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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1885
Page
1
At 2 30 P M the OA post announces preaching and prayer meeting with communion on the first Sunday of each month The 2 30 WEEK EVENING SERVICES indicate additional weekly gatherings for praise and worship in the same period of this church notice.
A society gathering met at 2 30 P M on alternate Wednesdays at the residence of Mrs Samuel Belcher on Winthron Street. The note outlines the timing and locale for the group’s meets.
P P Floyd is named Noble Commander. The office holds meetings on the first and third Wednesday each month in town hall.
Mail leaves GA M S and arrives late in the day at 5 30 PM with delivery by carrier BBO AL Me.
At 645 A. M. Episcopal services conducted by Rev John C Hewlett Congregational Sabbath school and Congregational service led by Rev J P Bixby of Revere Praise service Peter Conducted by A B Green Weekly meeting each Wednesday afternoon Ladies Sewing Society meets at 2 o'clock in the church parlors
All business connected with this paper should be addressed to the Publisher A 8 E Cowell 71 Oliver Street Boston. Winthrop Orrick Winthrop street next to A Tewksburys Boot and Shoe store.
The notice lists ad rates including one inch cards at 500 per year, quarter column, half column, and full column rates with multipliers for shorter terms. It states advertisers may change ads freely and defines reading notices at ten cents per line for the first insertion and five or six cents for subsequent insertions, with a minimum charge of fifty cents.
The piece lists school and church officials including E. B. Crosby superintendent J Cordes assistant superintendent Charles Floyd librarian Arthur Dunham assistant librarian and Mrs Samuel Sturgis president. It mentions voting at church or private homes on the last Wednesday of each month at the Methodist Episcopal Church under Rev Seth C Cart.
The Visitor offers premiums to new subscribers and advance prepaying patrons. Choices include Tennyson poems, two illustrated juvenile story books, five Robin series volumes, and a gilded scrap album. Premiums on display at the office, urging immediate acceptance as a holiday gift. A Merry Christmas is omitted in favor of a Happy New Year salutation.
In Winthrop readers are praised for preferring a paper without nauseating personalities and offered good premiums. Excitement rises in Revere over the proposed annexation to Malden, with opposition forming against the division petition as a political scheme benefiting a few families.
A Civic note praises Winthrop’s leadership as guarding the town’s interests. The piece reflects early doubts giving way to confidence as a new master plans the town’s path, comparing the change to a familiar voyage toward a broader horizon.
Miss Carrie Floyd remains ill while Mr Richardson the plumber exhibits signs of business activity. Fred Chamberlain travels to New York for Christmas with his parents. E F Cutter stocks fresh confectionery for the holiday trade. The Boston Winthrop and Shore Railroad Company held a meeting and adjourned indefinitely. Selectman Richardson relocates to a remodeled Pleasant Street house near his former home. Mrs Greeley of Foxcroft Maine visits Capt Tewksbury’s on Washington Avenue. Mr Brown the builder resumes work after an accident and begins framing on Inskip Street. A Pleasant Street couple welcomes a 10 pound baby. Dr McCarthy reports mother and boy doing well. The Turnbulls return January 1 to occupy Bayside Avenue. The Boston Revere Beach and Lynn Railway discharges agents and conductors for alleged dishonesty. Dr Baldwin’s lecture is anticipated as a profitable evening. A Metropolitan horse railroad horse dropped dead on duty between Winthrop Junction and East Boston. Mrs Morse of Baltimore visits her sister on Pleasant Street and praises Baltimore’s electric rail. Magee’s offers fresh nuts and fruit for holiday gatherings.
The article recounts Mr Safford from the Baptist church contrasting daily life with spiritual experience. It notes the need for belief beyond argument and cites Mr Cary’s Christmas sermon on There was no room for them in the inn. It discusses transformation after Christ’s birth and the continuing failure of some to recognize divine power.
The adjourned town meeting in Winthrop discusses sewerage, discharge points, and cost. Plans propose a 6780 foot main sewer from Locust street to a tank near Winthrop bar with gravity discharge and future extensions. Debates cover debt limits, legislative permission, and railroad proposals affecting growth and utility services.
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