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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1933
Page
5
A long greeting to the Old Year and welcome to the New Year opens with humane exhortations to charity and selflessness. The Elk Lodge celebrates a New Year Eve event under Bro. Francis L. Cronin, acknowledges resignations and honors members, and praises fellow brothers for their spirit, humor, and community service.
The United States Court of Claims, created in 1855, handles claims against the U.S. It includes five judges with a chief justice and four associates and sits in Washington. Each regular session opens with the court’s yearly findings and Congress funds the awards on its recommendation. A majority of codes approves.
Members of the Young Woman's Club gathered at the Winthrop House Barn on December 21 for a Christmas party. Maude Tibbetts presented a marionette play featuring Pierre Patelline and his wife, with lively acts and a concluding Santa Claus appearance leading carols. The event included music by Grace Keough, Kate Wills, and Elizabeth Lobdell, with refreshments of cream snowmen.
The Young People’s Fellowship will meet at St John’s Episcopal Church Parish House on Sunday December 31 at 8 o’clock. A business meeting will be followed by a Mirror Meeting. Members should bring New Year’s resolutions in a sealed envelope on Wednesday evening December. A dance was held in the Parish House under church sponsorship.
The article describes the whiteheathaster or Michaelmas daisy common from Maine to Minnesota and southward. It links the flower to Archangel Michael and the Bible, noting its eye like blossoms, tiny white petals with yellow disks, and historical religious imagery surrounding angelic beings and Paradise.
The Jackson Whites of New Jersey are described as a blend of negro Indian and white blood. Historical notes place them in the Ramapo mountains with occasional whites of low standing. Theories suggest Indian or mixed Indian and servant lineage. mental levels are noted as around nine to ten years.
In 1527 an agreement with Thomas Lovegay shows he convened with the Abbot to repair the chymes and tolling bells. He promised to pay upon the furnishing and upkeep of the tenable and necessary repairs, reflecting maintenance costs for church bells in that era.
Yosemite's popular Wawona road extends from Bridalveil Falls to the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees. Built by the National Park Service and the Bureau of Public Roads, it stands as one of the nation's outstanding highway projects.
The article greets readers with a New Year wish and thanks to the Winthrop Review. It notes members returning from illness and a brother needing rides to Boston for treatment, requesting volunteers to drive on Monday Wednesday and Friday. It lists upcoming lodge events including Andy Donnell Night January 11 and several degree ceremonies through January 18, urging attendance.
The K of C message wishes a hopeful new year and blessings for all. In the Junior Town League match last Tuesday Knights vs Odd Fellows ended in a stalemate. The Post Office defeated the Teachers, closing the gap in standings. Other notes praise Bros. Daley and DeCourcey and mention Jack Steele's cross country trip. Bowling results show the Town team earning four points over Mic Tiltons, with future events and parties teased. George Wadland is praised as a key figure across leagues and Gene Lynch handles duties as a popular letter carver amid growing responsibilities.
The article recounts a festive Yuletide gathering at the club center decorated with wine and silver tinsel. Guests include Representative Dan Honan, Selectman Walsh, State Senator Crowley, former Selectman Clancy, Eddie Casey, John McCarthy, Artin O Malley, Frank McQueeney, William Downs, and Charlie Sinatra as master of ceremonies. The Spartan Club thanks sponsors and extends New Year wishes to new members and readers.
East Boston's Fitton Juniors defeated St Johns Episcopal Boys Club 21 to 18 at Winthrop with Alvis and Curtis top scorers. Edwards starred on defense for Winthrop in a tightly contested Friday night game.
A source notes the Aral Sea in western Siberia as the world’s fourth largest inland sea with an area of about 24 400 square miles. It is saline but less than many other inland seas with salinity around 10 percent.
Melbourne Lucas, secretary of the Vaan W U S AUX 1664, reports on club notices, a Christmas party with toys and candy for children, and plans for weekly dances at Winthrop Barn. The Chelsea naval hospital visit, a Christmas tree event at Metcalf Post, and acknowledgments to support staff are noted along with New Year wishes and upcoming meeting on January 3 1934.
A fragment notes that inventions in recent decades favor the United States followed by Great Britain Germany and France. It mentions electricity aviation submarines and telephones as American driven, and that early modern advances were British in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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