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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1908
Page
4
Advertising and News Deadlines and Rates Listed
Winthrop Sun and Visitor ad and news items must reach the office by Thursday 8 30 P M to insure insertion. Submissions by telephoned Friday 11 A M. Rejected manuscripts not preserved but returned if a stamped return envelope included. Subscription rates: one year 2 00 six months 1 00 three months. Entered second class matter December 20 1905 at Boston MA under Act of Congress March 3 1879.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Herbert E. Emerson
Winthrop Sun and Visitor Announces Publication Schedule
The Winthrop Sun and Visitor announces its publication details from the Lewis Block opposite Beach Station. It operates daily and on Thursdays evenings from 7.30 to 8.30, with consolidation dated December 9, 1905.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop Sun and Visitor
Lewis Block
Beach Station
Suburban Gas Cuts Rates in Revere and Winthrop
The Suburban Gas and Electric Co announces a new gas rate effective January 1 reducing from 1.10 to 1.05 dollars per thousand cubic feet with 10 cent discounts for payments within 15 days. Bills will be 1.15 gross, with gradual steps toward a 1.00 base rate, and new connections will be planned for earliest possible date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Revere
Winthrop
Suburban Gas & Electric Co
Notable Suffolk County Trial Justice Responds to Globe Critic
Charles W. Hall defends a Globe biographer over emphasis on his reminiscences. He notes he was not the sole trial justice in Suffolk and clarifies he alone held court in Winthrop town, addressing potential misimpressions from the article.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe
The
Suffolk County
Winthrop
Charles W. Hall
Watson widow of James M. Watson dies in Winthrop Centre
Katherine L. Watson widow of Boston merchant James M. Watson died December 1 after illness of bronchitis at her daughter Miss Melmon L. Fletcher’s home 65 Court Road Winthrop Centre Funeral held Friday at 1 30 Rev C BE Henry of St John s Episcopal Church assisted by a quartet singing Lead Kindly Light Passing Through the Shadows Crossing the Bar and Good Night Interment in Forest Hills Five daughters survive Mrs Robert Claus Mrs George Flett Mrs Bawin Butterfield Mrs Fletcher and others
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine L. Watson
James M. Watson
Boston
Melmon L. Fletcher
Court Road
Winthrop Centre
Rev. C. BE
Henry
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Samiry
Forest Hills
Robert Claus
George Flett
Bawin Butterfield
Mra Fletcher
Names Of Chelsea Heads Of Families In 1790 Census
The 1790 census book shows 60 houses and 81 families in old Chelsea now Winthrop, with 472 residents including 134 white males over 16 and 222 females. It lists heads of families such as Andrew Tewksbury and Ebenezer Burrill, plus 15 island residents on Boston Harbor including Henry H Williams and Jacob Coombs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Old Town
Chelsea
Old Chelsea
Winthrop
Andrew Tewksbury
Nathaniel Belcher
Ebenezer Burrill
Joseph Burrill
David Belcher
Samuel Floyd
Mrs. Gleason
John Tewksbury
James Tewksbury
Joseph Belcher
John Raymond
Bill
Boston Harbor
Henry H. Williams
Noddle’s Island
East
Boston
Jacob Coombs
Josiah Mason, Jr
William Perkins
Samuel Treat
John Burbank
Charles Turner
Josh Hubbard
Samuel Belcher
Samuel Laha
Samuel Spear
Thomas Knox
Vincent
Winthrop Woman's Club Plans Holiday Events and Talks
The Winthrop Woman's Club met Friday with strong attendance. Officers announced the Home Travel Class led by Mrs. Elmer F. Dawson and the annual gentlemen's night at the New Winthrop hotel on January 1, 1909. Speakers included Mrs Leila C. Pennock of Somerville and Mr Clarence Hawkes of Hadley, the blind naturalist, with a reception to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop Woman's Club
W. D. Allen
Elmer F. Dawson
Washington Avenue
New Winthrop Hotel
Allen
Mra
A F Holahao
Harry M. Jones
Alice O. Ide
Charles L Ellwell
Elmer E Dawson
State Federation Committee
Dennison
Tates
Clarence Hawkes
Hadley
Hawkes
Improvements Sought for Boston Revere Beach Rail Line
Attorney Roscoe Walsworth petitions the Board of Railroad Commissioners for upgrades to the Narrow Gauge line. He claims the Boston & Maine Railroad currently controls the Revere Beach road and seeks charter compliance, standard gauge conversion, local freight and express service, higher speeds, a Boston tunnel connection, and a transfer arrangement with the Boston Elevated. A hearing date will be set soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe Walsworth
Revere
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn
Walsworth
Boston & Maine Railroad
Revere Beach Road
City of
Boston
Boston Elevated
Massachusetts Electric's Report Shows Strong Year
Massachusetts Electric releases its annual report ending September 30, showing a surplus about 4 percent on preferred stock. If subsidiary profits were fully distributed, earnings would cover the 4 percent requirement. Trustees note resumed 2 percent dividends but provide no future policy details. Property is in excellent condition after year of improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Electric
The Paragraph Pulpit Heaven Speech
A devotional passage argues heaven is earned through earthly preparation. It urges readiness, purity, and living as in paradise, claiming heaven depends on personal effort rather than fortune. It encourages learning heaven’s music on earth and dropping earthly habits now.
