Ricco Bachini Celebrated as Young American Model
In a Winthrop parish update a letter details Ricco Bachini serving in the Pacific theater from Guadalcanal to New Caledonia and Australia. The piece honors his faith and sacrifice and notes a strong wartime spirit among local families. The article lists elected Knights of Columbus officers for the year and previews Holy Name Society activities and a Miraculous Medal novena directed by Father Carroll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
New Caledonia
Guadalcanal
Australia
New Guinea
Winthrop
Ricco Bachini
Father Carroll
Tool Return Initiatives Spread Across Plants
Labor-management committees establish subcommittees to recover tools from skilled workers. Plants use tool sale boards, price-tag tables, and tool days to encourage returns. Trainees post buy lists and desired prices to facilitate exchanges.
Educational Experience Summary for Winthrop Students
War department approved educational experience summaries prepared for teens entering service. The program, developed by the Office of Education with War Department and other groups, records facts for civilian and military interviews and may be used at state offices. War Certificates list term attendance for the class of 1943 and 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
United States Office of Education
War Manpower Commission
National Association of Secondary School Principals
Winthrop Senior High
Independence a Good Step Toward Freedom
A faded Seneca quote about independence plays on the page, noting a light tone about liberty and personal courage. The fragment hints at philosophical reflections rather than a concrete news item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seneca
Copper Door Hinges Yield Metal for Anti-Tank Ground Mount
Two copper door hinges provide sufficient metal for constructing an anti-tank gun ground mount. The item implies resourcefulness in repurposing hardware for military use, reflecting wartime material constraints and improvisation.
WANTED Help for Delicatessen and Household Duties
Several small classified notices seek workers and items. Nat's Delicatessen at 2994 Shirley St hires general help. A reader advertises for a secondhand glider or couch hammock. Another asks for a summer housekeeper for a two person family at a home reachable by Ocean 0247.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nat's
Shirley St
Ocean
First Church of Christ Scientist Winthrop Service Notice
Sunday service at 10 45 a m and Sunday School for those up to 20. Wednesday testimonial meeting at 8 p m. Reading room open daily 2 to 5 with evening hours. Lesson Sermon June 13 on God the Preserver of Man with Bible selections from Psalms 121 and the Gospel text The Lord is thy keeper. Passages from Science and Health included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary F. Benson
Waldemar Ave
Winthrop
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Winthrop St
Churches of Christ, Scientist
Mother Church
Boston
Massachusetts
God
Man
Mary Baker Eddy
Foreclosure Bill Filed on Shirley Street Mortgage
Equity action in Suffolk County seeks authority to foreclose the mortgage on 529 531 Shirley Street Winthrop held by Charlestown Five Cents Savings Bank against Thomas L McDonald. The court set a July 6 1943 deadline to answer under the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act as amended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathryn V. Hope
Mercantile Realty Holding Trust
Real Property Trust of
Boston
Newton
Middlesex
Commonwealth
Joseph Sreda
Suffolk
Charlestown Five Cents Savings Bank
Winthrop
Shirley Street
Thomas L. McDonald
John E. Fenton
Esquire
Stenotype system discussed at Winthrop Rotary meeting
L A Ackley New England representative of the Stenotype Co Chicago explained speech writing by machine to Winthrop Rotarians. The device records up to 300 words a minute, faster than ordinary speech, and notes are easily transcribed by trained stenotypists. The talk noted growing demand and salaries for stenographers as corporations handle large volumes of material. Guests included three Winthrop High School boys and F M Emery of Boston. Ernest E Hardy presided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop Rotary Club
Beacon Villa
L. A. Ackley
New England
The
Stenotype Co
Chicago
Ackley
Winthrop High School
Arthur Leary
Donald Lindquist
Frank Orrall
F. M. Emery
Boston
Ernest E. Hardy
Willy Willy Gale Roars Against Australian Coasts
The article explains the willy willi as a fierce wind from Timor sea waters that can reach 120 miles per hour. It sweeps from the north to the interior and outward to the southern coast, delivering heavy rains and destructive storms typically from November to April along Australia’s north coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Timor Sea
Nationals Geographic Society
Broome
New Potato Varieties Offer Potential Quality Gains
The commercial grower should test new varieties only if they yield more or better potatoes than Cobbler Green Mountain or Rural types. Since 1915 breeding reduced cooking blackening and disease, yielding Katahdin 1932 and Chippewa Houma Sebaga Sequoia Pontiac Erraine No 2. These new types resist mosaic disease have good shape white flesh and cook with less tendency to blacken though leafroll affects many and they are less mealy than Green Mountain.
