Open House at New USO Club in Winthrop Harbor
Citizens of Winthrop toured the newly opened USO Soldiers and Sailors Club at the old Highland Yacht Club on July 4. Army officers and WACS from Harbor Forts visited, with plans for beach showers and a Co-ed smoker August 8 featuring George Carens and local sports figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop
Harbor Defense
USO Soldiers and Sailors Club
Highland Yacht Club
Yacht Club
F. S. Clark
J. Paul Lloyd
Henry Nelson
James Bethel
James A. Craven, Jr
George Stokes
George Carens
Nelson
Henry McCarthy
Capt
Bill Cloney
Walter Brown
Winthrop Circle Plans All Day Sewing Meet
The Winthrop Circle of the Florence Crittenton League will hold an all day sewing meeting at the president Mrs R S Woolletts home 2 Sargent ter on Monday July 12th All members are urged to attend and to bring a box Jillath a friend and their sewing for the annual bazaar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop Circle
Florence Crittenton League
R. S. Woollett
Sargent Ter
Garden Party Set By Literary Guild in Winthrop
The annual Garden Party of the Literary Guild will be held Saturday afternoon July 10 at 2 30 p m at the home of Mrs Ralph Woollett 2 Sargent Terrace with Mrs Daniel Honan as co hostess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Literary Guild
Ralph Woollett
Sargent Terrace
Daniel Honan
Ham Stores to Close One Day Weekly
Ham's Stores Inc announces each of its three locations will close one day per week starting Sunday to ration scarce commodities. Ham's Center will be closed Sundays, Beach store Mondays, and Highlands store Tuesdays. Schedule lasts until further notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ham’s Stores, Inc
Ham’s Center
Beach
Highlands
Ham’s
Tea For 35 Women's Clubs At USC Clubhouse
Officers of the War Services Division and the U S O Winthrop Branch hosted a tea at the Highland Yacht Club for representatives of 35 Winthrop women’s organizations. Mrs. Louis F. Salerno outlined shared purchases from kitchen to furniture, praising gifts from non-affiliated donors. Monsignor Qu’alan credited cooperative leadership and described club room as a home away from home with bowling alleys games and an evolving program for service men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Services Division
Committee On Public Safety
U.S. O
Winthrop
Highland Yacht Club
Louis F. Salerno
George Stokes
Monsignor Qu'alan
U. S. O. Soldiers and Sailors Committee
Salerno
Hone
Stokes
Random Harvest at Orient Palace Theater
The Orient Palace Theater presents the season’s finest film Random Harvest starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson. A superb love story praised as one of the screen’s best, urged to be seen and repeated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orient Palace Theater
Random Harvest
Ronald Coleman
Greer Garson
Assessors Attend Cape Convention on Taxation
Massachusetts Assessors Association held its annual convention last Thursday and Friday in Cape Cod with Mr. Henry F. Long presiding. Mr. Abely and Mr. Remby of the Board of Assessors attended and discussed new tax laws impacting real estate and home owners. The association's opposition to the laws was noted, and officials urged citizen attendance at committee hearings to influence future enactments.
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Abely
Remby
Board of Assessors
Massachusetts Assessors Association
Henry F. Long
Corporations and Taxation
Senate
Assessors Association
Crest Market Taken Over by White Brothers in Highlands
Crest Market in the Highlands now operates under joint ownership of Sonny White and Michael White after purchasing from the late brother’s estate. During the war Michael White will manage the store, maintaining the previous high standards, with Sonny White to assume active management after patriotic service ends.
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Crest Market
White Brothers
Crest Cash Market
Highlands
Sonny White
Michael White
U.S. Army
Camp Edwards
Funeral services for Mrs Gun hilde Knudsen
Mrs Gun hilde Knudsen widow of Peder Knudsen died June 30 and funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Norwegian Lutheran Church East Boston. She lived in the United States 57 years and in Winthrop 23 of those years. She leaves three daughters and 13 grandchildren plus eight great grandchildren. She came to the United States June 3 1886 and attended church services the following Sunday. Interment was in Winthrop Cemetery. Arrangements were with Reynolds Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gunhilde Knudsen
Peder Knudsen
Norwegian Lutheran Church
East Boston
Clara _Holgersen
Ingleside Ave
United States
Winthrop
Anna Iversen
Petra Johansen
Bertha Waltz
North Easton
Knudsen
Norwegan Lutheran Church
East
Boston
Lars Heggem
Winthrop Cemetery
Reynolds Funeral Home
Sacrament Sermon at Christian Science Churches
Sunday July 11 1943 church services present Lessons from Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. The Golden Text emphasizes unity as one body. Bible selections include I Corinthians passages and the Christian Science textbook excerpt discusses divine Love and spiritual progress beyond matter.
