Winthrop Interclub Bowling League Season Six Week Nine
Scores for Winthrop Yacht Club and Cottage Park Yacht Club in the sixth season ninth week shown with season and week totals. Some scores delayed. publication will follow. Also includes 1925 Suburban Basketball League schedule for Winthrop with venue towns and dates from January to March.
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Winthrop Yacht Club
Cottage Park Y. C
Cottage Park Yacht Club
Macfarland
Gillis
UCAA
Webber
W.Y. C
Winthrop
Suburban Basketball League
Winthrop A A to Face Pete Marquette in South Boston
Winthrop A A basketball travels to South Boston to meet Pete Marquette on New Year’s Day. Tom White performed as an entertainer at the East Boston telephone exchange Christmas tree party last Monday night.
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Winthrop A. A
Pete Marquette
South Boston
Tom White
East Boston
Legion Notes Winthrop Post 146 Installation Friday
Winthrop Post 146 A L will hold its public installation of officers on Friday December 26 at 8 pm in Legion Hall Pauline street. Officers include Henry J McCarthy commander William G Sumky senior vice commander G Préble junior vice commander Lewis B Pierce adjutant Alfred F Silberberg finance officer Joseph Ward historian and more. The Ladies Auxiliary will meet the same night and the event is described as a gala civic occasion drawing local veterans and citizens.
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Winthrop Post
A. L
Quincy Post 95
Frank H. Foy
Henry J. McCarthy
William G Sumky
D G. Préble
Lewis B. Pierce
Alfred F. Silberberg
Joseph Ward
Albert T.,hayes
Eric Gersumky
William Goodwin
James Cody
Legion
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Pauline St
Knights of Columbus
Old ‘Winthrop Machine Gun Company
Harold Verner
George Furlong
George
Legion Alleys
Portsiders
Charlie Hagman
Tom Flannery
Jack Fisher
George Trainor
Corbett Will Bow
Jim Fraser
Matt” Bostrom
Kelly” Reese
Wasson
Bob Reese
Ralph Roach
Walter McLaughlin
Leland Glover
Mac
Early American Brick Making Across Colonies
The text notes brick production began in Virginia in 1611 Massachusetts 1629 and Pennsylvnia 1683. It mentions bricks used for fortifications at Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt and other early structures. Commercial production rose to prominence in the late eighteenth century.
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Virginia
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Fort Duquesne
Fort Pitt
Methodist Bishops Lead Annual Methodist Conferences
The Methodist bishops serve as the highest prelates in America guiding yearly conferences across districts. Each district sends one lay delegate and the district’s ministers attend, totaling 45 bishops in the United States.
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Methodist Church
America
United States
Women Predominate in Babuyan Islands After Volcanic Turmoil
In the Babuyan islands the population is heavily female due to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Men largely work in fishing, while frequent typhoons endanger their frail boats, explaining the gender imbalance among inhabitants.
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Babuyan Islands
Eulogy of the Dead and Funeral Rites Through Antiquity
This excerpt traces funeral sermons and burial rites back to ancient times. It notes that even primitive peoples held ceremonies for the dead and highlights the popularity of eulogizing in ancient Greece and Rome.
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Greece
Rome
Sower Hopes For Another Summer Harvest
A reflection on the sower casting grain with hopeful faith that heavenly signs and time endure, promising another summer and harvest despite the sun's blinks. The passage evokes perseverance amid uncertain seasons and the belief in future yields.
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Carlyle
Self-Control Requisite for Organizational Harmony
The text stresses that getting along with others is essential to success and that individuals serve the organization. It argues that a pleasant disposition lubricates operations while unpleasantness disrupts them, urging practice of self-control as a key virtue.
London shopkeeper fined for saying girl customer is nice
Edward Wander of London was fined recently for telling a girl customer she was nice. He argued he was not flirting but used the word nice as a general business policy toward all female customers.
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Edward Wander
London
Wander
Pine Tree Money of Massachusetts Era
The silver money coined in Massachusetts in the late 1600s carried a pine tree device, earning the names pine tree money as well as Boston or Bay money.
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Massachusetts
Boston
Old English Ports Fund Warships Law Recalled
The old English law required all English seaports and trading towns to contribute to warship support or build and equip ships. The rule fell into disuse and was later included in the Petition of Right.
