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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1936
Page
6
Movie listings for Revere Theatres show titles including King of the Damned Palm Springs and Little Miss Nobody across Friday Saturday and Sunday with multiple showings and bank night intervals. Additional titles Stampede Human Cargo and Parole appear in late evening slots and weekday repeats.
A New York Sun piece traces Benjamin Franklin’s 1780s stimulus to spectacles detailing his two-pair approach and the first bifocal. It notes Philadelphia shopkeeper Hannah Briental in 1758 selling crystal spectacles and various lens styles, with terms like perspective and ox eye glasses.
Colonel Knox portrays the New Deal as laboring under hysterical experiments that harmed industry, agriculture, and credit. He urges voters to choose a Republican path, pledging constitutional obedience, economic recovery, and restraint on government power. He cites ten million unemployed and criticizes centralized control of credit and industry.
In a July 30, 1936 piece the author criticizes the current administration for delaying recovery and warns that bank credit control will suppress competition. He argues major New Deal programs failed and urges voters to elect a new administration to unleash recovery and restore prosperity and security for a free people.
Collier's Weekly reports that during China's civil wars scarce firearms led regiments to improvise with meat cleavers and other improvised weapons. These crews, lacking cannons and rifles, nevertheless equipped themselves and claimed victories in some battles.
Describes four life stages of caterpillars: eggs caterpillars pupae and moths. Moths lay eggs in bands on plants in the fall mentioning thigyrwigs as a fall detail.
The Yellow River, nicknamed China’s Sorrow, frequently shifts its course toward the sea every few centuries, altering regional landscapes and livelihoods as it floods new regions.
The article traces the rise of personal cutlery sets, noting folding knives and forks carried by guests and travelers in 17th century England. Handles feature brass, enamel, ivory, tortoiseshell, and precious metals, with blades engraved and sometimes damascened. It cites Italian influence and German jeweled sets in museums.
The Norwegian pagan festival honors the sun with bonfires and merrymaking. In Oslo people boat to fjord islands or hike to mountain tops for the celebration. Bonfires blaze on hills and at outdoor museums with folk dancing at Lillehammer.
The piece extols persistence as a genius power that conquers opposition and builds confidence. It argues a determined person makes the battle half won and that those who progress overcome stumbling blocks and never give up on their task.
Notice is hereby given that on petition of Henrietta M Lowdon for a license to keep and store gasoline in a tank of one car in a one car garage Winthrop a public hearing will be held to consider construction at 150 Court Road in the office of the Selectmen Town Hall on Monday evening August 17 1936 at eight p m all interested persons may appear and be heard Charles A Hagman Clerk Board of Selectmen
An article in Travel Agent explains stabilizers enable precise wave measurement and separate four ship motions. It notes Atlantic storm waves run 200 to 600 feet, rarely exceed 1000 feet, and that combined roll and yaw heeling from following seas create perceived excessive rolling.
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