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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1935
Page
3
A Thanksgiving service featured scripture from Psalms Hebrews and Colossians, readings from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, and a Dvorak hymn. Christian Scientists led brief testimonies on healings and gratitude, with a concluding prayer on remaining rooted in faith.
Local items report Preston Jackson progressing after appendix operation in Quincy. Loring and Jean Cogswell visit from Weymouth over Thanksgiving. Winthrop Junior American Legion Auxiliary visits H P Hood Milk Co. in Charlestown. Ruth Shannock confined at home. Mrs Countaway convalescing. Dr S Willard dies after automobile accident in Winthrop. George Russell resting after appendix operation at Community Hospital. Winthrop Court club to host party December 14 at St Johns Hall. Mrs Cahill hosts guests from New York. Mrs Adella Bowman hospitalized at Exner Memorial Hospital. Teddy Carver ill at home. Rustic Bridge Club entertained by Mrs Howard. Christmas Seals aid tuberculosis work nationwide.
Philatelists show renewed activity as 935 Christmas Seals go on sale. Each sheet of 100 seals displays at least one identifying printer mark in four varieties, with hidden features such as blue dots, shade lines, and per finations. The issue honors a Winter scene by Ernest Hamlin Baker and supports the Red Cross through a wartime surtax.
Miss Angie Lazzari of 1211 Bennington Street East Boston won third prize in the Orient Palace Theatre Movie Sweepstake last Friday night. The event offered 1st prize $30, 2nd prize $5, 3rd prize $2.50 with five prizes total. Open to anyone over 16 who registers. drawings held each Friday at 7 for a double feature of a comedy and news.
The account states General Lee's 1863 invasion aimed to supply his army, pressure the North for peace, and coerce Lincoln to detach Union troops. It notes Gettysburg on July 1–3 as a turning point of the Civil War.
After the Constitution's adoption Congress ratified the Great Seal. The secretary of state as custodian cannot affix the seal to papers without the President's signature on the document.
Frank E. Sanger, 57, collapsed at the head of a stairway at Ingalls Station and died of heart failure. Born in Boston, he moved to East Boston as a boy, lived in Winthrop 12 years, and worked as a Boston furniture salesman. Survived by his wife Margaret and two daughters. funeral services held Monday at 2 PM.
District Deputy Daniel J. Honan and officers from Winthrop Lodge visited Attleboro Lodge Monday evening. Honan delivered an inspiring talk on Elks ideals and praised the lodge’s finances and initiation ceremonies. Gifts were exchanged, and a homecoming visitation at Winthrop Lodge was announced for January 19, 1936.
Winthrop High School football squad sponsored the Thanksgiving dance at Elk's Ballroom last Thursday. Over one hundred couples attended despite heavy rain. Myron Alpert's band provided music while a glee club of former football greats led by Harold Smith performed classics like Sweet Sue and Paul Revere Took a Ride.
The Selectmen drew Barnet Kolodny Arthur Weiner Arthur A Promiser Edward A Greenberg Joseph W McIntyre George W Prescott and Charles A Blazo to serve as jurors in a local panel.
An All Parish Banquet will be held at the First Church of Winthrop on Friday at 6 30 pm. All members fourteen years and older are invited as guests. Dr William L Stidger will preach and speak, Ruth Olive Halford will assist, and Harry Belmont Hill will sing. After the program the Every Member canvass begins with calls to absentees, Hicks the caterer to serve.
Aleppo Temple Chanters a 120 voice vocal group from the Mystic Shrine broadcast Mondays on AV NAC from 10 to 10 30 with Amos W Crooks Warren E F Titus Fred Gardner Smith and Walter Walsh among the performers Also two concerts this week at Porter Church Brockton and Needham High School Roy Harlow directs the Chanters whose one year of activity has inspired the secretary A H Levey to say their happiness is shared with others
Joan Crawford stars with WS. Van Dyke and Brian Aberne in I Live My Life at MGM as the leading romance between a debutante and an archaeologist. The cast includes Frank Morgan Aline MacMahon Eric Blore and others. Adrian designed new ensembles for Crawford. Margaret Lindsay appears in Personal Maid’s Secret. Bacteria strengthen clays for pottery production via tests.
Miss Doris Palken of Mattapan and Richard Abrams of Winthrop wed at noon on Sunday November 24 at the Southern House Hotel Brookline. A dinner followed with attendees from Winthrop and Boston area including the grooms family and the Cioffi brothers. The bride is the Palken daughter and the groom a Boston attorney a graduate of Boston University Law School. The couple left for New York on honeymoon and will reside in Winthrop upon return. Eugene Cioffi photographed the ceremony.
An informal gathering of Wellesley alumnae from Winthrop and Revere met at Mrs. Aubrey F. Jennings’s home in Winthrop on Monday afternoon November 25. Guest of honor Mrs. Charles B. Rugg of Boston and Worcester spoke about activities of the Boston Wellesley College Club where she is recording secretary. Afternoon coffee was served.
A charity event drew well over 300 citizens supporting the organization to aid unfortunates. Miss Mary Healey and pupils, the Riverton Four from Chelsea, Buddy Shannon and mother, Doc Campbell, and volunteers received thanks for performances and stage work. Boxing and wrestling bouts featured Earl Gray vs Bennet and Chardon vs Fuller. George Grayson and the Saugus crew, the Kagan brothers, Vasquez and Gilchrist also performed. Plans for a Christmas program are noted as well.
The article contrasts a long leap year explanation from the Julian calendar under District of Columbia law with commentary from Washington Star. It discusses leap year definitions, including 366 day years every four years and exceptions for centuries, and references the Heidelberg man and Eoanthropus as debated origins of humanity.
The Baraca Class of the First Baptist Church plans its regular meeting and social on Wednesday December 11 with Hon Edward C Res Bagley Asst Commissioner of Penal Institutions Massachusetts as speaker on his work. After his address sports and refreshments will follow. Men of Winthrop are invited to attend for information and fellowship. Christmas Seals cost a penny and support the tuberculosis campaign.
The Deane Winthrop Chapter of TOATS gave an American flag to Winthrop Girl Scouts for use during parades. The flag was presented by Regent Mrs. Georgia Snow to Mrs. Marguerite M. Searle, captain of the Dram and Bugle Corps.
Literary Digest discusses the distinction between smart and intelligent. It argues intelligence is the capacity to think and understand, while smartness implies cleverness and resourcefulness, sometimes with a sense of unscrupulousness. The piece notes the overlap: a smart person may be intelligent and vice versa.
The Glee Club of Winthroy Young Women’s Choir directed by Mrs. Jeannette Floyd presents a Christmas program at 7:30 PM Sunday at First Baptist Church. Selections include O Come All Ye Faithful and Now Let Every Tongue Sleepers Wake along with other carols and choruses.
The Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association held its regular meeting at the Barn on December 3 with strong attendance. Dr L Vernon Briggs spoke on psychiatry and crime, followed by Mrs Louise Fave’s humorous readings. Gifts for the unemployed are to be left at the Barn on December 1st.
A fragment recalls the old belief in the Hen and Chickens plant, a Houseleek reputed to ward off misfortune. The piece notes the plant’s ancient reputation and its place in folk thought.
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