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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1939
Page
7
Medieval British guilds barred nonmembers and enforced wages. British trade union tactics carried to America. The Cordwainers' Society of New York in 1804 and the New York Typographical Society in 1809 adopted by laws forbidding members to work for nonmembers or for wages below union scales.
The week program features U-Boat 29 with Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson at the Winthrop and State Theatres, plus On Your Toes with Vera Zorina. The Roaring Twenties stars James Cagney and Priscilla LaneMonday and Tuesday. Kid Nightingale on the same bill. In Termezzo with Leslie Howard Ingrid Bergman Tuesday to Thursday. Ronald Reagan appears in Smashing the Money Ring.
The Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association hosted a Dec 5 dinner and party with a large social program. Mrs M Grace Pettingell organized the dinner, Santa Claus appeared, and a Community Federation talk and travel quiz entertained attendees. The group voted to thank Governor Saltonstall for his Thanksgiving Proclamation and the original date.
The Boston utilities board reports on plans to abandon the Boston Revere Beach and Lynn line, urging a next step by the legislature. If service ends, Winthrop could see an Elevated Act or independent bus service to replace rail transport, with costs and repairs cited for bridges piers and terminals.
The Visiting Nurse Association held its December directors meeting led by President Mrs. Harry W. Farquhar. Plans for the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary on January 15 include a dessert luncheon and program, with Mrs. George Britt detailing the anniversary committee. The Thrift Shop, run by Mrs. Harry Jones, seeks toys, clothes, shoes, and books for Christmas and invites donations by calling Ocean 0330.
Thrifty shoppers can win a free Christmas turkey at Everybody's Cash Market in Winthrop Centre. Orders placed by December 20 enter a drawing. a disinterested party will select one name to receive a turkey, any size.
Reports describe Indigenous envoys mediating between enemy tribes in Australia. Special decorations painted on their skin signify protected status and noncombatant role during negotiations. The practice underscores ceremonial diplomacy within regional conflicts and tribal codes.
The note traces the lamp's development from William Robert Grove in 1840 to Thomas Edison’s 1880 improvement, outlining early invention and subsequent enhancement by Edison.
Mrs Leon Dutch of Winthrop spoke on Buying With Dollars and Common Sense, outlining the Wheeler Lee Act and consumer protection in purchases of food cosmetics and drugs. She highlighted candy furs fabrics and rayon from glass as exhibits at St John’s Hall during the December program.
Edmund Marukeli underwent a hernia operation at Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals after an injury at a Boston University football practice. The senior guard pledged for a regular guard role, was sidelined for the year, and aided local coach Bob Perry with Winthrop High’s gridiron squad. He is a Winthrop High School 1933 graduate.
The article notes Switzerland's lowest point is the shore of Lake Maggiore about 650 feet above sea level, with the lake’s bottom reaching 575 feet below sea level. The contrast highlights dramatic elevation differences within the region.
In Chicago the Union League club decorates its headache room with worthless stocks securities bonds and mortgages serving as wallpaper illustrating financial decline and satire of Wall Street.
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