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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1938
Page
2
The Winthrop Review receives thanks from Anne Wales for prompt publication of notices and reviews sent during the past season. She expresses gratitude and signs as Mrs. Robert W. Wales.
The Winthrop Chapter of Hadassah thanks the editor for space given to notices. The Winthrop League of Women Voters outlines a year of meetings at Beacon Villa with Guest Day at Mrs. Sam Davis's home on Oct 5 and a schedule of speakers and topics from Sept to June, ending with a June field trip.
The Recreational Committee finally met two days ago choosing Ernest G. Bentley as chair and Alan B. King as secretary. A streamlined fountain gift from the Water Department will upgrade Ingleside Park Tennis Courts. Frost Public Library marks an anniversary on the 27th. The dredging bill for Shirley Gut failed, delaying Deer Island changes and keeping Winthrop tensions alive.
A town committee studies adding land for playgrounds while critiquing the Park Department for keeping Miller Field and Ingleside Park closed. Residents argue taxpayer funds built these sites for broad use, not limited seasonal events, urging immediate access for children and adults.
Mrs John W Fielding hosts the Garden Club of Winthrop at Beacon Villa on Monday June 6. Mrs Arthur W Hodges chairs with Wild Flowers of New England as the subject and Mrs George A Pierce will read on Ferns. A plant exchange and iris arrangement judging are planned.
The Massachusetts State Convention of the American Legion Auxiliary will meet at the New Ocean House in Swampscott on June 16 17 and 18 with Miss Bessie Winston as president and other officers listed. Alternates include Mrs. Gertrude Daily and Mrs. Margaret Cawthorne. A banquet is set for June 28 at the Dugout with Mrs Edna Brooks as chairman. Suffolk County Caucus centers at Kane Post Dorchester on June 2.
A successful May 18 party chaired by Vice President Mrs Annie Dalton is reported. Beginning June 3, a bridge and whist gathering will be held every Friday afternoon at 194 Washington Ave, welcoming members and friends. A regular business meeting occurred Wednesday evening June 1 by Odd Fellows Hall.
London short feature notes that the title Royal Highness is limited by King George V s 1917 ruling to the children and grandchildren of the sovereign. Eldest son remains Prince of Wales with male precedence, while younger sons become peers only if granted dukedoms. Some royals may become plain Mr or Miss Windsor.
Washington County in early Ohio formed a large part of the state east of the Scioto river and represented a substantial tract of land in pre statehood days. The passage notes how this single county encompassed much of what would become the eastern region of Ohio.
Memorial program led by Principal N Elliot Willis features Lameter Junior High Orchestra singing America The Beautiful and Our Honored Dead. Edward R Clarke Superintendent gives remarks. Salute to the Flag and Star Spangled Banner performed by the Glee Club and Trumpeters. Faculty and student soloists and instrumentalists listed.
A writer argues about state name meanings, noting many derive from Indigenous languages. Examples include Connecticut river of pines, Idaho light on the mountains, Illinois river of men, and Oklahoma red people, with 26 states named from Native languages and 12 from English roots.
Your Winthrop Review Hit Parade ranks this week’s top tunes at local dances and phonographs. Love Walked In maintains the lead for a second week, Cry Baby Cry rises to second, Don't Be That Way advances to third, and Please Be Kind falls to fourth. The feature remains an exclusive weekly Poke-About-Town segment.
A collage of city vignettes from Newton to Winthrop Beach captures race meet calls, dandelion gathering, station bells, a gate at Bowes Wharf, a newsboy in a luxury car, DeMolay chatter, fashion remarks, city growth talk, trench fears, Center social strolls, Metcalf Square gossip, Jr High dances, and a midnight train ride reflecting local life and humor.
Dick Hayman returns from the Roxy engagement with Paul Robinson and his Harmonica Champions and heads to Detroit or New York for future work. The Community Building dances pause for a Jewish holiday, and Winthrop youths prepare life-saving certificates at the YMCAs Lynn branch. Memorial Day parade plans face changes, while a humorous home invasion trick is described and Beach firemen renovate their station.
A light social note asks readers to attend another round of local dining chats labeled Poke About Town. The column invites participation and promises a friendly, casual gathering in the usual neighborhood venue.
Massachusetts co operative banks fielded more than six and a half million dollars in new mortgage loan applications in April for owner occupied homes. Warner M Allen reports a 9 percent rise in applications from the prior year, and a $411,370 value increase. The April surge topped May records in loan volume for over five years.
Entomologists state that honeybees do not recognize or distinguish beekeepers from others. They note workers live about six weeks in the active season, with two spent in the hive, making frequent hive checks unlikely to imprint recognition even if bees could tell people apart.
The article notes the Italian peninsula stretches 760 miles with a width not exceeding 150 miles and typically under 100 miles. It states Italy is slightly larger than New England and New York combined.
Three Winthrop born graduates Ruth Burns Mary Mahoney and Margaret Jenkins will receive Bachelor of Arts degrees next Tuesday at Emmanuel College commencement Exercises include a Pride and Prejudice play a Baccalaureate Mass Class Day exercises and a class banquet The degrees will be conferred by Bishop Richard J Haberlin with address by Reverend William J McGarry S J President of Boston College
The United Missionary meeting, postponed from last week, met in the Burn Side Room and Ladies' Parlor of the Methodist Church on Wednesday at 2 p m. Mrs W D Childress hosted with a capable committee. Leader Mrs Harry Belmont Hill arranged the program for the Mite Box opening of the Women s Foreign Missionary Society and introduced Mrs Fred Winslow Adams who sang a set of Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes.
The Winthrop Woman's Club Literature Group 3 gathered May 27 at Mrs. C. L. Covington's home for a dessert luncheon and a review of Madame Curie by Mrs. Samuel Maylor of Literature Group 2. Guest Mrs. Fred Fisher attended and the group will meet again in October.
The article discusses Greek roots of Isidore Isadore and Isadore, noting scholars vary on meaning. One writer links Isis gift to the moon goddess, while another says Isadore means fair gift. It cites St Isidore of Pelusium a fourth century theologian, St Isidore of Seville a seventh century archbishop, and St Isidore the Laborer a eleventh century pious plowman near Madrid with legends angels did his work while he prayed.
Johns Hopkins University is named for Johns Hopkins a financier and philanthropist born in 1795 who became a Baltimore grocer at seventeen. In 1822 he founded Hopkins & Bros. and built a large Maryland Virginia and North Carolina trade then used his fortune to fund railways banks and eventually donate over 3 million dollars to establish the Johns Hopkins University.
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