Winthrop High Football Dominates Suffolk County Pew
Winthrop High led Suffolk County teams with a 7 1 record, 7 wins 1 tie 2 losses. Notable results include 52 0 over Lexington 138 0 over Arlington High and 26 0 over Revere High. A loss to Rindge Technical 32 7 and to St Johns Prep 21 were the setbacks.
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Suffolk
Norfolk Counties
Norfolk County
Norwood High
Wellesley High
Quincy High
Suffolk County
Winthrop High
Lust
Winthrop
Rindge
St. John’s
Milton High
Lexington
Belmont High
Dorchester High
Rindge Technical
Swampscott High
Arlington High
Boston Latin
Brockton High
St. John’s Prep
Revere High
Keiths Theatre Christmas Pantomime Promises Strong Bill
Christmas week at Keiths Theatre features a strong bill with Ceballos Desmond and company in Clownland, Mme Marys Greatest Show on Earth circus, and London import Chris Richards. The daily pantomime invites all youngsters on stage to receive a doll or toy from Santa Claus.
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B. F. Keith
Santa Claus
Jesse L. Lasky
Ceballos
Desmond
Mabel Sherman
Victor Stone
Mme
Mary
Chris Richards
Keith
London
Farber Girls
Leroy
Wilson
Tom
de Lisle
Juggler
Winthrop Post Office Mail Hours and Box Collections
Winthrop post office hours: weekdays 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., holidays 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.. closed Sundays except Special Delivery mail. Carrier deliveries occur mid‑morning and afternoon, with 9 p.m. pickups on most days except certain boxes. Lists numerous street letter boxes not collected at 9 p.m. and notes Saturday evening collections 30 minutes earlier. D Belcher, Superintendent.
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Postal Savings
Temple Ad
Highland Avenue
Grover and
Stiff
Quincy
Cliff
Cottage Park Road
Johnson Avenue
Court Road
Lowell
Maple Street
Main
Pleasant Treet
Hermon Stret
Her“yon
Winthrop Corner
Ocean View
Magee’s Orner
Revere Corner
Cherry
Revere
Brown’s
Pointed Paragraphs and Jokes on Life and Advice
A collection of sardonic quips on honesty, pride, work, and social manners. The notes humorously contrast self regard with reality and poke at advice, borrowing trouble, and gendered reactions, attributed to Chicago News style humor columns.
Sun and Visitor Subscription Notice at Local Stores
Notice announces that The Sun and Visitor subscriptions and bills may be paid at Rown’s Drug Store and Winthrop Centre High and Drug Store in Winthrop Highlands. Readers are advised to settle dues at these locations.
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Tsitor
What Is science unable to explain in nature and life
A fragment listing mysteries from sleep and sight to magnetism and life. It ponders how sunlight heats, how seeds grow, how rain falls, how scents and odors arise, how birds fly, and how life begins, with varied questions about physics, chemistry, biology, and consciousness.
Coal Famine Prompts Love and Duty in Rural Tale
Tom, a devoted son caring for a sick mother in a lonely farm, discovers coal on his land and faces a choice between marrying Millie Lee and leaving his mother. Millie tests his loyalty, but love and duty prevail as the mother’s health prompts reconciliation and a hopeful future.
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Biddy
Tom
Millie Lee
Bud Brighton
Millie
Coleridge Reflections and Classical Allusions
The excerpt blends Coleridge style with Shakespearean echoes and Biblical imagery. It moves through themes of motherhood joy morning stars morning bells death and pride, ending with a daring sin. It evokes literary musings on art virtue and human folly in a compact, poetic cadence.
Why Sunlight Turns Grapes into Guger
The note explores natural questions about how sunlight affects grape sugars and fruit ripening. It raises curiosities about sap freezing, microbe resilience to boiling, bat night vision, pigeon navigation, and nerve pain signals, inviting readers to seek scientific explanations.
