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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1913
Page
5
St James Hall and Revere Studio advertise hours from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. with contact numbers 3916-A and 647-W. They offer instruction in Tango Hestitation Waltz Castle Walk and all modern dances taught correctly by experienced teachers.
Regular meeting announced for the sale of money and payment of dues on the second Monday of each month. For more information write or call Secretary George H. Wyman at 73 Tremont St Boston Room 628 or Winthrop Director Nelson Floyd in Winthrop.
Selectman Barry on business trip to Chicago. Stevenson ill at Pico Avenue home. Senator Doyle recovering from illness. Roxbury couples welcomed a daughter born December 6. Funeral for Asa P. Lewis noted. East Boton horse car pioneer remembered. Yacht Club whists and prizes marked by Mrs. Covell and others. Mrs. Swift, Mrs. Nevers, Mrs. Carter among prize winners at Pleasant Park. Ice cream ad from long time local supplier. Town committee asked to address tuberculosis compliance. Gym class for women forming at Parish House. Engagement announced Mrs. Jenkins and Owen Grant. Women’s Civic League pressed for railroad loitering crackdown. Forts and floral tributes for Corporal Richards. St John the Evangelist teachers form association. officers elected and plan entertainment.
Ill residents Mr. E. B. Wadsworth and Mr. Frederick Belcher are seriously ill with pneumonia and a shock respectively. Freeman's advertises Christmas toys at low prices. A Thursday evening wedding united Herbert W. Alexander and Delia M. Nally. Medical examiner reports three calls in one day. Boston Revere Beach and Lynn R R will stop the 11 05 p m train at Pleasant Street starting December 15. Two Boy Scout troops organized in Winthrop. Missing youths William T Courtney and Edward L Pease sought after leaving home for New York. Ministerial Association met at Unitarian Church with Rev. Peck presiding. next meeting in January.
The Brookline Swimming Club hosts a major winter girls meet at Ocean Pier Baths Vere recre. December 15 features a 40 yard relay with top local talents from East Boston Tenean Beach Brookline Gym Ocean Pier Baths South Boston Curtis Hall and a prominent Miss Marion Gibson leading Tenean Beach. Open men events include 50 and 100 yard swims plus distance plunge. A concluding water polo match showcases leading clubs.
The Frost Public Library announces daily hours for reading rooms and historical collection from 1.30 pm to 9 pm. The facility welcomes the public to browse books and archives each day.
Henry Jewett Players present The Broad Highway at Plymouth Theatre Boston enters farewell week next Monday. Jeffery Farnel adapted the drama while Henry Jewett enhances it with an elaborate setting and strong cast led by William Courtenay Lola Fisher Lucille Watson Ralph Morgan Earl Mitchell Violet Rand.
Dr. R. O Williams of Humboldt Tennessee a farmer claims a flock of ten geese can pick cotton. He says each goose averages seventy five pounds per day and the flock can harvest enough seed cotton in one day for two large bales. Williams trained the birds by placing corn in cotton bolls so the geese must pick the cotton to reach the grain.
Bolivia states all vacant land is state property and may be bought or leased under special rules. The hectare is the unit of measure, with 2.47 acres per hectare. Purchasers may acquire up to 20 000 hectares, paying 10 cents per hectare for farming and grazing lands.
Boston Revere Beach Lynn Railroad shifts from debt financing to stock issue to cover about 1700000? in floating indebtedness for permanent improvements. President Melvin O Adams asks Public Service Commission to allow conversion of debt into 170 shares of stock to replace borrowings.
Mayor Brand Whitock of Toledo praises modest living and critiques chasing wealth. He questions wealth's value and warns it often yields little, framing wealth as the rogue's edge over the honest man.
In a major furniture store window a grand Louis XV bedroom set drew two women’s attention. One woman, possibly Mrs. Wood B. Highbrow, exclaimed with humor that she had read much about that ex-vee furniture. Kansas City.
Death notices from Winthrop list Henry Colborne Smith aged 58 who died suddenly on December 8. Agnes P. Daggett, wife of Harry C. Daggett, died December 9. Michael J. Scanlan, beloved husband of Anna J. Scanlan, died December 9.
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