Winthrop News Highlights Local Activities and Listings
Community notices from Winthrop include residents moving addresses, a celebrity writer staying at Cliff House, and sons joining the American ambulance corps for France. Memorial Sunday at Crystal Bay Lodge I O F with cemetery decorations, plus local lodge meetings, train delays on the Boston & Maine line, and a Red Cross talk at Deane Winthrop House.
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Guy Warfield McConnell
Pathe
Cliff House
William Miles
France
Dorchester speeding fine and social notes from local Villages
Martin Sullivan of Plummer Avenue paid five dollars in Dorchester Court for overspeeding on Blue Hill Avenue. F N Barbour of the Highlands leaves for St Louis to attend the Associated Advertising Clubs convention. Winthrop Special Aid Society displays surgical dressings in Wadsworth Block. Miss Anna Healy holds a style exhibit at Wellesley Inn for Dana Hall and Wellesley College, with plans for Smith College students next week. Mr and Mrs Walker hosted Miss Helen Frazier at Beacon Villa where soprano Jennie Patrick Walker gave a patriotic service and performed the Star Spangled Banner.
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F. N. Barbour
the Highlands
St. Louis
Associated Advertising Clubs
Winthrop
Special Aid Society For American Preparedness
Wadsworth Block
Anna Healy
Washington Avenue
Wellesley Inn
Wellesley
Dana Hall
Wellesley College
Mechanics Hall
Our Flag pamphlet promoted by Albert P Langtry
A Free pamphlet titled Our Flag issued by Albert P Langtry secretary of the Commonwealth urges every household to own and care for the flag. It warns that leaving the flag in rain or overnight damages it and renewals are costly while noting the meaning of each star and stripe and the fifty state representation.
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Albert P. Langtry
The
Commonwealth
Winthrop Grange Auto Parade Planned for June 28
The food production and conservation committee reports strong public support for the garden program. Gardens are progressing, and a Grange auto parade will tour plots for mutual benefit. Owners of dogs are urged to keep them from running in gardens or face police action. Plowing and harrowing near completion amid scarce manpower. two public complaints noted. Edgar F. Power signed for the committee.
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Winthrop
Edgar F. Power
Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Growth of Bananas
The banana plant is a huge herbaceous perennial that grows from an underground stock. It sends up a 15 to 20 foot stem with broad leaves and large fruit clusters. It reproduces by suckers, matures fruit in three to four months after flowering, then the plant dies to the ground while new shoots replace it. Planting spacing places rows eight feet apart with nine to ten feet between plants in adjacent rows.
Red Cross Meeting Reports War Effort and Volunteer Work
At Osborne hall a Red Cross meeting reviewed chairmen reports on membership nearing 500 in Winthrop, sewing and knitting progress, and surgical dressings led by Mrs. Bertha Porter. Hon. P. A. Langtry spoke on America's wartime stance and home front efforts. Headquarters hours and calls for cooperation were announced, with a Treasurer's Report noting multiple small contributions and club donations.
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Red Cross
Osborne Hall
George J. Cronenwett
Winthrop
Anna Newton
Carl Floyd
Home Guard
Liberty Bonds
Martha Jenkins Grant
The
Real estate transfers listed with multiple parties and streets
Real estate transfers show numerous names linked to parcels on streets such as Harding Main and Sunset road including owners Gegan Mary Oscar Mekler Shirley street Knowles Joshua W Mary F Moyni han Main street Loring Augustus P Ernest Griffin Loring road Mekler Oscar Oscar Herman Shirley street and Williams Chase et al trs mortgagee Albert L Lincoln et al trs 7000
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Harding
Amanda J
Mildred”. le Kahle
Bartlett Road
Hedrington
Annie A—Adlet
Main Street
Knowles
Joshua W
Mary F. Moynihan
Sunset Road
Loring
Augustus P
Ernest Griffin
Mekler
Oscar
Oscar Herman
Shirley Street
Williams, Chase
Et al
Albert L. Lincoln
Letters for Winthrop Post Office Week Ending May 26 1917
List of names awaiting delivery at the Winthrop post office for the week ending May 26 1917. Ruth Banks John C Dunn Harold Fall Mrs Dillie McLerne Sullivan C T Smith Sarah R Silverman Ralph Sawyer Captain T B Wesley Joseph L Sawyer.
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Winthrop Post Office
Banks
Ruth Dunn
John C. Fall
Harold McLerne
Function of Manners Inspires Knowledge Flow
A brief quotation notes that manners should adorn knowledge and smooth its path through the world as urged by Chesterfield. The line underscores etiquette as a civilizing force guiding intellectual discourse and daily interaction.
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Chesterfield
Deaths Cook Ing New York May 26
Laurence F Cook of Winthrop New York died suddenly on May 26. Burial in Philadelphia.
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Cook
New York
Laurence F.cook
Winthrop
Philadelphia
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Joe
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Newick
N. J
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Edward A. Buss
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Tucker
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Helsea
Goodwar
W. C. Wavy & Son
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R. J
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John P. Lilleback
Reed Chambers
Tel
Edgar B. Brown
Winthrop Co-operative Bank
Drew Rig
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Winthrop Centre
Highlands Drug Store
George R.twitchell
Sea View Avenue
Joseph Newton
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Joseph Bernhardt
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George E. Wales
Alfred Phinney
Alice Phinney
Ide
Hewitt
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Deane Winthrop Chapter
Rangers
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Steven LaVoix
Naval Reserve
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Everett
Lynn
Gregory E. Stone
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Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association
Deane Winthrop House
C. C. Ely
Revere Historical Society
Old Unitarian Church
Peerage
Resere Society
Old Burying Ground
Deine Winthrop
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Martin V. B. Sullivan
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Dorchester
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Chilaren’ Ory
Fletcher
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RED Cross Report
G. Wallace
Carl Valentine
Herald Square Hotel
Remey
Mr. Valentine
Valentine
By Lilla Dade Carl Valentine
Willard M. Bacon
Ceorner Elmwood Murt
Eluweed Court
Sarah F. Gaylord
Hind Aid
Esther E. Grawam
Henry G. Harris
Annie Simons
River Road
Land Registration Office
Suffolk Registry District
Land Court
Anna M. Smith
Winthrop Shore Drive
Myrtle Street
Alan
Winthrop Shore
J. W. Buckley
Joseph Marlow
Irwin Street
Pathan
Philip J. Rowe
Mermaid Avenue
Mare A. Donovan
Betrey Frank
Catherine B. Rowe
Nice
Harold C. Bartlett
Gegan, Mary
Oscar Mekler
Q. E. Fisher Insurance
Sunnyside Ave
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