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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1907
Page
7
Fire alarm box signals dominate the Winthrop area with multiple street references from Shirley Avenue to Ocean View Streets. The notice lists box numbers, alarm procedures, and school bell times including 8:00 and 11:15 sessions and 12:45 dismissal, along with Central and Beach stations and contact numbers.
Winthrop post office hours daily 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. registration and money orders also at 7 to 8 p.m. mail collections at 7.30 a.m., 11 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 4.20 p.m., 6 p.m.. Sundays 2.30 and 6 p.m. street boxes collected at 9.30 p.m. list of sub stations and street corners for mail and stamps. mails close times and arrival schedules given. David Beccues, Supt.
A woman in an old world tale leaves a will filled with snuff obsession. She orders six pallbearers in snuff hats, coffins draped in tobacco dust, maidens bearing snuff boxes, and a minister paid for a pound of snuff. A later will provides annual sums for favored animals, a cob mare and greyhound, with strict care conditions and limited riding.
The chafing dish is recommended for table use to prepare light hot dishes for breakfast lunch or supper. It suits scrambled eggs omelets pancakes stews and more and serves in the sickroom by keeping foods hot. A full set includes dish cover stand utensils and a flagon for alcohol.
Practicable garment tips include trying on first on the wrong side, then finishing on the right side. Do not store needles in flannel needlebooks as sulphur rusts them. Cover protruding metal eyes with buttonhole stitch. Soak bent whalebone in cold water several hours, then press under a heavy weight.
A steady habit of sharing kind words improves morale in work and home life. Recognition from employers and mistresses boosts effort and loyalty, while sincere praise strengthens relationships and encourages better performance.
A weekly slate of meditations assigns daily maxims. Monday extols honesty as childlike simplicity, Tuesday celebrates that age does not bar genius, Wednesday links harvest to effort, Thursday warns against aiding evil, Friday links grief to tears, Saturday questions justice, and Sunday praises frugality as a virtue.
A historical preparation blends glue logwood chips bichromate of potash indigo gum tragacanth glycerin vinegar and rain water. Boiled slowly mixed until smooth strained and bottled for storage and use. The note claims the polish is absolutely harmless to kids.
Instructions describe building a rectangular tube from three small square boxes with mirror pieces at forty five degree angles to reflect an object placed at one end. The piece includes a joke anecdote about a pastor and a parishioner disputing salary, with dialogue about paying for sermons.
A compact indoor game for hardwood floors uses a chalked square box on the floor divided into four small squares labeled 1 2 and H. Two teams with captains throw a bean bag to reach bases, with nine innings or an odd number if short. An official score keeper is advised.
A slip of paper with a hidden weight reveals the writing when a weight is placed on it. A couple parts ways but stay on a ship so they remain close yet apart. India's tiger bird, no larger than a sparrow, fights the royal beast when supported by thousands of allies.
A riddle describes a river with a head at one end and a mouth at the other. It runs without feet, can flow in bed, and has two banks though it is poor in coin. It lacks hands but can embrace and even kill, yet remains a natural watercourse.
A prison chaplain laments inmates surreptitious reading of newspapers, noting eye strain and rule violations. Guards watch through peepholes in doors while prisoners improvise reading by candlelight or porridge, clutching journals and dustpans. The New York Press recounts the scene with wry detail.
A man summoned for beating his wife blames his mother-in-law. The magistrate questions the eye of gallantry and recalls a domestic paragon who never complained about his mother-in-law, prompting the defendant to retort that the other man was Adam.
Beekeeping science explains that comb or beeswax is produced by glands in the abdomen of worker bees. Experiments by leading botanists and chemists show bees can elaborate wax even on a saccharin sugar diet, contradicting the old belief that wax was taken from flowers.
A London Answers snippet features a passerby confrontation over a rolled bank notes ad. A man claims Bertha Bullion’s father finances the advertisement while another insists the finder may keep money if papers are returned. Banter centers on a stray large ad and a dig at a local money roll.
A humorous exchange from the Cleveland Plain Dealer recounts a stranded motorist and a joking follower of the plow. When asked how many horsepower the car has, the motorist replies sixty, prompting the quip that thirty are pulling each way, explaining the stall with a lighthearted punchline.
A Louisville Courier Journal comic frame highlights a character describing a so called foxy scheme where a boy prefers washing dishes to washing hands. The punchline rests on the irony that cleaning hands is the so called foxy part.
A doctor notes a patient’s lucid intervals and reports a morning episode where the husband shouted at his wife and tried to break medicine bottles. The exchange includes a moralizing quotation from Rev. J. D. Hammond about not letting evil impulses harden the heart.
An article argues many hospital surgeries on women result from neglected symptoms such as abdominal pain and exhaustion. It promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a preventive cure, citing letters from users in New York and Fredonia praising its effectiveness and claiming no equal remedy.
Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts extends a standing invitation to women suffering from female weakness to write promptly. She offers free, expert guidance based on her extensive experience and promises to advise on the quickest route to recovery.
Orient Heights to Scollay Square service hours listed with morning and night intervals. Special cars available for balls theatre parties or excursions by appointment at 101 Milk Street room 701. Rates routes and connections info by telephone. December 15, 1906. C S Sergeant vice president. Omitted Monday morning.
On a visit to Scotland a clergyman recalls Rev David Daw, a five foot two inch minister who wed Grace Wilson. To avoid personal references at his wedding sermon Daw had a guest preacher promise not to mention the marriage, yet the text Ephesians 3 8 turns the joke on grace.
Seated in his private room the prison superintendent faced a dangerous inmate armed with a iron bar. The official explains a pardon was granted today for good conduct and offers to let the man read the papers. The convict suddenly finds himself under the superintendent's revolver in the drawer moment.
A notice from The Winthrop Sun and Visitor encourages local societies churches and lodges to announce upcoming entertainments to aid their treasuries and charities. It warns that admission events will incur space-based charges and stresses business considerations in printing reports and tickets.
In the heart of the city a dining and lodging house offers 500 rooms and 300 baths on a European plan. The Gentlemen's Café, Ladies' Restaurant and Moorish Room provide lively yet home-like atmosphere with single rooms and suites available with or without bath starting at $1.00 per day.
Barbados, the chief produce of whi is the sugar cane, is one of the most highly cultivated spots on the face of the earth. The whole island, about the size of the Isle of Wight, is parceled into small holdings and every acre turned to account.
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