Winthrop News items span travel fashion and local notices
Local residents report business trips and visits across states including Mr Charles H Ide and Mr H B Daniels. Alfred Tewkesbury offers 25 cent ladies neckwear. Miss Anna Walker travels to New York for Columbia Junior Week and Miss Viola Crosby visits Cambridge. Community clubs meet, mail delivery times adjust, and charity society events are announced with dates in February. A near drowning incident prompts safety notes and legal notices mention possible jurors in a murder case.
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Charles H. Ide
Pacific States
Alfred Tewkesbury
Local Social Notes and Meetings in Winthrop
Mr. David Floyd named vice president of the Massachusetts Republican Club at the annual meeting. Mrs. H. W. Roberts sails to visit her mother in South Wales. Mrs. Helen A. Richards offers limited art lessons with outdoor sketching. The Altar Guild of St. John’s Episcopal hosts a social at Mrs. H. W. Aiken’s home. Cottage Park Yacht Club ladies’ whist event held at Mrs. Cook’s home. next gathering at Mrs. Ehrman’s. Mildred Floyd celebrates eighth birthday with tea and souvenirs. Deane Winthrop Chapter, D A R attended Whittier memorial in Boston. Mrs. Hortense Dudley Hay led ushers in white with tri-colored sashes. Winthrop Cash Dry Goods promotes winter clearance at Boston prices ahead of spring imports. Edward T. Harrington Co. sells two plots and home at 170 Bowdoin Street and a 5,000 square foot lot on Oakland Street to George A. Leighton, East Boston, for future alterations. February 7 Winthrop Woman’s Club meeting features Miss Elizabeth Pooler reading Sheridan Knowles and Tennyson.
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David Floyd
Massachusetts Republican Club
H. W. Roberts
Ocean View Street
Saxonia
Barrydock Glan
Morganshire
South Wales
Helen A. Richards
Walden Street
Altar Guild
St. John’s Episcopal Church
H. W. Aiken
Winthrop Street
Cottage Park
J. H. Masary
Hortense Dudley Hay
Winthrop Cash
Boston
Concannon
Who shall we Elect
Alfred Tewksbury writes on local elections urging non partisan government and voters to choose the best men for town offices. He questions precinct division while stressing intelligent self reliance and avoiding partisan bosses. He favors homegrown residents who will work for the town and asks for calm prudent politics.
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Pauline Street
Ebarohana
Winthrop
Highlands
Alfred Tewksbury
Winthrop Hearing on Channel Widening and Basin Expansion
The Committee on Harbors and Public Lands held an eight speaker hearing Tuesday on Winthrop's petition seeking funds to widen and deepen the channel to the old steamboat wharf on Shirley Street and to enlarge the nearby basin by the yacht clubhouse. Local officials and representatives from Chelsea and East Boston supported the project, noting benefits for landing building materials, fuel, ice, and other supplies, and for yacht activity. The hearing closed with no objections, and witnesses urged the improvement for the town's welfare.
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Committee On Harbors and Public Lands
Winthrop
Shirley Street
Representative Whitney
Sandy
Magee
David Floyd
Craib
L. J. Golding
Commodore Haskell
Senator Hall
Robinson
Chelsea
McKie
East
Boston
Clarence F. French
Point Shirley
Train Schedule Question Sparks Gender Inquiry
A man asked at the Colorado Midland railway ticket office when a trip to Glenwood could be taken. The clerk answered 7:30 tonight. A woman waiting nearby then asked if a woman could go at that time, prompting brief inquiry in the station.
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The
Colorado Midland Railway
Glen
Wood
Tod
Denyer
Post
Encouraging Report From Winthrop District Society Meeting
The Lynn district convention of the Woman's Home Missionary Society met at Beverly First Church. Winthrop auxiliary reported an encouraging session. secretary resignations were handled and Mrs. William E Ricker elected district secretary. Afternoon talks covered Medical Mission in Boston and immigrant homes in East Boston and Charlestown.
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Lynn
Woman's Home Missionary Society
M. E. Church
Beverly
Winthrop
William E Ricker
Atlantic Street
K. M. Taylor
New England
Hull Street
Boston
A. C. Clarke
Charlestown
E .England
Malden
Mra
W. Floyd
West Somerville
Lucy E. Searley
Peter Barclay
E H. Leonard
Farewell Reception For Nickerson Family At Methodist Church
Last Saturday evening a large group from the Methodist Church gathered in the church vestry to bid farewell to the Nickerson family before their move to New York. The event featured a social hour and several performances including a piano duet, a reading, a ladies quartet, a solo, a book presentation to Vir gylyn and Bernice Nickerson, remarks by Rev. Charles Tilton, a picture presentation to Mr. and Mrs. Nickerson, and a response by Mrs. Nickerson. Refreshments were provided by the Ladies' Social Union.
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Methodist Church
Charles J. Nickerson
New York
Wisthrop
Dorothea Smith
Lillian Ie
William A. Smith
Mesdames
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