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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1918
Page
2
Herbert E. Emerson of the Winthrop Sun and Visitor is listed as editor and a member of the Massachusetts Press Association. He is noted as affiliated with the National Editorial Association and the Republican Editorial Association of Massachusetts.
Copies of this paper, at five cents, are for sale at Highland Drug Store opposite Highland station Boston Revere Beach Lynn Depot Boston Totman Ham opposite Beach station Totman Ham near Highland Robinson's Centre Store Jefferson Winthrop streets Quality Shop opposite Centre station Williams' Drug Store opposite Centre W A Howe Druggist Masees Corner Browns Pharmacy Wadsworth Block Centre Lang's Drug Store Ocean Spray Winthrop News Co opposite Beach Also at the office of publication 216 Winthrop street
Congressman Alvan T. Fuller recalls introducing a bill to fix prices on life's necessities to shield humble households from profiteers during wartime shortages. He notes Food Administrator Hoover now uses a fair price list and community committees to set maximums, with housewives monitoring bills and locals reporting overcharges.
Transfers show various property interests and mortgage amounts including Benson on Lincoln Street and Chapman Cottage Park Road. Notable entries include James F Barry at Lincoln Street and real street with 11 000, and Charles Evans with Mary F Evans on Sargent Street. Tewksbury entries involve Florence and Caroline A estates with John J Mullen vice venue and 4000 figures.
The Winthrop Branch of the American Red Cross thanks the Ladies Association of the Winthrop Spanish War Veterans for a 75 dollar contribution. G Wallace Tibbett,s treasurer.
The article reviews Leo Crandall and Darwin on whether dogs descend from a single ancestor or multiple wild progenitors. It notes plains Indians' dogs resembling coyotes, northern huskies near gray wolves, and other wolflike breeds, with St George Mivart citing ingo as the sole wild ancestor present in Australia and in fossils from early times.
Beach mollusks of coquina shells cover sunlit shores and form corallike beds below tide. Live mollusks abound at water edge. boys gather them for sale to hotels to make coquina broth praised for invalids and weak digestion.
In Simpson's restaurant an American chats with a Canadian Victoria Cross recipient from Windsor who has served in five major battles. He recalls near isolation, no family, and hopes to return to the United States if he survives, comparing war to roulette and noting only a few original comrades remain.
The piece recalls the 1907 division of Persia into Russian and British spheres and the expulsion of Morgan Shuster. It notes a modern Russian foreign policy that rejects imperialist rules, likening it to Brest-Litovsk and Petrograd era moves and suggesting Britain’s imperial grip is weakening.
The essay discusses a theory by a Washington department head linking seasons to war desire. It posits a regu lar curve where appetite for conflict rises with spring and summer then declines into autumn, suggesting peace is easiest to attain from goldenrod to before bud greening. It notes coal’s tragic yet poetic impact on the poor.
Public notices in Boston detail a sheriff's sale set for July 20 1918 at 12 o'clock noon at Pemberton Square listing a Winthrop parcel on Madison Avenue with bounds toward Belcher and Cassens as part of a nonexempt execution. A separate mortgagee's sale of a Winthrop property described by plan and bounds on Pauline Street and Fremont Street is scheduled for June 20 1918 at 11 a.m., with terms and taxes to be settled and a deposit required.
Oriented routes show frequent intervals between Orient Heights and Bowdoin Square with Devonshire Station connections. Sunday schedules include 5.29 to 7.42 a.m. and late-night service. special cars may be chartered for events. Transportation Manager Edward Dana notes rates and routes at 101 Milk Street.
Scouts are urged to offer garden and labor services to neighbors and teachers. The bulletin asks scouts to plant vegetables instead of flowers this season and to seek space in schools and homes to grow food. It calls for citizen action to conserve the nation’s food supply.
State Senator Alfred dy. Gilchrist of New York City argues a ten year old girl bears a ship tattoo on her back preventing entry to society. He claims a Brooklyn girl is barred from fashion due to the mark and proposes a $500 fine for anyone who mars a young woman's beauty.
A British Association for the Advancement of Science committee has built a national photo collection of British geology with about 5600 images, over a thousand from Yorkshire. The Geological Survey of Great Britain released a list of its Scottish pictures, with both bodies offering prints slides and prizes for photographs of scenery and geology.
About fifteen Siamese students enrolled in American educational institutions this year to pursue law medicine and engineering. Some graduates from U S colleges now work for their government on major public works and have helped introduce American machinery and scientific supplies to Siam. Among August departures were four king’s scholars funded by the Siamese government.
A fragment recalls General Timilton and a complaint about garbled descriptive messages from the front. It cites a Boston transcription noting a writer protesting the historic charge that the army swore terribly in Flanders and that only one army advanced bravely.
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