Winthrop Firemen Aid Red Cross and Local Events
The Winthrop Firemen's Relief Association donated 42 to the Red Cross. Miss Mabel Golden will present Winthrop pupils in a dramatic performance at Elks Club House Monday evening June 11 featuring three numbers by William H. Gardner. Colonial Chapter Eastern Star holds last fall meeting Thursday with a caterer's supper at 6 30 and reception to grand officers. event run by Edgar B. Brown and others.
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Mabel Golden
Elks Club House
William H. Gardner
Mammy
Johnny Gump
Eastern Star
Order
Edgar B. Brown
K. C. Brown
David Belcher
George L. Crosby
Karl Dodge
Edwin R. Burns
Amos W. Crooks
Leslie E. Griffin
Harry N. Bloomfield
Joseph H. Neal
Alfred J. Paine
Fly in the Spotlight Halts Theater Scene
A local theater moment ended in hush as a fly crawled on a dancer’s powdered back. A child whispered “I spec the thinks he is on a marshmallow” drawing a light remark from the audience and mother.
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Kie
Masquerade Party Benefits Red Cross at Winthrop Club
A funded masquerade event in the Winthrop Yacht Club ballroom raised a substantial sum for the local Red Cross Chapter. Prizes for best costumes went to Grace Sumner as Columbia Lamie Waldron as Hawaiian girl John Crooks as Mexican and Frank Ball as sheriff.
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Red Cross
Winthrop Yacht Club
Grace Sumner
Columbia
Lamie Waldron
John Crooks
Frank Ball
B. H. Metcalf
Leo L. Floyd
Horace Seates
One-Act Plays At Local Studio This Tuesday Evening
Wilma Dearborn Carter Studio of Expression presents a program of one act plays and scenes by students at Elks Club House on Tuesday evening June 5 at 8 o clock. Tickets cost 35 cents. Jane Christine Davenport two months old daughter of Mr and Mrs John Henry Davenport formerly of Winthrop died suddenly at 1837 Marin Avenue Berkeley California from heart failure. MIT recommends degrees for seniors who joined military service or war industries. William A Clark of Winthrop is named for B S degree to be conferred at June graduation.
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Wilma Dearborn Carter
Studio of Expression
Elks Club House
Jane Christine Davenport
John Henry. Davenport
Winthrop
Marin Avenue
Berkeley
California
Germany
Masachusetts Institute of Technology
William A. Clark
Winthrop High Beats Marblehead 7–1 on Saturday
Winthrop High defeated Marblehead High 7 to 1 in Marblehead. Carlton pitched well, allowing four hits and fanning 10 over 1h 45m. Burke Magee Delvin Baker Gunderson Hoar scored runs. Brandy Thorner Broughton Rogers Snow Dugan Sullivan and Burridge appeared in the field.
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Winthrop High
Marblehead High
Marblehead
Carlton
Winthrop
Burke
Magee
Delvin
Baker
Gunderson
Hoar
Brandy
Thorner
Broughton
Rogers
Snow
Dugan
Sullivan
Burridge
Lewis
Evans
The Shining Stone of St Sophia Prophecy
A marble slab in the St Sophia mosque gallery is said to emit bright rays during Ottoman prosperity and religious triumphs and turn dark only in times of disaster. The stone has never darkened despite numerous sultanate defeats, signaling ominous prophecy.
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Constantinople
Mosque of
St. Sophia
Persia
Bugle hound treed a cockroach in bedpost tale
A boastful tale from Youngstown Telegram recaps a fat plumber and a thin carpenter debating a mysterious hound. The brother bragged of a bugle hound that hunts anything including cockroaches, claiming it could even tree in the upstairs of a house, a claim met with skepticism.
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Trumbull County
Youngstown
Proverb on Self Reflection and Nightly Thought
The saying advises thinking of your own faults while awake at night and considering others' faults as you sleep, promoting self awareness before judging others. The guidance blends introspection with moral restraint.
Too Unanimous to Count Prods Maine Town for Vote
The Maine secretary of state awaited returns from 525 towns and cities except Hurricane Isle in Knox county. The town clerk finally replied that he would not hold an election since he was the only voter present, prompting a bemused note from the Boston Herald.
