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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1885
Page
1
Reverend G Safford, pastor. Preaching services at 2.30 P.M. Prayer and praise service at 7.00. Weekly prayer meeting Saturday 7.30. Seats free and all welcomed. Sunday school at 1.00 P.M. E A Crosby superintendent J W Cordes assistant superintendent Charles Floyd librarian Arthur Dunham assistant librarian All cordially invited.
Sunday school and prayer meeting times announced. Communion observed on the first Sunday of each month at 2:30 PM. Week evening services include class meeting Tuesday at 7:30 PM and prayer Friday at 7:30 PM. Ladies Aid Society meets on the second Thursday in the vestry. Meals hosted on alternate Wednesdays at 3 PM at Mrs. Samuel Belcher's house on Winthrow Street.
P. Floyd, Noble, Commander, announces meetings of the United Order Golden Cross on the first and third Wednesdays each month at town hall. Mail service and delivery details appear as noted for carriers and members in attendance.
Sermon by Rev. J. C. Hewlett welcomes all. Congregational Sabbath schools and services led by Rev. J. P. Bixby of Revere at 3 PM. A. B. Green conducts 7 PM praise service. Weekly meeting Wednesday evenings. Ladies Sewing Society gathers Wednesdays at 2 PM in the church parlors.
The Visitor plans to end advertising at contract expiration and fill spaces with reading matter in winter. A liberal new rate scale will apply to future ads under To Let For Sale Wanted. The Republican state convention at Springfield re nominated the old ticket except for treasurer and receiver. An W Beard of Boston is named for that post. Gleason has served the full constitutional term limit and cannot be renominated.
The piece recounts the dissolution of a copartnership in a Boston printing firm tied to The Visitor. It notes original costs, investments by the current publisher, and an auction sale ordered by the court. Details include a mortgage of 742 dollars, an attached claim of 200, and an inquiry line for J. H. Hartrey at 71 Oliver Street.
A terse reflection argues against ostentatious public displays of charity. The writer favors stealthy good deeds over loud announcements to avoid mortifying recipients and avoiding tasteless publicity.
The Boston Sunday Herald editorializes on prudent living and seasonal joys. It praises rural leisure and the romance of long marriages while praising readers who savor autumn travel, honeymoons, and golden wedding memories in New England.
The notice promotes a Noah Webster souvenir engraving titled the schoolmaster of the republic. It highlights Webster’s educational impact and urges widespread prepaid sale for 50 cents, using the Tribune Building New York address for orders.
A letter warns that Lynn plans to dump sewerage into the Pines and Saugus rivers, risking beach pollution along Highlands and Nahant. The writer notes currents are weak, beaches would bear the nuisance, and urges early action by local leaders to seek a remedy.
The report covers residents returning to Boston from Woodside Park, house construction on North Avenue, a pleasure tour to the White Mountains, and various town happenings. It notes new mail delivery rules, WCTU meeting results, local business and church events, temperance education in schools, dental services by Dr. Buswell, and ongoing building expansion driven by investors and community leaders. It highlights transportation, social activities, and future development plans in Winthrop and neighboring areas.
Captain Parker reports an immense squash yield and raises the champion cucumbers. One cucumber weighs 12 pounds with 11 inch circumference, another weighs 4 pounds with 12 inch circumference and 14 inch length, highlighting exceptional fertility and produce quality.
At the Baptist church the pastor Mr Safford preached from But Whom say ye That Lam after a fine choir performance and worship opening. The district officiated at the Methodist church in the afternoon urging active Christian enterprise and receptiveness to grace and divine influences. Rev Mr Dunham recalled being a Sabbath school scholar sixty years ago and being commended for reciting 107 verses of scripture.
The Nevada remains open with October accommodations at cut rates. A schooner yacht wrecked ashore near Trident Avenue last Tuesday, leaving no identifiable name or destination. The Boston Winthrop Shore Railroad carried about 2100 passengers daily last season as the broad gauge line expands for a planned rail and steamship excursion route to North and South shore points, connecting at Point Shirley for Nantasket.
Dr Crocker tours Cape Cod area with talks of a channel extension from Point Shirley to Washington Avenue, a ten thousand dollar government request to improve navigation for yachts, while local residents host visitors and await sewer work. Capt Aubrey Crocker of Cohasset is feted at Taft's with admiration, and Mrs Lombard plans a Florida honeymoon as beach life buzzes with social activity.
An elderly salesman recalls working in a store that did not advertise. He describes emerging with nearly white hair from solitary confinement and asserts it altered him, saying he was never buried alive but that isolation left a lasting mark.
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