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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1915
Page
4
It is alleged two Winthrop ice companies have a gentlemanly pact to raise ice prices citing mild or cold winters and higher cutting costs. The piece contrasts with the local artificial ice firm and questions the excuses offered by the ice trade.
The Fourth of July water sports committee promotes a 50 yard junior and senior boys and girls program at Lewis Lake with a 100 yard open race plus diving, a four boy relay and canoe tilting. Entries close July 2 at 7 p.m. prizes await winners. event starts July 5 at 10 a.m. Officials include Hewitt Talcott Donovan Egan Perkins and Cogswell.
A Coun try Club meeting at George A. Cole's home outlined a Fourth of July program to run 4 to 6 p.m. with water and land sports, a baby carriage parade, and a doll carriage parade. Prizes are described as elaborate and a favorable collector's report was noted.
List of names shows letters awaiting pickup at Winthrop station for the week ending June 26 1915. Vera Anderson and Mrs Herbert J Adams are among those listed along with Mrs A Burman Harry Berringer Mrs A Einer Emerson Mrs M Harrison Rose Ingraham and others including Fred Looser M Marshall M McLaughlin L A Riley and Mrs Ida J Serex.
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The graduating class of 1915 held class day exercises at 2 30 pm on Monday with a parade to Ingleside Park guided by Class Marshal Fred Leary. A detailed program featured speeches, music, class history and prophecy, gifts, and the laying of a corner stone before a luncheon and speeches by faculty and board members.
Be sure and contribute your mite to the Fourth of July committee if you have not already done so. Very few responses from automobile owners have been received for the use of their car to give children a ride on the morning of the Fourth. Many owners plan to be away, so the committee urgently needs more machines to avoid disappointing the kiddies.
Parcel notes list Judith Lythgoe on Fair View Street lots 6 8 10 with a December 15 1913 assessment of 59 dollars. Others show Sarah Schwartz heirs on Beach Road lot 47 with about 2400 square feet and a 1913 end date. Frank Volpe on Orlando Avenue lot 17 with about 10248 square feet and a 1913 assessment of 17.65 dollars.
Collector's notice identifies THOMAS W. BERRIDGE regarding about 5 000 square feet of land and parcels on the south eastern side of Pearl avenue lot 177 plan recorded with Suffolk is libro 1275 end.
Legal notice describing approximately 6 000 square feet of land and buildings on the northerly side of Trident Avenue Lot 79 and part of Lot 78 as recorded in Suffolk Deeds libro 1275. Bounded southerly by Trident Avenue westerly by adjacent lands of Eqqere aa therty B and easterly by Lot 80. Tax amount listed for 1913 is $300.29.
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