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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1936
Page
3
Maurice Lunsford died at 51 and funeral services were held at his home in Winthrop Center with Rev. Lewis W. Williamson officiating. Interment followed at Mt. Auburn. Gardner H. Crafts funeral occurred at his home on Ingleside Avenue with Rev. Harry Belmont Hill officiating and burial planned at Newton Cemetery.
In Borneo, eight foot sun poles in each district cast noon shadows used to time seasonal farming. Priests observe the pole’s shortening noon shadow to mark when plowing and seed time approach, recording dates privately to aid farmers.
A roundup of social visits and travels in Winthrop and surrounding towns. Mrs. Arthur C. ae se vacation in Pittsford Vermont joins Brattleboro visitors, church events, and a St Johns Episcopal Church picnic to Provincetown aboard the SS Romance. Also charity donations, engagements, and local summer outings are noted along with notes on aurora theory and community happenings.
Every Friday night starting August 7 the Orient Palace Theatre resumes Movie Sweepstakes giving away three cash prizes weekly. Registered entrants remain on file. new entrants may join by filling out a sweepstakes card for 25 cents admission, with two features, news, and shorts.
A Detroit Free Press note traces May apple legends to mandrake roots from Roman times. Old texts describe digging methods to harvest luck, including tying a dog to the plant, with tales of harm to diggers. English market traders once touted mandrakes as money magnets, though roots grew in England, not China.
Ralph M. Harper rector leads Holy Communion at 9:00 a.m. and a Morning Service with a sermon titled What Manner of Stones and Buildings Are Here at 10:45 a.m. Baptism is scheduled for noon.
Beginning Sunday August 2 union services will be held at the Baptist Church in Winthrop with Rev. Lewis W. Williamson preaching throughout the month.
The town church announces a United Service of Methodist and Baptist churches at 11 a m led by Rev L W Williamson with sermon God Is Able. An Evening Worship at 7 p m features The Great Choice. Services last one hour. Friday 7 p m United Prayer Service offers 45 minutes of praise and inspiration.
Harry Belmont Hill as minister leads a union worship at 11:00 a.m. with Rev. Lewis W. Williamson preaching. A Friday 8:00 p.m. mid week prayer service at First Baptist will feature Williamson. Public cordially invited.
Wegener's at Point Shirley offers delicious share and steak dinners daily up to midnight with reasonably priced options. The eatery touts an enviable reputation for quality foods and service including sandwiches, fried clams, and refreshing drinks.
Macao also spelled Macau, a peninsula with Colowan and Taipa islands, covers about eleven square miles. Located forty miles from Hong Kong and eighty miles from Canton, Portuguese occupation began in 1557. Portuguese pioneers of European trade faced Chinese hostility as massacres and losses halted much foreign commerce in the region.
The piece reflects on chasing dreams by spotting multiple opportunities as one travels toward a goal. It emphasizes that some men possess the insight to recognize these chances beyond seeming distractions.
During a Tuesday electrical storm off Graves Light the sloop Clip per capsized tossing five Winthrop boys into the sea. Boston firefighter John Joyce located the stricken party with the motor cruiser Irba which guided by dawn to safety as life saving crews towed the disabled vessel to Point Allerton.
A severe lightning storm struck the three story army hospital at Fort Banks Winthrop killing no patients. Lightning tore a six inch hole in the roof but Col Roland L Tilton reported no patients were harmed in the ward below. Electrical service in Point Shirley was briefly disabled and police signal service was out for two hours.
An authority states the sense of taste centers on five major tastes, as taste buds midway on the tongue detect sweet sour soap bitter and salt. The refined sense of taste is, in reality, a sense of smell.
Chester H. Pigon brother of Town Accountant Albert Pigon was killed when the automobile he rode with Theodore W. Hill of Arlington blew a tire on a road between Sherman and Silver Ridge in northern Maine. They were found by State police near Fort Kent. both men believed killed instantly.
The Aztecs and Mayans in Central America used cocoa beans as legal tender during their conquests by the Spaniards. They valued the beans as a beverage as well, though access was limited to the wealthy who could afford it.
Henry Clay, a prominent 19th century statesman, faced electoral defeats in two major elections. In 1844 he ran as a Whig and lost. In 1832 he sought the presidency as a National Republican but was unsuccessful.
The spectacled bear is not a true bear but a raccoon relative about the size of a small brown bear. It wears white fur with black rings around the eyes, a black saddle on its shoulders, and a black rump. It is herbivorous and inhabits high altitude forest ranges in Szechuen near the east Tibetan border.
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