Depths of mines and Earth's crust heat limits
The article notes that beneath about 4000 feet the heat rises enough to hinder mining work, with water currents carrying heat away. It cites Britain's coal commission ruling mines not workable below 4000 feet and discusses crustal rock thickness of 30 to 40 miles and unresolved heat pressure relations at extreme depths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Coal Commission
Chicago Tribune
Controversy and Civic Debt Notes in The Pilgrim Pieces
The Pilgrim Chivalry page surveys the Sagan Castellane suit and a central American woman, condemning moral depravity while noting a lesson in debt payment as election results show improved bill settlement. It also mentions a sensational debt-collection method in England and a Boston postal rule barring smoking for carriers after meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helie de Sagan
Boni de Castellane
Mansfield
Boston
Winthrop Woman Leaves Hospital After Fall Recovery
Mrs. Rufus W. Frost of Winthrop Shore Drive has recovered from a veranda fall injury and left the hospital Thursday morning to stay with her daughter Mrs. William H. Libby on Holborn Street in Roxbury for several weeks. Charles G. Craib of 249 Pleasant Street plans to travel this evening to Fitzgerald near Macon Georgia to oversee new road construction there for a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rufus W. Frost
Winthrop Shore Drive
Trident Avenue
William H. Libby
Holborn Street
Roxbury
Charles G. Craib
Pleasant Street
Fitzgerald
Macon
Georgia
Winthrop hit by fierce storm and high tide damage
A severe rain and wind storm battered Winthrop on Monday causing extensive damage. Shirley Street near the yacht club was washed out, two dredging company scows broke from moorings, several small boats drifted ashore, and the railroad track area was undermined with crews repairing the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop
Shirley Street
Winthrop Yacht Club
Yacht Club
Thornton
Hains Trial Set for Next Monday in Flushing
Attorney John F. McIntyre representing T Jenkins Hains announced readiness to proceed with the murder trial of William Annis before Justice Crane in the supreme court at Flushing Long Island. The court fixed 1 pm Monday as the start date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Mclntyre
T. Jenkins Hains
Crane
Supreme Court
Flushing
L. I
Hains
William Annis
Melchior Anderegg Guides Climbers Through London Fog
The London Chronicle recalls Melchior Anderegg of Meiringen, famed for guiding the Great St Bernard hospice, nearly getting lost in London. Joined by Leslie Stephen and T. W. Hinchliff at London Bridge, they walk to Lincoln's Inn Fields. Later Hinchliff asks him to lead them home and he does, with one pause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Bernard
London
London Chronicle
Melchior Anderegg
Meiringen
Berne
Lesle Stephen
T. W. Hinchliff
London Bridge Station
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Woolwich
Mr. Hinchiliff
Melchior
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Relief
A Gardiner Maine woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with saving her from surgery after three months of treatment for female troubles. A Chicago resident reports cure of tumor and inflammation without operation. The ad touts thirty years of use and claimed cures for displacements inflammation and other female ailments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
A. Williams
Gardiner
Maine
Alvina Sperling
Claybourne Ave
Chicago
Lydia E.pinkham
Why Joyner Left Home Amid Grim Hazing Rites
A respondent in a sensational tale depicts a ritualistic hazing scene from an order game. Joyner disappears after being urged into a deadly ordeal involving prussic acid a boiling lead pot and a buzzsaw. Shreds of clothing were found along the road to Pottsville and Scrabbletown as the case unfolds with a judge weighing a cyclone damaged house claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joyner
Hocus Gocus
Order of Hoot Owls
Pottsville
Scrabbletown
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Robert Brown
Park Street
Washington Av
Boston Shoe Store
Shirley Station
Them
Thayer’s Pharmacy
Walter B. Thayer
Pharmacist
Winthrop, Mass
Wadsworth Block
Tel
James A. Welsh
Sumner St. E
Triton Ave
Miss Elinor Dodge
Robert P. Murphy
HOTEL
Albany
41St Street
Broadway
New York
College Inn
Washington
Ernest H. Pierce
Winthrop Sun
Winthrop Visitor
All Soul’s Church
England
Winthrop News
Castori
Hiram
Cleveland
Co-operative Bank
Home Savings Institution
A.B
Whippemore, Sec’y, and
Reas
Wadsworth Building
J. B. Ells
Yale and
Corbin Locks
Shirley St
Cor
Washington Ave
P. M
C. £. Johnson, M.D
Winthrop St
C. A. Nevers
WM. Francis Pratt
Ld’g
Tremont St
Room
Chester Ave
Thornton Station
E. E. Crosby
Alfred Peat
Ralph P. Badger
Nelson Street
Lynn
Meridian Street
Horace B. Butler
Gale
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