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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1934
Page
3
A neighbor touts the Boston Globe daily puzzle lineup, highlighting a Crossword, anagram, and two picture puzzles as daily entertainment. The note invites readers to follow the Globe for these features.
The ad highlights Croft Ale and Haffenreffer Lager in small glass sizes, beef sandwich specials, home made salads, and a cooling system. It notes delivery to private parties by phone order and home delivery to the door.
A fragmentary report notes dangers of quicksand illustrated by a Colorado accident where a group fell into a strait and sank. The disjointed text mentions an unnamed incident underscoring the peril of unsteady ground.
Attendees at St Joseph’s Lynn Mass celebrated Rev John Feeney’s ordination with family ties to Rev Leonard Feeney and Thomas Feeney. Mrs Thomas Donovan and Mrs Loring Cogswell update on health and accident, while Major Albert S Smith attends Memorial Day parade. Children’s Festival planned by American Legion Auxiliary with typewriter ribbon ads in business directory.
Miss Thelma Bethel of Cottage Hill practiced nursing at Lynn Hospital on Thursday May ith. She received one of four prizes. Family and a few friends attended the exercises.
The local deli Nat's Delicatessen at 299 Shirley Street has earned many unsolicited compliments over the past months for cleanliness service and tasty sandwiches along with beer. Patrons are urged to visit and judge for themselves.
The Winthrop Pals won their fifth game of the year by defeating the C. Wola Club. The game featured a season‑long pace with key hits by Daly and Eldridge, and Barry pitched for Winthrop as the team capitalized in the later innings.
A fragment discusses ants and humans, arguing insects are low forms yet capable of advanced evolutionary traits. It explores concepts of hierarchy, environment, and agency, suggesting ants may use time more efficiently in certain contexts than humans.
The 65th annual meeting of the National Organization of School Executives will be held in Atlantic City from February 23 to 28, 1935. President Oberholtzer, Houston superintendent since 1924, will lead the program, with invitations previously extended to St. Louis Chicago Boston and Philadelphia.
On Tuesday evening June 5 the ensemble boys directed by H R Bradshaw will perform Bashful Mr Bobbs at the M E Church. P L serneemmanamrpen Scott urges ticket purchases early due to the amusing comedy and fine renditions promised for the evening.
Job B Andosra of 267 Wilshire Winthrop returned home on the SS Majestic after five years abroad. He has been associated with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of London and studied at King's College London. He attended King's College Hospital St Giles Brompton and Tooting Hospitals and traveled widely in England Wales Holland and Belgium. A Winthrop High School and Boston College graduate.
A long-ago printer in Albany, John Wesley Hyatt, experimented with a material to replace hot substances in testing. His sore fingers led to a breakthrough and the later invention of a device measuring radiant heat, linked to Langley’s earlier ideas, amid an era of scientific trial.
A fragmentary description of Mount Ararat and surrounding areas in Armenia and Persia. It mentions twin peaks near the Caucasus, a summit under 17,000 feet, volcanic geology in lower regions, inhabited lower slopes, and historic ascent attempts.
The text muses on the scale of a million by converting days hours and minutes into historical spans. It notes there are fewer than a million days in the Christian era and uses epochs like Trafalgar and the Great War to illustrate casualty rates per minute.
The piece by Charles Dickens, presented as his first fiction, appeared in the Monthly Magazine in 1883. Dickens recalled writing the tale as “my first effusion” dropped into a dark box, then walking to Westminster Hall with dimmed eyes and the joyful memory of the moment.
A large audience filled the Parish House Monday evening for a pop concert presented by the Men's Club under Horace A. Edwards with James S. Hamilton as Master of Ceremonies. The program featured orchestral selections, vocal solos by Carlton Richter and Phylis Edwards, ballet dancers directed by Edith Woods, and numerous soloists and ensembles.
A dinner will be tendered Mrs Eva Eskrigge past president of Winthrop Emblem Club on Tuesday evening June 12 at the Cliff House Winthrop Highlands Tickets may be had by calling Ocean 0922M Subscriptions will be 1.25 dollars.
At Bowdoin and Buchanan streets the St John’s Episcopal Church holds 1:00 A M Holy Communion and 1:45 A M kindergarten and primary commencement in the Parish House. Church School children will march into the church before the morning service. An annual commencement occurs at the parish house with vats reserved for the men.
Local police receive complaint about the theft of rosebushes and tulips on Shirley Street. Several properties affected with plants taken from near yards and gardens.
The Detroit News quotes a writer noting the otter is a land animal but equally at home in water. It dives with seal like speed and grace and prefers fast rivers to still lakes. The Michigan otter pelts fetch high prices, the animal averages 27 inches plus a 16 inch tail, lives in bank burrows, breeds annually with two young, and uses riverbank slides to reach the water.
The Chinook is described as a dry warm winter wind that blows from the west or north over the Rocky Mountains and descends to cool summers. It is caused by air moving northward and can last from a few hours to several days, occasionally warming Oregon and Washington. The term arose from white settlers in Astoria naming it after the Chinook people.
Melrose defeats rival in a key Suburban League match marking the locals first loss in three years. Kiely, a local top player, beat Foster, the state champion, after a long stretch of matches. The victory comes as Winthrop toppled Winchester, with Springfield Tech High School set to visit Springfield on Saturday.
Mrs Minnie F Schueler and family of Bates Avenue express sincere appreciation for the many kind expressions of sympathy received from friends and neighbors during their recent bereavement.
Few pilgrims reach the so-called desert of St John the Baptist in Palestine. The rocky hillsides are not barren but covered with wildflowers and sweet-scented herbs, making the place oddly inviting rather than wild.
Winthrop High School defeated Melrose High 2 1 at the Athletic Field on Tuesday afternoon to capture the Mystic Valley League championship. Phil Chardon hit a long homer into the left field bleachers with Franzbaum aboard in the fourth inning.
The Friendly Church at the Beach in Brookline invites all to 10:45 morning worship where Clement B. Yinger will discuss What Is a Modern Saint. Music by the vested choir follows. A 7:30 service will feature laymen and the pastor presenting reports from the State Congregational Conference held in Harvard Church. Church School sessions begin 9:30 with divisions at 10:45 12:10.
Funeral services for Christine M Bissell widow of the late Clarence H Bissell and mother of Clarence A Bissell were held from the Charles R Bennison Funeral Home. Rev Ralph M Harper officiated with interment at Forest Hills Cemetery. Funeral date observed Monday May 28.
East Boston residents protested toll plans as City Councillor Henry A. Selvitella urged free use of the $19,000,000 tunnel. Mayor Mansfield proposed tolls from 15 cents for motorcycles to 1 dollar for large trucks with 25 cents for passenger vehicles. The schedule awaits approval by the State Department of Public Utilities with date pending.
Indian leader Rain-in-the-Face of the Uneapapa Sioux joined the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 where General Custer and his troops were killed. He fled to Canada before returning to surrender in 1881 and lived on Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota until his death in 1905.
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