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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1932
Page
3
Quote discusses nature as beautiful before human interference and sorrow after it. It argues nature flourishes with human presence and cannot long live independently once touched by humanity. The passage reflects on the spirit infused into nature by human life and the loneliness that follows absence.
Mr and Mrs Vincent Cox welcome a first born son on December 16 at the Community Hospital. Numerous guests arrive for Christmas week including Mrs William Crawford visiting New Haven and Miss Barbara Dailey of Manchester. Family gatherings occur across Winthrop with locals hosting kin from Philadelphia Boston Providence and Chicago.
The Winthrop Catholic Boys and Girls Club dance committee plans a Jan 20 1933 event at St John’s Hall Lincoln Street to aid the club. Tickets are sold and many requests for more, with Tom Corcoran George Kelly Dick Gilooley John Campbell Tony Vitale and others on the promoting committee. Miss Margaret Brennan volunteers. Tickets available from committee members.
A reader praises collecting Shakespearean quotes and notes common misattributions. The piece mentions concordances and Bartlett, cites misquotes like What is So rare as a day in time, and Spare the rod and spoil the child, and contrasts Shakespeare with Francis Bacon in a skeptical tone.
A scientist suggests life may originate in hot water puddles. The finding echoes long standing questions about life’s beginnings and may influence studies of extremophiles and early Earth conditions.
Mrs Win J Patterson of 44 Willow Avenue received a Christmas morning surprise from her son Theodore. An envelope on her tree contained tickets and hotel reservations for a Honolulu trip to visit daughter Katherine who has lived there three years. Patterson sails from New York aboard the S S President Hoover March 16 via the Panama Canal, arriving about April 23.
Winthrop Woman's Club led by Mrs L M Glover funds and staffs the dispensary and philanthropic work for a visiting nurse. Members Elinor Y Fisher Alma E Kershaw Bess A McFadden and Alice M Power assist as season volunteers. The club donated 25 for clothing baskets and other needs at Christmas. The fund also covers medical supplies for long term cases taught by the nurse.
Engagement announced at a Christmas luncheon at the Goodwins on Sargent Street. Frances Geraldine Goodwin, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Goodwin, to John Clifford Rowan of Newburyport and Winthrop. Frances is a Perry Kindergarten Normal School alumna affiliated with Revere Schools. Rowan belongs to the Boston English High School faculty.
The first Sunday school originated in Gloucester England with Robert Raikes who gathered street children for day long lessons taught by paid teachers. It inspired later schools in London and 1784 in Rowland Hill with long sessions from morning until after church. In New England, Sunday religious instruction also began, while Bishop Asbury is linked to the first regularly organized American Sunday school in Hanover Virginia.
Funeral services were held for Charles Sumner Colby of Wellesley Hills who died last week. Born July 23, 1888 in East Boston, he led Ludlow Manufacturing abroad in Calcutta and later became vice president and trustee. Survived by wife Sally E. Colby and daughter Elsie. sister Phyllis Colby Allen. Cremation at Mt. Auburn. ashes to be deposited at Woodlawn Everett.
Sincere sympathy is extended to the family of Mrs Mary Kelly wife of Mr George Cawthorne of Woodside Avenue who died on Christmas Day after a short illness. A Solemn High Requiem Mass was offered at St John the Evangelist Church with Rev James Carroll as celebrant and a nephew as acolyte. Pallbearers were six nephews James John Joseph Kelly Francis Fred Hickey and Willard Cronin. Surviving are her husband two sons William and George Jr a daughter Mrs Anna Scanlan of Detroit a brother John Kelly a sister Mrs Joseph Hickey and four grandchildren. Representatives attended from the Ladies Auxiliary Spanish American War Veterans and other local Catholic organizations.
East Boston mourns Mrs Mary Milward widow of Charles Milward with many friends attending. Funeral services were held Tuesday at St John the Evangelist Church with a high mass of requiem conducted by Rev Sorbert-Melinia. Celebrants included Rev James Carroll and Rev John Sullivan and soloist Mr William O’Brien. Survived by daughter Mrs Pred O’Brien of Lincoln Street and four sons.
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