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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1908
Page
7
A published rail timetable effective November 12 1908 lists weekday and Sunday departures from Boston Winthrop Centre and Beach and Highlands routes to Orient Heights Beachmont Crescent Beach West Lynn Lynn and all stations in Winthrop with frequent intervals through the day and notes baggage restrictions and disclaimers of delays.
Registration window runs daily 7 to 8 pm with deliveries at 7 30 am 1 45 pm and 4 pm. Mails close times, Sunday and holiday variations, street box pickups, and listed sub stations including Crest avenue Highlands Station 132 Shirley street and Shirley street car. Mail deposits and deliveries to New York Boston and other points outlined. Signed David Belcher Superintendent.
Service details for the Boston Elevated Railway on Sunday and Monday including Orient Heights to Scollay Square via tunnel with early morning departures and frequent intervals. Additional Gladstone street to Scollay Square times and night services from Gladstone street. Special cars available for balls and excursions upon application to the Superintendent of Transportation. August 8, 1908.
Office hours listed: open 7 am to 8 pm daily with Sunday hours 9 15 to 10 15 am for service. Money order window operates daily from 8 am to 6 pm.
A historical notice lists fire alarm locations around Winthrop with street intersections and landmarks. It includes instructions for sounding an alarm at discovered fires, box operation details, and contact numbers for Central and Beach Stations. The document also notes school schedules and authorities like F W Woollcott Chief and H W Roberts Jr 1st Assistant.
A discussion on how plants spread beyond local areas through wind seed dispersal, pod explosion, and animal carriers. Birds, mammals, and even railroad cars contribute to cross continental distribution, with railroad-adjacent yards hosting nonnative species. The piece notes Mississippi Valley weeds trace to Atlantic seaboard, gulf, and Rockies regions, and western grasses reaching east via cattle imports.
A humorous collection of quick quips contrasts beggar fashion with thrift, compares five dollar pieces and bills, and jokes about royalty versus fountain water. It also puns on form and ceremony, offering playful wordplay in a compact, period tone.
Across the world horses thrive on varied foods beyond grain. Egyptian khe dive mares rely on currants for endurance, Smyrna horses eat figs during harvest, West Indies horses feast on sugar cane tops, Canada uses windfall apples for weeks, Tasmania uses peaches, and Arabia substitutes dates for hay and oats.
The old gobbler struts through the barnyard chasing any fowl he dislikes. He is a lordly fellow, and even children fear entering the barnyard when his gobble echoes.
The Washington Star notes children perched on a high fence with legs dangling to watch a gobbler. They avoid danger by retreating when the gobbler flaps his wings and gobbles loudly, then return to talk and laugh once the threat passes.
A lawn game requires two or four players with a string as a net and an air ball. Players stand on opposite sides and bat the ball back and forth to avoid ground contact while aiming to land it on the opponent’s side.
The article explains the sun's diameter of 865000 miles and its bulk about 1 200000 times Earth's. It offers a railroad illustration: a track around the sun would take five years at 60 mph, while Earth would finish its circuit in seventeen and a half days at the same speed.
A discussion on mastering facial control to influence perception. The piece notes that a calm, moderately expressive face is more attractive than a perpetually placid or overly animated countenance, with emphasis on eyes and a subtle smile and brows. It cautions against excessive anger or disdain and suggests restrained, measured expression. The section ends with a humorous anecdote about Grogan’s sobriety achieved through a painful thumb injury and self discipline.
A girl hosting afternoon tea uses a nickel plated frame with three china plates to hold tiny sandwiches buttered toast and small cakes. Each plate is covered with a decorative dolly before serving.
Small rugs are trending smaller while large rugs stay in fashion. Many resemble children's play rugs with pretty colors and fringe, often cashmere styled. Used over doorsills between folding doors in front of furniture and under chairs. A room may hold half a dozen or a long hall may feature a strip of them.
