Winthrop News Highlights Local Events And Sports
Grace Rowland Sumpter was moved to South Boston. Invitations go out for a formal whist by Mr and Mrs J H Deering on the 29th. Baptist Ladies’ Aid meets next Wednesday. Mrs Merritt visits Brockton. Mrs William H Young travels to Durham NH. Dellano family guests with Mrs Frank Ross. Margaret Winthrop Rebekah Lodge holds initiation rehearsal led by Mrs Lucy Godbold with supper in Soddl Hall. Winthrop High beats Medford 68 to 9. second teams win 55 to 8. Yacht Club hosts a Smoker with out of town talent. Rev Joseph Carden called to Lawrence by his mother’s death. returns to Beloit WI. Cantata rehearsals by Winthrop Woman’s Club chorus at Kershaw home. Leap year dance at Columbia Hall with 18 couples. Miss Morris piano recitals feature local and Boston artists. Dorchester Beacon details First Baptist Church Dorchester dedication by Rev Arthur W Dimock. 113 new members this year. Knights and Ladies of Honor meet at Columbia Hall with 125 present. officers guest speakers from Lynn lodge. Mrs O Porter Tewksbury hosts friends. Winnie Davison sings, Mabel Clark recites, pieces dedicated to Mr Tewksbury. Old folks at home performed by Clark sisters and friends with deco tables and souvenirs.
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Grace Rowland Sumpter
Beach’ Station
Boston
J. H. Deering
Grover Avenue
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Baptist Church
Merritt
Cottage Park Road
Brockton
William H. Young
Atlantic Street
Durham
N. H
E. F. Dellano
Frank Ross
Sargent Street
Margaret Winthrop Rebekah
Medford High
Mahoney
Winthrop High
Knights and Ladies of Honor
Columbia Hall
Lynn Lodge
GO. R_ Benniaon
Leon King Kyle
Arthur Jacobs
Helen Jenkyns
Winthrop News Highlights Local Visits and Events
Winthrop residents share visits and moves including O H Conner of East Wilton and Mrs K O Brown in Winthrop, George W Scott family move to Seymour street, and Edward Pearl called to Washington for government service. Social events include midwinter supper of the Town Government Association, Equal Suffrage League meeting, and Yacht Club balls. New drama art teacher Kathryn Hutchison to settle in Winthrop. local real estate sales and a resumed Winthrop Steam Laundry business are noted.
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O. H. Conner
East Wilton
K. O. Brown
Winthrop Street
George W. Scott
Woodside Avenue
Seymour Street
Gertrude Cogill
Malden
Elsie Lindbohm
Read Street
Edward ©. Pearl
A. F. Pearl
North Avenue
Washington, DC
H. A. Hay
Shirley Street
Samuel A. Brown
Bates Avenue
Dorchester
Winthrop “Steam Laundry
Winthrop
Shirley
The Deane Winthrop House Opens to Public
The oldest house in Old Boston is open to the public every week from 2 to 5 pm. Visitors are advised to leave cars at Ocean Spray station for convenient access.
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Boston
Ocean Spray Station
A Scot Visits St Pauls and Notices The Collections
A Scottish visitor to London attends a service at St Pauls and, unfamiliar with Anglican liturgy, observes the many collections. He worries at the repetitious entries in the book and jokes that he might hide to avoid paying, humorously noting the word collect appears repeatedly.
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London
St. Paul's Cathedral
Kirk
How Indians Tan Deerskin
The article describes native skin dressing of buffalo and deer hides. Skins are stretched, brains spread, then grained with a chisel. They are smoked for three to four days in a smoke proof shelter, using smothered rot ten wood to create the smoke. After smoking, skins stay durable even when wet.
Three Partitions of Poland Details 1772 1798 1795
The article outlines Poland’s three partitions. In 1772 Prussia gained Malberg Pomoria Warmia Culm piece and Great Poland while Austria took Red Russia Galicia Podolia Sandomir Cracow and Russia took White Russia beyond the Dnieper. The 1798 partition saw Prussia seize remaining Great and part of Little Poland and Russian advance to Lithuania and Volhynia. The final 1795 partition assigned Cracow to Austria, Pilica to Vistula territory to Prussia up to Niemen, with the rest to Russia.
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Poland
Prussia
Malberg
Pomoria
Warmia
Culm
Great Poland
Austria
Russia
Galicia
Podolia
Sandomir and
Cracow
Dnieper
Great
Little Poland
Lithuania
Volhynia
Pilica
Vistula
The
Niemen
New York American
Ghosts Drive Tragedy Beyond the Third Act
A young playwright at Drury Lane offers a five act tragedy claiming it ends with all characters killed in act three. The manager questions the plan and learns the remaining action would be driven by the ghosts of those who died, reflecting a macabre joke from Cornhill Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macready
Drury Lane
Cornhbill Magazine
Far saks and camels mark Persian stage lengths
A snippet explains Persian travel distances in far saks, the old Greek parasang, noting stages vary with terrain and animal counts depend on traveler credulity. An elderly German joke contrasts a lodging house ad for a cheap bedroom suit with a misread Pajamas ad, highlighting miscommunication.
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Persia
Atlantic
Stray Dog Loves Strangers and Eats Them Too
A humorous exchange notes a dog that loves strangers and has eaten several of them, illustrating a quirky attitude attributed to a Houston Post item. The snippet reflects newspaper witticisms and brief quotes from multiple papers.
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Houston Post
Rev Cornelius H Patton to Speak at Winthrop Beach Church
Cornelius H Patton D D will preach at the Congregational Church Winthrop Beach Sunday February 28 at 730 pm initiating a series of fellowship meetings with guest Congregational clergymen. He is home secretary of the American Board and has led churches in Westfield Duluth and St Louis. He is son of the late Dr William W Patton former editor of the Chicago Advance and ex president of Howard University. Patton serves on Amherst College board of trustees and heads the Boston area Alumni Association and spoke at the recent International Congregational Council in Boston.
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Corneling H. Patton
Winthrop Beach
Westfield
N. J
Duluth Minn
St Louie
William W. Patton
Chicago Advance
Howard University
Washington, D. C
Cornelius H. Patton
Amherst College
Alumni Association of
Boston and Vicinity
International Congregational Council
Boston
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