Winthrop Community News and Holiday happenings
Notices from Winthrop include travel plans for Mr and Mrs Carpenter to Jamaica, a new soda fountain by William F. Stover, Elks Lodge events, adoption of Ruby Ray Irwin, a sled prize winner, and Christmas gatherings at the Winthrop Yacht Club. Also reported are sales, marriages, illnesses, and a forthcoming Equal Suffrage League meeting with May Wright Sewall as speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Carpenter
Cottage Park Road
Jamaica
Goue
William F. Stover
G. Irwin
Ruby Ray McGill
Ruby Ray Irwin
Melvin Coleon
Banks Street
Freeman's Hardware and Variety Store
J. W. D. Grant
New York
Maude Moore
Frank BE. Harris
Shirley Street
Harris
Bessie Siebert
Perkins Institute
Hattie L. Siebert
Winthrop Yacht Club
Edward T. Harrington Co
Julia O. Waite
Winthrop Street
George H. Oaks
Winthrop
Csptain
Elisha Rider
Jefferson Avenue
Dorchester
Joe Mitchell Olhapple
Office
National Magazine
Chapple
F. M. White
Henry Rutherford Thompson
Lillian Gertrude Kene
Herbert Kempton
Marshall Street
New York City
Winthrop Equal Suffrage League
E. H. Leonard
Coral Avenue
May Wright Sewall
Boston
Floyd and Tucker
Point Shirley
Cottage Park
Forts Banks
Heath
Court
Cottage
Thornton
Ingalls Parks
Belt Line
Vis
Nahant
Winthrop Notices Highlight Christmas Travel and Local News
Local residents share holiday travels with relatives in Dover Worcester Taunton and Boston while Winthrop events include lamp displays estate cards and musical fundraisers. Deaths and family moves are noted along with a charity recital series led by Dean Southwick and Jessie Southwick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Lawrence Southwick
Emerson School of Oratory
Jessie Eldridge Southwick
Winthrop Woman’s Club
Winthrop Society
Winthrop
Richard III
Christmas Eve at Congregational Church Brightens Winthrop
Mr Milton Archer and others journeyed for the holiday while families like W J Patterson and W C Litchfield spent Christmas with relatives. The church tree, decorated by Mrs Armstrong and others, featured electric lights by Mr Schueler and stereopticon views by Mr Teague. Santa Claus, portrayed by M O Barnard, delighted all, and Dr Willey organized gifts for needy city children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Archer
James Avenue
W. J. Patterson
Willow Aveue
W. C. Litchfield
Hermon Street
Middleboro
E. P. Gardiner
Pleasant Street
New York
Congregational Church
General Grant advocates army canteen restoration stance
In a National Civic Federation dinner speech General F D Grant supports reintroducing the canteen in the army. He says total abstinence is his personal rule but abolition of the canteen worsens temperance by driving soldiers to outside dens selling cheap strong drinks. He is not a prohibitionist, believing controlled sale can promote temperance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. D. Grant
National Civic Federation
Boston Globe
Gladiatorial fist fight among Baroda natives described
The piece portrays a brutal ritual in Baroda where large men enter a steel studded fist fight arena. They sing before battle and, after drinking opium laced with hemp, fight to kill with deliberate intent. casualties are common, reflecting harsh local customs amid broader claims of civilization advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baroda
Life of Leisure Dialogue Fragments
A collection of brief quotations on leisure and public life from London Reader Puck and Plutarch. The excerpts contrast old ideals of a contemplative life with modern views that praise activity and political involvement.
The Information Desk in Telephone Exchanges
The Information operator is vital for quick service in exchanges. Information desks compile subscriber lists by name number and street to identify numbers instantly. Operators connect calls to Information for any inquiries and such calls incur no charge.
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Central
New England
Slze
Switchboard
Ion An
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Heep Reddy Street
Cottage Hill
Chester Avenue
Docmiebes
Watch and Chain
Louis Racca
Custom Boot and Shoe Maker
Washington Ave
R. R
Winthrop Beach
Reverents 'S Corner
Point Shirley Cottage
Ocean
Tufts Avenue
Floyd & Tucker
School St
Olga
Byram
Centre Street
Smith Patternon Company
Orca
Summer ST
Ivers&pond Pianos
Bentwood
Ivers & Pond
Fae
Eben Og
Winthrop Lodge of Elks
Sarah F. Leonard
Horace Tewksbury
J. Belcher
Ocean View Street
Keene, N. B
William Gardner
Willow Avenue
Gardner
Dover
George Chadsy
Worcester
Putnam
John R. Neal
Sargent Street
Touraine
Helen Sibley
Tueday
Milton
O. O. Ehrman
Orlando Avernue
Mise Pearl, Davis
O. F. Nickerson
South
Alfred Tewksbury
Atlantic Street
N. T. Gorham
Bowdoin Street
Eeaysister
O. H. Weets
W. W.thompson
Lincoln Street
John T. Anderson
O. BR. Gardner
Thomas Floyd
Revere Street
Lizzie Litchfield
North Scituate
Helen Litchfield
Mount Blue
Walter Litchfield
Messrs. McKenney & Waterbury Co
Franklin
Congress Street
W. O. Mills
G. V. Mills
Jefferson Street
Montclare
N. J
E. E. Mills
Maria Husted
Newburgh
N. Y
George W. Husted
Temple Avenue
Nazarian
Bellingham Street M. E
Chelsea
Husted
Charles J. Nickerson
Mary H. Whittemore
Kent
Charlestown
Mass
Unitarian Church
Fred A. Whittemore
Life
London Reader
Grandma
Puck
Plutarch
Leonard
Sarah Leonard
Weston’s Bakery
Wm. N-Jenkins
Oxford
Lincoln St
U. 8
Lewis Block Shave Shop
Charles E. Eskrigge
L. Dominick
Mgr
Local Express
Frank Mooney
Garden Tools
Leeds
Heath & Milligan
Winthrop Hardware Co
Revere St
Massachusetts Wharf Coal Company
Winthrop Delivery
Kilby Street
East Boston
Marginal Street
H. T. Whitman
Channing Howard
Revere
Fort Hill
The
Winthrop Beach News Co
Beach Station
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