Willing to Wait Washington Cougar's Paw
In a playful exchange from Washington Cougar's Paw a woman announces she became engaged to Dick last night. He counters with a suggestion to try again next week in a light hearted community page item.
Days of Delight in Almanac Saints and Holidays
A concise note explains red-letter days as lucky days recalled with joy while almanacs mark saints' days and holidays in red ink and other days in black.
Qualities of the Great
A reflection on how a great man shapes his environment and inspires others through demeanor and courage. The passage emphasizes leadership, influence, and the atmosphere created by exemplary conduct.
Politics Explained and Its Grit in Society
A compact reflection on politics as society’s grinding core, likening the two major parties to halves that churn against each other, with a Thoreau reference from 1851 noting the grit and gravel of political life.
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Thoreau
Unpopular Qualities Quote by George F. Hoar
A quotation critiques public tendency to resent constant scolding and fault finding. It warns that people will tire of a person who only knows how to criticize and find faults. The remark underscores social fatigue with negative behavior.
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George F. Hoar
Talk Not Filling
A columnist notes the challenge for orators to avoid manipulating audiences craving home dinner. The piece reflects on rhetoric and audience emotion in public speaking.
Elizabethan Era Dialogue Reveals Age Joke
A humorous exchange shows a professor asking about Elizabeth and a student replying that she will be nineteen next week. The light moment centers on a fleeting age remark and the imagined timing of Elizabeth I’s age.
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Elizabeth, Jones
Stray Bit of Wisdom on Rumor and Gossip
A brief aphorism notes that too many people resemble Shakespearean gossips who spread idle talk. The remark is attributed to H. W. Shaw and speaks to the folly of rumor in social discourse.
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Dallas News
Shakespeare
H. W. Shaw
Reproach by Repetition Warns Against Excessive Dullness
A proverb attributed to Budgell cautions that a friend's reproach should be fair and justified yet not repeated too often to become wearisome. It emphasizes measured correction within friendship.
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Budgell
Week of Dec 29 features Mary Philpin Norman Kerry film event
The schedule opens with A Merry Go Round starring Mary Philpin and Norman Kerry. Marion Davies in Little Old New York plays Tue and Wed with a 2:30 matinee. New Year’s Day shows four acts of B F Keith vaudeville plus Manhatten with Richard Dix and Jacqueline Logan, It’s a Bear with Our Gang. Friday Maytime with Harrison Ford and Ethel Shannon, plus The Rejected Woman with Conrad Nagel and Alma Rubens and Fighting Fury with Hoxie. A Net chapter closes the week.
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Charles ‘L. Hateh
Mary Philpin
Norman Kerry
Marion Davies
New York
Boston
Hatch
Mr. Hatch
B. F. Keith
Richard Dix
Jacqueline Logan
Manhattan
Our Gang
Harrison Ford
Ethel Shannon
Conrad Nagel
Alma _ Rubens
Hoxie
Into the Net
Nagel and Rubens Star in The Rejected Woman at Winthrop
Alma Rubens and Conrad Nagel headline The Rejected Woman at the Winthrop next Saturday in a society romance crafted for the stars. The plot asks if clothes win a girl success and moves swiftly through scenes in Canada and New York, featuring Wyndham Standing Leonora Hughes George MacQuarrie Bela Lugosi and others.
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Alma Rubens
Conrad Nagel
Winthrop
Canada
New York
Wyndham Standing
Leonora Hughes
George MacQuarrie
Bela Lugosi
Antonio D'Algy
Mme. la Violette
Aubrey Smith
Fred Burton
Richard Dix stars in Manhattan at Winthrop New Year's Day
Richard Dix leads in Manhattan at the Winthrop on New Year's Day only. He plays Peter Minuit who allegedly sold Manhattan, with Jacqueline Logan opposite him. Supporting cast includes Gregory Kelly George Seigmann Gun Boat Smith Oscar Figman Edna May Oliver and Alice Chapin.
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Winthrop
Richard Dix
Paramount
Manhattan
Peter Minuit
Peter
Old Town
Dix
Jacqueline “Logan
Gregory Kelly
George Seigmann
Gunboat Smith
Oscar Figman
Edna May Oliver
Alice Chapin
Marion Davies Stars in Little Old New York
Marion Davies, 23, Brooklyn born daughter of Judge and Mrs Bernard Douras, attends Brooklyn grammar.