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Department of Agriculture
Rhodesia Slave Pits Found Near Umtali Farm
Archeologists uncover several dungeon like pits on a Rhodesia farm near Umtali that are believed to have imprisoned slaves in prehistoric times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhodesia
Umtali
Rubber-Like Golf Ball Material Not Rubber in War Time
The article explains that golf ball covers were not rubber but gutta percha or balata, sourced from Asia and South America. With limited balata, the War Production Board regulates its use. Gutta percha and balata provide flexibility but lack elasticity, serving as substitutes in cable coverings belting boot soles and aircraft fuel tank seals for war needs.
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Borneo
Sumatra
Java
South America
War Production Board
National Geographic Society
Kalata
Farm Plumbing Key to Rural Health and Sanitation
One of the most important factors in preserving rural health is the proper maintenance of farm plumbing. The statement emphasizes upkeep to ensure sanitary plumbing systems on farms.
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K. of C
Mike
James Kelly
John A. Gaffny
John B. Kennedy
John A. Clark
Leroy Gardinier
Francis O'Maley
Cornelius Leary
Leo Kelliher
John F. McMahon
Harold Verdi
G. K
Holy Name Society
Coast Guard
Bartlett RD
Preston B. Churchtel
Office OF
Superintendent OF Public Schools
Francis Riley
Stanley Herman
William Booras
William Hilton
James MacEachern
Edward Whitcomb
John O'Shea
Willard Turner
Angelo Spano
Ralph Sirianni
Robert Lessard
Robert Cushing
Raymond O'Connor
Francis Mulloy
Robert Williamson
Donald Kin
Jessie M. Porter
Victory Corps
Navy
Coast Guards
Armed Service
U. S. Coast Guard
Wll
Air Service
W.H. S
Osborne Hall
Kay Williams
Carmen Miranda
North America
Eleanor Herbert
Louise Mills
Winthrop High
Army Air Corps
Donald MacDougal
Robert Brown
Marines
David Hickey
John O’shea
Army
Arthur Nimblett
Robert Dalton
Harold French, JR
Rox the Reaper
Freedom
Olivia C. Starkweather
Hermon St
Mass
Colonial Inn
Frere
Shirley St. Ocean
Bathing Beach
Winthrop Co- Operative Bank
Winthrop Co-operative Bank
Almon E. Whittemore
Winthrop Trust Company Savings Department Bank
Winthrop Trust Company
Edward A. Barclay
Tel
Lowell Rd
Winthrop Highlands
Cliff Ave
Upland Rd
Ieee
Victory Bicycles
Chelsea Tire & Cycle CO
Chelsea Square
Chelsea
Ocean Ave
Boat Builders
Chiropodists
A. Promises Foot
Pauline
Civil Engineers
Whitman & Howard
Civil Engineers and Surveyors
Liberty
Broad St
B. Vaughan
M. J. Kelly
East Boston
Ocean 417
Telephone East
Charles A. Rollins
Meridian Street
Atlantic St. Ocean
Shirley Hardware Oo
D. Groman
Shirley St. Steeds Fil
Winthrop Hardware CO
Winthrop St. Ocean
Woodside Hardware
Woodside Ave
Zeppie
Ethel I. Zeppernick
Bartlett Ra Ocean
Jewelers
Gilbert R. Rand
Winthrop Trust Co
Bartlett
Central St
United
Meridian St
H. N. Bangs & Sons
Madison Ave
John Henry
Fremont St
Henry E. Keough
Pauline St. Ocean
Deroo Electric
Soas
Louis A. Radell
P. O
Lang the Shoeman
Co-operative
Mee
Enna-Jettick
Wames
Somerset Ave
Ocean 1
Albert B. Mille
Pauline Street
Pauline St
Christian Science Church
the Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Land Court
Robert FE. French, Recorder
Robert E. French
Coal & Ice Dealers
Francis L. Cronin
R. R. Ave
Revere Tel
Revere
Willy-Willy
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