The Rulers of Our House The Judge
The piece lists domestic workers and roles from footman to chauffeur. It satirically frames each servant as a rung in a hidden social order with the judge as the ultimate authority over the household and its dynamics. The tone critiques class and service hierarchy.
Facts and Fancies in Global and U S Figures
A survey notes 29 U S railroads hold 182962 stockholders. In 1912 France imported 224544900 gallons of wine and exported 50002400 gallons. The first Zuider Zee dam aims to reclaim 500000 acres. The Antarctic depth records reach 25200 feet over 7500000 square miles. Exports of U S manufacturers total 1200000000 dollars, with materials at 740000000.
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France
Hollands
Zuider Zee
Winthrop Druggist Pitches Adler-i-ka Agency
K. C. Brown holds the Winthrop agency for Adler-i-ka a simple buckthorn bark glycerine mixture touted to cure appendicitis. The ad claims the remedy has powerful cleansing effects draining old matter and that one dose relieves sour stomach gas and constipation immediately.
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Winthrop Agency
Big Pat Bane Giant of Greene County Passes Away
The Washington Observer reports the death of William P. Bane known as Big Pat Bane tall in stature and weight. He served in the Union Army from 1862 to the end of hostilities with Company A of the Twenty second Pennsylvania Volunteers. He stood about seven feet four inches and weighed around three hundred pounds. Circus crowds and G A R encampments delighted in his presence and questions about his immense height.
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Washington, Pa
William P. Bane
Twenty-second
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Big Pat Bane
Washington
Pat
Greene County
Grand Army of the Republic
Simplicity and Growth in Higher Life According to MacDonald
A quotation by Geo. MacDonald contrasts childhood to maturity within spiritual ascent. It asserts that true growth involves shedding childlike arrogance and returning to a pure, simple mindset. The piece emphasizes humility as the wisest virtue on the path to understanding reality.
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Geo. MacDonald
New Apartment House Nicknamed The Sardinia Sparked By Packing Talk
A prospective tenant quipped during naming discussions for the new apartment building about crowding residents, proposing the name The Sardinia as a jab at dense packing. The remark reflects informal backers' opinions on housing density and branding.
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Sardinia
Mr Grump Says Cheer Up on High Prices
The excerpt notes a poor man struggles with affording a car and worn clothes while lamenting tariffs not lowering prices for women's cotton hose and the rising cost of meat amid Hungarian goulash trends as quoted in the Peoria Journal.
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Kee Maxwell
Peoria Journal
Wit and wisdom from the Pen of Pico
A collection of maxims on ambition, travel, and social pretensions. The piece contrasts fast living with lasting satisfaction and notes cultural differences in titles and behavior. It quips about exclusivity, laziness, and the curious eye for beauty and insult.
Mortgagee Sale of Real Estate in Winthrop Massachusetts
Public auction to foreclose the mortgage on a parcel in Winthrop bounded by Bates Avenue Willow Avenue and Emily R Haggerston lands. Sale set for December 30 1913 at 3 PM at Edward A Thomas 404 Barristers Hall Boston with $200 cash due day of sale and balance in ten days. Mortgagee Emily R Haggerston Boston.
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William B.ee
Winthrop
Bates Avenue
Emily R. Haggerston
Willow Avenue
Whitman & Howard
William E. Cunningham
Thomas Haggerston
Suffolk
Edward A. Thomas
Barristers Hall
Boston
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Chicago News
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Sxnown AS
Biddy” Wreer
Freddie
Coleridge
Shakespeare
Butler
Charwoman
Cook
Department of the Interior
United States
Cincinnati
Antarctic Ocean
New York
Paris
Pacific
Atlantic
Winthrop Druggist
Faere
MR. Grump
Copyrauts &c
Pero
Munn
Scientific American
Sclentiae
Picayunes
Mexico
Sun & Visitor
Probate
the Sun & Visitor If
Freeman’s Hardware & Variety Store
R. J. Promises
Bowdoin Street
Tel. Winthrop
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