Winthrop social notes include visits and events
Mr Stanley Horton returns to Winthrop after a vacation with friends. Mrs Cynthia Lawrence visits her cousin Mrs J T Whitman. Captain Uriah Strout visits daughter Mrs N A Perry. Various locals host gatherings, entertainments, and meetings. a new degree mistress Lucy Godbold to lead Margaret Winthrop Rebekah Lodge. Mrs Hattie Douglas marks 83rd birthday with family. Death of Helen Small noted in Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Horton
Winthrop
Cynthia Lawrence
Pepperell
J. T. Whitman
Winthrop Street
Uriah Strout
Harrison Me
N. A. Perry
Pleasant Street
Alfred Tewksbury
Ensign K. Tewksbury
Charles Street
Vermont
Lucy Godbold
East Boston
Margaret Winthrop
Fire Department
East Poston
Hibbard
Boston
Hattie Douglas
Putnam Street
Mre. King
Newton
Severns
Greenfield
J. O. Remby
W. D. Douglas
G. A. Douglas
Ed. Douglas
Nathan. Douglas
Cambridge
James H. Douglas
Revy
Charles Tilton
RB. Gardner
Elizabeth L. Tewksbury
Winthrop Maged
Main Street
Miss Tewksbury
Unitarian Alliance
Magee
Great Head
Cottage Hill
Winthrop News Highlights Local Contacts and Sports
Marion A. Clapp returns from New York and Baltimore while Alfred Tewksbury sells R G corsets. The Winthrop high school basketball team extends its win streak to 14 with an 82 to 22 victory over Rock Ridge Hall. community notices cover travel, birthdays, concerts, lectures, and local business promotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizzie Nickerson
Yarmouth
N. 8
M. Nickerson
Lincoln Street
Nickereon
Hattie Teele
Winthrop High School
Rock Ridge Hall
Lafayette Goodbar
Bartlett Road
Waverly
Ruth Tucker
Winthrop
Potter Hall
Goodbar
Cats on a fence reveal instinct and dominance not reasoning
A friend notes two cats meeting on a board fence with no room to pass. One retreats to a perpendicular fence and waits while the other passes, a movement argued as simple instinct rather than deliberate thought, similar to a dog stepping aside for a train.
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Gordon
John Burroughs
Outing Magazine
Ancient Roman Laws on Wives and Children
Colquhoun describes Roman law as granting husbands complete control over wives including ownership of all they earned. Wives gained rights to a child and the husband’s name in intestate cases, while paternal authority over children was perpetual and emancipation only came at the father’s death. Fathers could discipline or even kill children under old laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colquhoun
Cleaning Teeth by Brahman and a Virginia Detour
A Hindu tale notes that the Brahman must use a twig from specific trees to clean his teeth and must not do so on certain lunar, celestial, or personal birth days or eclipses else he faces hell. Separately, automobilists in Virginia seek directions from an old Black man who directs them to the railroad station via the old post office site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hindoo
Abbe Dubois
Virginia
The
Success Magazine
From Abroad the Man Becomes a Lion or Monkey
A clever social scene in Puck depicts a man arriving from abroad being pressed to become a lion or monkey for the delight and pride of the smart set. The piece mocks fashionable vanity and social cleverness as the world laughs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puck
Amateur Sportsman Speaks After Shooting Friend
A fragment from Illustrated Bits shows an amateur sportsman lamenting the shooting of a friend with remarks about being a deer and promising his wife a pair of horns. The text conveys disbelief and personal guilt without graphic detail.
The Main Trouble Opinion Row
A brief dialogue from the Indianapolis News features Wise-Oh asking for a respite while Doubley-Well defends free opinion. Wise notes the right to express views but warns a wrong may exist in such opinions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis News
Patience and delay in a Scottish traveler scene
A traveler waits four hours for a train with a porter chiding patience and the line suggests the arrival will be soon. The excerpt notes indiscretion malice and falsehood producing each other amid a rustic exchange.