Fashion guidance covers rosettes on coats using panne velvet or satin and long sleeves for shirts waists. It describes plaited skirts with easy ironing, belt and waist adjustments for a longer silhouette, linen collars with lace edges, and smart double loop ties. A sewing method secures pearl buttons firmly to prevent loosening.
A traveler describes Russian paid jokers who tour homes and markets. Each performer sells tickets, then regales audiences for an hour or two with humorous tales, spoken in a language the listener may not understand, yet elicit strong laughter.
In a witty Kansas City Independent piece, the tale toys with arithmetic variations of how many apples Adam and Eve might have eaten. It ends with a whimsical final sum of 81896864 apples as a playful exaggeration.
The article argues that in parts of Africa the marriage system requires men to pay for brides, reversing the Western charge of marrying for money. It notes that wives given as charity can be contemptuously treated, yet the practice motivates young men to work to win spouses.
A leathery sea creature attaches to stones in infancy and reaches about three inches long and one and a half inches wide. In calm waters its top opens into a pink rose with inch long petals. when disturbed it closes into a tether pod.
Instructions describe pouring boiling water over cornmeal then cooking five minutes while stirring. Add butter eggs milk and salt, beat well, pour into a greased dish and bake thirty five minutes in a hot oven. Serve directly from the dish.
A Washington Star excerpt features a farmer’s retort to a claim about memory lessons. The son plans study, but the farmer quips he already remembers every tune ever whistled, humorously underscoring overload of memory.
The passage humorously praises Charlie as a delightful dancer, describing him as light on his feet and agile. It contrasts perceptions of value with a witty line about an acre in Middlesex versus a principality in Utopia, reflecting Macaulay’s wit.
A London charity bazaar featured a refreshment stall funded by donors. The house in charge sought a gift from a wealthy city gentleman who sent a sirloin of beef and two ox tongues. The butcher revealed he had already supplied meat to Mr X for the same cause, leaving Mr X with only a poor reputation and one ox tongue.
The piece notes St Augustine of Hippo as a sidelined saint linked to the August 28 feast and admired in botany via goldenrod and woundwort. It cites Hooker praising Augustine and Har nack calling him the first modern man, then traces the plant’s history from Old Gerard to London neglect and mentions its past medicinal uses and snuff for medieval forefathers.
Mr Seabury and wife seek to move to a cheaper flat to cut costs. They discuss packing with a brown bag for bonds and one big satchel for books. She proposes wearing a winter coat in heat to shuttle coats, a plan he endorses to wear one suit and return for another.
In a short anecdote from Success Magazine a first grade pupil Tommy is sent to Miss Manners for discipline. She spanks him but he replies that his other teacher wants the scissors, adding a humorous twist to the classroom mischief.
The Duke of Argyll spoke in a London drawing room about South Africa and suggested the Boers marrying into English life, saying the Boer girl should become an Englishwoman in fact, prompting surprised dowagers and amused smiles.
A Detroit Free Press snippet notes Mrs Brown’s illness as one of the newfangled diseases, contrasting it with the speaker’s own lumbago and suggesting she is younger by a few years but more stylishly afflicted. The exchange highlights vanity and medical fashion in a lighthearted tone.
A brief note on language usage, asserting that smart speech betrays modern attitudes and that speaking proper English marks middle class status. It also claims the modern vocabulary is small and largely slang, reflecting social speech trends.
A fragmentary dialogue reveals marital strain and accusations of betrayal. The Husband warns about a map and future regret while the Wife recalls past intimacy during their uneasy union. The exchange hints at suspicion and lingering affection within a troubled partnership.
A playful exchange between Jack Belle and Bel sketches a joke about marriage and hair color. The fortune teller predicts a blond spouse in six months, with Bel joking she can become blond by then.
The text presents a misquoted Cicero style proverb about mistakes and second thoughts. It offers no news events, people, places, or organizations to describe in a summary card.
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