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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1917
Page
3
Local notices report church fundraising for the Red Cross, births, engagements, and travel. Residents attend church events, enjoy visits from relatives, and receive updates on civic groups, police caps, and veterans activities in Winthrop.
Mrs. Marsh in Gloucester. Park bids for Playstead lawn care. Captain Cobb and family at Martha's Vineyard. Miss Belcher and sister week at Lassell. Machine Gun Company dances in Elks Hall. McClintock and Hall depart for Camp Becket. Power weekend in Belmont NH. Philip Magee takes summer post on Long Island. Red Cross fund tops $2000. Cross benefit nets $425. Medal contest postponed. Red Cross theatre program at East Boston. Marsh family wedding at St John church. Rainbow Kimona comedy Friday. Sallie Shaw to wed Winthrop resident Knudson. Point Shirley Navy enlistment list grows. multiple local names noted.
Junior members of the Winthrop American Red Cross raised over one hundred dollars at a charity fair held on Mrs. Norah Johnson Barbour’s lawn. The event featured an ice cream table run by Robert Lorimer Hazel and an ally flags cake won by Catherine Grady with Gordon Campbell drawing the winning ticket.
A compact notice invites readers to place ads for selling items. It emphasizes that running an advertisement in the paper will help move goods quickly and reach a wide local audience. The piece presents no details about items or prices.
In Winthrop Center on June 25 Elvira A. widow of Elijah M. Baxter died at age 67 or 68. The obituary notes her status as widow and references her late husband.
John Richardson died after a six day illness at Frost Hospital Chelsea on June 23. Born in England 48 years ago he moved to Winthrop in the early 1890s where he ran a butter and eggs business. He married Elizabeth Girling in 1897 and they remained in Winthrop. Funeral services were at St. John’s Episcopal Church on June 26 with interment in Winthrop cemetery. He leaves a widow a son a daughter an aged father a sister and many friends. W. C. Skaggs supervised arrangements.
Winthrop Boy Scout Local Council calls for Scout Masters and assistants as many trained leaders join government service. Contact assistant district commissioner J P Marge son at 204 Lincoln Street for information. Six troops exist, with potential to form two more. a fund is being raised for a district secretary to aid the work.
At a Parker House dinner in Boston on a Saturday afternoon four men from Boston and Winthrop marked the second anniversary of their miraculous escape when their car plunged over a stone abutment and hung above railroad tracks. Alvah M. Thompson Joseph A. Campbell Osmon D. Baker and Charles L. Hatch survived the fall and walked away as the wreckage was showered by a passing train.
William H. Gibbons reports recent sales including 162 Circuit Road owned by Wildey Savings Bank sold to Patrick J. Clancy for occupancy. Properties in Court Park and Thornton Park sold for home use with buyers Leon Small, Ada V. Dunmeyer estate, and Cynthia H. Butt. A Pleasant Park Road sale to Charles A. Seabury includes seven rooms with land value details. Catherine I. McCarthy the grantor.
The Winthrop Public Library announces hours for adults and juveniles and lists new acquisitions including God the Invisible King by H G Wells and several history and reference works. Also noted are book deposits at Elliot Whittier real estate office and upcoming Wednesday Saturday public viewing times at Point Shirley.
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