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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1933
Page
5
The Elks celebrate a festive Christmas with family scenes and characterful members. Byron highlights include Bro. John Riley’s return to action, greetings from Harry Blaze, Gene Cronin’s generosity, and community efforts like The Sewing Club and Home Craft Class sharing meals, gifts, and crafts for members.
Exalted Ruler Dick Wiley encourages a happy New Year mood and charity giving. A Christmas Charity Fund drive is urged with messages from Bro Aielli McCormack and others highlighting community goodwill and festive plans for the Club House dinner dance.
The Finkenmanoever chaffinch song contest is held on Whit Monday in towns like Benneckenstein Hohegeiss Thale St Andreasberg and other Harz sites. Owners display birds in cages under white cloths then reveal them to crown the champion bird that out sings and silences rivals. Experts say the chaffinch can relinquis h twenty varying themes in its song.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that officials label tea in Tunis a narcotic and levy a heavy tax to curb use. Tunisians respond by boiling tea with spices until syrupy and mixing with sigar for strong intakes, leaving them sleepy and unable to work.
The Winthrop Woman's Club met in Hall on Friday December 15. Mrs Alice Farquhar urged buying more Christmas Seals. Mrs Clara Seabury organized tickets for the January 25 club play. Mrs Pearl Chase spoke on education and NRA child labor boosts. The program featured Our New England by Mary E Wilkins Freeman and poems by Martha Haskill Clarke.
A fragmentary notice outlines a Monday evening gathering on December 18 to finalize filial arrangements. It mentions Sister Heaves as appointed for the coming month and notes plans for a Post Xmas Tree on December 24 with a five dollar prize and a chapel event in Quincy Massachusetts.
Peak Reinier rises to 14 408 feet and spans about 100 square miles. Its vast bulk and abrupt rise overshadow surrounding terrain, visible from across Washington and beyond, often extending visibility up to 200 miles when not obscured by hills.
The Winthrop Catholic Woman's Club held its Christmas Party Monday December 18 at 8 30 P M. Mrs P J Sloan opened with wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Marion Lane Agnes OBrien and Gladys Hayman performed. Santa distributed gifts to members and the pastor. Charlotte McLeod won a box of candy and Mrs Cox took the Five Dollar Gold Piece. Grace Lowell was chairman. Card party planned for December 26 at St John s Hall and a penny sale January 8 with Mrs Harber as organizer.
The Winthrop Young Men’s Catholic Club hosts a Christmas party this evening with an entertainment program led by Arthur Burke Eddie Casey and Spith Haley. Harvard football footage will be shown MIT coach Henry McCarty speaks. a radio watch grand draw is planned.
The article recounts how Vicente Yanez Pinzon first sighted what became Brazil in 1500 during Columbus era exploration and how Pedro Alvarez Cabral claimed the region for Portugal in 1501. It notes the Papal decree by Alexander VI dividing new lands along the Treaty of Tordesillas line and Portugal's near exclusion from the western hemisphere.
Italian Somaliland formed part of Italy's East Africa push during colonial expansion. The Italians aimed to conquer more of Ethiopia but suffered a decisive defeat by Emperor Menelik at Adowa, leaving Ethiopian independence intact.
The report notes a Tuesday night game between Baracas and K of C in the Junior League at Odd Fellows, with Wi Y.-C listed as the venue.
Mrs Jack Doloff hosted the Amicitia Club at her Bart left road home for the annual Christmas tree event on December 18. Guests enjoyed greens and holly decor, a Santa Claus appearance by Gardner Babson, and gifts with playful rhymes. Will Hutchinson spoke on Christmas meaning, and committee gifts of candy and plum pudding were served.
At the December meeting Mrs. Bessie Cobb discussed lilies in the ladies papers and the paper covered history culture and research. Rangers led by Mrs McClintock hosted the event with Christmas program including songs games a poem and gifts from Mrs. Santason.
An article discusses the English term fagging used in public schools where junior boys performed menial duties for seniors with authority approval. Tasks included blacking boots brushing clothes cooking breakfast serving tea sweeping errands and limited hours while some duties extended to sports practice and on field play.
The Da ora Christmas party gathering at Mrs. Davison’s home featured Doris Rande presiding over the business meeting. A majority vote authorized a charitable act to aid a needy person during the holiday season.
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