Winthrop News Highlights Local Notices and Donations
Local notices include news items adoptions and charitable efforts. Miss Mabel Golden staged Cinderella in Fairyland for war relief. Lillian Pigeon donated an Edison talking machine and records to Fort Andrews. Colonial Chapter O E S to honor leaders at Masonise Hall. WCTU meets at 187 Lincoln Street. Ladies Aid plans a July 2 sale with baked goods and a rummage table. Proceeds support community relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Bernhardy
Walker Street
West Somerville
Tel
Somerville
Geo. E. Wales
Christian Science Comforts Committee of
Winthrop
Somerset Avenue
Mabel J. Golden
Saxonville
Mass
Lillian Pigeon
Roy Pigeon
Circuit Road
Fort Andrews
Lillian G. Walsh
Elizabeth F. Jones
Masonise Hall
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Mary Kinney
Lincoln Street
Ladies’ Aid Society
First Baptist Church
David Belcher
Winthrop Street
Calumet Club Holds Second Annual Dance at Elks Hall
The Calumet Club held its second annual dance at the Winthrop Elks Hall last Saturday evening. The committee included H. W. Brown chairman E. Croan S. A. Foote KE. McGee and G. F. Gunderson. William Silverberg, recently returned from a minesweeper tour, arrived home for eye treatment at 54 Johnson Avenue surprising his parents Mr and Mrs E J Silverberg. His brother serves in the Winthrop Machine Gun Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calumet Club
Winthrop Elks Hall
H. W. Brown
E. Croan
S. A. Foote
KE. McGee
G. F. Gunderson
William
Silverberg
E. J. Silverberg
Johnson Avenue
Winthrop
Winthrop Machine Gun Company
Jersey
Dedication of the Flags of Our Allies
Five silk flags representing Belgium Britain Canada France and Italy will be dedicated at St John’s Episcopal Church on Sunday morning June 30 at 10 30. Rector Rev Ralph M Harper will speak on Allegiance to Our Allies during the dedicatory service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Belgium
St. John’s
Ralph M. Harper
Surprise party at Verdi home with gifts in Somerville
Mr and Mrs A E Verdi of 136 Bowdoin Street were surprised by a Somerville group of friends who hosted a house warming. Recitations by Dorothy Verdi, songs by Lillian Verdi, a solo by Evan Conte, and group singing followed. Refreshments were served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Verdi
Bowdoin Street
Somerville
Dorothy Verdi
Lillian Verdi
Evan Conte
Courage Comes From Heart Says Detour Through Language
The piece traces courage to the word root cor meaning heart. It notes courage as heartage keeping the heart steady amid danger or dull routine. It describes steadiness when threats appear and persistence to resist despair in ordinary life.
Fuel of Wisdom and War Time Sayings
A collection of wartime aphorisms on liberty, sacrifice, family, patriotism, and economics. It contrasts profiteering, home life, and farming effort, noting hard work, refraining from distant farming, and the cost of patriotism to individuals. The piece comments on gender roles and the value of fatherhood amid hardship.
Fragmented Quotations On Time, Energy And Culture
A Boston transcript presents scattered lines musing on time, energy, culture, and social behavior. It discusses how lack of time relates to energy, the idea that one need not be a marathoner to be long winded, and that modest knowledge can irritate. It also notes that a homely face may shield women from certain nonsense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rank
Boston “‘Transcript
What’s New in Science Items From the Era
A collection of science notes: Bolivian tin ore smelted in Chile. a phonograph attachment makes a clock speak every quarter hour. cooling ovens with cold water. Argentina to install electric voting machine. pressed feather clothing as wool substitute. umbrella folding shade. incubation by electric light without glass bells. concrete sea vessels tested in Sweden and Norway. Defimark enters the industry. hardened copper phonograph needles and a water spring from metal. a new cotton picking machine with pneumatic nozzles. and submarine cable cores and sheathing totaling a moon’s distance in length.
Unclear Historical Notes On Colors Materials And Pearls
A French horizon blue reportedly tops opinions as a military uniform color A whitewash made from acetylene refinery sludge is now used An X ray image reveals silk tnessing with tin filling A study of bivalves suspected of pearl beating uses X ray to avoid shellfish damage
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acetylene
World’s small place as we meet in Australia
Mrs. Trotter remarks on the improbability of running into her two children in charge of their governess while traveling in Australia. The Globe notes the coincidence as a light anecdote of international travel and family fate.
Bird and Insect Weaving Arts Noted in Nature
The article describes weaving skills among caterpillars and spiders and mentions Tyre weaver birds of Africa and India, a finch species, that construct remarkable nests from leaves sewn together. It highlights natural weaving as a notable craft of lower life forms and birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
India
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Swett’s Market
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Victor GG. Pitts
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C. W. Davy and Son
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Ixiward A. Buss
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Sunang
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E. C. Blossom Care
K. C. Brown
Lynnfield Center
Pillings Pond
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Orlando Avenue
Monwealth
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Board OF Bank Incorporation
Pamuel Bo Rosen
William W. G Cherney
Sam Pfau
George Joe Frankenstein
George Pinkselin
Gabrel Alexander
Nathan Ferar
Israel Cherney
William J. Stanton
Morris Fischbach
Lazarus Eh Paul
Divine
Board of
Bank Incorporstion
Wte
Peoples Credit Union
State House
Augustus L. Thorndike
Charles L. Burrill
William D.T. Trepry
Philip Rosenblatt
Marehl
Suffolk Reeds
Suffolk
Prospect Avenue
Lyon
Ames C. Bond
Winthrop Sun and Visitor
Brown’s Drug Store
Winthrop Centre
Stover's Drug Store
Highlands
Winthrop Highlands
Henry Ward Beecher
U-S-A
Pilgrim Laundry CO
Massachusetts Ave
Norway St
ARENA
Gentlemen's Grill
the Colonial Orchestra
Guy A. Piscopo
Chili
Chamber of Deputies
Sweden
Norway
Defimark
New York
Earth
Moon
Meryman’s
Shirley Street
WM. C. Skaggs
Ritma
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Channing Row
Whitman & Howard
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Ateur
Rovers
Telephone
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A. D. Allen
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