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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1908
Page
3
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay has publicly embraced woman suffrage, serving as a leading figure in the cause. After a brief novitiate she argued for its principles, winning a school trusteeship in Roslyn New York, and pledging to advance suffrage alongside English counterparts.
A satirical portrait of the persistent town regulator who voices unasked opinions and lectures others. The piece highlights her loud certainty, lack of self awareness, and the social friction she creates among neighbors and families.
The passage notes that women value neat beds, but emphasizes practical concerns for women who manage chores and laundry without assistance, highlighting domestic expectations and diligence.
A list of onion based tips includes restoring velvet with rubbed onion and a damp cloth, dyeing cotton with onion water from red onions and peels, using onion juice as an adhesive for paper on metal, and applying onion juice to insect stings and nosebleeds. Additional notes suggest onion juice inhaled through the nose to stop nosebleeds and slices on the back of the neck aiding healing.
A guidance piece advises night plaiting a young girl's hair in two loose braids to prevent tangles and support thick healthy growth. It emphasizes prioritizing health and happiness over appearance and warns against excessive curling that can stunt future hair.
If puffiness under the eyes is present there may be two causes kidney disease or eyelid inflammation. Check by lowering the lid in a mirror to see if the area is scarlet or granular. Seek a doctor or oculist, bathe with weak toracic acid solution and camphor, and use hot compresses and gentle massage for relief.
The article promotes patent dress shields with a small fastener that grips the arm seam to hold shields in place. If the cost is high, it suggests using white safety pins as a temporary fix and stresses choosing shields that wash and iron well.
A mother recounts using lemon and water gargles to relieve her sons whooping cough. She also used a laxative diet and open air exposure with regular gun baths and barefooted time to reduce coughing paroxysms.
A newly arrived immigrant and Norah discuss aid at a post office where a young clerk offers a ten dollar money order for ten cents. The youthful exchange highlights generosity and practical help in the United States.
The article recalls public confessions and penance in white sheets for moral scandal. Hartree confessed immorality at All Saints East Clevedon in 1882, with no sheet. Earlier cases include St Bridget’s Chester 1851, Ditton Cambridgeshire 1849, and an Essex country church, noting varied openness and door locking.
A. L. Parrott, famed for boldness as a former McNelly Texan ranger sergeant, narrowly escapes a gunshot while playing chess in a southwest Texas town in 1875. A bullet aimed at him blew through the wall as Parrott noted a check on the board.
Description of pietra d infamy stones used to punish bankrupts in Venice Verona and Florence. During carnival week traders who went bankrupt faced public shaming, a formal report of failure read aloud, and a ritual bumping on the stone twelve times in honor of the twelve apostles while creditors jeered.
A London News note traces the rise and fall of wigs and the move to natural hair. It suggests Louis XIII started wigs by growing bald and court fashion followed to please the monarch, with wigs lasting over a century in England as trousers were rare a century ago.
The article recounts the Delphic oracle to Junius Brutus and Tarquin's sons about Rome's successor. They interpret it as kissing the Earth, prompting Brutus to kiss the ground and declare Earth the mother of all. It notes this as an early recording of the term Mother Earth.
A witty courtroom moment spurred by a guest list humorously contrasts social obligation with practical concerns. The judge quips that inviting the grocer and butcher raises questions of duty to the community versus personal favors.
A fragmentary dialogue shows Pat and Mary Ann discussing a three cent bounty for a five dollar money order at the post office and planning to buy soap with the savings. The tone mimics a casual wartime or casual era exchange.
A quoted exchange recalls a wife described as graceful and pretty who allegedly has produced many cooks in a short span. The dialogue contrasts humility with rumored talent in cooking.
A reflective line urging stoic optimism in the face of unseen troubles. The note counsels cheer and resilience, warning that the hardest misfortunes are those that never arrive.
A humorous exchange from the Memoirs of the Earl of Nugent where Goldsmith teases M by calling him Goose M Bull M and Frog M due to waddling bellows croaking and stage fright revealing a light social wit about acting talent.
A woman traveler in a New York Times piece describes plans to save $500 for fare back to England and buy a gypsy wagon. She praises wagon life with bunks, a kitchen, and open nights under the stars while touring artist friends roam from place to place.
