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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1908
Page
6
The article explains the watch as the smallest intricate machine with about 175 parts and over 2,400 manufacturing steps. It notes 432,000 impacts daily on the fork, 157,680,000 yearly, and 3,153,600,000 in twenty years, powered by four fleas worth of force, moving 3,558% miles per year.
A playful puzzle asks how many babies appear in a scene where one plus one plus one equals three at first glance. Look again to find seven baby boys among squirming arms and chubby hands, a clever optical trick for friends to enjoy.
The hostess writes questions on sheets omitting answers and gives them to guests. Prizes are boxes of bonbons. Questions cover puns like which candy is a spice and a money making establishment and which bonbons show which way the wind blows.
A traveler reports in Dijon France of a poplar tree believed to be the oldest of its kind in the country. The tree rises about 122 feet with a 45 foot base circumference. Dijon’s city records trace the tree’s history to the year 722 and locals recently voted a tax to fund a railing to protect it from harm.
A witty exchange asks when the British empire could be released for the lowest sum and when Richard III offered his kingdom for a fee. It ponders the largest room in the world and defines when a man is said to break it before he gets up, via a roll call in bed.
A family tale recounts a boy and his sister gathering eggs from a hen house. They are warned not to take the nest egg. The old hen takes the egg by mistake, and the sister is instructed by her brother to return it, claiming the hen’s measurement dictates it must be returned.
A Chicago Post verse reports a stylish plea for fur hat and high heels as a narrator, Diana, in a Directoire gown rehearses social vanity. The speaker laments strict fashion demands and an inability to sit, fearing she might break in two while striding in style.
A Housekeeper article argues against constant dishwashing and suggests an independent method. It advises washing meals twice daily, soaking supper dishes in cold water, then washing hot and air drying in a wire drainer. Glasses can stay filled and silver can wait in a pitcher until ready to polish.
The revival of tapestry work brings attractive embroidery to cushions, screens, chair backs, and small mounted pieces like stools blotters and box lids. It is simple work with appealing designs.
The text describes tapestries traced on canvas with color applied in correct colorings. The embroiderer stitches over the lines in careful stitches, producing conventional needlework. An example is a Louis chair seat with rich colorings creating rare perspective.
The article promotes laughter for health and offers home remedies including lemon juice lis terine and glycerin as a mouth wash. It warns against relying on tonics and emphasizes basic health and hygiene. It suggests a steam method to remove deep splinters and criticizes ill fitting shoes and undersized beds as unhealthy.
Ivory toilet articles rise in fashion yet stain removal is tricky. Warm soap suds with sun exposure often clears light stains, lemon juice can aid persistent marks, and oxalic acid may help dark spots. Also includes a tale of John Ross resisting King James I’s churchyard football ban by awkwardly failing to kick.
Two European travelers confront conflicting air beliefs. Miss Ozone favors open windows for ventilation while Mrs. Fraid cfair fears drafts and illness. They argue, sleep uneasily, and awaken to discover the outer windows had been closed all night, making the scare seem needless.
Instructions describe making an onion cake using onions butter eggs mashed potato caraway milk and short pastry bake until set then drain and serve hot. Also outlines variations for grapefruit salad including sweet fruit versions with sugar maraschino sherry or grape juice, final assembly with cherries mayonnaise dressing on lettuce and optional nuts or celery.
In a quiet house a burglar enters while a clock chimes 3 am. The plumber awakes, confronts the intruder, and throws him out. The assailant leaves with only $4.30 in his clothes, according to the judge’s remark.
The author Captain Mayne Reid met a girl at thirteen who later heard him speak for Polish refugees. He gave her his card at a public meeting and she sent her address. He replied that she should say she loves him and he would be with her, and she said she thinks she loves him.
In a church meeting Whittier, aging and absentminded, was honored with a quotation of his own lines. Applause broke out as the audience recognized the poet and Whittier joined in the handclapping, then confessed he did not recall writing the verse.
The passage defines a legal fiction as the pretended unchanged letter of the law while its operation has shifted via alteration. Sir Henry Mune’s critique notes the fiction conceals modern changes, treating ancient law as if it remains the same.
