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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1939
Page
4
A gardener describes aphid control on spirea and mock orange using nicotine sulfate, notes leafhopper spread of yellows disease, and outlines treatments with Bordeaux mixture and pyrethrum. Also covers soft rot rhizome rot linked to borers, recommends sanitation, removal of rotted rhizomes, mercuric chloride wash, bed relocation, and general cleanup for lilac leaf and twig blights.
The guide lists lilac diseases including brown or black spots on leaves that girdle young twigs causing shoots to blacken and die. Control by pruning diseased twigs, preventing dense top growth, and spraying in spring with Bordeaux mixture 4-4-50 at 8 to 10 day intervals after earliest leaves unfold. Also notes powdery mildew and rusts with sulfur dust or Bordeaux spray as treatments.
The Union Congregational Church in Tewksbury announces a busy summer schedule led by Assistant Pastor Vivian M Bartlett and Organist F C Butterfield. A last Sunday evening meeting before fall, weekly Thursday youth picnics, a June 24 Leavitt Union Picnic, and a June 28 Bowling Banquet are planned. Vacation Church School starts Monday at nine with sessions for four age groups and a self supporting fee of 25 cents per week, up to 1 dollar per family. assistance available via the pastor's assistant.
The distillation of kerosene from crude oil led to lamps built for kerosene and brighter light than tallow candles. Oil drilling spread from New York, Pennsylvania, and western Virginia to Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, with “wildcat” wells describing risky early prospects in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
More than 16 000 stones from around the world are arranged in a circular wall surrounding the Voortrekkers Monument near Pretoria to commemorate the great trek of the Boers.
A Guanjuato graveyard in Mexico is described as one of the strangest in North America with thousands of skulls stacked in a corner and skeletons hanging from walls.
Public auction at 2 PM on Wednesday July 19 1934 will foreclose the mortgage held by Home Owners Loan Corporation onEdward H Lavoie and Rose M Lavoie for property in Winthrop Suffolk County Massachusetts described as Lot 28 and 4 on plan with northwest by Buchanan Street and a passageway inclusion. The sale includes all structures fixtures and appurtenances and is subject to unpaid taxes water liens and municipal assessments. Two hundred fifty dollars must be paid at auction with balance terms to be arranged. James J Brennan State Counsel.
The text notes that Texas may subdivide its area into up to four additional states after annexation, each of convenient size with a sufficient population, and entitled to a voice in the Union, per congressional joint resolution approved March 1, 1845.
Public auction to foreclose the Home Owners' Loan Corporation mortgage on property in Winthrop Suffolk County Massachusetts. Sale at 1 30 PM on July 29 1989 for 350 dollars cash with rights of way and included structures as described, subject to unpaid taxes and liens.
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