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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1908
Page
5
An interview excerpt from the New York Press outlines perceived national specialties. It cites English couchmen, French chauffeurs and cooks, Scottish engineers and golf coaches, Swiss watchmakers, Swedes sailors, Germans brewery workers, and Italians plaster workers as notable strengths in their trades.
In Hanoft a growing industry uses mother of pearl to adorn works and furniture. French Tonquin hosts a street called the street of the Inlayers where skilled artisans assemble landscapes and arabesques from colored shells. Tools are simple but deft hands create cabinets and many items by dovetailing and lacquer paste, without the aid of pails.
A Winchester Highlands area update lists residences under repair and residents visiting relatives. It notes guests from New York and California, openings of new lodging houses, and summer plans at Leighton House and nearby inns. A Friendship Club closure and a Stickney Association fundraiser for Chelsea teachers are reported with a June Tremont Temple concert planned.
Taunton visitors Mr and Mrs George Howard spend Sunday with Mr Chan ning Howard in Woodside Avenue. Mrs L M Kimball hosts a bridge lunch for ladies. Keenan couple welcome a baby girl. Wallinger trip to New York Gettysburg and Washington. Power elected to Scituate Beach Land Association board. Miss Gertrude Sheffield improves after hospital operation. Several families move homes on Clark and Grover avenues. S F Club hayride to Beachmont with chaperone Miss Ethel Studley. Unitarian Church windows broken by stones. investigation noted. Memorial Day address to be given by Chaplain Litchfield. Power sells property on Lincoln Terrace and builds new houses in Court Park. MacLatchey buys Court Park lot for fall construction. Dartmouth Juniors plan Prom events. Allen Newton highlighted. Millinery openings announced at Bon Ton. D A R tea hosts Regis Hay and Worcester chapter. Shirley leased corners Winthrop Shore Drive by Mrs Ware. Guests at Young's Hotel include Burbank Sylvester Swett. Mrs Hannah Weston returns from Staten Island visit. Frank Shultz dies at 18 years old from typhoid pneumonia. funeral Thursday. New Ocean View arrivals include Barnards, Brillhart, James and daughter Muriel, Dally and wife, and others.
Winthrop residents host summer visitors and new movers. J Flynn and family occupy Wave Wayvenue cottage for the season while C P Fenton will inhabit Locust Street residence. Ina Nelson wins second prize in last week's prize speaking contest. Athletics: Winthrop defeats Brighton AC 6 to 5 on Ingleside grounds with Tewksbury’s two-bagger driving Dewe’s run.
The Frost Library lists new titles available during weekday hours 1 30 to 9 PM except holidays. Titles include Juan Ponce de Leon by Frederick A Ober, The Nun by Rene Bazin, Seeing England with Uncle John, My Last Duchess by Jesse Lynch Williams, Flower o the Orange by Agnes Castle, Home from Sea by George Wascon, Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown.
Samuel C L Haskell and Walter L Haynes of Haskell and Haynes dissolve their partnership in Winthrop Suffolk County Massachusetts. Haskell continues the business and creditors and debtors must present or settle claims by May 1 1908.
The subscriber has been legally appointed executor of the will of Isaac Clark Hall Sr of Winthrop Suffolk deceased. He has given bond as required. Creditors must present their claims and debtors pay to Isaac C Hall 2nd executor 51 Atlantic Street Winthrop Mass. Boston May 12 1908.
The Argyle and Annex opened on May 16 for the season with proprietor Mrs. F. A. Fitz. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. James L. Heath of Arlington Rev. and Mrs. George Bullen of Boston and other Boston Hartford and Lowell visitors. Additional guests at Lookoff Summit Avenue Winthrop Highlands include Mr. and Mrs. John P. Brooke, F. S. Eggleston, Miss I. L. Whiting, G. D. Newman, S. Crumb, and families from Boston.
The paragraph discusses a religion focused on present experience rather than outward institutions. It emphasizes mortality, the here and now, and divine sharing as central to religion's core aim.
The anecdote linking Voltaire to Newton’s apple discovery is traced to Newton’s niece Catherine Barton. The New York American notes the story’s doubt about truth yet plausibility. A garden tree at Woolsthorpe reportedly inspired Newton, standing until 1820 when it decayed and was removed.
A mother tells her girl she will not kiss her for a week for disobedience. The hungry child begs for mercy, and the mother insists she must keep her word, even as the child asks to be kissed while asleep.
The Japanese language distinguishes three salutation forms used to greet others: one for addressing someone of lower status, one for a peer, and one for a person of higher rank. This system reflects traditional social hierarchy and etiquette.
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