A Puck cartoon depicts a chaotic scene with Columbus Washington Johnson Smith negotiating watermelon prices with Mr. Jackson and Mr. Smith. The vendor offers ten or twenty cents per piece, sparking a frenzied bargaining moment as all men attempt to select and acquire the melons.
In a brief exchange a man asks if Tam is a poor young man and is told his desire. The dialogue pivots to a humorous wish for a wealthy, generous wife rather than a thrifty or economical partner. The tone is light and ironic.
In Luck the Atchison Globe offers a wary joke about marriage and money with lines about a wife seeking funds. The quote contrasts a man seeking reckless edge walking with a cure by falling over, framing a humorous moral.
A nervous Frenchman in a Tremont street Boston store brushed a vase worth about 14 dollars and removed many pieces. The floorwalker stopped him, and the man offered 70 francs. He produced a fifty dollar express draft, seized as fraudulent, then fled south.
At Rostand’s French academy admission breakfast, star guest Mme Bernhardt wore a gown made for the event. She toasted the dramatist with a glass held aloft and poured the drink over head and clothing in a Greek fashion. Rostand’s young sons followed, imitating the gesture with their own glasses splashing contents over themselves.
In London on Oct 4 1865 during the first night of Charles Reade's Never Too Late to Mend water drenched Miss Moore as Josephs the warders execution. critic Mr Tomlin of the Morning Advertiser cried foul triggering a near riot and stoppage. Lessee George Vining as Tom Robinson incited critics with a harsh speech, but the play became a popular success running 140 performances.
The Lancet cites Dr. Hugo Feischenfeld of Berlin warning that readers under eighteen should not read in bed due to myopia risk from undeveloped eyes. It adds that reading in bed may still suit older or bedridden individuals if light is bright and eyes are shaded, with the patient lying on the back.
A fragment recounts how Austrian and Prussian generals gathered around the Duke of Wellington in Paris in 1814 and his witty claim that Napoleon was “as good as 40,000 men,” highlighting his tactful diplomacy and humor amid praise.
In South America natives hollow a coconut with holes at both ends and fill the middle with sugar. A monkey slides in a paw, grabs sugar, then cannot release and is easily captured.
A Chinese barber shaving a customer drew blood and placed fingers on the shaved area. He continued with cuts placing another finger down each time. He paused and quipped that a barber’s trade is difficult and that they ought to have a thousand fingers.
A brief dialogue scene features Martha recounting an exchange with a grocer's boy who kissed her. She blankly blames the iceman for setting a bad example, framing a moral comment within a domestic vignette.
Stella Harding recounts a compliment from Glenn about girls in their block praising dignity. Mrs. Harding smiles as Stella challenges him asking if the remark was a slam. The banter reflects plain talk of youth and dignity across their circle in the block.
A Kentucky legislature debate on repealing a foxes’ scalps bounty failed after a mountainous region representative argued the bounty funds church outreach. He said rural Methodists rely on fox killings to support preaching, noting preachers won’t come without payment. The law remained in place.
A St Nicholas excerpt explains how hairs and feathers appear across nature. It describes asbestos as fine fibers from mineral quarried rock resembling a satin fractured stone and notes a feather’s structure with a central midrib and vanes made of many beards.
The piece notes that astronomy yields enormous figures hard to grasp. It cites Polaris as 210 trillion miles away and compares cosmic scales to a hypothetical train of immense duration, alongside light’s speed thirty six years to travel such a distance.
A nobleman with air castles in France sends a note to a pretty heiress asking how to express love. The heiress replies with humor, declining any proposal on credit and noting he is not worth the charges. Chicago News records the exchange as a witty vent.
A business man laments that though he has accumulated wealth he cannot retire. He explains he must stay awake night and day to prevent others from taking it away, while his friend asks if he has realized the truth of his situation.
A humorous quip explains a safety match as a bald headed man marrying an armless woman in a short story exchange. The playful line contrasts domestic imagery with a pun on safety.
A Kansas City Journal snippet reflects on luck and steadiness with lines about things aligning and a poker hero vibe. It contrasts national character with a firm foothold on the soil through David Starr Jordan's idea of steadiness guiding progress.
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