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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1939
Page
8
Magrane's Magrane department store at 133 Market Street announces daily delivery service to Winthrop amid a broad Christmas display. The store highlights a Gothic bell tower entrance, hourly chime concerts, extensive decorations, and vast gift ideas to attract Winthrop customers this season.
Massachusetts reports 46 382 hospital births out of 63 125 last year eight in ten babies born in hospitals. Maternal mortality fell from 58 to 37 per 10 000 live births and infant mortality from 106 to 39 per 1000. By WWI few sought hospital births yet now three fourths deliver there. Massachusetts hospitals credit themselves for saving thousands of mothers and babies.
The Young Men's Republican Club plans a Gobbler's Shuffle barn dance at Elks Hall Washington Ave on December 14. Proceeds will aid Winthrop Community Hospital for new equipment with a door prize for one lucky ticket holder. Public invitation extended for an entertaining evening.
Scientists report tiny radium traces in various rock samples, indicating natural radioactive minerals are more widespread than previously thought. Researchers note low concentration levels but emphasize the long term implications for geochemistry and environmental monitoring.
The town meeting convened around 8 40 but no formal vote occurred. Members questioned why the meeting was held after the Board of Selectmen and Advisory Committee had already secured funds, noting taxpayers spent about fifty dollars for an unnecessary gathering.
Lieut Woods and Central Fire Station call for broken or discarded toys from parents for refurbishment. The toys will be repaired and repainted by firefighters and distributed Christmas Eve through the Welfare Department to children in need, to sustain holiday joy.
Doris M. Hamilton and Irving Deimer of Chelsea are named winners for predicting the outcome of a North Shore contest. Deimer, a Revere High fan, and Hamilton, a former Winthrop student, both offered close forecasts. Each will receive a year's subscription to the Winthrop Review.
Salvation Army workers will drum up donations with bells on Boston streets and in many Massachusetts towns in a few days. The first kettles appear Saturday at busy points and stay through the Yuletide season until the Saturday before Christmas. The appeal asks kindness to help "a friendless man" and needy families.
The 50th anniversary continues from page 1 with reflections on Lord Bread of the World and a Psalm read by Walter P. Simonds who has served St. John’s Church School for 36 years. He will read the same Advent collect as in 1889. The public is invited to join this historic service.
The note highlights how writers Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain produced much of their work in bed. It emphasizes the authorship habits and creative routines of two celebrated literary figures.
The Selectmen drew jurors for duty on Monday evening. Salvatore J. Petrucci and William P. Sanby are assigned for criminal sessions, while Walter M. Ramsey Henry A. Gill Carl H. Ravich Joseph I. Cordez and Herbert I. Cohen are assigned for civil sessions.
Pupils in Tiffin Ohio report killing 8 226 houseflies in one week and claim each is a future generation killer. They calculate that these victims would have produced about 49 336 000 000 000 000 diseased descendants by next fall.
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