Town Boards Appoint Auditor. Skepticism on Stability
The town board appointed George Douglas as accountant and acting auditor after the Marek election. The office is appointive, tempting control to backers but offering less security than an elected post. Critics warn that adopting many citizen suggestions could raise taxes and invite complaints of waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Selectmen
George Douglas
Ae Douglas
Alfred Tewksbury
Douglas
Lewis Lake Faces Annual Odor and Slime Issue
The town confronts an ongoing fetid odor and slimy grasses at Lewis Lake. Despite meetings and several partial fixes, high costs have prevented a formal vote to fund a full remedy.
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Lewis Lake
Selectmen Endorse Concerts for Dorothea Dix Children
At a town meeting the Board voted to grant Tomas Fy Reddy of Boston permission to give concerts at Winthrop hotels for Dorothea Dix children until September 1, with some under 15. They appointed George Douglas as accountant under new by laws, term ending March 1, 1910. Reward for false fire alarms raised to 40 dollars. Main streets to use fire oil mixture to curb dust. water failure noted for long use.
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Board of Selectmen
Tomas” Fy Reddy
Boston
Dorothea Dix
Winthrop
George Douglas
Douglas
Winthrop Elks Aid Equipment for Playground
Charlotte J. Trask thanks Winthrop Elks for a 30 dollar contribution at their last meeting. The funds, with Mr W H Barter’s gift, support a military whiff and purchase of a playground slide for the Winthrop Womans Club and summer playground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop Arts and Crafts Society
Winthrop Lodge of Elks
W. H. Barter
Winthrop Woman’s Club
Winthrop Elks
End-seat hogs spar with readers over trains and playgrounds
The Pilgrim Watch notes ads from Winthrop to Boston offer 5 cent trips. Medford Mercury ridicules end-seat hogs while Somerville Journal cites effective playground supervision showing street safety for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerville Journal
Sonerville
Funeral Rites Held For Flora C Wilson At Winthrop Centre
Funeral services were conducted for Flora C. Wilson who died Saturday after a long illness on Tafts Avenue Newton. Rev John Milton former pastor of First Baptist Newton officiated at Bennison undertaking rooms Winthrop Centre with church quartet providing selections.
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Flora C. Wilson
Tafts Avenue
John Milton
First Baptist Church
Newton
Bennison
Winthrop Centre
New Water Mains Underway in Winthrop
Lincoln to Pleasant streets receive new water mains this week as Superintendent Lewis R. Dunn leads crews. About 100 feet of 10 inch pipe laid this week with 1 600 feet additional to connect dead ends behind Cottage Park Hotel. A September connection is planned for 16 inch mains from Revereny to Beachmont via the Metropolitan system.
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Lincoln Street
Pleasant Street
Lewis R. Dunn
Winthrop
Cottage Park
Revereniy
Metropolitan Water Department
Beachmont
Pigeon Picked Up in Winthrop Carrying Register 878
An exhausted carrier pigeon with the register 878 G. H. 06 was found at the home of Lewis G. Smith in Winthrop Tuesday. The pure white bird shows a left eye injury and a tissue attached to one leg, possibly a message, untouched by the homeowner while the bird is being cared for at the Smith residence.
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G. H
Lewis G. Smith
Skull Unearthed During Cellar Dig At Tafts and Shirley
Workmen excavating a cellar at Tafts avenue and Shirley street unearthed a well preserved human skull on Tuesday morning. In early Point Shirley families once buried relatives in a single family lot, suggesting the find may be remains of one of the town’s earliest inhabitants.
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Tafts Avenue
Shirley Street
Point Shirley
Sleepwalking Child Found On Railroad Tracks
Patrolman James Turner stopped Elizabeth Vera Rowe four years old daughter of Lemuel Rowe of Almont Street near the Ocean Spray station on the Boston Revere Beach Railroad tracks about 2 am Tuesday. She wore her father's overcoat and a bathing suit on her arm and said she was going bathing. The officer found she was fast asleep. this was her second such incident.
