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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1932
Page
2
Calendar proclaims the summer season as a time of health and happiness for humanity. It emphasizes outdoor work and play with energy drawn from the sun, acknowledges perspiration as a sign of toil, and highlights summer as the principal American vacation period for the poor and middle class seeking two weeks of leisure.
Across the season Americans of all ages will tour hike motor swim camp boat and golf and participate in numerous sports. They will return to school work and home in fall with strong lungs muscles and energy as hot weather tests endurance and life grip.
A reflective essay urges dropping grudges to ease life’s burden. It warns that dwelling on past wrongs empowers others and damages happiness. The piece favors forgiveness, pity for evil, and focusing on hopeful memories and charitable acts.
A reflection on shopping local versus mail order buying. Home merchants offer personal service, quicker delivery, and stronger community loyalty, while catalog outlets chase scale at the expense of customer care. Buying locally sustains prosperity and prosperity sustains the town’s future.
A condensed medical Q and A outlines sore throat as a symptom of various infections. It discusses local abscess behind tonsils, diphtheria influenza and scarlet fever, and streptococcus throat with potential complications. Also covers varicose veins causes and treatments and how Eustachian tube links throat to the ear can lead to ear abscesses.
A medical Q and A explains that a cold can push infection from the throat through the Eustachian tube to the ear, more likely in children. It warns to keep one nostril open when blowing and notes that no exercise can grow shoulder flesh while suggesting posture improves chest capacity.
The first teeth guide the second and should not be lost. Do not clean the mouth before teeth appear. After teeth come in, brush with a soft toothbrush after meals and use mild toothpaste once daily. Saltwater rinse helps. avoid pacifiers and thumb sucking. If mouth breathes during sleep test for adenoids. First dental visit around six months. by age one or two, expect the full set. Regular checkups help prevent decay and ensure proper jaw growth. Sinus trouble is usually a sinus infection from a cold or throat infection and may require drainage procedures or climate changes.
The article notes no blood test definitively confirms tuberculosis with current methods and that complement fixation and agglutination tests lack reliable results. It also advises dandruff control through sulfur ointment applied to the scalp and regular shampooing, with medical advice if persistence occurs.
A preeminent diabetes specialist extols insulin noting children once doomed to short lives now live indefinitely and adults gain extended, independent lifespans. Diet advances accompany insulin, shifting from starvation to liberal feeding while avoiding overfeeding. Early coma death risks are reduced, and intelligent patients can prevent crises. Knowledge offers hope to avert the disease.
Albert Wiggam recalls a ten year old asking how to slow a horse drawn buggy by putting it in low and a radio announcer’s daughter prays for grace with the line This food comes to us through the courtesy of God Almighty.
Local column highlights Hanover area life with updates on John J. McCarthy's K of C leadership, Pete Howatt's death, Class Day at the high school, Suffolk Law alumni event, Dan Callahan for state House, Paul Connors marriage, town clerks and park commission work, Charlie Mansfield at the Winthrop Theater, yacht clubs gearing up for summer races, Winthrop Board of Trade president John C. McMurray, raft association progress, Zam Bola funds for the Winthrop Community Hospital, and local aviation noise concerns.
Regular Sunday service at 10:45 with Sunday School following. Sermon subject Is The Universe Including Man Evolved By Atomic Force. Free public readings and daily open hours 2-5. Evening hours 7-9 Saturday and Wednesday services.
The Winthrop League of Women Voters announces its officers and members including Mrs. Sam Davis as Vice President and Mrs. Elizabeth M. Davis handling Radio duties. Also listed are Mrs. Robert Wales, Mrs. Agnes F. Furbish, and Benjamin A. Healey among others in committees on government and living costs.
Miss Elizabeth Bridge Piper president of the Cambridge League will speak at the Cambridge group meeting next Monday at 10 AM at 132 Washington Avenue. The talk covers organizing the 1932 33 season study plan and department division with arrival at 10 and a 30 minute talk.
The Massachusetts League scene highlights local Leagues Winthrop Reading and the State League push for publicity and a question and answer column. Clerks note budget balancing and the need to fund national work through local Leagues while emphasizing member study programs and prominent figures such as Miss Louise Griffith and Mrs True Worthy White.
The Akiba Club of Winthrop highlights members Elmer Brown and Rose Kaplovitz with advanced degrees from Boston University and Bartia Lay School while Lerman earns an M D from Tufts. With graduation over, members plan a July dance and an upcoming outing during the summer.
Death notices from Winthrop dated June 13 report Henry H Callahan husband of the late Margaret Rice Callahan Grace A Shurtleff widow of the late Henry Hutchinson and Maria Murray Jennings beloved wife of the late Patrick Jennings
Henrietta A. writes of memory and a relic of childhood, a shadowy picture of a past home with elm trees daisies and evening flowers. The narrator recalls Grandpa's knee, cricket song, and fireflies, and vows to hang the image for future years when old age comes. The piece laments lost loved ones and preserved comforts of a bygone era.
The Winthrop Catholic Woman’s Club executive board met at new president Mrs. Edith M. Christopher’s home on June 9. Committees were appointed across executive, program, membership, sunshine, visiting, welfare, hospitality, publicity and printing with members named to each. An annual outing to Gloucester is planned for July 2 with reservations via Mrs. Helen Monahan.
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