Old Timer and Bill Biggins Share Thoughts on Life
A dialogue between Old Timer and Bill Biggins covers moral reform, politics, religion, and the era’s social tensions. They discuss Hoover on youth, the value of fishing, Babe Ruth’s good deeds, justice and punishment trends, and the importance of grandparents, patriotism on Memorial Day, and New England culture and tourism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Boston
Bill
Monte’ Wells
Monte
Clarence DeMar
Sec
Herbert Hoover
Babe Ruth
Orphan Asylum
Babe
Lindy
America
Wells
Namby Pamby
Sissy
Time by phone may return under new plan
Plans under discussion by the Telephone Company may restore time requests by calling the operator or dialing a dedicated time line. The service, halted during the war, would charge regular rates for time calls moving forward, with a separate exchange handling all time requests.
Assessors Street List Completed in Town Printer Run
The assessors street list is completed and sent to the printer. Copies will be available next week for those who request them at the Assessors' office. supply is limited and early callers will be favored.
Seaweed Preface and Chelsea Hill Remembered
A nostalgic coastal column recalls Seaweed readers and editor quirks, then profiles Shay's Hill in Winthrop once a lively May party site now eroded by development. It contrasts past scenery with today’s littered streets and tenement life, and ends with notes on Chelsea Street routine and early month moving chaos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Society
New Hampshire
Shay’s Hill
Shay’s
Governor's Island
Lynn Beach
Winthrop
Chelsea Street
Boston
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Old Timer
Bill Biggins
Kansas City
Animal Friends of
Man
Goofy’ Bowers
Teverence
Dad
Europe
United States
New England
Union
Boston Harbor
East Boston Landing
Bowes Wharf
City of
Lynn
Swampscott
Portland
Dartmouth
Asburnham
Brewster
Newton
Rene’s
Mid Harbor
Bay State Road
Knickerbocker
Back Bay
Shore Line
Gran Central
125Th Street
Suh
New York Times
New
Francis J. Mahaney
Metropolitan Coal Company
Exchange Place
Hubbard
Zita M. Foley
Beauty Shop
Cliff Avenue
Violette Jeanne DE Vonde
Emile
Miss Foley
Kilburn C. Brown
Winthrop Street
Ocean
Jefferson Street
Rexall
Mary Elizabeth
Woodside Avenue
Winthrop, Mass
Gordon G. Fullerton
Automobile Service
Putnam Street
Walker and
Ehrhorn
Winthrop Delicatessen CO
Somerset Avenue
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