Newsstand Price List For Winthrop Sun and Visitor
Saturday edition 1908 announces paper copies priced at five cents and sold at multiple local outlets across Winthrop, Boston and nearby stations including A T Hangness Highland Station, Revere Beach, Lyon Depot, Winthrop Beach News Co, J H Tottman News, Brown's Pharmacy, Wadsworth Block, Thayer Ocean Spray Pharmacy, Elizabeth Rippay variety store and Lewis Block office.
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A. T. Hangness
Highland Station
Boston
Revere Beach & Lyon Depot
J. H. Tottman
Jefferson and
Winthrop Streets
Brown's Pharmacy
Wadsworth Block
Centre
W. B. Thayer
Ocean Spray
Elizabeth Rippay
Variety Store
Centre Station
Lewis Block
Washington Ave
Denman Thompson's The Old Homestead at Boston Theatre
Denman Thompson stars as Uncle Josh in The Old Homestead at the Boston Theatre. The enduring production marks its twenty third season with long continuous runs and an extensive touring history across major cities, including New York where it played more than a thousand times. The company once ran ninety weeks away from home, traveling 35 000 miles.
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Denman Thompson
Old Homestead
Josh
Boston
New York City
Mr. Thompson
Academy of Music
Thompson
Keith's Theatre Booking Promises Strong Vaudeville Lineup
Keith's Theatre announces an ambitious next week program headlined by the Eight Kellinos and features Adeline Dunlap and company, Gardner Crane and trio, Cameron and Flanagan in On and Off, plus the popular Night of the Wedding and Pixley's Prodigal Parents. The Kellinos recently won acclaim in New York for daring acrobatics and sensational acts.
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Keith's Theatre
Gardner Crane
Adeline Dunlap
Cameron and Flanagan
Boston
Fort Banks Wins Again In Ten Inning Showdown
Fort Banks baseball team defeated the All Stars for the second time this season in a ten inning duel at Fort Banks grounds. About 3,000 spectators watched Larkin and Truesdale for the losers while Fisher and Miccil starred for the winners in a game praised as one of the season’s best on the Fort grounds.
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Fort Banks
All Stars
Fort Banks Grounds
Larkin
Truesdale
Fisher
Miccil
Fort Grounds
Winthrop Post Office Letters for Week Ending September 26
List of letters remaining at Winthrop post office for the week ending September 26 includes Copland A W Crippen Miss A Chadbourne Miss Eva Duquette Mrs Marie Freenan Mrs Mary F Hart Leslie Ning Miss Hannah W Moock John Shepard Eldridge Terry Miss Gertie Waterman Mrs H P.
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Winthrop
Copland
A. W
Walking sticks through English history as fashion and symbol
The passage traces walking sticks from sixteenth century fashion to seventeenth century luxury, noting gold beaded shafts and rare woods as indicators of leadership. It highlights the oaken towel and crab tree cudgel among rural folk, and recalls Dr. Johnson’s stout oak stick used at Foote’s Haymarket confrontation, per Gentleman's Magazine.
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Dr. Johnson
Knox
Lttle
Haymarket
Foote
Gentleman’s Magazine
Meeting Eyebrows Across Cultures Across Time
The London Standard surveys beliefs about joined eyebrows across cultures. Kingsley endorses deceit rumors while Tennyson hints at married brows. Turks dye and draw to unite brows. Greeks admire nearly meeting brows. Romans use pigments. proverbs link fate to meeting brows. Chinese say such people cannot reach ministerial rank. Greeks label a man with joined brows a vampire. Danes and Germans call him a werewolf.
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Charles Kingsley
Tennyson
Turkey
Rome
Greece
Denmark
Germany
London Standard
A Rhymed Wedding in Mexico Ledger Memorandum
Judge John Stobie unites a Black couple in Wellston with a rhymed ceremony. The ritual pledges lifelong love and fidelity. The benediction bids the newlyweds go forward together through life, despite adversity, ending with a rousing urging to salute the bride.
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Mexico
Jim
Made Over Prescriptions and Historical July Notes
A pharmacist warns that redoing prescriptions can lose value and even risk harm, per the New York Globe. The piece reflects on pivotal independence dates in July for several nations, including Simon Bolivar and France. It ends with a vignette about Carl, a six year old teased about his future vocation by his uncle.
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New York Globe
Simon Bolivar
Venezuela
Colombia
France
Santiago
Cuba
Carl
Max Or
Tombs of the Patriarchs Jealously Guarded in Palestine
The sacred baram above the cave of the patriarchs is tightly protected in Palestine. An outer Arab stone wall from the 14th century encloses an inner massive barrier dating to Herod’s era. Only special permissions allow Christians or Jews inside. Unbelievers may climb to the seventh stair and nearby a stone with a hole is said to let a Bedouin lance pass unimpeded to the cave, where Friday prayers occur.
