Boy Scouts Rally Planned at Ingleside Park Saturday
The Winthrop Boy Scouts and Scout Masters Club schedule a outdoor rally at Ingleside Park this Saturday at 2 p m with contests and prizes donated by Sigma Mu Gamma. Town residents urged to attend and support the troops in sports and practical work as they showcase efforts since Memorial Day and Spanish War Veterans Camp ceremonies.
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Winthrop Scout Masters Club
Sigma Mu Gamma
Winthrop Boy Scout
Ellis’ Hall
Doe
Dr Metcalf Visits Winthrop and Town Hall
Dr Metcalf and Mrs Metcalf visited Winthrop on Monday and attended a tour of the new Town Hall. He is in town with his daughter Caroline in West Roxbury and plans to depart for Phoenix to settle property matters before moving to Florida.
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Ben Hicks Metcalf
Winthrop
New Town Hall
Metcalf
Caroline
West Roxbury
Phoenix
Arizona
Florida
Ladies' Social Union Hosts Vestry Entertainment Program
Group 9 of the Ladies' Social Union presented an entertainment in the Methodist church vestry featuring a stereopticon lecture on ancient and modern lighthouses, a reading by Mrs. James E. Young of Nova Scotia, and instrumental music. Mrs. Geo. Thurston directed the event.
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Ladies’ Social Union
Methodist Church
James E. Young
Nova Scotia
Geo. Thurston
Memorial Day Orator Honors Fallen in Three American Wars
A Memorial Day address recalls sacrifices from the Civil War through present conflicts. Speakers honor young men who joined wars from Lincoln’s call to 1918 and beyond, noting marble graves, fields of memory, and the lineage from fathers to sons as graves and valor are celebrated.
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Flanders Field
France
North
Lincoln
Cuba
Philippines
Argonne
Appomatox
Lee
Grant
a. _mourpine
MDE. de
Devors
United States
America
Memorial Day Address Reflects on Civil War to World War I
The essay commemorates Memorial Day acknowledging Civil War and Spanish American War sacrifices, and the 1917 entry into WWI. It honors veterans, laments dwindling Civil War survivors, and urges gratitude through remembrance, flowers, prayers, and reverent memory for the fallen.
Junior High Honors Vets of Four Wars on Memorial Day
Memorial Day exercises at the Junior High featured veterans from four wars the Civil War Spanish American World War Indian War and the Apache War. The program included remarks by Lewis B. Pierce Richard R. Flynn Daniel C. Callahan and John H. Colburn with performances by the Glee Club and school choir.
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Digaghen
America
Lewis B. Pierce
Winthrop Post
American Legion
the Beautine Glee Club
Richard R. Flynn
Daniel C. Callahan
John H. Colburn
Edward R. Clarke
Star Spangled Banner, School
Winthrop Alumni Dance and Reunion Planned for June 21
An annual Winthrop High School Alumni Dance and Reunion is scheduled for Friday June 21 at the Junior High School with a good orchestra and dancing from 8:00 PM to 1:00 AM Preparations are underway and circulars will be dropped over Winthrop during the June 17 weekend by an airplane piloted by the O Toole brothers of Beachmont to invite graduates and friends Attendees are urged to join old classmates and alumni for the social event.
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Winthrop High School
Winthrop
O'Toole Brothers
Beachmont
Memorial Day Parade honors veterans across communities
The Memorial Day observance included the Legion Post in new uniforms, Gun Veterans Association, VFW Drum Corps in khaki, Girl Scouts, and Women's Relief Corps. A Pleasant Park review, parade route, cemetery graves ceremony, and World War monument tributes followed, with prayers, taps, and speeches led by local officials and the Memorial Day Committee.
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Legion Post
Alfred Silber
Throp
Suffolk County
Massachusetts
Gun Veterans Association
Revere
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Girl Scouts
Women’s Reserve Corps
Carrie M. Haines
Warren Ellis Women’s Relief Corps
A. J. Hodgkins
Pauline Street
Winthrop
Main
Pleasant
Buchanan
Fort
Ralph M. Harper
Library
H. J. Wharton
John H. Colburn
Henry J. Barry
Board of Selectmen
U. S. S. Maine
America
Frederick H. Clark
George A. Pierce
Institute New Camp Installation Marks Growth and Gratitude
Russell Younger installed as Commander with Mitchell and Kittredge assisting. Officers named include James H. Douglas as Senior Vice Commander and John J. Keefe as Junior Vice Commander. The camp, now over forty members, will keep the charter open sixty days to admit more Comrades.
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Russell Younger
Mitchell
Colonel Kittredge
James H. Douglas
John J. Keefe
Albert M. Abbott
Timothy J. Sullivan
Thomas W. Spear
John Jenner
Fred Striebeck
Othy J. Sullivan
Emil Schmidt
Wilson Hubbell
Thomas J. Donovan
Terwilliger
Qmr
Niland
Dept
Younger
Joseph H. Barry
Hemeister
Winthrop
Pleasant Park Yacht Club
George H. Russell
Greig
9Th Regt. C. A. C
John H. Colburn
Winthrop Machine Gun Associa
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Homer
Candy Shop
Winthrop ST
Wonder
the Homer
Seville
Central Square
East Boston
Wallace Beery
Florence Vidor
Warner Oland
Jack Holt
Boston
BOY Scouts
Ingleside Park
Orient Gardens
Orient Heights
N. Kamber
Sun
Douglas MacLean
Mack
Sda
Jeanette
Annapolis
Carl Dane
George K. Arthur
Victor MacLaghen
Lois Moran
Extra CH. Matinee
David Rellins
Nancy Drexel
Pep
Irene Rich
China
Dorothy Revier
Donovan
Gibson
Buddy Rogers
Jean Hersholt
Abie
Dr. Metcalf
Adway
Crescent Gardens
Corinne Griffith
S Apple Tree
Dorothy Sebastian
Conrad Nagel
Kid Gloves
Spain
Europe
Roy McKinley
F. W. Clark
Selectman
G. W. Tibbetts, C. A. Hagman
H. J
Suffolk County Welfare Workers
Annie O'Donnell
Chelsea Naval Hut
Winthrop Theatre
Dream Theatre
Mon
Lili Damita
Ernest Torrence
Hicks ‘Saan ‘Peeeiens
Harry Langdon
Pathe Review
Flaming Youth
Colleen
Marceline Day
Ralph Forbes
Norman Trevor
Malcolm McGregor
Eve Southern
Milton Sills
Maria Corda
Sills
Rin Tin Tin
Lon Chaney
W.H.S
The
Everybody’s Cash Market, Inc
Winthrop Trust Co
Ocean
Mulloy
Winthrop Lodge OF Elks
Charles Dagle
Douglas
Woodside Ave
Centre Station
Winthrop, Mass
Maccabe Company
Gordon Hosiery
Crystal Bay
L O. O. F. Hall
M. E. Church Ladies’ Social Union
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