Chinamen juror panel debated in Newton court
Mrs. A L Squier of Newtonville visited town on Wednesday. None of the men drawn by the Selectmen as jurors for the ten Chinamen are on the panel. Winthrop is represented in court by Officer Irving Campbell and by Courtenay T Cartie as special officer for the murder trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop
Irving Campbell
Somerset Street
Courtenay T. Cartie
Shirley Street
Property Transfers on Cross Franklin Crystal Cove Pauline Streets
A list of property transfers and deeds between multiple parties including John F McCrystal Charlotte Jones Q Frank D Wilde Fred R Foss Allston W Newton Gertrude Doherty Harriet Newton John H Storer trustees to Enoch Co Harvey and John Shimjimran to Walter G Kurkjian Upham Street notes two late entries and a $1 weight reference.
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John F. McCrystal
Charlotte Jones
Cross and
Franklin Streets
Frank D. Wilde
Fred R. Foss
Crystal Cove
Q. Allston
W. Newton
Gertrude M. Doherty
Pauline Street
Harriet Newton
John H. Storer
Enoch Co. Harvey
Reservoir Avenua
John Shimjimran
Walter G. Kurkjian
Upham Street
Winthrop High Secures 18th Straight Victory
Winthrop High defeated Tufts Second 80 to 12 last Saturday. Mahoney starred for Winthrop with five floor goals and two fouls. Other scoring credited to Tailacq Natalie Andrson Kimball Ritechey Gordon Dus ton. Attendance 500. Referee Sullivan. Timer Older. Coffee House notes recount Cairo 1563 and London 1652 openings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop High
Tufts
Mahoney
Winthrop H
Tafte
Ind Tailacq
Sheeby Natalie
Rf Mahoney
Greem Anderson
Hubbard
King Kimball
Ib Lf
Gordon II
Ritachey Miller
Duston
Tailacq
Natalie
Andrson
Kimball
Green
Ritechey
Gordon
Anderson
Sullivan
Thompson
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Winthrop News
Reddy ‘Street
Winthrop Centre
R. E. L.”’ Son and Visitor Office
Hermon Street
Winthrop Beach
Crest
Ocean View Hotel
Sun and Visitor Office
Jas
Hollis O. Thomas
Kandaon
Marshall Street
Summit. Avenue
Winthrop Highlands
A. B. Sun & Visitor Office
Louis Racca
Custom Boot and Shoe Maker
Washington Ave
R. R
Central
Revere Sts
Magee’s
Point Shirley
Ocean
Tufts Avenue
Floyd & Tucker
School St
the Enterprises
Meridian Street
East
Horace B. Butler
TO Lei
Socia
Hal
Lewis Stephen
South Gardner
Thomas H Cross
Rice
Bear River, N. 8
George F. Wellinger
M. E. Church
8. J. Hewson
Sunnyside Avenue
Porter
Helen Small
Portland
Somerville
Winthrop Equal Suffrage League
Harry Knight
Thornton Park
Winthrop Improvement Association
H. A. Larrabee
Queen Esther
Ernest Anderson
Henry Carstensen
Court Road
Margaret Winthrop Rebekah Lodge
Order
Hortense- Dudley Hay
Deane Winthrop House
Oxford
Mondag
0. H. Masury
Hay
Concord
Pierce Building
Mary L. Winn
Winchester
Schuyler B. Andrews
Ervine.d. Osborne
Winthrop Woman’s Club
State Federation of Women’s Clubs
Quinthrop News
Marion A. Clapp
Beal Street
New York
Baltimore
Alfred Tewksbury’s
Francis M. Tilton
Maing
John Coffin
Chicago
St. Louis
Ella Abbott
Cottage Park Road
Keene, N.H
J. B. Tewksbury
Benjamin G. Small
P. L. Wood
Atlantic Street
New Jersey
Edwin Whittemore
Dennis
A. E. Whittemore
Tremont Temple
Barker
Boston University
First Church
the Enterprise
Co. W. Mongrain
Kate Walker
E. G. Bradshaw
Winthrop Shore Drive
Henrietta W. R. Frost
Public Library
Creative
Guinthrop Nellis
A. L. Squier
Newtonville
Winthrop Real Estate
Cairo
London
Frothingham Heffernan LC
Brussels
Kashmir
Washington Street
Adama Sq
Joel Goldthwait & Co
Garden Tools
Leeds
Heath & Milligan’s
Winthrop Hardware Co
WM. G. Grant Manager
Revere St
Massachusetts Wharf Coal Company
Winthrop Delivery
Kilby Street
Marginal Street
Winthrop Beach News Co
Beach Station
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School Street
S. G. Irwin
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