Gala edition copies offered at multiple Winthrop locations
The notice lists places where 107 copies of the paper sell for five cents each. Locations include A. T. Rangness near Highland Station Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Depot Boston, Winthrop Beach News Co. opposite Beach Station, J. H. Totman’s News Agency Jefferson and Winthrop Streets, Brown's Pharmacy Wadsworth Block Centre, Thayer Ocean Spray Pharmacy, Elizabeth Rippay variety store opposite Centre Station, and the Lewis Block office on Washington Ave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. T. Rangness
Highland Station
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Depot
Boston
W. BR. Thayer
Ocean Spray
Elizabeth Rippay
Variety
Centre Station
Lewis Block
Washington Ave
Grace Van Stoddiford Star in Keith's Theatre Season
Grace Van Stoddiford headlines Keith's Theatre next week in a major bill lasting through the season. Clifton Crawford stands out as a top monologist. Ruth Allen and company perform a brisk playlet We Need the Money. Kita Banzai Troupe, Chinko the juggler, and Minnie Kaufmann appear as notable sight acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keith
America
Grace van Stoddiford
Misa van Staddiford
Clifton Crawford
Crawford
Ruth Allen and Company
Chinko
Minnie Kaufmann
Kaufmann
Empress Eugenie And A Senator At Tuileries Dinner
A witty exchange recounts Napoleon III choosing Empress Eugenie as his consort. A senator's remark on Napoleons speech about marriage drew a remark from Eugenie about preferring the sauce to the fish. The senator quickly apologizes, seeking to amend his misstep with rare presence of mind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugenie
Napo- Yeon III
T. W. Evans
Napoleon
Tuileries
Monsieur
Miistake
Weather Prophet Levi Beebe and the Commer Days
A memory of Levi Beebe a famed old weather prophet from Beartown mountain southern Berkshire Massachusetts noted for his ten day wind based prognostications around the comer days The sun crossing lines at the 20th of March September June and December and his sayings about days growing shorter bringing heat and days lengthening bringing cold are recounted by the New York Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levi
Beebe
Beartown Mountain
Berkshire
Mass
Pathe
New York Press
Great men and history’s timing in shaping events
The passage debates whether Cromwell Napoleon Bismarck Washington and Lincoln would have done the work others could have, noting history shows great men are sometimes needed yet do not appear. It argues greatness rests partly on favorable conditions or being in tune with an era, else brilliance may go unrealized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cromwell
Napoleon Bonaparte
Bismarck
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
January Building Boom Shifts Towns Acceptance of Growth
The opening month of the new year shows a record building boom in Winthrop with many new dwellings and alterations. Permits indicate 17 new dwellings and 6 alterations in January 1908, plus 33 new families housed. Wealth and prices drop slightly, boosting activity despite stringency and a presidential year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop
M. A. Maddock
Park Avenue
W. H
W. H. Goddard
Revere Street
Mathilda Tucker
Hermon Street
Helen G. Cheyne
Locust Street
John F. Tibbetts
Fremont Street
C. D. Bradbury
Beacon Street
M. P. Hines
Point Shirley
Goldfine
Winthrop Street
M. &S. Goldfine
M &S. Goldfine
M&s. Goldfine
Winthrop Association
Main Street
W. F. Stafford
Atlantic Street
Corner Linden
Mary A. Brackett
Edgar F. Power
William A. Sampson
Highland Grammar School Benefit Aids Decorating Fund
A Thursday evening program at the Highlands grammar school hall drew a large audience despite bad weather to raise funds for the decorating fund. The 16 piece orchestra directed by Otto C. Zumpher with Edna Merritt at the piano performed three numbers. soloists Charles Turner and Annie June Johnson received encores, and a mixed quartet featured Mrs. White, Alice Crane, O. P. Trickey, and Robert Erwistle. The reader was Miss Alice Baker, with numerous encores and bouquets. organizer Miss Twombsty led the committee in thanking performers who donated their services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grammar School
Highlands school _decorating
Frank A. Douglas
Otto C. Zumpher
Edna Merritt
Charles Turner
Boston
