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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1925
Page
5
Fort Banks overwhelmed Roxbury Town Team 12 to 2 as Geng pitched superbly for Fort Banks. Manager Land plans three more Sunday appearances featuring Village A. C., Fitton A. C., and Wakefield Town Team to attract crowds and sustain a full season.
Winthrop High defeated Chelsea High 3-2 at Ingleside Park after a ninth inning rally. Petrucci sparked the comeback with a triple and scoring on a passed ball, Delorey drove in the winning run, and both pitchers showcased strong performances in a well played game.
At the Winthrop Golf Club a four ball best ball 18 hole tourney produced a gross 83 by Dan O’Brien and Amos Crooks, and Pennington with Causer led the nets at 72. Cards listed include multiple teams with scores and non-card players noted. Next Saturday May 16 features the best selected nine with one third handicap. The season shows strong greens and trimmed fairways at this growing club.
George S. Gibby son of Selectman Arthur Gibby proud of Huntington School boat crew. He took part in several races this week and his crew secured victories in the matches.
The 1925 season lists English at Winthrop on May 16 and May 20 against Revere at Winthrop. May 23 has Winthrop at Chelsea, May 27 Peabody at Winthrop, June 3 Winthrop at Beverly, June 6 Classical at Winthrop, and June 10 is listed as Winthrop open.
A high scientific authority notes that atmospheric waves produced by cross winds can reach ten to twelve miles above the earth, with air waves showing troughs and crests, foam and spray, comparable to ocean waves though far larger in scale.
Paris visitors pay to enter the Pantheon and extra for a guided tour of crypts. A guide boasts of showing forty first empire statesmen in a basement burial area. An English visitor asks to see a tomb, but the guide jokes that wax figures at Musee Grevin provide a fuller life-size view.
The Pittsburgh Sun notes that in 1832 or 1833 the Mandans learned of a white buffalo robe at the mouth of the Yellowstone held by Blackfeet. A delegation traveled 200 miles with eight horses and goods, returned on foot with the robe, which was consecrated to the Great Spirit and hung as sacred medicine. The text cites the rarity of pure white robes, with buffalo colors described as yellowish white and as one in 100,000.
The term basilica in ancient Rome referred to a public meeting hall and court with a nave flanked by aisles and a dais for judges. A semicircular apse at the far end expanded space. After Christianity spread, basilicas were converted into churches, giving rise to the modern cathedral form.
The pledge’s origin is linked to James P. Upham, a Boston publisher who in 1888 proposed its use in schools. The National Education Association promoted it to Congress, leading President Harrison to proclaim October 12 as Columbus Day and urge recitation of the pledge in schools.
A Printers Ink writer asks if better to take $200 monthly with self respect or $300 with the fear of overpayment. The piece notes many workers are overpaid as others are underpaid and slumps could topple the overpaid while the underpaid hold steady and even gain.
The Kingston New York state legislature on March 14 1788 authorized trustees of Kingston township to grant Congress land within the township for a residence adequate to Congress dignity.
Ex Selectman Nelson Floyd is seen around town at Eliot Whit tier real estate daily and recently drove again. Assessor Edward S. Freeman returns to Town Hall, proving Ford cars cannot sideline him for long. George Douglas, Town Accountant, slowly improves after illness. Treasurer Harry Aiken returns from a southern sea trip to Norfolk. Fire Engineers were called to rescue a cat on Pleasant street near Pauline street. Chief Belcher, Twining, Smith and crew assisted with no town expense. Town population by precincts shows totals: Precinct 1 3598 Precinct 2 4374 Precinct 3 4563 Precinct 4 3115 Fort Banks 505. grand total 16 155.
In northern Russia wild geese shed nearly all wing feathers during summer. Natives trap them by the thousands, bury the birds in swamp mud to rot, then dig them up to feed half wild dogs and even eat them themselves.
The primitive man viewed a solar eclipse as an ill omen signaling disaster and divine anger. Priests, the era’s only astronomers, forecast these events and used eclipses to impress fear upon the masses.
A note on Bronze Invention claims that the tool metal Bronze was independently developed by ancient peoples in the Near East and by the Peruvian Indians around 8,000 years ago, indicating parallel technological development.
The passage suggests Hobby County life will repeatedly languish for busy people unless they have an employment subsidiary to their main pursuit. It emphasizes the need for supplementary work to sustain activity and purpose.
Instructions from the Washington Star explain drying horseradish into small chips then grinding. Bottled dry horseradish keeps well and its pungency develops when the powder is moistened.
The text states that an object at the center of the Earth would have no weight, reflecting a gravity theory claim that within a uniform gravitational field the net force cancels. It notes the theory as correct, implying zero weight at the center in the given system.
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