Winthrop Notes Include Rentals, Society Events
Local items report land sales on Cottage Hill and Bowdoin Street, with Alma Cobb purchasing land from Floyd and Tucker. Social updates note visits by Alma Cobb’s relatives, a Royal School of Dramatic Art concert for St Johns Men’s Club, and a Winthrop club night at Ocean View. Club meetings cover nature study, D A R calendar luncheon for Lincoln's birthday, and Twelfth Night revels in Copley Hall with formal gowns and pageantry.
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Mies
Mabel T. Nickerson
South Harwichie
Nathan Nickerson
Pauline Street
Lyman
Meston
Cottage Hill
Channing Howard
Chelsea
Somerville
A. Hunt
Harwick
N. T. Gorham
Bowdoin Street
James McLauphlin
Jennie Douglas
Corn Street
McCloud
Cambridge
Leopard Schular
West Roxbury
Winthrop
Jamaica
Q and Q Club Holds January Meeting at Mrs Howe’s
The eighth Q and Q Club gathering at Mrs Howe’s Summit avenue Toneday afternoon January 7th hosted six guests beside members. Plans for a gentlemen’s night featured dancing after refreshments. Mrs Cronenwett’s membership was proposed for next vote. Mrs Radellon’s paper on Elisabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning drew interest. The club adjourned to meet with Mrs Trask on January 21st.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Q and Q Club
Mra. Trask
Josephine Tyler
Elks Hold Gala Visit at Winthrop Lodge
District Deputy George F. McKelleger with a 26 member suite visited Winthrop Lodge on Ocean Avenue for the Elks gathering. Boston and Cambridge Lodge members attended the event which featured a banquet for over two hundred and remarks by notable guests including Exalted Ruler Lawrence H. Sullivan.
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Winthrop Lodge of Elks
Massachusetts
South East
George F. McKelleger
Winthrop Lodge
Ocean Avenue
Boston Lodge
Lawrence H. Sullivan
Second Emerson College recital delights Winthrop audience
Jessie Eldridge Southwick headlined the second in a five recital series by the Dean and Mrs. Southwick of Emerson College of Oratory. The performance followed a high school orchestra program and featured selections from Dickens Shelly and Tennyson with scenes from As You Like It. The next event promises Shakespearean Macbeth.
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Southwick
Emerson College of Oratory
Winthrop
Jessie Eldridge Southwick
Shellys
Tennyson
Rennie
Shakespeare
Jessie Eldridge Sou
Winthrop Couple Honors 20th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Ellsworth Burrill of Bowdoin street marked twenty years of marriage with a quiet celebration Monday night receiving gifts including a handsome easy chair. The Winthrop Woman's Club next meets January 17 at 8 p m in the old high school hall for an illustrated lecture Life Saving Service by Mrs Mary E Sparrow under education committee chair Mrs Alice D Rich. Mrs G Concannon of the Winthrop Cash Dry Goods and Variety Store offers McCall sewing patterns at 10 and 15 cents with full lines of woolen gloves and Ward's stationery, plus Sawaco fabric finish at the Enterprise 508 Shirley street run by Mrs O W Mongrain and Miss Kate Walker.
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Ellsworth Burrill
Bowdoin Street
Winthrop Woman’s Club
Education Committee
Alice D. Rich
Mary E. Sparrow
G. Concannon
Winthrop Cash Dry Goods and Variety Store
McCall
Ward
Enterprise
Shirley Street
O. W. Mongrain
Kate Walker
Policeman Wins Reward in Desertion Case
Policeman William B. Stauffer, charged with desertion from Fort Banks, was returned to the fort by Boston police and placed in solitary confinement pending final disposition of his case. Policeman Miner of station 2 captured Stauffer and will receive a $50 reward. Stauffer had escaped while guarded at Fort Banks, running across a field. the sentry fired three shots but could not pursue.