Hiram G. Tucker
Handel and Hayden Society
O. P. Trickey
Robert Enwistle
Alice Baker
Annie Jove Johnson
Nettie Stanley
Ethel Studley
Cadman
Charles White
Mr. Tucker
Braga
Miss Studley
Winslow
P A L Club Delights with Music and Beethoven Talk
The P A L Club gathered Tuesday at Mrs. Myra Patersons home 328 Pleasant Street for a musical program. Mrs. Alice Sawyer presented a paper on Beethoven life, followed by Mrs. Mary A Buckley reading His Answer with Mrs. Sawyer interpreting Beethoven Moonlight Sonata. Walter Scott performed Beethoven Sonata in A Major Op 26, impressing attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. A. L. Club
Myra Paterson
Pleasant’ Street
Alice Sawyer
Beethoven
Mary A. Buckley
Sawyer
Walter Scott
New England Conservatory
Music and Schumann program closes season social
Mrs Sawyer presented a paper on Schumann life followed by Eleanor Flinn's performance of Whims with an encore. Walter Scott concluded with Novellette. A meat lunch was served during the social half hour and roll call featured music quotes. A large attendance made the afternoon highly enjoyable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schumann
Sawyer
Eleanor Flinn
Massachusetts Small Railroad Seeks State Approval
The Boston Revere Beach Lynch line known as Melvin’s Seaboard Air Line faces state oversight as its employee relief group seeks approval from railroad commissioners for amendments to by laws. The article notes the unusual reach of transportation regulation and suggests broader supervision for railroad employee organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynch
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Boston and
Lyne
Thes Association
Towerman Fagan
Turkish Fashion and Veil Bans Reported by London Telegraph
The London Telegraph notes that Turkish women once wore elaborate opera cloaks and transparent veils. When spotted by spies, the sultan enforces a ban on visible faces, requiring the old teriga and opaque veils. After about a year the ban eases and thinner veils return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Telegraph
Mortgagee Sale of Winthrop Real Estate in 1908
Public auction to foreclose the mortgage on the Winthrop property described, dated October 31, 1902, recorded in Suffolk Deeds book 2800 page 221. Auction on March 7, 1908 at 2 pm at the premises, with two hundred dollars due at sale. subject to unpaid taxes and recorded incumbrances. Lather T Harrington, mortgagee, Winthrop, February 6, 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suffolk
Levi J. Wood
Harry H. Mathews
Winthrop
County of Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Washington Avenue
W. H. Wentworth
Wentworth
Wood
Mathews
Nelson
Probate Notice of Charles H Perkins Estate in Winthrop
Suffolk Probate Court cites heirs and all interested parties in the estate of Charles H Perkins of Winthrop to appear March 5 1908 in Boston for probate of will and codicil. Public notice required weekly for three weeks in Winthrop Sun and Visitor and by mail to known heirs seven days before court. Witness Robert Grant Judge and Arthur W Dolan Register.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suffolk
Charles H. Perkins
Winthrop
David Floyd
Boston
Winthrop Sun and Visitor
Robert , Grant
Esquire
Said
Arthur W. Dolan
Also Mentioned on This Page
Winthrop Beach News Co
J. H. Totman
Jefferson and Winthrop Streets
Brown's Pharmacy
Wadsworth Block
Keith's Theatre
Time and
Man
Sam
Chloe
Susan
Mr. Jackson
Yonkers Statesman
Frost Library
Nova Scotia
Parrsboro Pier
Cape Blomidon
Winsor
Annapolis
Digby
Longfellow
Austin T. Kempton
Fitchburg
Evangeline
New Books
Donald G. Mitchell
James A. McNeill Whistler
Arthur Jerome Eddy
Washington
Charles
Knowles Bolton
Annie H. Donnell
Jeanie Gould
Lincoln
Charles K. Bellamy
Annie Fellows Johnston
Florence _Howe Halls
William Dean Howells
Dixie
Will Allen Dromgoole
Melvin
Seaboard Air Line
School Street
Winthrop Centre
Commonwealth .of Massachusetts
Railroad Street
Revere
Columbia Square
Suburban Gas & Electric
afAbi
Ean Pew
ACK Euney & Waterbury
Franklin ST
Buston
Freeman's Hardware
W. W. Freeman
P. O
Alfred Tewksbury. & Co
Herrick’s
Educato
Golden Rule
Beacon Falls
Wadsworth
Wissner, Schoninger, Krell
Ludwig
Winter
Schubert, Shultz and
Cote
Blake's Piano
Washington St
Bennison
Wingate En Brooms
Bite Cais
Chas. F. Totten
Winthrop Beach, Mass
Lewis Block Shave Shop
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