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James Turner
Elizabeth Vera Rowe
Lemuel Rowe
Almont Street
Ocean Spray
Boston, Revere Beach
Playground Notes On Donations And Programs
Mrs. W A Garrett donated two bound books and magazines while the committee seeks money gifts to hire Miss Pike for afternoon and morning sessions. Folk dancing is planned for the children. A National Garden night raised 33.50 with Instructor Crosier leading activities.
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W.A. Garrett
Crosier Ae
Winthrop Real Estate Transfer Noted
Winthrop real estate transfer notes Frank I. Cobb to Willard Welsh involving Tremont and Buchanan streets with inquiry noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop Real Estate
Frank I. Cobb
Willard Welsh
Tremont
Buchanan Streets
Winthrop Regatta 25th Anniversary Opens with Festive Week
The annual regatta in Winthrop draws large crowds of visiting yachtsmen for the 25th Open Regatta. A closing dance will cap the festivities with prominent sailors and companions. committee chair F B Kingsbury Jr leads the organizing body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop
F. B. Kingsbury, Jr
W. Forster” Brown
William Daly, Jr
L. Elmer King
Francis A. Place
C. L. Haskell
H. B. Whittier
D. M. Wiseley
E. H. Whitney
Charles G. Bird
Joseph J. Devereux
Elmer E.dawson
Charles A. Rouillard
Arthur Fuller
South Boston
Cottage Park Yacht Club whist party aids playground fund
The Cottage Park Yacht Club ladies host a Wednesday whist party at the clubhouse to raise proceeds for the Winthrop playground fund. About twenty five tables are expected with Mrs Henry O Hight and Mrs Henry Carstensen as chairs. Souvenirs were arranged by Mrs Harry J Cook and others. hostesses include Mrs Henry Carstensen and Mrs Stanley Sanderson.
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Cottage Park
Harry J.cook
James Clarke
William St. Mahoney
Henry Carstensen
Rv Stanley Sanderson
Stanley T. Googins
Entertainment at New Winthrop Hotel in August
On August 1 at the New Winthrop Hotel Walter P. Gile the impersonator will present an entertainment in Winthrop. Several artists will appear. Robert N. Chapman conducted a successful show Friday afternoon. Thursday evening events by St. John the Evangelist Church drew a large crowd and offered handsome prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Winthrop Hotel
Walter P. Gile
Winthrop
Robert N. Chapman
St. John the Evangelist Church
Whist At New Winthrop Aids St John Church
A whist party with twenty tables led by Miss Sara Goodwin was held at the New Winthrop Hotel on Wednesday evening as a supplement to a lawn party held last Saturday for St John the Evangelist Church. Notables included Mrs James Henry Doyle Miss Hortense Wales Mrs T F Little Mr Norris Mrs Frank S Maloney Mrs Timothy Conley Mrs William H Lanigan and Mrs Benjamin H Stiles who received handsome souvenirs.
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Sara Goodwin
New Winthrop Hotel
St. John the Evangelist Church
crch--Mann
James Henry Doyle
Hortense Wales
T. F. Little
Mr. Norris
Young's Hotel
Frank S. Maloney
Timothy Conley
William H. Lanigan
Benjamin H. Stiles
Cliff House Guests Attend Sailings and Dance at Fort Banks
The Cliff House hosts numerous sailing parties with about thirty guests planning a baseball challenge against Cottage Park Hotel men at Fort Banks diamond. A Wednesday dance drew over 200 guests. New arrivals include Toward McHugh Borden David H. Sherlip Elijah T. Rapeley and families Celia Cullis and others from Belmont Cambridge Boston and New York.
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Cliff House
Cottage Park
Fort Banks
McHugh Borden
Novy
David HI. Sherlip
Brooklyn
N.Y
Elijah TI
Rapeley
Flushing
L. J
M. R. Clarke
Fitchburg
Alice M. Sullivan
Leominster
E. R. Riegel
Cambridge
William Tounner
Winthrop All Stars Defeat Fort Banks 11 to 4
Winthrop All Stars beat Fort Banks 11 to 4 on Sunday. Fort Banks catcher Gerrity was a missing factor as the All Stars showcased strong hitting led by Kimball and pitchers Thompson and Sullivan.