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William B. Stauffer
Fort Banks
Boston
Miner
Stauffer
Deaths in Winthrop two infants and a mother
Murrell Winifred May aged 2 months daughter of Frederick H and Mary O Morrell dies on Washington avenue. Delia Agnés Bishop aged 25 years wife of Edward J Bishop and daughter of James J Nestor dies. Funeral from 86 Banke Street Saturday Jan 11 at 8 80 a m with high mass at St John s Church corner Winthrop and Lincoln streets at 9 a m.
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Winthrop
Delia Agnés
Edward J.‘ Bishop
James J. Nestor
Banke Street
Main Street
St. John’s Church
Winthrop and
Lincoln Streets
Real estate review and town report printing contract awarded
WAINTHROP notices an upcoming page seven feature on a real estate review. The Selectmen awarded the annual town report printing to Caustic & Claflin of Boston as the lowest bidder, with A. T. Blies E. L. Grimes and Thornton Press as others bidding. Ex Commodore Hackell's sloop Hilda broke loose from mooring during the storm and was badly damaged, the stern jammed under the old steamboat wharf.
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Caustic & Claflin
Boston
A. T.blies
E. L. Grimes
Thornton Press
Hackell
Deane Winthrop House Open Weekdays in Old Boston
The Deane Winthrop House oldest in Old Boston is open to the public every weekday from 2 to 5 p.m. Visitors are advised to leave cars at Ocean Spray station. The Winthrop Improvement Association reports recent payments toward the house fund from John P. Hazlett Charlestown William Sumner Appleton Boston Rev Charles W Blackett Malden and Fred W F Woollcott Winthrop. The Boston Times published an article with three illustrations of the house.
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Old Boston
Ocean Spray Station
Winthrop Improvement Association
House
John P. Hazlett
Charlestown
William Sumner Appleton
Boston
Charles
W. Blackett
Malden
Fred W.F. Woollcott
Winthrop
Boston Times
Deane Winthrop
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James R. Gerrish
House of Correction
Deer Island
P. W. Sweet
Philadelphia
Royal School of Dramatic Art
New Winthrop Hotel
Winthrop Beach
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Walter E. Knight
Els
Lawrence HH. Sullivan
Messrs. Rice and
O’keefe
Ocean
Grace Chamberlain
H. A. Hay
Reacher
William Frost
Pico Avenue
Wayawanda
Haverhill
Mass
Deane Winthrop Chapter
D. A
Deane Winthrop House
Ella Howe Libby
Continental Congress
Washington, D. C
Maud Wyman
Martha Swift
Norah Johnson Barbour
Mary L. Cohen
Lincoln
Copley Hall
Hortense Dudley Hay
Ella H. Libby
Ethel Saunders
Johanna Aspinwall
Pierce Building
Ella H. Libbey
Theodore W. Swift
Sturgis
Harry Hale Goss
Providence
B.I
Winthrop News
Reddy Street
Winthrop Centre
Miss Abbott
Cottage Park Road
Tel
Telm Aie
Beacon Street
Jill
Sargent Street
Cliff Avenue
Winthrop Highlands
Woodside Avenue
A. B. Sun-&-Visitor Office
Louis Racca
Custom Boot and Shoe Maker
Washington Ave
R. R
Central
Revere Sts
Magee’s Cortier
Point Shirley Cottage
Tufts Avenue
Floyd & Tucker
School St
Meridian Street
East
Horace B. Butler
William H. Barter
Winthrop Lodge No
B. P. O. Elks
Geo. F. McKelleget
P. E.R
Grand Exalted Buller
Wainthrop News
Frothingham Heffernan
Brussels
Kashmir
Washington Street
Adams Sq
Joel Goldthwait & Co
Garden Tools
Leeds
Heath & Milligan’s
Winthrop Hardware Co
Revere St
Massachusetts Wharf Coal Company
Winthrop Delivery
Kilby Street
East Boston
Marginal Street
H. T. Whitman
Revere
Fort Hill
The
Winthrop Beach News Co
Beach Station
Loyd & Tucker IC
Justice OF the Peace
School Street
J. Ou
Winthrop Street
S.C. Irwin
Main St
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