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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1907
Page
7
Fire alarm signaling details list box numbers and locations around Winthrop with call times and procedures. It outlines 1st and 15th box tests, three alarm blows, and steps for directing responders to fires, including Central and Beach stations and contact numbers.
City postal services in Winthrop list daily hours for office operations, money orders, registrations, and deliveries. Carrier times include 7 30 am 1 45 pm and 4 20 pm with collections at multiple intervals. Substations 95 Crest Ave 144 Shirley St 56 Shirley St Car provide stamps and money orders. Mail close and arrival times noted for weekdays Sundays and holidays. Davi Betcuer Supt.
A profile of Carolyn Wells, noted humorist and author of Fluffy Raffles, praising her playful view of love and society. The piece notes her Rahway New Jersey home, prolific output, and influence alongside Shaw era contrasts, plus a blend of light verse and fiction. It also includes practical home guidance on canning fruit and mending cloth with step by step tips.
Guidance on caring for ill patients includes letting them arrange their rooms, keeping windows open for visibility, creating a cheerful atmosphere, preparing enticing trays, and avoiding loud voices. Limit visitors, avoid criticism, and ensure fresh air without jarring the patient.
A guide urges women to raise their heads hold their necks high wear hair and gowns with broad shoulders and practice skipping and jumping to gain limberness. The result is the appearance of greater height and freedom compared with a stiff stiff-backed posture.
The article advises practical gifts for male students in college rooms. Useful items like linen laundry bags with monograms, leather or Navajo blanket pillows, and a rollable housewife bag are preferred over fragile or ornamental pieces. It notes pictures may please some but avoid heavy ornaments.
Instructions explain washing fruit in soapy water with soda, rinsing in scalding water, and drying in the sun. The guide notes additional steps to preserve flavor after drying.
Readers learn a method to mail flowers farther with candles for preservation. Dip ends in candle grease before shipping, keeping large blooms fresh for a week. Clip stems before placing in tepid water upon arrival.
The article notes women choosing lamps by selecting a quaint vase design with a top burner installed at a hump establishment. This method allows finding pottery to match room furnishings and offers broader options than shopping at lamp shops.
Set a sponge overnight and bake soft dough loaves in the morning. Save candle ends to polish floors with turpentine and wax. Fix garment stains with ether and remove hangnails with sweet oil. Prevent doughnut burning with raw potato in fat and keep salad dressing from curdling with soda. Do not cook green vegetables with the water.
A costume features a two founce skirt with a long skirted coat. Embroidery decorates the lower edges in pastel shades. The coat includes a taf feta vest fastened with three silk frogs. Underarm areas are pastel blue broadcloth. Wide revers taper to belt point and are embroidered like the skirt with a narrow embroidery band. Sleeves are plaited down the center.
A look at shops shows a purple year in hats and fabrics. Stores stock crepe de chine at 7.50 to 15 a yard for winter trade. Advice favors good material and workmanship over fussy trims, noting plain, well made dresses are superior to flashy but poorly cut designs.
Parisian women favor the Marie Antoinette plastron with Irish lace center and Valenciennes edged frills. Fluffy lace jabots are in vogue and being worn by visiting American women. Returning tourists pair jabot with plastron from neck to belt.
The jacket shows a sailor collar back feature with square cut plain goods below the shoulders. A front fastening princess jacket extends over the shoulders with narrow straps adorned by ecru lace applique.
The article showcases early fall frocks with a walking costume in soft brown cloth. The bodice features oversleeves and trimmed with applied stitched bands and velvet edging. The upper bodice sleeves and blouse are green taffeta with soutache braiding. An Irish lace yoke and sleeves complete the look with an Irish lace belt.
The Boston Elevated Railway Company issues notice of altered service with specific morning and night intervals to Scott Sq via tunnel and North Ferry, listing special charter cars for events and directing inquiries to the Superintendent of Transportation at 101 Milk Street, Room 701. Dated December 15, 1906.
A fisherman named Paddy relates a tale of a colossal pike too large to fit in the boat and towed behind. The exchange probes its size with humorous, hyperbolic estimates as Paddy claims the fish could swallow a man whole.
London doctor Dr Robert Hutchinson states that when meat is unavailable bread sugar and eggs provide a respectable body support. He notes sugar lacks nitrogen but bread adds some and together they balance. bread and molasses can sustain energy and efficiency during scarcity.
The passage notes Mary Lamb, aged fifty to sixty, walking fifteen miles easily and compares her to a delicate woman who can manage only four or five miles every few days. It references a letter Mary Lamb wrote to Miss Wordsworth and highlights endurance in walking as a measure of fitness.
The passage notes that Indigenous people who accepted 24 from Governor Peter Minuit for Manhattan Island in 1626 would have heirs with about 12 billion dollars today if that sum had been invested at compound interest, illustrating the vast value of early colonial transactions.
A comical exchange unfolds as a patron demands lunch while the waiter reminds him he already ordered breakfast. The patron insists the breakfast was during breakfast time, prompting humorous tension.
The Atlanta Journal notes a grim truth about job hunting suggesting you may lose a job on the first day of looking, and urges perseverance rather than discouragement even if a setback occurs on Saturday.
The Winthrop Sun and Visitor seeks notices of entertainments by local societies lodges and churches for upcoming months. It will print suitable reports or tickets, but charges admission fee announcements by space used. Rates are set as a business matter for all groups.
In Albany New York the College Inn markets 500 Rooms 300 tet Rooms European Plan and unexecuted Gentlemen's Cafe plus Ladies Rest bar and Moorish Room. Rooms with bath available from $1.00 per day and up. A booklet is available for details and the Rathskeller music venue is promoted.
A verbose social anecdote recounts a scientist deemed a dreamer by a witty wife. She calls him an idiot at times, prompting a blunt doctor to retort that her husband is also an idiot by another name. The exchange ends with a dark humor pivot on respect and perception.
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