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Secretary of State
Augusta
Maine
Hurricane Isle
Knox County
Boston Herald
Judge Refuses to Reinstate House Visit Injunction
A dialogue reports a successful appeal where a judge questions a youth leaving a house and a daughter confirms the prior injunction was lifted after an appeal to a higher court and a parent removed the injunction.
Advice Passed On Bride Memoir From a Mother
A mother shares timeless counsel she received before marriage, noting it once guided her own union and may benefit her daughter as she prepares for matrimony. The piece reflects on enduring guidance passed through generations.
All Have Part In Great Scheme Quote
A compact quotation attributed to Rabbi Ben Azai urges respect for all people and things, noting every person has their hour and every thing its place within a grand order. The line reads as counsel against disdain or rejection.
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Rabbi Ben Azai
Be Cheerful Once in a While
A tipsy reminder from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram urges readers to brighten daily life by smiling in public and not appearing to stay strictly at home with family.
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Fort Worth
Foreclosure Auction on Winthrop Property under 1916 Mortgage
Public auction to foreclose a mortgage on a Winthrop lot with buildings. Albert F Lyons and Charlotte Lyons mortgaged to Charles F Cass. sale June 19 at 4 pm. Property sized 6863 square feet on Waldemar avenue with plan details from 1896. Sale subject to prior Volunteer Cooperative Bank mortgage and taxes. Contact Elliot and Whittier Winthrop or Boston for particulars.
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Albert F. Lyons
Charlotte P. Lyons
Winthrop
County of Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Charles F. Cass
Suffolk
Waldemar Avenue
James Bacon Et Als
E. B. Newton
Te.f. Whitman
Volunteer Co-operative Bank
Elevated Rail Timetable for Orient Heights to Bowdoin Square
Boston Elevated Railway Company lists service times for Orient Heights and Gladstone Street to Bowdoin Square via tunnel and Sullivan Square to Dudley Street routes. Passenger trains run with frequent intervals from early morning until night, including Sunday schedules, with night service and special cars available for events. Contact Office of Manager Surface Transportation, 101 Milk Street, Room 701, for rates and connections. Edward Dana, Manager. Feb. 24, 1917.
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Orient Heights Gladstone Street
Bowdoin Square
Gladstone Street
Devonshire Station
Sullivan Square
Dudley Street
Tunnel
Atlantic Avenue
Forest Hills
Milk Street
Edward Dana
Winthrop Post Office Hours and Mail Box Schedule
Winthrop Post Office hours for weekdays 9 am to 9 pm holidays 7 am to 1 am not open Sundays. Special Delivery mail delivered Sunday. Postal Savings Depository. Carrier deliveries 7:30 am 10:60 am 2:50 pm. Holidays collections at 6:30 pm and 9 pm. Several boxes not collected at 9 pm. list includes Temple Highland avenues Grover Cliff Quincy Clift Cottage Park road Johnson avenue Court road and others. Street letter boxes collected weekdays at 9 pm. Sundays 6 pm. D Belcher Superintendent.
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Postal Savings Depository
Temple
Highland Avenues
Grover and Cliff
Quincy and Clift
Cottage Park_road
Johnson Avenue
Court Road
Lowell
Maple Streets
Main
Pleasant Streets
Hermon
Centre
Winthrop
Ocean View
Magee’s Corner
Revere
Cherry
Summit
Brown's Drug Store
Pleasant and
Pleasant
Lincoln
Read
Town Hall
D. Belcher
Supt
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Winthrop Firemen’s Relief Association
Maxwell Makers
Maxwell
P. D
Miriam Thayer Seeley
Oregon Agricultural College
Detroit
Hall & Norcross
Broadway
Fletcher
Burene P. Whittier
Washington Street
Boston
Catherine L. Crair
Outremont
Elliot and Whittier
Boston Eli Elevated Railway Company
Winthrop Post
A.m
McCall’s Magazine
And
McCall Patterns
McCall's
McCall
McCall's Magazine
W. 37Th St
New York City
Sun & Visitor
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