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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1923
Page
5
In Amateur Boston Prn League play last Monday Fish of Dorchester and Hitchings of Oxford each posted 388 for three strings to break the previous season record of 373 shared by Howatt of Cottage Park YC and Slocomb of Winthrop YC.
The Winthrop Yacht Club Fall Series hosts a Thanksgiving Dance on Wednesday November 28 with Leo F Reisman's Orchestra. A large dressed turkey will be awarded to the holder of the lucky admission ticket. Committee members include Mrs Annette B Cate and others.
Standings show Winthrop Interglub leading the league with 4 wins and 9 losses, followed by K of C Cottage Park YC and Winthrop Hgl ds YC. Team totals and weekly strings are listed, with individual scores and averages for top bowlers from Winthrop Yacht Club, Ivy Club, Elks, and others across the season.
The schedule lists Beverly at Beverly on November 24 and Revere at Revere on November 29.
Selectman Joshua Remby and his wife visited East Orange New Jersey for the holiday and will return Monday. The article notes Jethro TM Tull’s 1692 horse hoe, designed to loosen soil weed grass and aerate plants, letting a single pair of horses do work of many. It mentions a Spaniard Lescatello around the same era inventing a grain sowing machine.
Poor field conditions from heavy morning rain forced cancellation of the Peabody High Lynn Classical football clash. A playoff date is set for December 8. Harvard supporter Dr Ben H Metcalf was among the notable absentees and Winthrop High fans from former WHB squads will gather in Revere Thursday to cheer their team.
A Winthrop rifle club has been organized and affiliated with the National Rifle Association of America under the National Board for pistol and rifle practice. Capt. Ryan of Fort Banks will lead activities to promote welfare. The officers include E Gordon Harvey as president and Thomas Benson Jr as vice president.
On the western plains vast cactus fields are being developed for multiple uses. Prickly plant becomes cattle food after processing to remove thorns, boosting milk output. Plant leaves yield a potential paper size, red fruits provide alcohol and a vegetable coloring agent, expanding the plant's economic value.
The article explains that fish nostrils do not connect to the air tube system but open into blind, nerve rich pockets. Water only fills these pockets and contacts smell nerves in small amounts. Some species like globe fishes and puffers lack nasal pockets and route nerves to external projections.
A French scientist trained a monkey to vocalize when a match was struck, the animal saying feu. The scientist noted the animal enjoyed blowing out the flame, while researchers estimate a monkey’s maximum vocabulary around thirty utterances tied to common emotions.
The Boston Transcript notes missing ideas for practical devices such as an automatic distressing telephone after five minutes, a mower that propels nails over fences, a cellar furnace that self-feeds coal, a fountain pen that warns before ink runs dry, and a gentler alarm clock that awakens with a smile rather than a fright.
Jake Newton, known as honest if a bit rough, misidentifies a sheep and returns the animal after it is killed. Leslie French assures him it is all right, and Newton insists the seven cent shear fee should be covered as the mix up was unintentional.
Remains of ancient Americans unearthed in a Santa Barbara mound are believed to be at least 500 years old. Skeletons found near the surface show no tooth decay, some skull sutures indicate long lifespans, and unusually large front teeth appear in several specimens. A lump of yellow paint and a red pigment lump found among the bones was used as money by these primitive people.
The text traces drama from 6th century B C Greece linking theatre with worship, notes suppression in early Christian centuries, revival for Bible teaching, and the evolution from liturgical to miracle and sacred pageant forms, ending with morality plays such as The Pilgrim's Progress.
Agates form as quartz with layered silica from silica rich water. Impurities yield color bands in banded agate, clouded patches in clouded agate, and moss like markings from manganese oxide in moss agate.
Writers argue over the dollar sign origin. One theory links it to the U S monogram after the Constitution, others propose a modification of a figure 8 representing eight reales. The eight-part collar later influenced the symbol’s design.
Elmer E. Slocomb died suddenly at Winthrop on November 24 in his 63rd year. Funeral conducted from the Bennison residence at 14 Winthrop Street at 2 PM.
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