Memorial Day Observed With Strong Local Veterans Turnout
In Winthrop May 30 1940 veterans groups led a large parade and ceremonies at the new cemetery. The American Legion units Winthrop Post 146 and W. F. W. provided honor reading General Logan proclamation and an earnest oration by Gerry Carlz. Rev Norbert McInnis gave the invocation, and the event ended with a drum cadence and band. Some Grand Army veterans could not attend, their memory lingering.
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Issof
United American War Veterans
New Cemetery
Geo. J.” ‘Hutchinson
Thomas Martinetti
Winthrop Post
American Legion
Richard Metcalf
General Logan
Ervais
Gerry
von Manning
Winthrop
Post
Norbert McInnis
St. John's Evangelist Church
Old Cemetery
Grand Army of the Republic
Tin Roof Painting Guidelines For New Installations
Roofing authorities advise painting tin roofs immediately after installation and every two years. If galvanized metal is used, avoid painting for six months to allow acids to dissipate. Remove peeling paint with steel wool, sandpaper, or a wire brush before applying new paint.
Town Hall waste prompts call for centralized purchasing
A Town Hall reader urges a public works consolidation to cut costs. He argues for a central purchasing bureau and merging highway, park, water, and sewer into one department to reduce idle manpower and trucks, with the Advisory Committee blamed for rising taxes. He criticizes assessments and predicts a higher fictitious tax rate despite property value drops.
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Park Department
Water Department
Sewer Department
Public Works
Welfare Department
Ben Dun
Oliver Green
Pneumonia Treatment Advances and State Help
Health talks explain rapid pneumonia progress with pneumococcus serum and sulfapyridine. Typing identifies the germ type to tailor serum, with Massachusetts offering free serum for six types via 90 labs. Early combined therapy improves outcomes, but age over 40, delays, pregnancy, extensive lung involvement, or bloodstream germs worsen prognosis.
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Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Massachusetts
State Department of Health
State Department of Public Health
WAAB
WEEI
Painting Tips for Woodwork Near Stone or Brick
Hinton advises when building or repairing with wood frames or trim that contact stone or brick masonry the back of the wood should be thoroughly painted to reduce moisture absorption and prevent premature paint failure.
Accordion Doors Offer Space Saving Solution
An accordion folding door provides a compact operating alternative when space is limited. Metal frame foundations support fabric panels and allow diverse interior decorating options for remodeling projects.
Bounty Offered for Cougars on Vancouver Island
The province offers a twenty dollar bounty per cougar pelt as a seasonal program. Hunters use packs of dogs to track and signal the animal, then the cougar is killed with a few shots after it is cornered. Cougars threaten poultry and livestock, and humans rarely face attacks unless desperate.
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Vancouver Island
Open Forum Urges Aiding Allies to Defend America
A WWI veteran writes to Winthrop readers urging support for the National Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. He asks citizens to contact Senators Walsh Lodge and Representative Connery to push measures aiding the Allies before it is too late. He highlights liberty loving, patriotic figures backing the movement.
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Winthrop
Austin
Vermont
William Allen White
Kansas
Dwight Morrow
President Conant
Harvard University
National Committee
America
United States
Walsh
Lodge
Connery
Coon Escapes After Hunter Falls From Tree
A serio comic incident from Delaware woods reports a hunter and dogs treed a raccoon. The hunter shook the tree to dislodge the animal, fell to the ground, and the coon reportedly escaped.
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P. S
Delaware
National Wildlife Federation
Middle Age Punishments Evolve From Penance to Imprisonment
A Columbia University Press study outlines how early Middle Ages favored penance and finesse as punishments. Over time these gave way to harsher corporal and capital penalties, and by the 17th century imprisonment rose to prominence.
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Columbia University Press
First Federal Death Sentence Hailed in 1793 Mutiny Hangings
The first federal death sentence in U.S. history was carried out in New Bern North Carolina in 1793 when four sailors were hanged for mutiny at Ocracoke Island.
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United States
New Bern
N. C
Ocracoke Island
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