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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1938
Page
6
Winthrop Emblem Club announces a Christmas Social on December 21 under P. P. Louise Sennett. Mrs Dalton is convalescing at home and thanks friends for kind memories during illness.
Bellflower is also called Canterbury bells and bluebell and ranges from Ontario to Florida. Related European bluebells exist. the plant has few modern medicinal or commercial uses. Tennyson praised bluebell juice as a snake bite remedy, and roots provided starch and bookbinding gum, feathers fixing for arrows.
The rector Rev. Ralph M. Harper praises a flawless Advent sermon and identifies the choir as the crown of the worship. He notes the soloist’s performance lifted hearts to the height of Christmas Expectancy while the service united sermon music and atmosphere.
The article describes sunbirds as the Old World counterparts to hummingbirds, with Africa as their true home. It details the Malachite sunbird’s green plumage, the striking metallic sunbird of equatorial Africa, and notes their long tails during mating. Their curved long beaks act like suction pumps to nectar, and their plumage shifts to gold green with blue, purple, orange, or crimson on the underparts. they are said to have an agreeable song.
The Danube served as the Balkan connecting link among Turkey Romania Bulgaria Serbia and Austria the river's traffic boomed in the Crusades with 2000 laden craft to the Holy Land. Romans ruled for 500 years and no single people controlled it afterward. Steam began in 1817 transforming its 1600 mile voyage from Regensburg to the Black Sea into a modern steamboat era.
The notice reports three fatalities and twelve serious accidents from children coasting from driveways into streets since snow began. It urges CAUTION, asks parents to limit street play, coordinate with police for closed play areas, and have reporters publicize safe spots and school talks.
Winthrop Woman's Club members met Tuesday morning for the first in a trio of Morning Art Talks at Mrs. Frank Douglas's home. Samuel Calman outlined art history from the 12th century with slides and examples. The second talk is set for Monday December 12 at 10 am at Mrs. Dolloff's, featuring Eleanor Cleare on Art as a Vocation.
The Union Congregational Church celebrated Rev. R. E. Gilmore starting his fourth year as pastor with a well attended anniversary service. The afternoon featured the first in a series of Christmas Vespers with strong attendance and plans to continue as a church custom. Next Sunday he will preach Are We Alone and the 5 o’clock Vesper will center on Ye Olde English Christmas.
The church offers an 11 a.m. sermon titled Are We Alone? followed by a 5 p.m. vesper with Ye Olde English Christmas. The schedule highlights morning and afternoon services for holiday observance.
The Neanderthal man is described as short and rugged with heavy brows and a fierce appearance. He entered Europe before the final Ice Age, used flint tools and fire, buried the dead with care, and left cave art while Cro Magnon and Aurignacian groups followed with bone tools lamps jewelry and offerings.
The expression Go West, young man, go West originated in 1851 in an editorial by John L. B. Soule, editor of the Terre Haute Express. Soule claimed Horace Greeley could not offer better advice and the line became associated with Greeley and his writings and later usage.
The First Baptist Church Christian Endeavorers hosted a December 3 dinner for the church Youth and work on a new pledge system. December 5 saw many members at the Annual Meeting, with December 11 set for a regular Sunday service and a 6:00 buffet. A Christ mas Day vesper features a new interpretation of Why the Chimes Rang prepared by Mrs Hatlestadt.
The piece surveys an ancient tradition of shoe throwing at newlyweds. It traces origins from biblical shoe transfer deeds to Anglo Saxon rites, notes theories linking the act to signaling ownership or flight, and cites Near East practices where guests throw slippers at the groom.
A Collier’s Weekly note says the tomb of Abelard and Heloise in Paris’s Pere la Chaise cemetery, after 700 years, remains a sentimental pilgrimage. It is believed to be more visited and storied than any other grave in Christendom aside from that of Christ.
William A. Beckler Jr of Winthrop was elected Bridgton Academy student council president. He starred at Bridgton for two years as captain and quarterback before a collarbone fracture sidelined him during a 13-7 win over unbeaten Maine Freshman and he plans to enroll at New Hampshire University next fall.
Flint Michigan Buick plants report a weekly output peak of 6,735 cars and a daily average of 1,343. President Harlow Curtice says production will sustain through December with a goal of about 95,000 cars by year end, up from 70,000 last year and 61,000 two years ago.
The Christmas party for the 8 of Us Club will be held next Monday December 12 at the home of Mrs. EK Edna Moody at 70 Somerset Avenue.
A London Tit-Bits writer surveys unusual foods around the world. Ant pastry in India and Australia. locust soup among Kaffirs and Hottentots. worms, caterpillars, and silkworms in Africa and Asia. Eskimos eating raw fish. decayed whale and maggoty seal among Terran peoples. hot tents move for a stranded crustacean.
The Christian Endeavor Society of the First Congregational Church Leavitt Union heard Earle Haley Massachusetts C E Union Publicity Superintendent speak on Selling Christian Endeavor. He urged young people to do their part and avoid destructive criticism in daily life and society work.
Mrs Grace B Wiley entertained the G F X Club at her Woodside Avenue home on Monday evening December 5. Plans were made for a New Year party at Mrs Thelma Carringtons 46 Bartlett Road on January 8. Candles and Christmas decorations framed the dining room as refreshments were served.
The passage notes that Duchesses at Henry VIII's court were allowed three gallons of ale and a pitcher of wine daily. It highlights court provisioning and royal household habits without broader context.
A census style note states two hundred twenty five languages are spoken in India excluding dialects, reflecting immense linguistic diversity across the country and suggesting many more dialects exist within regions.
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