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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1922
Page
2
A former Winthrop teacher writes a detailed Caney Kentucky year. She describes mountaineer families, moonshine, mining, weaving, hill gardens, and unique local names while noting daily life, schooling, and community characters.
The Third Annual Carnival in Winthrop on July 4 is set to replicate the 1918 success with Capt. Dick Stoehr leading the event. Ex-service volunteers and area organizations will guide games at Ingleside Park, with prizes including a Ford sedan, coal, a vacuum, and more, while funds support the Community Hospital.
A list of women including Trude Sullivan Grace Sheehan Geneva Diggins Elean Abely Catherine Donovan Edna Fox Mary Tierney C McCarthy Walter Dolan Cotter Cunningham Vera Hallam Anna Cassidy Clair Fulham M Y McGillicuddy Blanch Hayes Nellie Buckley Anna Fuller and Agnes Hayes appears in a community social column.
A deaf church sexton often quit pumping the organ mid hymn. a young organist, seeking to shine for a new, single minister, handed him a note to read aloud. He misread and passed the note to the minister saying to keep blowing until told otherwise, prompting comic confusion during the service.
Percy Sargent notes that the brain and other organs move with head position due to gravity and membrane coverings. He argues that even with the skull closed some movement may occur, though greater when the skull is opened during surgery.
A Montreal Star reader writes that the potato appears green and lively yet yields surprisingly small tubers when tops are vigorous, while a stunted top resembling dried olives can produce a bountiful harvest. The piece calls the potato a misleading root for amateur gardeners.
Charles Lamb reflects on life with his sister Mary after twenty years of close companionship. He notes their shared double singleness and describes their routines and conversations, including Mary’s tearful reaction to a kinder tone. He recalls their tastes in reading and her disinterest in tricks with her heart.
The London Daily Mail reports a remarkable bird that shows male traits yet lays eggs. The creature, described as a hen with a cock’s crow, has undergone a sex change between spring and autumn, producing big brown eggs while appearing male with hackles, sickle feathers, tall frame, spurs, and a strong crow.
A girl in a dormitory fainted and woke with memory loss, forgetting the last three years. She spoke of people, places, and events from before the episode, believing them to be present. She mistook the narrator for her brother and remained affectionate until she recovered by morning.
Dayton News argues national greatness lies in the number of capable people rather than land area, stressing population strength as the key measure of a country’s vitality.
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