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Palestine
Abraham
Sarah
Isaac
Rebecca
Jacob
Leah
Temple
Jerusalem
Philadelphia Ledger
Honest pie shows honesty in a cookery tale
A London Scraps item recounts a court scene where a waiter notes confidence in plaintiff Mr. Smith after Cooken the eatery keeper eats his own weal pie before customers. The exchange emphasizes honesty by a simple act witnessed in the shop.
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Cooken’s
London
A Philosopher In a Cyclone
A cheerful citizen notes optimism has limits after describing a cyclone that carried away his house. He slept in the ground floor when the rest of the structure vanished, lacking fire insurance and a lightning rod, and complains of rheumatism that prevents quick action.
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Atlanta Constitution
Gussie’s Dream Laughter Turns to Tears
A friend boosts a man by recalling his nephew. The boy’s sister recounts a cake shop dream with many treats. Gussie asks what he was eating and learns he was not in the dream, triggering his quiet grief.
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Gussie
Hercules Labors and a Jokeful Minister Exchange
The passage lists Hercules twelve labors including slaying the Nemean lion and capturing Cerberus. It pairs the myth with a comic exchange where a small boy questions a minister about a Phi Beta Kappa key and a lost charm, provoking the minister to reply that he never lost it.
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Hercules
Augeas
Stymphalus
Diomedes
Hippolyte
Geryon
Cerberus
Glasses Try on a Green Giraffe and Red Elephant
An oculist tests glasses and asks how they look. Mr. Wunmorée notes the green giraffe looks first rate while the red elephant and purple hippopotamus still appear blurred. The scene ends with a playful cartoon sense of vision and confusion.
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Mr. Wunmorée
Puck
Quote fragment sparks debate on Jimpson remarks
A London Telegraph quote fragment questions Jimpson's claim and defends his remarks as a character trait while noting the urge to confirm quickly would be unwise. The excerpt hints at public reaction and satire surrounding the exchange.
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Jimpson
All &88
London Telegraph
Mystery Pie Loss In Dim Kitchen Tale
A brief, dialogue driven item recalls a missing pie after a dark moment. Aunty questions the pie disappearance while Tommy explains the darkness prevented him from seeing the other pies.
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Tommy
How Queen Bess Dined in Royal Dinner Ceremony
An Elizabeth I dinner described with ceremony and pageantry. A sequence of attendants, kneeling, handling tableware and salt, leading to twenty four yeomen of the guard tasting dishes for poison. Unmarried ladies later carried dishes to the queen for her exclusive dining.
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Wattitts
England
Coal Use Through Eighteenth Century England and Early America
Historians note Roman and Briton use of coal before Caesar. Henry II licensed coal digging at Newcastle in 1234, but London banned it shortly after for health reasons. By 1381 coal shipped from Newcastle to London, and coal burned widely by 1406 though not universal two centuries later. Anthracite was first used by Gore in 1768 and domestically by Jesse Fell in 1808.
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Caesar
Henry II
Newcastle
London
Richard II
Charles L
England
Connecticut
Gore
Jesse Fell
Wilkesbarre
A Fairy Tale Kingdom Uganda described as a fairy tale monarchy
Winston Churchill portrays Uganda as a tropical garden with a structured polity, featuring a dynastic king, parliament, and feudal system. He describes an amiable, clothed, intelligent race living in an organized monarchy between Victoria and Albert lakes.
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Uganda
Africa
Victoria and Albert Lakes
Winston Churchill
M. P
IV Strand Magazine
O Henry Promises and Promises Punctured With Wit
The tale recounts a magazine editor threatening to kick down O Henry’s door for a late story and the writer replying that he would keep promises if he could do so with his feet. The exchange showcases O Henry style humor in a brief anecdote from Success Magazine.
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C. Henry
O. Henry
Henry
Success Magaziné
Grandparents Alas Mismatched Names On Porch
A little girl plays with a friend on her home porch while two elderly grandparents sit nearby. The child wishes her grandparents share the same name, sighing that theirs do not match despite a pleasant conversation.
Longtime restaurant prompts awkward exchange
A would be diner asks how long the restaurant has been open. The proprietor says two years. The guest laments not knowing it earlier and quips he would have been served by now. The moment ends with a reduced cordial mood.
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Harper’s Weekly
Real estate talk in a veteran’s town memory
In a reflective note, a long-time resident recalls how property values in his block were higher sixteen years ago than today. The dialogue contrasts different blocks and emphasizes changes in the housing market.
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Old Hanks
Hewligus
Chicago Tribune
Generous Offer in Streetcar Quip Recalled
Scene on a streetcar shows Mr. Smith offering his seat to Mrs. Jones who has stood for fifteen minutes. She declines saying she will get off at the next corner. A brief exchange notes it is unpleasant to turn back even for the right way citing a German proverb.
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Mr. Smith
Mrs. Jones
Smith
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Washington St
Oxford
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Winthrop Beach
Frank’p. Anthony
North Centre Street
Sargent St., Winthrop
Winthrop Hardware Company
W. G. Grant
Magee’s Corner
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