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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1908
Page
7
A London King account extols the Chinese farmer’s skill with the hoe and other simple implements. It notes the hoe as his primary tool, surpassing spade use in England, and describes techniques for soil preparation, leveling, and fertilizing by mud deposition from streams.
A narrator questions the belief that historic women like George Eliot and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu were unique. She argues contemporary American women rival them in intelligence, correspondence, social knowhow, and even luxury, noting Queenly life vs. modern moneyed ease and the imagined appeal of royalty versus wealth.
Boston Elevated Railway announces a revised time table effective August 8, 1908 with service from Orient Heights Gladstone street to Scollay Square via tunnel and extended late night runs. Special cars available for balls theatre parties and excursions on request at 101 Milk street. Information by telephone or at the superintendent’s office.
City postal services outline daily hours for offices registration money orders and deliveries with multiple street box collection times. Sub stations for stamps and money orders listed with locations. Mail close and arrival times vary by day including holidays and Sundays. David Belcher superintendent.
Train timetable for Boston Revere Beach Lynn Winthrop and surrounding stations effective October 1 1908 lists weekday and Sunday departures from Boston Centre Battery Ingalls and other hubs to Orient Heights Beachmont Crescent Beach Bath House West Lynn Lynn and all Winthrop stations with frequent intervals through the day and notes that departures are not guaranteed. H. L. Hoyt G T A John A. Fenno Superintendent.
The notice lists numerous fire alarm boxes by street and intersection in Winthrop and outlines school alarm signals with timing for a day with no or partial sessions. It provides directions for giving an alarm and states boxes are tested on the 1st and 15th at 9 10 a.m. and closing protocol.
Annette Austin argues that college education benefits girls who can handle it but does not suit all. She suggests domestic science may be appropriate for those aiming at homemaking, but warns that skipping college deprives learners of deep mental discipline and practical study.
The article notes Billiken statues selling for 25 cents to $10 and becoming common on desks and in bags. They are loaned for a hundred years at a penny yearly with throne included, and must not be given away or sold lightly. The god of things as they should be promises luck and motivation, with mottoes like Grin and begin to win.
A man and his wife argue on a sidewalk one Saturday evening when a Good Samaritan intervenes. The stranger insists on helping settle the dispute, while the husband resists, claiming no argument exists yet fearing his wife may claim his wages.
Practical kitchen tips cover soaking prunes and raisins to save fuel and improve flavor. It advises rinsing dried fruit until water clears, soaking overnight, and using warm water. Rice should wash in cold water then enter rapidly boiling water for soft, mealy grains in about 20 to 30 minutes. Do not break macaroni, cook 20 minutes, then bake with cream sauce and cheese. Mint jelly uses fresh mint, hot water, lemon jelly powder, sugar, and mint garnish, set on ice.
A Manchester Guardian note highlights humorous student-yerked lines from Normal Echoes about teaching exams. It cites Blake criticism calling him precocious yet dogmatic and jokes about satirical works. Readers laugh at misread names including Cromwell and a tale of the lapsed man confusing Sodom and Gomorrah with a married couple.
Dr. Brandreth Symonds cites life study data showing insurance weights: those under normal weight live longer past age thirty, while fat men rarely reach eighty. Heart disease, Bright's disease, apoplexy, paralysis, cerebral congestions and cirrhosis are less common in underweights. pneumonia and tuberculosis pose greater risk for the underweight.
In New Port an Englishman entertained ladies with talk of ancestral pride. He quotes a duchess remark contrasting great families with a boastful young marquis, who is lazy and dissipated, prompting the duchess to ask how his ancestry would feel about him.
The class finishes The Charge of the Light Brigade and questions its meaning. Eleven year old Thomas Jones, football captain and indomitable fullback, offers a quip that the phrase means they couldn’t form a full league due to lack of clubs. The moment ends with a blundered remark.
In a brief exchange between Chawthie and Arthur a bull terrier is discussed. Kidder is teased about paying $4.50 for the dog, prompting a playful remark on value and fun.
A humorous exchange from the Kansas City Independent features a playful pun about a theater night hinted by a character’s bones and a wishbone. The light quip showcases the paper's witty style and early 20th century tone.
An anxious noblewoman seeks true love as the Count questions if mistaken identity colors their relation. Suspenseful exchange hints at hidden motives and a guilty past.
The hatpin has transformed from a mere necessity into a striking ornament with many wearers displaying six to eight large pins at once. Jewelers and craftspeople respond with a range of styles from lavish to simple, as the pictured pins illustrate.
A condensed guide lists broiling baking and boiling times for various foods. It covers thin and thick cuts of fish and steak, lamb chops, young chicken, cakes and breads, rolls pies and cookies, poultry sized by weight, and seafood with per pound timings for cod clams bluefish haddock and fish like salmon.
To make palms thrive in an ordinary sitting room sponge the leaves weekly with lukewarm water and a little milk. Then place the plant in lukewarm water deep enough to cover the pot for two hours.
A proof reader collects daily blunders from type setting errors. Examples include misread phrases such as His blushing bride becoming his blustering bride and a caption The Galley I Love misread as The Galley Slave.
Blackfoot hunter Small Eyes told Cheyenne leader Black Kettle of a buffalo with a single hind leg found between the Cimarron and Beaver Creek. He claimed the leg appeared fused, creating a two legged look, and the animal hobbling as riders approached fired, ending its run near a hollow along the stream.
A liner passenger photographed Rio de Janeiro harbor revealing a yacht with two men, one later missing. A man was sentenced to death for the presumed murder, but the photographer’s enlarged sail print showed a vital speck exposing the truth, leading to the condemned man’s release.
A oyster opener ridicules the idea that cornmeal or oats fatten oysters and explains that oysters swell from water intake via osmosis. He argues fattening is a misbelief and expresses dislike for fattened oysters, citing a brown stain on Saddle Rocks shells as evidence of the fallacy.
The piece notes a custom where a farmer plants four thousand white poplar saplings as a daughter's dowry. The trees, cut at twenty years, are believed to grow in height and value with the daughter's virtues and beauty, increasing each year and adding to her dowry as she matures.
A Kansas City Journal fragment discusses social needs and a desire to exchange certificates to simplify bail and avoid further obligations. The exchange implies a broader push for systemic reform and cooperation.
A witness in an Irish court recalled a loud remark by counsel on the opposing side. The exchange centered on a charged parking remark. The judge and jury watched as the confrontation intensified revealing tensions in the courtroom.
A Philadelphia record reflects on retribution and fate as the speaker contemplates a looming consequence that will overtake others. The note frames personal reckoning and the inescapable reach of actions.
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