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Newspaper

The Visitor

Location

Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 04, 1885

Page

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Sunday church schedule with services and meetings

Sunday school at 10 30 a m with preaching at 2 30 p m and a praise and prayer gathering. Communion is observed on the first Sunday each month. Weekly evening services include class meeting Tuesday at 7 30 p m and prayer Friday at 7 30 p m. Ladies' Church Aid Society meets in the vestry on the second Thursday of each month.

Ladies’ Church Aid Society Wenge Deca Seecso Pam John C.hewlett A. B. Green J. P

Ladies Sewing Society Meets Wednesday Afternoons

A local club meets on Wednesday afternoons in the church parlors for sewing and social activity.

Ladies’ Sewing Society

The Visitor Friday Edition Edited by A L Slawson

The Visitor is a weekly newspaper published Friday afternoons with A L Slawson as managing editor. It delivers local items, notices, and community news in a period voice.

Advertising Rates and Reading Notice Policies

Rates for various column widths and durations are listed with per year figures. Reading notices cost 10 cents per line for first insertion and 6 cents per line for subsequent insertions, with a minimum charge of 50 cents. Advertisers may be billed to change ads as needed. notices are sent free to current advertisers during their term.

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Premium offers with year advance payment and holiday gifts

The notice details premiums for new and renewing subscribers who pay a year in advance for Tre Vistror. Choices include Tennyson poems, two illustrated juvenile books, five Robin series volumes, or a gilded scrap album. Also reports on Boston politics and Burmese war news with sensational notes on Thebaw and Mandalay.

Tennyson

Opium and stimulant concerns loom over Winthrop town

A town bulletin warns of rising drug use and stimulant beverages replacing alcohol, with warnings about coca decoctions and pressed to curb dependency. Upcoming town meetings address rapid transit plans, electric road, sewers, and gas. Also reported are real estate transfers, market notes, and a storm damage update detailing wrecked piers, road costs, and gratitude to responders.

Locals In Brief From Winthrop Highlands Notes

Local items report negotiations for lots at the Highlands and new housing demand. The Golden Cross met at town hall on Wednesday. Dr J Edward Giles of New York spent Thanksgiving with relatives in Winthrop. Plans for January entertainment are mentioned and a new electric car has residents hopeful for a successful line. Several tenements, cottages, and private residences are planned or under construction along Cottage Hill and Bayside avenues.

Shirley Knights of Honor Sagamore Lorge Revere Winthrop Order of the Golden Cross Town Hall Elwelk East Boston Court Street Broad Gaage Road J. Edward Giles Columbia Street New York St. John’s Winthrop Centre Richardson George Wadsworth Tate Buchanan Street Snn Samuel Ingalls Bayside Avenue Cottage Hill Hamilton Frank W. Wardwell Ocean 30 Winthrop Highlands

Dry Goods and Notion Store Opens in Read's Block

Mrs. French of East Boston opens a dry goods and notion shop in Read's block Winthrop. The new store offers a full line of hosiery hoodsmittens merino underwear trimmings cotton cloth yarn and other daily-use items for shoppers in town.

Winthrop

Winthrop Store Aims to Boost Local Trades in Holidays

The article describes Mrs. French expanding her dressmaking and a retail stock including prints, buttons, dress-linings, soap and perfumes. Aims to add holiday attractions and prove Winthrop residents will support local tradespeople rather than shopping in Boston.

Winthrop

Dunham and Floyd marry at Winthrop Highlands home

Edwin F. Dunham and Miss Alina V. Floyd wed at eight o'clock last evening at the bride's father Deacon David Floyd's residence on Locust Street Winthrop Highlands. Rev J L Bixby of Revere presided before about eighty relatives. The reception included ice cream cake and coffee with gifts of silver and textiles. The couple will reside with the bride's father for now. A nearby lecture by Rev Cary on The City of Rome drew praise.

Edwin F. Dunham Alina V. Floyd David Floyd Locust Street Winthrop Highlands J. L. Bixby Revere-in Winthrop Chelsea Abington Andover Boston Charles P. Floyd Arthur C. Dunham Nine O'Cock

St John’s Mission Entertainment Praised by Town Hall Crowd

A St John’s Episcopal Mission entertainment in the town hall drew praise for skillful performances. Miss McIntosh played Martha, Mrs. O. F. Belcher delivered Good Bye and I wouldn’t, Would You, Miss Young read with grace, Mr. Lawton quipped verses, Mrs. Nelson sang Love’s Request with an encore, Endress and Newert banjo, Mrs. Stanley Wyman accompanied, and J.H. Hartley sang comic numbers. A duet by Nelson and Lawton closed the program amid severe weather that kept many away.

St. John’s Episcopal Mission Miss Young Lawton Stanley Wyman Leybach J.H. Hartley Nelson

Baptist Ladies Plan December Turkey Supper

The Baptist church ladies organize two December evenings featuring a turkey supper to attract patrons. They aim to maximize attendance by promoting the event and listing the bill of fare.

Ladies of the Baptist Church Spain

Church Musings on Abram Lot and Social Life

Sermons at the Baptist church compare Abram and Lot from Genesis highlighting virtue and selfishness. Rev Cary stresses social contact, revival, and protracted meetings to renew church interest and community uplift.

Safford The Baptist Church Abram Dot God Lot Mr. Cary Cary

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