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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1936
Page
6
Revere Theatres schedule lists showings for Front Page Boulevard Carrie Rose Bowl and other titles across Friday Saturday Sunday and Monday through Thursday with matinee and evening times including Sundown Rider Ladies in Love and Missing Girls. The page interleaves multiple titles and daily times without full clarity of dates or theaters.
A Washington Post writer argues the thoroughbred is a definite horse breed, akin to percheron and Clydesdale, tracing its origin to early 17th century England and its mix of English, Arab, Barb, and Turkish lines.
The white faced glossy ibis is the only true ibis in considerable numbers in North America. It breeds from northern Mexico to Oregon Nevada and Utah. In Bear River marshes it nests with snowy egret and other herons in tule beds. Both adults and young feed on crawfish snails water insects fishes and frogs.
The plot hinges on a staged romance between Clark Gable and a rising musical star as a press agent schemes to boost public interest. Roscoe Karns plays a newspaper man turned press agent, Allen Jenkins trains Gable, while Walter Catlett sponsors the shows and David Carlyle stars opposite Miss Davies.
Hippos or Susita was a Decapolis city on the Sea of Galilee opposite Tiberias. The area fed Hippene after the region was named for Hippos. It passed from Alexander Janneus to Pompey, then Herod, then Greek city status, an episcopal see, and a Nero era coin with a horse.
The buffalo, regarded as a prudent but not highly clever animal, provided Indians with meat, tallow and dried tongue. Buffaloskin yielded robes robes clothing tepees and boats. Thick skin shields bags clothing winding sheets coffins. Sinews made ropes thread and bowstrings. The Indians and buffalo taught pioneers many provident lessons.
The elm salamander, a white cave dweller from European caves, grows about a foot long with a snake like body and widely spread legs. It lives mostly motionless in dark caves and streams, has red gills and degenerative hidden eyes, turning jet black if exposed to sun.
A Rural New Yorker writer notes the Roxbury Russet as the oldest distinct apple variety in the United States. Beach in Apples of New York says it likely originated in Roxbury Massachusetts and spread to Connecticut after 1649. The variety reached Ohio around 1797, suggesting seeds brought by early Puritans or early planting in the colonies.
The text urges readers to curb impatience with unfulfilling life chapters and embrace living in the present. It argues that fully experiencing the current moment builds resilience for what lies ahead, guiding personal growth and readiness.
A Winthrop man, Mr Hercules, was attacked in the Boston Federal building washroom by two youths about 24. He resisted as one struck him with a pistol butt and fled. librarian James Tighe found him and reported the incident to federal agents.
Notices announce funerals for Abbie F. Ricker at Bennison Funeral Home in Winthrop on December 1 with interment in Skowhegan Maine. George W. Dyer at Winthrop Center on December 5 followed by Crystal Bay Lodge services and interment at Winthrop Cemetery. William C. Thomas at Winthrop Beach with services December 9 and interment in Litchfield Connecticut. Grace Morris Breckenridge at Winthrop Beach with services December 9 at Forest Hills Crematory Chapel.
University of Oregon researcher Dr. R R Heutis reports Western mice fur darkens with colder seasons and ties the hue shift to light levels at hair tips. He notes a parallel color change in vegetation and highlights climate and environment drive seasonal adaptation. Mild steel carbon content rises to about 0.2 percent and is widely used in farm equipment and hardware for its toughness and weldability.
Winthrop Massachusetts licensing board announces William F Stover has applied under Chapter 138 for a 1937 license to sell all alcoholic beverages as a retail package goods store at 480 Shirley Street with street and rear entrances and one room on the street floor. Signed by A Russell Belcher Roy W Pigeon Chester O'Donnell.
Under Chapter 138 of the General Laws Centre Drug Company led by Jacob Kaméras requests a license to sell alcoholic beverages as a Retail Package Goods Store for 61 Woodside Ave Winthrop. The premises include two street floor rooms two entrances on Woodside Ave and a rear entrance for goods only.
The sale offers sixty and 41/100 feet southwesterly by beacon street plan with 3371 square feet of land. Premises convey to Charlotte MacKay by Charles B. Wing et al as Special Administrators of the estate of B Richards in 1920. Purchaser to pay $500 cash at sale with taxes and liens disclosed by Winthrop Savings Bank.
Public auction of a parcel in Winthrop described as Delphi Avenue Lot 196 on the Ann E Jessop plan. Sale set for December 28 1936 at ten o'clock in the forenoon. Sold subject to taxes liens and assessments with $100 cash required. David H Dane presenter and mortgage holder.
The piece lists famous individuals and their ages at notable moments, suggesting limits or milestones in aging. It pairs references to Watt, Gladstone, Napoleon, Plato, Bismarck, Johnson, and others with notions of German study, labors, and literary achievement, alongside a definition of air speed versus land speed.
Readable fragments report a claim that humans inhabited North America before the Ice Age. The material cites archaeological and geological finds. details about sites or dates remain unclear in the available text.
Fort Schuyler, at the end of Throgs Neck near the East River, is an 1833 French style pentagonal fortress built for land and sea defense. Paired with Fort Toffen at Willetts Point, it guards the eastern waterway to New York to deter future invasions like Lord Howe’s 1776 use of the neck.
A brief note urges readers to thank others for kindnesses. It states gratitude is the only repayment and discourages neglecting appreciation. Readers are encouraged to speak up with a sincere thank you.
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