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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1908
Page
4
An old advertisement touts the best in men's women's and children's shoes with repairs offered and a line of furnishings and legal stamps furnished with every purchase. The copy hints at broad stock and service though text is fragmentary.
A local pharmacy proclaims years of study and persistent work to ensure drugs are pure and fresh. They pledge accurate compounding, honest pricing, and a guarantee that their medications meet physicians orders.
Notices from the Winthrop Sun and Visitor outline advertising deadlines and subscriptions, with editor and office details. Reports cover by law revisions progress, successful traffic on Pleasant street by the B R B U road, and a rumored new Wilshire station near the Battery with a name change.
Gardner, 20, appeals after East Boston and Winthrop residents accuse him of 17 counts of larceny for taking small payments on crockery orders. Judge Clary fined him 145 dollars. he is held for $700 for the January Suffolk County Superior Court term amid claims he posed as a pottery agent from Zanesville Ohio and swindled over 200 women.
Friends of the late Rev Warren H Cudworth held a service in East Boston twenty five years after his death. He served as pastor of the Church of Our Father in Winthrop and officiated numerous weddings while comforting families. His memory remains with East Boston and Winthrop residents.
People are invited to Union Watch Night at the First Church Thursday evening from 8 to 12 with informal sociability, a prayer service, love feast, and a sermon by Rev. A. L. McKenzie. Singing by evangelist Lewis E. Smith and a women’s trio. Attendees may come or go on the hour or half hour.
I express heartfelt thanks for sympathy and kindness shown during my bereavement and for the beautiful floral tributes. Mrs. J. E. M. Bigelow, 59 Summit avenue.
The Winthrop Woman's Club held its sixth regular meeting in Assembly Hall on December 18 with President Mrs Louise C Allen presiding. Mrs Cora M Holahan welcomed guests and school children from grades 6 and 7. Clarence Hawks, the blind naturalist of Hadley, entertained with woodland lore and animal language, drawn from years of observation. A New Year's night Gentlemen's Night will be held at the New Winthrop hotel free to members and guests.
A wedding decoration in a car draws mixed reactions as a four foot cross of white and red roses with a Peace inscription provokes laughs and bewilderment. An elderly man asks who is dead, realizing it is for a wedding, not a funeral.
The London Globe reports Margaret Wilson of Westminster ordered a coffin filled with Scotch snuff and a funeral cortege themed around snuff. Six bearers, six maidens to carry the pall with snuff boxes, snuff tossed on the threshold and along the route, and a clergyman’s fee tied to snuff consumption.
Mrs J H Deering of 39 Grover avenue hosted Highlands matinee whist with souvenirs claimed by Mesdames E J Burg of 45 Highland avenue Ward F Johnstone 8 Temple avenue and Samuel J Byrne 140 Cliff avenue along with Mrs W Sturtevant Gardner 45 Somerset avenue as the consolation souvenir recipient.
The article describes an ancient Peruvian belief in the afterlife. A disembodied soul choosing between two rocks faced immediate oblivion on the left if virtuous, or a prolonged purgatorial ordeal on the right. The torment lasted over 10,000 years before return to earth for another chance.
Augustus P. Loring trustee transfers to E. Smith and others on multiple lots in Woodside, Plummer, and nearby avenues. A shoemaker's odd exchange with a girl about growing feet follows, discussing foot size changes from sixteen to forty. Mr and Mrs Melnoy Fletcher set out Thursday for a Mexico trip through the spring.
The first recorded Australian production occurred in June 1789 with The Recruiting Officer. Proceeds of the first pay night, about £20, were given to a drowned man’s family. In January 1796 a rough playhouse opened with a shilling admission, with payments in kind of wheat flour or rum.
The ten volumes of the Mayflower Descendant have been placed in the Frost Public Library and the quarterly number of the periodical will be found in the reading room.
A fragmentary OCR item references Casport Dears the 9 Oe Kind You in ay Bt Bignstare with unclear context and no verifiable details.
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