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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1923
Page
4
The Old Timer greets readers with a New Year blessing and urges self improvement. He cautions against pride and excessive talk, urges acts of kindness, and emphasizes helping neighbors before seeking distant deeds. He wishes Winthrop prosperity in 1924.
An elder recounts a warm Christmas scene in Winthrop with lit trees and neighborly displays. The piece notes community groups aiding residents, mourns the loss of Dr. Carey and Fred Dews from the hospital board, and questions women taxpayers and dress fashions in town.
A-voiced essay urges parents to monitor children’s school work and collaborate with teachers and the school committee. It cites today’s youth dances, a Beach tree celebration, and Scout activities as community examples, urging continued effort for moral and educational gains and a sound start to the new year.
Announcement for a New Year’s Eve dance by the Dance of the 400 at Winthrop Arms on Monday December 31 with music by Ray Sinatra. The event starts at 9.30 and runs to 1.00, organized by club committee members Paul Ochs Albert Ruby Robert Martin Jack Knell Clayton Nickerson and officers Guy Lathrop Melvin Johnson Robert Barney. Also notes the Baptist Young People’s Union founded in 1891 with nationwide branches and its purpose in supporting church activities.
A succinct counsel urging men past fifty to live with a sense of urgency. Plan as if thirty years remain yet stay prepared for sudden departure, balancing long term aims with readiness for an abrupt end.
Daily services at seven. Special service Friday at sunset. Saturday service at eight am. Located on Shirley Street Winthrop.
Morning worship at 10 30 led by Pastor John L Ivey with Amelia Frantz as soloist. Sunday school for all departments at noon. Young people's meeting at 6 30. Evening worship at 7 30 with pastor's sermon. Friday prayer meeting and Bible study at 8 o'clock.
Rev. John H. Griffin leads services at 7 and 8 30 and 10 15 and 11 30. Children urged to attend 8 30 mass. Sunday School follows. Daily mass offered at 6 and 7 A M with Rev. John J. O'Brien as assistant.
The Union Congregational Church at Tewksbury Street Winthrop Beach lists Rev Thomas Street as pastor plus a full weekly timetable. Junior and Primary Sunday Schools at 9 30 Morning Service 10 45 sermon The Paraclete Intermediate Sunday School 12 10 Men's Bible Class 5 30 Young People's Society 6 30 Evening Service 7 30 sermon Janus the God of Two Faces with Mr Mason as musical director.
Rev William J Day leads Christmas Sunday worship at 10 30 with a sermon The Virgin Sign Bible School at noon Y P S C E at 6 15 on Advent Lessons from Bethlehem Evening service at 7 30 features the choir with the cantata The Greatest Life.
The Rev. Herbert L. Buzzell accepted a call to the First Unitarian Church, beginning Sunday, Dec. 16. Christmas Sunday sermon titled Behold the Man. Services at 10:30 a.m. Sunday school at noon with Rev. Cushman supervising. Organist Maude Paradis Lane. soloist Ethel Dyffryn. Pulpit to be supplied by various Unitarian ministers for now.
The First Church of Christ Scientist at 165 Winthrop Street holds Sunday services in the church building at 10 45. The lesson sermon is Christian Science. A Sunday school for under 20 meets at the same hour in the Social Hall of the Masonic Building. A testimonial meeting occurs each Wednesday at 8. There is a free public reading room in the church edifice.
A fragment discusses virtues slipping away as self interest dominates, likened to rivers losing their course. The text suggests moral reflection on personal gain versus communal good. No further concrete names or events are provided.
Parish notes list services at John s Episcopal Church corner of Buchanan and Sendenists with Rector Ralph M Harper and organist Eugene P Whittier. Includes Holy Communion at 8 00 am and morning service at 10 45 am with Rev B J Dennen, arch deacon of Boston, plus a Christmas Carol Service at 7 30 pm and Watch Night service from 11 00 pm to 12 05 am. Also contains miscellaneous notes on the Galapagos and folklore about rain animals.
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