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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1908
Page
3
The New York organizer Mrs. Isaac L. Rice leads the Society for the Suppression of Excessive Noise. European admiration follows tours to London Paris and Munich. Readers hear how her work sparks debate and even a Munich chapter president hopeful. The piece also notes gender harmony as key to progress.
A Chicago University professor analyzes the American Magazine essay Sex and Society. He notes the author's fair premises but criticizes his treatment of modern women as hypocritical and moralistic, urging broader education and a special occupational interest as remedies.
A renowned physician urges rest by fresh air and modest daily activity. He prescribes one hour of walking for women, two to three miles daily in country life, and light tennis only in moderation. He warns vacations often worsen fatigue and favors multiple short rests throughout the year over lengthy breaks.
A vintage guide suggests a euchre themed party with a vase of white roses center stage and playing cards as decoration, plus card shaped foods and candlelight for an afternoon affair. The second piece highlights Lady Craven of New York and Coombe Abbey in Warwickshire, famed for a premier poultry selection including buff laced Wyandotte and many first prize birds.
Geordie Horn, a well known Beotch highlands character, wandered between farms and clinics, praised as a gentle giant yet mentally dim. He visited a doctor for chest pain, ignored directions, and stuck a plaster on his hat box instead, claiming no chest to treat.
A Lamah Democrat item recounts a family joke about a dollar given to a child that leads to months of careful tracking and 13 repeated repayments. The father finally returns the dollar with a humorously phrased note claiming it would have caused bankruptcy.
A New York Sun note explains the dollar fish as a young moonfish shaped like a silver dollar with pearly sides. Attendants say they are rare in tanks, appearing only occasionally, and the creature swims on edge displaying its moonlike sides.
A traveler notes Tangier hosts three Sabbaths a week with Muslim flag signals at dawn and distinct religious observances. The Mohammedan Sabbath uses a black flag, observed until late morning to mark the day, then the Hebrew and Christian practices follow.
An old testimonial claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured a woman who suffered backache irregularities and nervous fatigue after an operation. The ad touts the tonic as a standard remedy for female ailments and urges readers to try it.
A foreigner in London near a newspaper box is struck by a bale and falls into the box. Clerks stamp him as mail matter and place him in a compartment. After six months in the bureau no one claims him and he is burned as a dead letter.
The article describes a Knight of the Garter wearing a blue velvet mantle with a star on the left breast. His attire includes white trunk hose stockings and shoes, a crimson hood and surcoat, and a blue velvet garter with gold motto buckled below the knee. The heavy gold collar holds twenty six garter pieces and the George badge, with a lesser George on blue ribbon over the left shoulder, and the eight point star enclosing the St George cross.
A London Scraps note recalls a hunt member warning a farmer that riding over certain fields is unsafe. The farmer retorts that the fields belong to a disagreeable person who might complain, to which the hunter replies in a boastful, evasive manner.
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