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Churches of Christ, Scientist
Mother Church
First
Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Massachusetts
Brethren
Moses
Christ
Mary Baker Eddy
Jesus
Isolated Discovery at Berne Physicists Identify Element 85
Berne scientists from Element 85 research team announce a method to isolate the final primary component of matter, completing the identification of all 92 known elements. The breakthrough signals a milestone in nuclear chemistry and materials science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berne
Switzerland
Edith Wood School Recital Impresses at Community Show
The Edith Wood School of Dancing and Dramatics presented another acclaimed recital last Friday, paired with a Wood Unit performance at U S camps. Notable performers included Agnes Leary Ida Lubell Lillian Hopkins Joyce Bailey and Barbara Rubin with Carol Stevens Gene Cronin leading song numbers. The show featured tap and acrobatic dances plus a Hindu Dance by Norma Kinney and a Chinese Wedding segment that delighted the audience. The unit was praised by Wiathrop for its talent and Mrs Wood for her teaching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Wood School of Dancing and Dramatics
Edith Wood
Agnes Leary
Ida Lubell
Lillian Hopkins
Joyce Bailey
Frances Lubell
Bertha Jermain
Joan Brady
Barbara Rubin
Jean Cronin
Carol-Ann Somerby
Martha Milan
Marcia McHugh
Gloria D'Angelo
Agnes Neary
Marea Mcpies
Carol Stevens
Gene Cronin
Brady
Bertha Jarmain
Norma Kinney
Lois Robertson
Wiathrop
Wood
Fred Burns
Elaine Radowitz
Dorothy Eisen
Gloria Lebow
Lila Hewson
Beatrice le
Wolff Fording
Hortense Texeira
Everett Kaney
Maurice Rubin
Mabel L. Hogan
Capitol
Boston
Jack Halligan
George Jeddrey
Russian War Relief Clothing Center Opens in Town
The Winthrop Committee for Russian War Relief opens a new clothing center on Shirley Street opposite Dolphin Ave. Volunteers sort mend clean and wrap clothing for shipment to Russia with urgent need for more workers to keep the center open. Call Ocean 0573M for participation.
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Winthrop
Committee For
Russian War Relief
Shirley St
Dolphin Ave
Russia
Russian War Relief Clothing Center
Ocean
What Direction America Sermon at St John’s Church
St John’s Episcopal Church led by Rector Ralph M. Harper holds an 8 a.m. Holy Communion and a 10:45 a.m. morning service with a sermon titled What Direction America. Dorothy MacNeil sings Panis Angelicus and The Lord’s Prayer as part of the service. A Friday intercession service occurs at 7:30 p.m. in the Prayer Shrine Chapel.
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Ralph M. Harper
America
Dorothy MacNeil
Franck
Mallotte
Prayer Shrine
Dedication of New USO Clubhouse in Winthrop
The USO Winthrop Soldiers and Sailors Committee opened the new USO Soldiers and Sailors Club at 53 Nahant Avenue with a June 30 dedicatory dinner attended by over 100 workers and senior army officials. Brigadier General F. S. Clark praised the effort and pledged support, while Monsignor Quinlan and Lt. Col. David Hickey led prayers and introductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USO Winthrop Soldiers and Sailors Committee
USO Soldiers and Sailors Club
Old Highlands Yacht Club
Nahant Avenue
George Stokes
Monsignor Quinlan
David Hickey
C. Glynn Fraser
National Catholic Community Service
Stokes
Winthrop
James H. Doyle
USC Greater Boston Soldiers and Sailors Committee
W. Duncan Russell
Usc-Greater Boston Soldiers and Sailors Committee
Russell
John P. Morine
Boston
Morine
George Hamilton
Louis Salerno
Madeline Bradley
Anna Cassidy
John Milne
Henry P. McCarthy
Percy L. Sterling
Winthrop Garden Club
F. S. Clark
Elton Titus
Henry D. Cassard
P. S. Lowe
Edwin A. Deagle
Leonard F. McAteer
James A. Craven, Jr
John Mohan
Dorothy M. Bell
WAC
Margaret A. Maxwell
Madeline C. Bradley
Charles J. Brown
Funeral services held for E. Frank Bell former East Boston resident
Funeral services for E. Frank Bell of Winthrop were conducted Monday at Reynolds Funeral Home with Rev. Lawrence Emig officiating. Bell who died suddenly on July 2 had lived in Winthrop about 16 years at 8 Vineave. Surviving are widow Jane, son Franklin, two sisters Mrs. Charles Gorman and Mrs. Fred G. Knell, and three brothers George Bell Malden Walter Bell Elizabeth NJ and Albert Bell Dorchester.
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E. Frank Bell
East Boston
Reynolds Funeral Home
Lawrence Emig
First Church
Winthrop Methodist
Bell
Winthrop
Vineave
Jane Bell
Franklin Bell
Charles Gorman
Fred G. Knell
George Bell
Malden
Walter Bell
Elizabeth, N. J
Albert Bell
Dorchester
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New Uso Club
Literary Guild OF Winthrop Catholic Women's Club
School of Dancing and Dramatics
Winthrop Street
Masonic Bridge
USC
Nat’s
Nat’s. Delicatessen
Wave Way Ave
Cape
Wood School
ST. John’s Episcopal Church
Bowdoin and
Buchanan Streets
USO
Sterling
Joe Barry
James Craven, Jr
Fort Banks
Craven
Special Services
Harbor
OCE
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