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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1938
Page
7
Roxbury resident comments on Miller Field controversy and Park Department caution. He praises Winthrop Senior High School outdoor graduation but laments crowd surge during the National Anthem and urges orderly conduct at future exercises.
The Winthrop Motion Picture Research Council voted at its last meeting to send thanks for the space allowed in the paper for notices over the past year. Signed by Alena C. Thompson.
Buick Division of General Motors earned third spot in the 1939 National Automobile Show space drawings at Grand Central Palace New York after the A M A completed its selections. Based on dollar sales for the year ending May 1 Buick rose from sixth last year to hold third, behind Chevrolet and Plymouth in the lowest priced car category.
The article traces the hound family in America from colonial times, listing AKC-registered breeds and describing size ranges and coat types. It notes Greyhounds as fastest, contrasts long-legged and short-haired breeds, and highlights features of Afghan, Borzoi, Scottish Deerhound, and Beagle among others.
The article notes that the University of Pennsylvania provided the only American-trained doctors in the Revolutionary War, highlighting its unique contribution to medical manpower for the Continental forces.
A satirical chronicle of DeMolay events in Providence and nearby towns. It recalls a night of mischief and miscues including the P M C's rainbow song, late returns, a barn gathering near Hast Seekonk, and anecdotes about temple officers, a temperance ritual, and street banter in Narragansett and Winthrop areas.
A Riga correspondent to the New York Herald Tribune sketches Latvia with over 1 000 lakes and about 500 rivers, its size larger than Denmark, Holland or Belgium, and one third arable. He notes Riga as capital and Baltic port, Tallinn’s founding and Narva and Tartu histories, and Estonian borders near the Gulf of Finland with varied landscapes from forested plains to moraine hills and lakes.
The Garden Club of Winthrop held its June session at Mrs. Clarence L. Covington’s grounds on Nahant Avenue. President Georgia A. Jarvis presided as members toured the gardens, heard talks on flower arranging, and announced a shrub planting project and future garden openings.
A Detroit News writer argues that children fear snakes only after being frightened by others, not born with this fear. The piece debunks myths about snakes and explains varied reproductive methods, noting some species give birth and others lay eggs. It also describes egg characteristics and hatching times.
In 1579 the Danzig council ordered the strangling of the inventor of a weaving machine to prevent his invention from putting many workers into poverty and begging.
The article notes whales have horizontal tails while sharks have vertical tails, explains how whales swim by up and down strokes enabling quick dives, and contrasts baleen and toothed whales. It also mentions 21 whale species in British waters, their furrowed underparts, and describes the killer whale as a ferocious toothed predator that can attack nets and ships.
Mizpah or Mizpeh means watch tower and served as many Palestine place names. The term later appears as a farewell blessing and talismanic ring inscription tied to the Jacob Laban covenant. Galeed’s stone heap memorial invoked a divine witness with the phrase The Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.
The first electric locomotives entered service on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in 1895 for use in Baltimore tunnels, marking an early milestone in railroad electrification.
The Narrow Gauge railroad introduces a weekly pass valid all week and for trips to Revere and Lynn with no extra charge, improving economy over ten cent fares. Starting Sunday student tickets move to unrestricted use, with a 40 ticket book at half fare, usable until used up with a principal and parent signoff. A new 20 minute timetable also goes into effect, boosting service between Boston and neighboring towns.
At St John’s Episcopal Church corner Bowdoin and Buchanan streets rector Ralph M. Harper leads 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion and 10:45 a.m. Morning Service and sermon on The Nature Need and Power of Prayer by the rector.
At First Church of Winthrop Methodist Episcopal, Harry Belmont Hill serves as minister with Carl W. Malley as Organist-Director. Morning worship at 11:00 a.m. includes a sermon The Silent Hour and Holy Communion. No summer Sunday evening service. Friday night Church Night and Bible Hour at 8 p.m. Theme St Paul Writes to the Thessalonians with Come as the quoted verse. Public invited.
The red mulberry is a rounded tree 15 to 30 feet tall, sometimes up to 60 feet, with a short trunk. Leaves are medium sized 4 to 7 inches, rough edged and yellow green on top when young, paler beneath, darkening and smoothing with age. Some leaves show uneven lobes. Bark is grayish brown and plate like.
The account traces marijuana called hashish in India as an ancient anesthetic and compares its effects to alcohol. It notes the term assassin possibly derives from hashish due to intoxicated natives, while acknowledging narcotic status and delirium from large doses with no essential medical use.
An Indianapolis News writer reports on ball lightning per a German study by Dr. Walther Brand noting 215 cases. Balls form as small luminous spheres during storms, sometimes enter homes, and may be harmless or cause burns when attached to conductors.
A Jamaica correspondent describes Hopewell caves between Runaway Bay and Dry Harbor where stalactites produce bell like tones. The caverns resemble Gothic crypts with mineral incrustations and light shafts filtering through. notes echo as roots hang along the floor. Dry Harbor lies 13 miles west of St. Ann's Bay and Columbus first claimed the land there in 1494.
The First Church of Christ Scientist in Winthrop at 165 Winthrop St hosts services Sundays at 10 45 am Saturdays 7 to 9 pm Wednesdays 8 pm and a public reading room daily 2 to 10 45 pm The June 26 Lesson sermon titled Christian Science includes Isaiah 85 10 and Matthew 9 27 29 along with excerpts from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
In Massachusetts a young Frederick Tudor argued with an old sea captain to ship ice to Martinique. He learned that covering ice with sawdust reduced melt, enabling a shipload of American ice to sail for Martinique, an unusual cargo for the era.
In 1749 the first English-speaking settlement at the mouth of Laramie Creek on the Great Miami River in present Shelby County was destroyed three years later by French forces and Native Americans.
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