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Marion Davies
Star
Brooklyn
Bernard Douras
The
Brooklyn Grammar
Miss Davies Seeks Silent Fame After Stage Stardom
Early schooling in drama and music led Miss Davies from convent life to the stage with Oh Boy and Ziegfeld Follies. Her portrait Morning elevated her profile before she entered films, notably as Pat O Day in Little Old New York. A Palm Beach screen glimpse pivoted her from stage to cinema.
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New York City
Harrison Fisher
Miss Davies
Pat O'Day
New-York
Winthrop
Florida
Palm Beach
New York
Oldest Brazil History Book Found from 1576
The earliest known book solely about Brazil is History of the Province of Santa Cruz, published in Lisbon in 1576. Its author, Pedro de Gandaro, remains largely mysterious.
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Brazil
Province of
Santa Cruz
Lisbon
Pedro de Gandaro
Parricide Shadow Over Mr Green’s Youngest Son
Mrs Blunderby warns in the Boston Transcript that Mr Green’s youngest son has not worked for six months and may become a parricide, living off his father and facing a grim future.
Egotism and Truth as Seen by Lovwell
A reflective aphorism notes that self centeredness blinds seekers of truth and misplaces their aim, naming egotism as the narrow wall through which one mistakes their own mage for reality.
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Lovwell
Furniture Sale From Holidays Co Stock At Home
Cash buyers can purchase new furniture at low prices after the Holidays Furniture Co closed. Stock moved to 54 Sea Foam Way Winthrop with items from parlor to dining room. Highlights include a ten piece American Walnut Dining Room Suite for 135 dollars and 50 piece dinner sets for 5 dollars. Call Ocean 1463 or visit 64 Sea Foam Way Winthrop. No dealers.
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Holidays’ Furniture Co
Washington St
Boston
Sea Foam
Sea Foam Ayr
Winthrop
Ocean
Around the Old Town Hall Christmas Break
The school closes for Christmas vacation on Tuesday December 23 and reopens Monday January 5 1925. Patrolman French reports for duty after grippe and hiccoughs. Mrs French also improves. Metcalf square festooned with Christmas greenery. Police recover a stolen Essex coupe found abandoned. owner J Townsend of Revere notified.
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French
Grippe
Hiccoughs
Metcalf Sq
Lynn
3. J. Townsend
Revere
What Is a Tinker’s Dam in Plumbing Usage
The Kansas City Star explains a tinker's dam as a temporary wall of dough or soft clay built around a spot a plumber plans to flood with solder. It is discarded after the repair, giving rise to the saying not worth a tinker's dam, sometimes misheard as not worth a tinker's den.
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Kansas City Star
Standard Oil Trust Formation in 1879 Led by C. T. Todd
The piece notes that the first industrial trust was formed in 1879 by Standard Oil interests under C. T. Todd, who later became vice president and general counsel. It adds that within the next decade about six more trusts formed and began operations.
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Standard Oil
8. C. T. Todd
Standard Oil Trust
Apparatus Registers Salt in Sea Water
An automatic device records the salt content of sea water to improve knowledge of ocean current paths and help detect approaching icebergs. The electrical instrument was developed by the United States Bureau of Standards.
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United States Bureau of Standards
Origins of tattooing and ancient examples
The origin of tattooing is uncertain but ancient. Thebes tomb paintings show tattooed white men, and Caesar notes Britons tattooed.
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Thebes
Caesar
Sperm Whale Yield Tops Coastal Catch
A large sperm whale off Vancouver Island yielded 250 pounds of ambergris valued at 150000 dollars. The blubber and spermaceti added about 3500 dollars, making it the most valuable catch in salt water.
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Vancouver Island
Phrase Altered By Expression In Maritime Crisis
A historical note explains that the true phrase to the bitter end was once altered to better end. In a storm an anchored vessel paid out all her cable and the rope ran to the better end, meaning the end in better condition from seldom use, signaling crisis moments.
Little Things That Count and Quiet Personal Virtues
A reflective note on small self-denials and acts of kindness that strengthen character. The author quotes Farrar on how tiny honesties sympathetic words and silent wins over temptations weave a moral pattern in daily life.
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Farrar
Removing Ceiling Stains with Lime Solution
Popular Science Monthly advises using unslaked lime dissolved in alcohol to remove ceiling stains. The mixture is shaken until it becomes a fine powder and brushed over the spots, then the ceiling can be painted.
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Popular Science Monthly
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