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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1926
Page
4
Notice urges timely delivery of change of address materials by Wednesday afternoon to ensure same week insertion. Requests all communications include sender name as guarantee of good faith. Welcomes Winthrop news and items of special interest to residents.
An elderly speaker voices mixed opinions on Iowa insurgent Brookhart and both tariff and grain policy, criticizing Eastern protection and praising Western vitality. He notes Congress fights Cape Cod Canal too, praises Winthrop Legion carnival plans, and urges support for local Boy Scouts funding and national tax cuts.
The Winthrop High School class of 1926 held a banquet in the gym after the Class Day exercises with 153 graduates and about 50 guests. Norman Corwin served as toastmaster, and speakers included A R Stedfast Frank Bauer Jr Anna Cook and others. The track team beat Beverly 49 19 and Thomas Sanders was elected captain. The baseball team defeated Marblehead 2 1 in eleven innings with Brendan McLaughlin named captain.
The Ancient club held a 284th birthday gathering with Mr N Elliot Willis and Mr John L Harron in attendance. Harron has been associated with the Ancient for several years.
Joan A. MacWillie of the Sophomore class won the Flag Day cup the Winthrop Lodge of Elks awarded for the best essay on the American flag. Miss MacWillie read the prize essay at the Flag Day celebration in Elks Hall Monday evening. Louise Murphy W H S 22 received her Boston University diploma this week and was chosen as the class’s top example of college spirit. Arthur L Brown W H S 20 now studying at BU Law spoke for BU Alumni at the annual Alumni banquet for the graduating class held at BU this week.
The Boy Scouts from Troops 6 and 10 joined the Elks Parade and Flag Day observances with 50 boys taking roles as color bearers and guards. Sea Scouts under Deputy Commissioner Paul V. Remington assisted as color bearers. Scoutmasters Robert Hodgkins and Raymond Flannery praise their troops. A camp site at East Weare New Hampshire will be ready after July 1. Whitman Lumber Co. plans to build a cook shack around July 10 with Loomis, Liebfried and Troop 8 accompanying. Volunteers with cars to transport boys to camp are asked to contact Mr. Loomis at the Senior High School.
The text traces cremation from ancient practices where bones and ashes were kept to modern methods where the body is fully reduced to ash in a furnace or retort driven by heated air and gases.
Fragmentary quotation discusses an old man and a miscount of time served in jail. The piece critiques record keeping and aging arguments, referencing a phrase about Jumbo and a five year period. No clear event or named entities beyond generic references.
The paper highlights the second annual Elks Midnite Frolic on the Night Before the Fourth. Winthrop Theatre and Winthrop Lodge of Elks seek reservations, signaling strong backing for the show. Kellstrom, the Magical Droll, is among early engagements as organizers plan a full lineup to be announced in coming weeks.
Deane Winthrop Chapter D A R Mugford Memorial Committee met at the Regent Mrs Clara Newtons home on June 3. They plan a clam chowder supper at the Old Deane Winthrop house on June 22 to raise funds for a tablet at Point Shirley honoring Capt James Mugford who died in the Battle of Pullen Point against the British.
Mrs. Harry Whorf is invited to join the Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution State Committee for the preservation of historic spots. The notice specifies her selection to participate in the historic preservation effort.
Cablegram reports the death of Ellen S. Jukes of 12 Jefferson street at Ryde Isle of Wight after a brief illness of pleurisy. She had sailed May 22 on the S S Devonian from East Boston for a visit and wrote of a delightful trip. The body will be sent home to Winthrop.
Real estate deed entries list multiple pairs of grantees and grantors with street addresses including Woodside Avenue Cliff Avenue Bates Avenue and Shirley Street. Notable names include Marie A Baker Helen G Cammall Anna Sperber Sami Levine and Margaret L Ferrin among others.
Mrs Amy F Peckham known as Amy Bemis dies on Monday June 14. She was wife of Joseph W Peckham and the funeral and services were held at her daughter Amy Somers residence 512 Summer Street East Boston last Wednesday.
Grace I Glover died at home 614 Shirley Street on Tuesday June 15. She was wife of Irving D Glover. Funeral services were held Thursday at 2 PM from 495 Commonwealth Avenue.
Mrs Caroline L Merritt widow of the late Dr John D Kielty of Fitchburg died last Saturday in Shelburne Falls Massachusetts. She was 60 and lived at 18 Dolphin Avenue for some time. Interment followed Tuesday afternoon in Forest Hills Cemetery Fitchburg.
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