intervene to explain the notes' value. The sister had never left the nunnery and claimed no knowledge of money.
The Frost Public Library opens weekdays 1 30 to 9 p m and exchanges books at 503 Shirley Street Winthrop Beach on Wednesdays and Saturdays. New books include The Minute Man on the Frontier by Rev W G Puddefoot and The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson 1834 1872. Other titles listed with call numbers.
The Winthrop School Committee invites sealed bids for installing new toilet rooms and appliances in the former high school building. A 200 certified check is required with bids, with 700 bond for the winning bidder. Bids due by 5 pm June 20 1910 to Architect Willard M Bacon or by 8 pm to the committee at Edward B Newton School Pauline Street.
Mortgagee's sale under a 1905 mortgage by Jonathan Story to The Enterprise Co op Bank proceeds to public auction on Saturday July 2 1910 at four o'clock in the afternoon. The parcel lies in Winthrop Suffolk bounded from Bates avenue to Bowdoin street and back to the starting point, with $200 at sale and cash in ten days. Horace B Butler treasurer. Eben Hutchinson Atty. Boston.
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