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Winthrop A
Fort Banks
Winthrop All Stars
Gerrity
Kimball
All Stars
Thompson and Sullivan
Musil
Larkin
Steam Engine Inventions Through History
The article traces early steam engine developments from Worcester in 1656 to Savary and Newcomb in 1705, noting Papin and Savary improvements before asserting James Watt as the true inventor. Fulton is credited with navigation steam in the nineteenth century, while De Gary allegedly steered a vessel by steam in 1543.
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Marquis of Worcester
Tower of London
Vauxhall
Dennis Papin
Captain Savary
Worcester
Papin
Newcomb, Cawley
Savary
James Watt
Fulton
de Gary
Barcelona
St. James
Notable Authors and Masters of Misery in Literary History
A sweeping catalog notes figures such as Cervantes, Raleigh, Milton, Dryden, Goldsmith, Chatterton and others who faced poverty, debt, or imprisonment. The piece links their downfalls to hardship, debt, or misfortune, highlighting the harsh fates of literary talents.
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Homer
Plautus
Terence
Boetius
Paul Borghese
Tasso
BentivegHo
Cervantes
Vagelas
Sir Walter Raleigh
Spenser
Charming
Collins
Milton
Dryden
Otway
Steele
Goldsmith
Wakefield
Savage
Bristol
Why Are There So Few One-Armed Women
A gray headed man ponders the absence of women with missing arms after noting many men lose arms in mills and in transit. He challenges the idea that women are inherently less exposed to such injuries and cites incidents of female workers and public accidents as evidence for immunity. He references the New York Globe's question on the matter.
Keeping Time In Holland
A Baltimore American traveler notes The Hague keeps private and public clocks twenty minutes fast. Noon at government buildings equals 12 20 p m in shops and burghers clocks. The Dutch tradition is long held and change is unlikely without strong motive.
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Holland
United States
Hague
Baltimore
Makart and a Witty Dinner Exchange in Vienna
A Vienna paper recalls painter Makart who at a dinner remained taciturn beside the singer Josephine Gallmeyer. She pressed him to change the subject and he quipped by mistaking her for a mate, saying her wife left him, then correcting himself about a skipper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Makart
von Moltke
Josephine Gallmeyer
After Us No Matter What We Do Posterity Attacks Hatters
A humorous exchange about posterity as the ever-present pursuer, with a witty remark on trimming a hat for posterity as a clever quip. The snippet presents dialogue from a comedian and a woman, reflecting light satire.
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C. E. Munroe
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Frank Bush
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Matinee Ie
Erti
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Suburban Gas & Electric Company
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Suburban Gas & Electric CO
F. Chisholm
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Shore Drive
Wave Way
S. H. Skilton
Chamber of Commerce
Lloyd's Eyeglasses & Spectacles
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Summer St
Massachusetts, Ave
Emma M. Rich Ton
Bayard Thompson
Suffolk
Scfolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Mass
W. Porter
James Adam
Franklin
Racome
Bayard, Thompson, “Mortengee
Schtol Street
Boston, En
Winthrop Sun and Visitor
Winthrop Sun
Winthrop Visitor
Lewis Block
Winthrop Beach Station
Frida
Suston
Lewis Black
Umce
Washington Avenue
Winthrop, Mass
Ernest H. Pierce
High Tide
Pipereer Loce
Charlotte J. Trask
Winthrop-Arts-and-Crafts Society
The
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Medford Mercury
Flora C. Witson
Gbndree Orpy
Fletcher
New Winthrop
Arms
Woman
New York Globe
Albert B. Dorman
M.D
Winthrop St
Chester Ave
Byam Hollings
Sturgis Street
Johnson
Tios
H. Louise Palmer
M. D
Pleasant St
D. J. Alexander
A. F. Reardon
Rad Natis
Francis Pratt
Tremont St
Thornton Station
Fort Hill
C. A. Nevers
Wadsworth Block
F C. Peterson
Tel. E B
Anna Moe
Winthrop Tel
Enterprise Co-operative Bank
Meridian St
East Boston
Horace
Butler
Fek
Walter B. Thayer
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