Winthrop Sun and Visiter 1918 Publication Details
The Winthrop Sun and Winthrop Visitor date back to 1892 and 1881, consolidated December 8 1905. The paper lists offices at 216 Winthrop Street and editorial notes for subscription rates and post office entries. Published Saturdays in 1918 with biweekly printing and telephonic contact details.
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Winthrop Sun
Winthrop Visitor
Winthrop Sea
Pebee
Shirley
Boston
Mass
of Congress
Winthrop High School Holds Weekend Graduation Events
The senior class will graduate at Winthrop Theatre on Wednesday June 26 with Grammar School ceremonies earlier that day at 10 am. Class Day is Tuesday June 25 at Ingleside Park. Winthrop High won the Interurban league title, beating Revere and Chelsea then finishing undefeated in league play. Thirty high school students are at farm camps statewide while 13 pupils take College Entrance Certification Board exams in Boston.
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Winthrop High School
Winthrop Theatre
Ingleside Park
Revere High School
Chelsea High School
Somerville High School
Cambridge High School
Massachusetts
Feeding Hills
Springfield
College Entrance Certificate Board
Boston
Bumkin Island Defeats Winthrop 8 to 4 at Ingleside Park
Bumkin Island sailors beat Winthrop 8 to 4 Monday afternoon. Durning pitched well, allowing eight hits. Scoring included Stewart 2, Travers, Keley 2, Reardon, Durning, Dow 2, Cox, Donovan. Home runs by Stewart and Kelley.
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Bumkin Island
Winthrop
Ingleside Park
Durning
Winthrop Town
Conors
Stewart
Travers
Keley
Reardon
Dow
Cox
Donovan
Foran Hoar
Flynn
O’brien
Kelley
Foran
Belcher
Bedard
Martin
Hoar
Dunn
Notifying Relatives of Casualties From War Lists
War Department explains the 24 hour alert system for casualty lists. A statistical division maintains soldier rosters with emergency addresses, then dispatches telegrams via clerks once Pershing’s lists arrive. Delays arise from clerical errors, address changes, and occasional military discretion to withhold casualty lists.
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France
War Department
General Pershing
America
Pershing
State Guard Notes on Company A Training Trip
About fifty officers and men of Company A leave Saturday for Wakefield to rifle practice at the Navy Rifle Range. They travel by automobile and may camp at Boxford starting July 15, with Col. Edward H. Elridge arranging accommodations. Captain Keefe reports letters from Capt. Howard A. Irwin now at Camp Benjamin Harrison. Major H. R. Hutchinson visits Ingleside Park and inspects the Armory, while NCOs attend a regimental school at the Myopia Hunt Club grounds.
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Company A
Wakefield
Navy
Aompany
Boxford
Edward H. Elridge
15Th Regiment
M. G
A. Service
H. R. Hutchinson
Lynn
Ingleside Park
Co. A F
15Th Regt
Myopia Hunt Club
Hamilton
Liberty Bonds Deposits Open 10 to 12 and 1 to 3 at Centre Station
Deposits for Liberty Bonds are accepted daily from 10 to 12 noon and 1 to 3 p.m. The schedule includes Wednesday and Saturday evenings from 7 to 8 thirty. Location noted as Jefferson Street near Centre Station.
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Wadeworth
Wingthrop Centre
Liberty Bonds
Jefferson St
Centre Station
Winthrop Failure of Yerlin Louis at 40 Floyd Street
Liabilities total 7054 with assets 1232. Largest creditors include The Voltax Co Bridgeport Conn 354 Reynolds Motor Car Co Norwalk Conn 296 Knox Morse Co Boston 548 Agahel Wheeler Co Boston 382 Weaver & Co Inc Providence R I 2984 Stower Bros Carriage Co Worcester 450 unsecured.
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Yerlin, Louis
Floyd Street
The
Voltax Co
Bridgeport
Prayer Power Wins Girl Auto Ride
A six year old daughter of an attorney believes prayer brings results. After asking her mother to pray for a ride, a neighbor unexpectedly offers an auto trip just for one child. The girl tells her mother if she had prayed with her she could have joined, leaving the mother still wondering.
Marine Corps Insignia Confuses Civilians Aboard
A Marine sergeant touring a street scene is stopped by children who misidentify his uniform. A girl asks to see his cap device while a boy notes the globe eagle and anchor mark “marine” despite color changes. The youngster identifies the sergeant as a marine and a sharpshooter.
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United States Service
United States Marine Corps
Marine Corps
Marine
Quirky Washington Messenger Wears Silk Hat at Land Office
A capital correspondent describes a Land Office guard now at the Crowder Provo st Marshal General’s area. The old Southern gentleman keeps a vintage black silk hat, with a silver authority badge on his left lapel, greeting entrants with a courteous smile as he performs messenger duties at the building's door.
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Uncle Sam
Washington
Capital
Land Office
General Crowder
Old Souther School
Psi
U-Boats Murder Thousands Reported in War Crimes
A government statement in the House of Commons reveals German U boats had killed 14,120 noncombatants, British and others, by February 1918. The text condemns unrestricted submarine warfare as murder, stressing the disproportionate toll on civilians and the moral horror of the act.
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Ecntast
House of Commons
Once a Punny Time Lesson Sparks Confusion
A teacher conducts dictation for a writing lesson. A student asks what a pun is explaining the phrase Once a punny time. The teacher clarifies by improving enunciation and illustrating the play on words with a pun.
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Lizzie
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