Winthrop Residents Bid Farewells and Weekend Visits
A local paper notes the Hubbard couple leaving Winthrop after many years. It mentions athletes Babe Waldo and Red Forris, visits by Mr. and Mrs. John J. Harkins of Somerset Avenue and guests Ernest Baxter and son Ted from Connecticut. John Gould and family enjoyed a weekend trip to the White Mountains. A lawn Bridge Party was held.
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Rumford
Maine
Hubbard
Winthrop
Babe” Waldo
Red” Forristall
Winthrop High
John J. Harkins
Somerset Avenue
Ernest Baxter
Ted
Connecticut
John Gould
Bartlett Road
White Mountains
Winthrop Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Vacations
Social items list residents and visitors in Winthrop. Attendees at the Tercentenary Committee event praise Winthrop’s hospitality. Numerous residents enjoy vacations to Maine New Hampshire and Canada while others host guests or travel for weekend excursions. Family news includes a birth at Winthrop Community Hospital and returning travelers.
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Persis Anderson
George Anderson
Marcel Prudhomme
Ancién Déve de Ecole National Des Beaux Arts de Paris
van Buskirk
Whipple
William Homer Leavitt
Bartlett Road
Winthrop
Collins Wins Special Prize In Local Race Enthused Crowd
Collins led the field and received a special prize clock from the Winthrop Post A L for taking part before returning to camp as counselor. Several runners including Smith Semple Durgin DeMar Forrest Quirk Cosano Jordan posted times and prizes were awarded to the top ten finishers.
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Winthrop Post
A. L
Town
Smith
Lynn Y. MC. A
John B. Semple
Philadelphia
George L. Dargin
Manchester
Winthrop Women Honor Mr. Rollins Church Support
The Ladies of the Winthrop Women's Reserve Corps thank Mr. C A Rollins Church for a courtesy. MacLauchlan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlies R street, was eleven and to enter Junior High this season. She was sick a week and is survived by two sisters and a brother.
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Winthrop Women’s Reserve Corps
C A. Rollins
Little
MacLauchlan
Charlies R. Street
Ruth
Movie theater solace in company of patient viewers
A quoted line from the Toledo Blade expresses comfort in spending an hour or two in a cinema with kind strangers who let the on screen characters do the talking.
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Toledo Blade
Appeal to Igne by Hil Ho Sage of Chinatown
Fragmentary notice recounts a call to speak with two loud voices attributed to Hil Ho known as the sage of Chinatown. Context and full details are unclear due to damaged text.
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Igne
Onf Hil Ho
Chinatown
Will Guide Party on European Tour
Miss Esther Chisholm of Floyd Street leads a large party from the Students' Travel Club New York on a seven country itinerary that includes Oberammergau to see the Passion Play. She will supervise the group from Southampton through Europe and bears full responsibility for guests. Chisholm is a Winthrop High School and Wesley College graduate, Class of 29.
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Esther Chisholm
Floyd Street
Students’ Travel Club
New York
Oberammergau
Southampton
Europe
Esther
Winthrop High School
Wellesley College
Gluskap the Beaver Hunter in New Brunswick Legend
The tale places New Brunswick within Evangeline’s land and recalls Gluskap, a hero of Indigenous legends. He arrives in a canoe that becomes an island, defeats a feared beaver and its flood dams, and is named chief of the tribes. The narrative blends romance with early provincial strife and forest refuge.
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New Brunswick
Evangeline
Gluskap
Doorpost kiss slang from Jewish custom noted
A Detroit News item explains a slang term for kiss derived from a Jewish custom, describing how a note or token is rolled up and inserted in a metal or wooden case affixed to the upper right doorpost.
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Detroit News
Two of a kind Yes Willie and the promised errands
A father tests a son's generosity by offering a choice of paying coins for running errands. Willie says he will take the smaller coin for the younger sibling, but the father rewards selflessness by giving the larger coin to the son. The moment underscores lessons about sharing.
