Town Officials Guest Of Winthrop Rotary Club
Winthrop town officials spoke at the Rotary Club meeting in open forum format. Town Clerk Donald McLeod Town Accountant A L Pigon and Selectman Charles A Hagman answered questions revealing the scope of Town Hall work. The group plans next week to host six Camp Rotary guests and a harbor sail follow up meeting.
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Winthrop Rotary Club
Winthrop Arms
Donald McLeod
A. L. Pigon
Charles A. Hagman
Hollyhocks by Sea Inspire Garden Verse
Poem celebrates hollyhocks in the Winthrop garden of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson at 24 Faun Barave. Alice M. Seaman portrays waves and dawn in a lyrical scene with vivid imagery of blooms luring Neptune and Proserpine.
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Proserpine
Tnegaré S
Aegean
Alice M. Seaman
Learns to Fly in a Day by Ottawa Man
Twenty six year old Saxon Cole of Ottawa learned to fly in a single day. He joined the Ottawa Flying club and, with instructor William Nixon, started at dawn. After five hours of instruction he flew solo by 9 p.m., making a creditable landing.
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Saxon Cole
Ottawa
Ottawa Flying Club
William Nixon
Cole
Winthrop Selectmen Urge No Change in Bus Schedule
In a letter to Rapid Transit Inc and Judge Flynn the Winthrop board requests preserving the current bus schedule to protect residents from high fares and inconvenience. They emphasize their town relies on the line and urge action to safeguard local interests.
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Charles E. Flynn
Rapid Transit, Inc
Federal Street
Boston
Mass
Judge Flynn
Department of Public Utilities
East
Thomas. E. Key
Timothy J. Mahaney
Winthrop
Name origin of Big Ben and its 1856 casting contract
The hour bell of Westminster, Big Ben, is named for Benjamin Hall later Lord Llanover. In 1856 the Board of Works contracted a London bell founder to cast a 14 ton bell and four quarter bells for the great clock atop Parliament.
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Big Ben
Westminster
Benjamin Hall
Lord Llanover
Commissioner of Works
Board of Works
London
Bell Founders
Johnson named Vice Chairman of Salvation Army board
Ernest A. Johnson longtime secretary treasurer of the Building and Construction Trades Council of the Metropolitan District is named Vice Chairman of the Greater Boston Advisory Board of The Salvation Army and will immediately assume new duties.
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Ernest A. Johnson
Building” and Construction
Trades Council
Greater Boston
The
Salvation Army
Martha Smith Social Secretary Behind Hollywood Parties
The American Magazine notes Martha Smith arranged many of Hollywood’s famous parties. She once received six hours to prepare a dinner for 500 guests. The only job she declined was staging a party for an actor with his four ex wives.
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Hollywood
Martha Smith
Weekly bridge and whist at St Johns Hall Lincoln
The Winthrop Catholic Women's Club conducts bridge and whist each Monday afternoon in St John’s Hall Lincoln with Mrs Ernest B Pevear as chair for August. July high scores went to Mrs James Sheerin in whist and Mrs Ernest B Pevear in bridge. Also notes Harry Belmont Hill is minister and a Baptist Methodist service at Baptist Church at 10:00 am with Rev A Ray Meserve, preacher. Friday prayer service at 8 pm.
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Winthrop Catholic Woman’s Club
St. John’s Hall
Lincoln
Ernest B. Pevear
James Sheerin
Harry Belmont Hill
The
Baptist Church
A. Ray Meserve
Lost and Found Column Highlights A Mischievous Sailor Boy
Mr and Mrs Henry Jeanes report their little sailor boy missing from Devon Pennsylvania. In reality the 200 pound cast iron hitching post is routinely carried off by neighborhood youths as a prank, prompting an advertisement in the lost and found.
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Henry Jeanes
Devon
Rhinopithecus Rozane Named After Roxana in Natural History
An 19th century Natural History note recalls Milne-Edwards naming a big Kweichow monkey Rhinopithecus rozane after Roxana a royal favorite. The article questions how the lady reacted to the Gallic compliment and describes the nose as turned up.
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Milne- Edwards
Roxana
Royal Court
Natural History
Reverend Meserve to Lead Worship at Union Baptist Methodist
Next Sunday August 4 at 10:00 a.m. Union Baptist Methodist will host worship with Rev. A Ray Meserve preaching on "We Worship God." Friday August 9 at 8:00 p.m. a week of services will feature Baptist and Methodist participants.
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A. Ray Meserve
Union Baptist Methodist
Detector Finds Lost Radium in City Dump
An insurance company agent used a radium detector to search a Middlesboro Kentucky city dump after attendants mislaid a $800 radium needle. The probe traced ashes in the dump and located the precious substance amid the garbage.
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Middlesboro
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Winthrop Review
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Jeweler
Bartlett Rd
Hancock
Swett’s — the
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Chuck
Libby
Hormel’s
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