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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1919
Page
6
Rotterdam women decorate a YMCA hut for American troops with Dutch panels, hedge plantings, and window boxes. A Dutch dedication event featured music and dancing with Rotterdam society girls, followed by a reception. Soldiers, eased by English, found the party welcoming and pledged a return match.
The Y M C A announces 4000 Christmas boxes shipped from its Boston headquarters to American naval forces in the Adriatic and Black Seas. Each box includes cigarettes handkerchiefs candy chocolate gum socks soap chiclets shaving cream toothpaste toothbrush and a pencil.
Coblenz reports the Y M C A canteen corps in the occupation army has grown to 57 attractive volunteers from various U S cities. The article contrasts harsh wartime days with modern, well equipped huts in Germany offering ice cream, chocolate and cookies, kitchens with running water, and broader recreation for soldiers along the Rhine.
Miss Dora Palsner plans marriage to Harry Cohen of Dorchester. Winthrop Auto Express, Inc. starts with officers Aldo P Wentworth and Joshua Remby. Mrs. Emma Moore hosts the Enter Nous Whist Club with prizes awarded. Felix Weiss speaks at Chauncy Hall on America’s war effort. Civil War slogan urged remembrance. New minister Rev. Ralph J. Haughton moves to Winthrop. Overseas veterans at Parker Hill Hospital urged cheer. Johnson and Gronberg wed at 19 Charles St. Bellevue guests hear Weiss. Nilson joins R G Farquhar & Co. in Boston. Krown tours New Orleans. Beott wintering in Florida. Olive Ford story published. Rex Jase Orchestra noted.
St John’s Episcopal Church welcomes the public to a holiday program in Winthrop. Highlights include December 21 church school practice, sermons on The Fulness of Time, Christmas Eve party, Mystery Play, carol service, Christmas Day communion, and New Year events leading to a Watch Night Service from 11.00 p m to 12 05 a m marking 1919 to 1920.
A fragmented deed list names multiple property owners across Winthrop area streets including Sea Foam Avenue, Winthrop Street, Cottage Avenue, Harbor View, Coral Avenue and Winthrop Shore Drive. Entries pair buyers and sellers such as Eva M Barry with Harris Wolfe and Henry N Berry with Cath A Devlin, among others.
Last Saturday evening more than one hundred couples danced to Somerville's Orchestra. The event offered a delightful time for attendees and a chance to see many friends from town and beyond enjoy the music and company.
New simple Draft-man operates furnace draft any time. Price 15 dollars. Henry E. Keough Co Inc at 28 Pauline St is Winthrop agency to see it. Drop in or call Winthrop.
A new automobile mail circuit links Winthrop postoffice with all Boston stations and branch offices to speed delivery. Send mail by 9 A M for same day delivery within Boston and nearby branches.
Local notices cover repairs and pianos with Joseph Bernhart and Lang's Shoe Store moves. Community notes mention the Edwards case pressure on War Department, Christmas subscriptions to the Review, Elks Charity Ball details, theater guests, junior basketball at Boston University, and several business updates in Winthrop and nearby sections.
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