Winthrop Scouts Organize Summer Life-Saver Corps
Winthrop Boy Scouts back a beach life-saver corps for next summer. Forty boys signed up for a four week swimming and life-saving course at the Lynn Y M C A tank for 15 cents, with lessons on Wednesdays and Fridays. The course welcomes any boy or man who wishes to join. F Wegener and H E Barr lead the instruction, bringing notable experience in swimming and life-saving. Plans for a New Hampshire Summer Camp for Winthrop Scouts are taking shape with further notes to follow.
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Winthrop Boy Scouts
Lynn Y. M. C. A
Lynn
F. Wegener
Harold E. Barr
Wegener
Brookline
Red Cross
Barr
Boston American Life-Saving Corps
American Red Cross
Winthrop
New Hampshire
Tea and Food Sale for Automobile Fund
Winthrop Visiting Nurse Association hosts an afternoon Tea and Food Sale to benefit the Automobile Fund. Event runs Saturday afternoon December 6 from 2 to 5 at the Methodist church. Donations of home cooked food are appreciated. The fund increased $5 this week from the Mothers' Club of the Congregational Church.
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Automobile Fund
The
Association
Methodist
Mothers’ Club
Congregational Church
Xmas Cards on Display at Ham's Stores
Christmas greetings are showcased at Ham's Stores with a new display of seasonal cards. Shoppers can browse a range of designs and prices in the store windows and aisles.
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Douglas Hardware & Paint Store
Center Station
Ocean
Ham’s
Daughter born to Mr and Mrs Spillane at Faulkner Hospital
A daughter was born Sunday morning at Faulkner Hospital Jamaica Plain to Leo A Spillane former State adjutant of the American Legion and Mrs Spillane The baby weighs 74 pounds Mrs Spillane formerly Miss Mary A Sullivan of Waldemar av before her marriage two years ago last Monday
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Leo A. Spillane
The
American Legion
Spillane
Faulkner Hospital
Jamaica Plain
First Baptist Church Holds Annual Business Meeting
The First Baptist Church conducted its annual roll call and business meeting on Monday night December 1. The Ladies Aid Society served a supper for 130 attendees. Pastor William J. Day received a past year's salary boost of 200 dollars while the church mourned two deaths Mrs Carrie Floyd and Miss Nancy H E Littlefeld. Mercy A Dunham remains as charter member.
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First Baptist Church
Ladies’ Aid Society
Wesley R. Tibbetts
William J. Day
Carrie Floyd
Nancy HE
Littlefeld
Mercy A. Dunham
Fremont | St
Winthrop Theatre Opens Week with Special Fund Show
Winthrop Theatre launches Monday December 8 with a Winthrop Woman's Club benefit for the Scholarship Fund. The program features Revelation with Viola Dana and Lew Cody, Pigskin two reel Educational comedy, Pathe Review, and B. F. Keith vaudeville. Thursday Chicago film The Eternal City screens with Barbara La Marr and Lionel Barrymore.
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Winthrop Theatre
Winthrop Woman's Club
Viola Dana
Lew Cody
Marjorie Daw
Monte Blue
Pathe Review
B. F. Keith
Mr. Hatch
City of Love
Winthrop Woman’s Club
Hoot Gibson
Not One to Spare at the Winthrop Theatre
A family drama set around a New England farmer and seven children shines under Mr Hoffman direction. Ethel Wales as mother Willis Marks as father lead a strong cast of seven children praised for performance and photography elevating the film above typical releases.
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New England
Mr. Hoffman
John Mooreildren
John
Ethel Wales
Willis Marks
Lend Me Your Husband Delivers Lavish Screen Romance
A Friday December screening at the Winthrop Theatre presents Lend Me Your Husband directed by Christy Cabanne. Doris Kenyon David Powell Dolores Cassenilli and others star in a tale of society life and husband lending amid lavish settings and a smashing climax.
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Christy Cabanne
U. S. Paris
Doris Kenyon
David Powell
Dolores Cassenilli
Violet Mersereau
Connie Keefe
Burr McIntosh
Russell Griffin
Husband
Winthrop Theatre
Sir Hall Caine Author Of Big Photoplay At Winthrop
Sir Hall Caine famed novelist and author of The Eternal City is the source of a First National picture produced by George Fitzmaurice. The film features Barbara La Marr Lionel Barrymore Bert Lytell Richard Bennett and Montagu Love. Caine refused screen rights until assured proper handling and location filming in Italy.
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Hall Caine
George Fitzmaurice
Winthrop Theatre
Barbara la Marr
Lionel Barrymore
Bert Lytell
Richard Bennett
Montagu Love
Fitzmaurice
Italy
Revelation hailed as truly big film at Winthrop Theatre
Metro presents Revelation by Mabel Wagnalls at Winthrop Theatre for one day Tuesday. The Paris Montmartre model who finds her soul while posing as Madonna of an old legend drives this story. George D. Baker’s direction is praised as a peak achievement.
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Metro
Mabel Wagnalls
Winthrop Theatre
Paris Montmartre
George D. Baker
Star Cast Promises High Entertainment in New Film Bill
An all star lineup features Viola Dana Monte Blue Lew Cody Marjorie Daw Frank Currier Edward Connelly George Siegmann Kathleen Key Otto Matteson Bruce Guerin and Ethel Wales in a program including Slave of Desire Toys of Fate with Nazimova and Revelation. The package promises great entertainment for moviegoers.
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Nazimova
Viola Dana
Monte Blue
Lew Cody
Marjorie Daw
Frank Currier
Edward Connelly
George Siegmann
Kathleen Key
Otto Mattesen
Bruce Guerin
Ethel Wales
Equipment of Divers Weighs Heavy For Underwater Work
Describes gear used by divers including helmets around thirty pounds shoes about fifteen and belts near eighty pounds reflecting the heavy load divers must bear underwater.
Never Gets It The Man Who Says He Quit After Million
The speaker notes that the man claiming to have earned his first million and quit never actually secures that fortune. The quote highlights the irony of wealth fantasies versus reality.
Primitive co operative life on Central American plantations
The article notes workers on coffee plantations in Nicaragua and Guatemala build their own houses and sustain a healthy community life, even if they are unaware of the term cooperative or modern hygienic practices. It highlights basic self governance and collective labor among laborers.
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Nicaragua
Guatemala
Bean baking in a ground pit tradition in northern New England
The text describes a historic method where beans are baked in a ground pit. The pit is lined with stones and heated by a fire built inside, then covered to finish cooking.
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Northern
New England
None That We Know No man Is so selfish as to demand more than his share of trouble
The Boston Transcript quotes a maxim about human nature noting no one seeks extra hardship and suggesting people bear their burdens with modest endurance. The saying reflects common 19th or early 20th century moralizing tone.
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Boston Transcript
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