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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1936
Page
6
The page lists upcoming showings at Revere and Boulevard theatres including Too Many Parents, Petticoat Fever, Murder on a Bridle Path, Small Town Girl, Panic on the Air, and a Bank Night. It notes Sandy's Lunch at 23 Revere Street serving beers, wine, and meals, inviting patrons to visit for lunch or an evening.
A Wartemburg ruin, Welbertren Castle, is linked to a medieval tale. A feudal lord allegedly killed male inhabitants but allowed captured women to leave with their most valued possession, each bearing her husband, giving the fortress its famed name. Twain reportedly viewed the site from afar.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents Janet Gaynor and Roberts Taylor in Small Town Girl a romantic drama opening Monday for a three day run at Revere and Boulevard Theatres. The film follows a New England girl who elopes with a city doctor amid social ostracism and family struggles with support from a strong cast.
Bob McGarigle delivered a ninth inning homer for Winthrop B. B. C. to erase a 4 2 deficit and edge the Anderson Club of Cambridge 5 4 at Ingleside Park. Burns doubled and Remus scored on an eighth inning dash. Guidi reached on an error in the ninth before McGarigle's decisive blast.
The 1935 special town meeting approved amending the 1922 zone plan to add a new business zone to Lots 8 9 10 on Henry C. Tewksbury land, with boundaries described and filed in the town records. Town Clerk Donald S. McLeod certified the vote and noted no objections were filed. Attorney General Paul A. Dever endorsed the zoning law published under state statute.
The article recounts claims that tobacco could induce immunity during the 1831 cholera outbreak in France and traces tobacco’s spread in Europe from 1560, noting Nicot, Hawkins, and the Raleigh legend as early influences along with popular smoking customs.
Matthias Hohner born in 1838 at Trossingen in Baden Wuerttemberg grew from poverty to create the first harmonica. He combined inhaling and blowing, added a protective cover for the vibrating tongues, and transformed a rough whistling device into a musical instrument. The piece also defines bureaucracy as rigid and overregulated in Washington Star style.
The oldest botanic gardens in the new world sit on St Vincent in the Windward Islands. Established in 1763, it aimed to obtain breadfruit tree specimens for the HMS Bounty voyage to the South Seas. Captain Bligh later returned with 530 specimens for the gardens after the mutiny.
Pitcairn Island lies in the Pacific between Australia and South America. Discovered in 1767 by Carteret, it was later claimed by nine Bounty mutineers and Tahitian companions. It was annexed by Britain in 1839 with population relocations to Norfolk Island and subsequent returns.
Sir Joseph Banks funded a vessel and joined Captain Cook on the 1768 voyage. He first described Eucalyptus trees in California, naming them Gum trees. He introduced Araucaria from the Society Islands and Birds of Paradise from South Africa, honoring Queen Charlotte.
Certification noting unanimous vote at Special Town Meeting on September 23, 1985 and publication under General Laws Chapter 40 Section 32. Objections in writing due to Town Clerk per Chapter 39 of the Acts of 1929. May 21, 1936. $1-M29-15-12.
The Board of Selectmen has received an application from Copley E. Griffiths for a Common Victualler license to sell wines and malt beverages at 62 Woodside Avenue Winthrop. Premises described as a one story building one room on street floor with cellar storage. Advertisement date June 4 1936. CHARIGSS A. HAGMAN Clerk.
The article notes Venice law requiring merchants to bring back material for St Mark's decorations and expects returning generals to offer gifts. Arnold Lund in Venice explains that none of the church’s columns and capitals were originally built for St Mark's.
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