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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1912
Page
7
An amusing anecdote contrasts romantic fiction with real life. A distracted parent asks for child friendly content while a child, listening to a father snore, finally answers with a simple word, revealing a playful moment in a library setting.
A collection of aphorisms on risk, ambition, and human behavior. It notes that endurance and timing matter, disguise can mask opportunity, and advice should fit one’s own property. It humorously contrasts age, patience, and fashion with practical observations.
A compact meditation on drinking, guilt, and self control. The piece explores how pursuit of vice fuels cycles of harm and denial, noting how blame shifts, momentum from habits pulls toward doom, and the odd comfort of peace after reckoning. It reflects naval metaphor and personal accountability without graphic detail.
A fragmentary humorous essay notes leap year quirks and gender roles. It riffs on husbands avoiding obligations, wives granting apologies, and fools draining families for friends. A minister's salary question hints at questions around church finances.
The tale recalls Hiram Hicks bragging of spearing a large eel at Ligzard Creek in 1863, weighing eleven or twelve pounds though the fish slips back into the hole. Herm Stokes comments on the feat while Abe Crockett and Bige Miller react, and Hicks’s pride foreshadows a fall overboard after his boast.
A poetic reflection from the Baltimore Sun praising a timeless game of joy. It contrasts playful happiness with life’s struggles and celebrates how laughter, dreams, and toiling hearts seek light and freedom.
A lyrical exchange between a brook and tree as they envy the sea. The willow and river murmur of freedom and riches found in distant journeys while the tree longs for peaceful life away from unrest.
The speaker notes that people envy the lives of the rich and famous while overlooking the troubles that accompany wealth. It suggests that happiness is not found in outward success as both nabobs and their spouses face pressures, costs, and cares. The piece argues perception hides real burdens behind glamour.
A poem fragment from the Denver Republican portrays a bedridden cow camp sufferer amid flood and rain. The speaker endures illness yet finds comfort as fellow cowboys arrive with cheers and camaraderie, easing the ache with friendship and shared work in a remote ranch setting.
A short morning prayer poem praising sleep and thanks for a new day. It asks for guidance to do God's will and to live with love, while requesting protection for family and household. The passage centers on Roland Rathbone in Lippincott's publication.
A poem fragment by Kathleen Kavanagh explores divine insight into human loneliness distress and inner unrest. It invokes heaven, discipline, and guidance as a speaker pleads for understanding and support from the Father.
A domestic quip unfolds in a snowy Easter Sunday tale. A wife in a new spring suit and hat plans a playful revenge on her laughing husband by praying for rain on opening day of baseball, prompting churchgoer suspense and a comic weather payoff.
An amused tale says Diogenes borrows Plato's wrench for his auto kit and fits a cyclometer to his tub. Plato discovers the setup at the Temple of Cybele as Athenians stop lingering to watch the eccentric action.
A shopper in a bustling butcher shop asks for a porterhouse and balks at high prices. A kindly elderly man offers support and suggests wrapping up half a pound, prompting a modest emotional moment in a simple moral vignette.
The reason is given as she must, choosing not to buy a new hat for the season. The exchange highlights a practical constraint rather than a desire to forgo fashion.
In Society notes a surprising hesitation in a long marriage. A friend asks why the wife does not sue for divorce despite years of discord. The answer hints she relies on her husband for companionship at bridge whist and social gatherings.
A heated exchange questions a nominee's suitability noting the candidate once worked as an actor. Critics argue actors’ instincts may skew judicial recall decisions, while supporters defend credentials and impartiality.
A fragmentary dialogue notes a nearing closed season and a visitor’s skepticism about the open door polity. The exchange asks about a road tour and whether the ghost walked, with a terse reply about having to return.
A series of aphorisms on faith hope and manners ninguna. The collection notes that courage laughter money not equals happiness and warns against hollow piety and preaching without practice. It cites moral quips about heaven hell and human folly reflecting the Indianapolis News tone.
A collection of quips on marriage, gender roles, and social norms. Observations suggest alcohol, humor, and home life shape behavior. Notable lines critique vanity, reform efforts, insomnia, and the bath as civilization’s aid, with a Chicago News attribution.
A miscellany of odd facts on whale skin thickness, heart rates for vegetarians and meat eaters, blondes surpassing black sheep among women, Chinese hair trends, beechwood smoked Westphalian ham, and a chorus girl’s grand sea metaphor for an old millionaire.
The notes list various curious figures: Brazil nuts are 60 percent oil, water weighs ten pounds per gallon, glycerine is a soap by product, there are sixteen cables across the North Atlantic, Newfoundland cod exports are valued at five million dollars annually, Hawaii’s population ratio favors Japanese speakers about three to one, and an English mine horse lived underground for twenty one years before surfacing.
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