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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1936
Page
6
Revere Theatres presents a schedule featuring They Met In a Taxi and Love Begins at 20 across multiple showings on Friday and Saturday with additional entries for Devil is a Sissy Avenging Waters Hollywood Boulevard and Back to Nature.
Theodore Irwin notes Poland is the fifth largest European country by area with 33 million people. Warsaw sits central and the Old Marketplace reflects four centuries of history. Cracow features Wawel fortress, Dutch tapestries, and Wieliczka salt mines with an underground city and 1700 miners.
First recorded use of leashed cormorants in Japan dates to 712 AD to control birds and prevent swallowing prey. This ancient technique paired birds with fishermen to gather fish, reflecting early aquaculture practices and human–animal collaboration.
Shirley Temple appears at the Revere Theatre for three days starting Tuesday December 8. The program includes the co feature Back to Nature with the Jones Ray in their adventures plus a Joe Palooka comedy and a color cartoon.
The film Dimples features Shirley Temple in a story of a lovable street minstrel and her guardian Frank Morgan. It showcases a strong cast including Helen Westley Robert Kent Astrid Allwyn Delma Byron and Stepin Fetchit with musical numbers by the Hall Johnson Choir. The cofeature Back To Nature follows the Jones Family as further adventures unfold.
An authority in the Los Angeles Times describes gorilla social life. Mothers care for the young and mates stay together until old age or death. Gorillas forage on bamboo shoots wild celery and tree buds and create bamboo shelter nests each evening.
A writer in the Indianapolis News portrays the Tasmanian devil as a vicious, ill tempered mammal native to Tasmania. It is about the size of a badger, with a black fur coat and white collar, nocturnal habits, and a history of pestering farmers before near extinction.
A historic note describes a performer performing a famous snake dance by forming a circle with a live rattlesnake in his mouth, drawing crowd attention and debate over safety and spectacle.
The Interclub Bowling League saw Ohee Ane Sis take 4 points from Winthrop Yacht Club with a best total of 1635 and best single 560. UC A A beat the Knights 3-1 while the Highlands Sailors defeated Bayside Jars 3-1. Individual totals list King Tiltons 372 and single 140, with multiple players credited for high scores.
A Los Angeles Times writer explains the White West Highland differs from the White Scottish terrier and Cairn terrier. Originating in Scotland, Poltalloch was honored in early names. Col Malcom is cited as the first known breeder. The breed, called White West Highland after objections to other names, is known as Westie and is pure white, with weights from 13 to 19 pounds.
Peter Ruishom, a French settler in southeastern Scioto County, Ohio, was labeled the laziest man in the world. He received 217 acres as repayment for Gallipolis losses, did minimal farming, lived off stored food, predicted weather by stargazing, and died in 1823 after trading his land to a neighbor rather than rebuild his burned cabin.
The text traces Oslo the capital of Norway from its 1048 founding by King Harald Haardraade through 1624 Oslo fires, Christiania rebuilding by King Christian IV, and a 1924 law restoring the name Oslo for the capital from January 1, 1925, noting Kristiana as a suburb name.
The green frog is described as one of the most common frogs and is frequently called the screaming frog due to its sharp high pitched alarm cry.
Mortgagee Winthrop Savings Bank will sell at public auction the parcel in Winthrop described in a 1920 deed to Charlotte MacKay. Sale set for December 28 1936 at 4 PM, bank holding mortgage. Terms require 500 cash and sale subject to taxes liens and titles. Preston B. Churchill treasurer Edward R. Thomas attorney for mortgagee. Boston Massachusetts.
Public auction set for December 28, 1936 at 10 00 AM on the premises in Winthrop Massachusetts to satisfy Bernard C Gallo's mortgage held by David Dane. The Lot 196 parcel on the 1916 plan, bounded by Dolphin Avenue Lot 197 and Lot BD, is conveyed subject to taxes liens zoning and other restrictions. Cash payment of 100 dollars required at sale with further terms to be announced.
The article recalls hat fashion in the eighties featuring $3 derbies and $6 plugs with satin linings in red blue orange green and pink. Hatter stamps and buyer initials in gold added flair. Popular items included pearl gray plugs with gray frocks, white plugs, and brown derbies in varying shades.
Public auction set for December 30 1936 at 10 AM on the premises in Winthrop Suffolk County Massachusetts selling Lot A on Whitman and Howard plan with 4140 square feet title held by Dorothy A Kershaw and Alfred N Kershaw mortgage to Home Owners' Loan Corporation recorded 1934. sale subject to unpaid taxes and liens. Two hundred fifty dollars cash required. balance terms to be arranged at sale. Mortgagee Edward V Fitkey James J Brennan Boston Massachusetts.
Public auction to satisfy execution No. 21330 from Boston Municipal Court. On December 4 1936 at 2 PM at 185 Winthrop St Winthrop MA items include New England Scale National Cash Register 8401299 N720 Handy Mfg Bread Cutter glass showcases and more. Cash terms. Constable Town of Winthrop
Metayage refers to a land cultivation system in France prior to the revolution where a tenant works the land in return for half the yield. The tenant received stock, seed, and implements from the landowner and shared half the produce as payment. The practice existed historically in England, Italy, and some U S districts.
Hudson seal is a trade name used for common muskrat fur dressed and dyed to resemble seal. The phrase clarifies that no real seal product is involved and names the fur species used in trade terminology.
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