A reflection on balloon ascent describing the beauty of clouds and distant earth, the thrilling sense of height, and the safe confidence of not falling. The piece compares arctic icebergs’ majesty to sky clouds and notes the unusual dizziness felt in ballooning.
Gideon Lane of Bushby livery touts a family safe horse to a summer resident. The horse is praised as gentle and untrickish yet lively on circus day, with Lane noting it should not have too many riders at once. The exchange emphasizes the animal's suitability for families and its spiritedness.
Jewish writer Jacob B. Ehrlich cites thirteen as meaningful noting thirteen attributes of the Most High and thirteen annual feast days. He links thirteen to Haman’s hanging on the thirteenth of Ab as well as the thirteenth birthday of sons and biblical dreams of Joseph and Jacob involving thirteen.
An unreliable dialogue hints at a would be professional boxer named Jones who doubts the reader’s early progress yet suggests hard practice over two to three years could reveal a glimmer of understanding of the sport. The tone mirrors a skeptical London setting.
A visitor seeks Mike Clancy at the quarry following a premature explosion. Costigan says Clancy is gone, and the visitor asks if he is gone for good. The man notes Clancy headed in a certain direction.
A sarcastic diner complains to a waiter about service. The waiter, new to the job, replies he has been employed about a week. The guest retorts that the brevity implies the order was given to another server.
A terse archival adage notes it is hard to find a person without guilt, comparing it to a fish lacking a backbone. The fragment emphasizes universal accountability and human frailty through classical wisdom.
A military man recalls a notorious slow Southern railroad once lampooned in the press. On Memorial Day a planter wrote to the Rapier editor asking for a fix to beggars along the line. An aged veteran with a wooden leg kept pace with the express from Paint Rock to Nola Chucky, annoying travelers by soliciting from open windows. VOX POPULL.
Mrs Delaney an 80 year old social figure writes in January 1758 about a strange cough remedy using snails boiled in barley or tea water. She suggests six to eight snails boiled per quart and added to every drink, changed every two or three days to keep it from thickening. It is uncertain if Mary used it or benefited.
A Scotsman in third class smoking carriage encounters a fishwife at a small station. He complains this is a smoking carriage, but the woman lights a pipe and, blowing a cloud of smoke, quips that he cannot claim all the air to himself.
A detective testified in a case where a woman accused of shoplifting turned away and reportedly swallowed six suits of silk underwear a silver candlestick a chafing dish and pawn tickets. The magistrate interrupted easing the confusion as the officer clarified the gag.
An old sailor recalls thick fog off Newfoundland where the bed seemed so dense they sat on the rail and leaned back, only to have the fog lift and send them tumbling into the water. He remarks with a dry joke that it was indeed a bit thick.
A quip from Brussels Derniere Heure notes that three men on a sidewalk reveal the era’s preoccupations by country: army in Germany bureaucracy in Russia women in France business in the United States sport in England and nothing in Turkey.
A fragment from United Presbyterian quotes a woman advising a grieving child and Alice replying that only her own method helps. The exchange underscores personal resolve amid sobs.
A Latin proverb quoted on advertising norms urges business men to keep publicity current by regular advertising in the newspaper.
The Delineator lists famous figures once homeless children including Sir Henry Stanley Queen Catherine the Good Alexander Hamilton Rosa Bonheur Edgar Allan Poe Rachel Leonardo da Vinci and Moses. It notes their fate could have been ruinous but they instead attained fame and contributed to knowledge.
The New York Outlook quotes a message urging restraint and guidance. It describes teaching and guiding peers toward higher, more interesting knowledge with calm, firm care.
A historical passage critiques the indiscriminate use of remedies for difficult diseases. It notes that physicians often decry the proliferation of so called infallible cures proposed over time, citing a London Times perspective on medical fad remedies.
A sociologist is described as someone who can inspect a garbage can and extract ample material for a long lecture on the needs of society, illustrating the field’s focus on social issues through everyday objects. The quip frames sociology as analytical and observational.
The advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as highly effective for women's ailments, citing widespread testimonials and letters from users. It claims to have saved many from surgical operations, emphasizes a herb root basis, and appeals to women to trust its restorative claims.
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