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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1934
Page
8
A large Memorial Day observance featured a well drilled local Legion Post with over 300 members and auxiliaries. Drum Corps of Spanish War veterans, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts contributed to the procession, praised for precision. Representative Daniel J. Honan delivered an outstanding oration.
Edwin O. Childs is featured as a sought after speaker, highlighting the association's value to members and the community. An "old home night" offers social bonds and historical insight along with home cooked supper. The Lobster or Chicken Salad dinner is at 6:30 with 65 cents per plate. reservations via Ocean 1193 or Ocean 2410-R.
At the annual meeting Mrs Charles Leslie May past president and Mr G Wallace Tibbetts state committeeman spoke in favor of Elizabeth W. Pigeon for State Auditor. The club leaders include Tibbetts and committee chairs Mrs Leon P Dutch hospitality, Mrs Carl S Floyd membership, Mrs A Walter Larkin publicity, and Mrs G W Dickinson.
Mr MacCormack announces Winthrop Lodge Elks will install Richard C Wallace as Exalted Ruler Elect with many members from surrounding lodges expected. The ceremony aims for a brief but meaningful gathering to welcome incoming officers and receive support from fellow Elks.
Pathfinder Magazine notes that researchers produce artificial lightning with millions of volts to test equipment and lightning protection devices. The article explains high voltage to break down atoms and achieve the needed particle speeds for studying materials and methods.
The George Washington bicentennial commission notes the surveying tools used in Washington s era. He likely relied on the Gunter chain and a circumferentor as his main instrument, with a plane table and theodolite possible but uncertain. His tripod remains at Mount Vernon.
The article describes early Japanese warfare as defensive up to the twelfth century, then shifting under military rule. It notes ceremonial combat began with a prisoner sacrifice, a courteous volley, and matched fencers who announced each opponent’s name and lineage before combat.
The state of Georgia maintained a small naval force before its 1787 Constitution era, later called the Georgia fleet or Mosquito fleet. It grew from an old river steamer and tugboats to four gunboats Savannah Resolute Sampson and Lady Davis and saw action near Port Royal and along Georgia Florida coasts before Commodore Tattnall sank it to prevent capture at Savannah.
The text notes Saugrain a French physician in St. Louis around 1800 created early matches used by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their westward expedition. It describes his process dipping sulphur and phosphorus into tipped wood splints to light the sticks, sealed in small tin boxes for safety.
The article cites Elson noting government expenses averaged nearly $3,000 per day and a public debt of $2.845 billion by August 1865. Expenditures by states and cities added about $500 million, plus South costs and war destruction. Interest, pensions to soldiers, widows, and orphans would push total war costs beyond $10 billion.
A church wardens’ plan to wed a nurse from the local hospital prompted a token of esteem. A net purse fund was raised by the curate’s wife as the congregation voted to present Mr L with twenty five pounds and a nurse at his marriage. Also notes mention engines heated water in one cylinder and cooled in the other for pistons, claimed more economical than steam engines of equal power.
Patrick Murphy, author of Murphy's Almanac, forecast a fair January with low winter temperatures. The January 20 cold spell proved the coldest in years, causing demand for the almanac to surge and profit for Murphy.
The event featured Miss Alice OLeary, the Dancing Debutantes from Winthrop, and a variety of performances. Officers were elected May 28 with Mary Sloan as president and Lillian Roberts as first vice president. A June 4 Beano Party fundraiser at St Johns Hall benefits charity, with prizes and a door drawing. A correction was issued on Executive Board election results listing F Tape S Hasson and J Monahan as new members.
Anna Sewell born in Yarmouth England on March 30 1820 died at Old Catton near Norwich England on April 21 1878 Her mother a writer of children's stories came from a Quaker family Sewell wrote Black Beauty in 1871 at Old Catton publishing a year before her death It urged kindness to horses and criticized bearing reins citing Horace Bushnell Animals as an influence
Naturalists note that many large animal groups migrate with seasons while others stay put. Authorities at the Museum of Natural History point to species such as caribou elk certain bats and whales as regular migrators. Trappers also observe lynx marten and hare move seasonally, unlike wolves and foxes that stay until displaced.
A fragment describes a wheel in the former Imperial Palace at Potsdam that revolves only once every four centuries, highlighting an exceptionally slow-moving mechanism in the grand clock.
The desert tortoise thrives in hot desert regions of southern California Nevada Utah Arizona and Western Mexico with little water intake beyond plant moisture. When threatened by capture an individual may retreat into its shell and squeeze out about a half pint of clear water. A 12 pound specimen is considered a good size.
The Rotary Club presents its constitution and by laws to the public outlining its aim to foster service as the basis of enterprise, high ethical standards, and the ideal of service in personal and professional life. It stresses developing acquaintance, recognizing worth, dignifying occupations, and global fellowship through service.
A fine Gillo-Roman omiument dedicated to Lucellus the beer god was discovered in a pond at Saint-Jean des-Vignes. The half Celtic half Gaul deity guarded the beverage from the grate to the barred.
The article casts cider as a symbol of American life and a historic pioneer drink. It recalls Appleseed John planting apple seeds across states and notes the abundance of orchards. It links cider to American identity and to William Henry Harrison’s political rise on a field cider platform.
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