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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1917
Page
8
Sunday services at 10 45 a m with a lesson on Christian Science. Sunday school for ages up to 20. Testimonial meeting Wednesdays at 8 p m. Free public reading room at 29 Jefferson corner Fremont open daily 2 to 5 p m except Sunday and Monday evenings 7 to 9. All welcome.
The Church of St. John the Evangelist in Winthrop lists Masses at 7 8 45 10 30 and 11 30 with instruction continuing until further notice. Children are urged to attend the 8 45 mass and Sunday school follows service.
Sunday morning service at 10 45 led by Rev Charles Bodwell with L V Miller and Marion Lowd as soloist. Sunday school at noon. Everyone welcome.
The Winthrop Woman's Club met in Ells Hall with President Mrs. Nellie F. Griffin presiding. Dr. A N Abbott spoke on Social Hygiene, praised for depth, after solos by Miss Edna Shepherd. The next meeting on January 4 will feature Miss Alice Low on Russia the Mighty Problem.
The Swedish muine almanac differs from English almanacs by listing a Christian name for each sex for every day of the year. The names require royal approval to be used, aiming to broaden parental choices and curb repetition of common names. A similar royal authority name almanac exists in a German state.
The Chicago Herald notes workers in America favor wooden sole footwear in damp cellars laundries and factories. Wood’s non conductor properties keep feet drier and warmer than leather with basswood fire soles common in the trade.
The ceremony united Miss Busiere of Taunton and Lt. Frank A. Besse of Wareham in a wartime wedding at a Winthrop church. Attendants included nephews and Yale classmates. The couple plans a brief wedding trip after gifts of cut glass and silver.
Public library details listing hours for adults and juveniles, book deposit location at Elliot Whittier real estate office, and winter hours. Includes December 24, 1917 date and a catalog of available books and authors with call numbers.
A 1915 overview reports US fire estimates at about 40 000. 37 watch factories dating to 1869. Japan imitates silk from New Zealand hemp. Cairo houses the world’s oldest fan from the seventeenth century BC. Adam Eng municipality opens a day nursery for munition workers. US bids on 66 new war vessels require nearly 15 000 gross tons of steel.
Ralph Embree, traveling on a wheatless day, visits Ruth Verner in Hazleton to judge a potential daughter-in-law. He is charmed by Ruth and her grandmother's thrifty hospitality, learns Ruth loves Eldridge, and ends by admitting his earlier insult with a bold, public kiss.
The Houston Post reports on diverse inventions including a reusable envelope flap by a inventor, laundry soap with bluing, a machine that retextures worn paving blocks, a stationary piston gas engine by a French engineer, and trains to run on hydroelectric power in Lapland. It notes 21 U S lakes over 100 square miles and a seven-way wearable watch attachment.
The article notes 2,186,000 Canadian women aged 15 to 80, 88,000 girls in 380 Japanese high schools, and a Duluth domestic servants union of 100. It cites British road work by women in Chiswick, women in Britain’s law courts, Paris police, and over a million British women doing men’s tasks at home.
Sandusky adopts city manager government. Warren plans a $3,000,000 steel mill project. Defiance approves a $200,000 new high school. Chicago realty men push segregated Negro housing. Cleveland park ponies rent at 3 cents a ride. Nashville Negroes raise $20,000 for a YMCA plant. Cleveland and NE Ohio expect about $13,000,000 in income taxes this year.
A digest highlights global fire loss at 720 buildings daily, an English cigarette holder with a porous disk, a motor driven gravel splitter from Michigan, a glass number plate for porch lights readable at night, a fivefold rise in US dyestuff production to 15 000 tons yearly, and a French discovered steel alloy used in surgical instruments unaffected by electromagnets.
The Food Administration calls on all households to pledge, cut wheat and meat, reduce sugar, and follow rationing rules. Winthrop's Food Thrift Tens organize pledges, with cards and guidance available at the library. Mrs Woodcock leads efforts as local info contact.
Sincere thanks from Nelly F. Winegar and the M. H. A. to the Rangers and many volunteers who supplied greens berry decorations plants wreaths and fruit for sick boys at Fort Banks hospital on Christmas Day. Gifts included gifts from Mrs. Frost Mrs. Fordham Mrs. Griffin and many others plus a sea tale by Alice Snow and musical entertainment.
A. F. Buswell of the Tremont Building, attorney for the mortgagee, announces a mortgagee’s sale of real estate at 4223. The notice indicates the sale is conducted under the mortgage terms and relevant filing or court requirements. Proceedings will follow statutory timelines and publication requirements.
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