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Willie
Portrait Painter Tommy Emerges From Humble Beginnings
A boy raised at Bear Inn in Devizes gains early fame after locals ask if he will recite or draw portraits. By age ten he is sought after for portraits at two guineas each, travels to Bath to hire a house and pursue a formal career, later hosting a growing number of one man exhibitions.
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Bear Inn
Devizes
Tommy
Bath
Where Do You Lie Them
A fragmented note from the Osbern Enterprise alludes to a small group of traditional parents who resist adopting new ideas urged by their children. The piece hints at generational tension and domestic advice existing within a dated quote.
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Qosbern Enterprise
Early Brazilian newspapers date back to 1820s
The Diario de Pernambuco began on November 7 1820 making it Brazil’s oldest paper. The Journal do Comercio in Rio de Janeiro started publishing in 1827 marking early press expansion.
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Brazil
Diario de Pernambuco
Journal Do Comercio
Rio de Janeiro
Soret Gais Ame Custiea Dcing Oeak Gently
A fragmentary dialogue features a speaker named Soret Gais Ame Custiea Dcing Oeak and a quick reply about whether certain beings are alive or fake, amid a reference to a little girl and a movie par lance. The passage reads like a surreal, partial quotation with unclear context.
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Main St
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Kenney
Woodside Ave
Somerset Ave
James J. Gunring
Cora Street
Ocean
T “Hos
Whitman & Howard
Beston
Liberty
W.H. Ruttle
Bowdoin St
Walter S. Marson
Winthrop Community Hospital
Richard W. Marson
Emily Marson
Mrs
Arthur DeWolf
Shrewsbury
Mass
ier Desie_ Cote
Jeliney
Albert Keleher
Cottage Park Road
New Hampshire
Walter Ramsey
Pleasant Street
N. H
Roy Price
Circuit Road
Jerry
Nancy
Warren Wickwire
Shirley Street
Esther Jackson
Chester Avenue
Alexander MacCormack
Doris McClintock
Lynnfield
Eleanor Harrington
Grovers Street
Ralph Keller
Edward Staples
McClintock
Hutchinson Street
Sam Dobby
Pearl Avenue
Harry F. Gillies
Tewksbury Street
Dorothy Daly
Robert Daly
Sagamore Avenue
Harold Osborne
Mrs. Currie
Irwin Street
Waterville, Maine
Clarence W. Howard
Sunnyside Avenue
Canada
Thomas Rice
56 Court Road
Hartford, Conn
Sam Critcherson
Mr. Critcherson
Keith Albee
Mary Tully
Dawn Hagman
Charles A. Hagman
Birch Road
Clarence J. McKenzie
Joe” Kenney
Goshen
N. Y
Harry Hamner
Banks Street
Harrison C. Shorley
Lincoln Street
Alfred L. Shorley
Chester B. Shorley
Malden
Centre Harbor
N.hs
Anna B. Moody
Marblehead
Ruth Sullivan
Brookfield Road
Rindge, New Hampshire
Wab
Jane Ward
Waldemar Avenue
John Henry
Winthrop Street
Moosehead 2
Frank E. Whitman
Raymond Parker
Estelle A. Taylor
Helma Anderson
Main Street
Billerica
Leon Loos
New Winthrop Hotel
Torrington
Conn
George Hanson
San Francisco
Maude Hunnewell
Clarence Ochs
Virginia
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Marie Buffa
Homer
P. F. Noonan
Torrington, Conn
Betty Graves
Loring Road
Tian
Alden Belcher
Havelock Mills
Stewart Webber
Washington Avenue
M. H. Foster
Brooklyn, N. Y
David A. Dixon, Jr
Edward J. Cronin
Plummer Avenue
Mohawk Trail
Ralph A. Haines
Harry Goodwin
Ellen Wall
Garrison
Mary Grace
Nantasket Beach
Mary McKennan
J. B. Wells
Massachusetts
Collins
Bennison
Benatises
Minthroop, WY. SS
Winthrop Women's Reserve Corps
Ruth Maclauchlan
First Church
Winthrop Methodist
Suburban Gas and Electric Co
Will
J. Pilling
Buchanan Street
Tel
Edward I. Martin
Bedford Street
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