visitors and local notices fill Guinthrop pages
Arthur Denham visits Plymouth. Local ads list Freeman's Hardware and variety store offerings including garden tools seeds and fertilizers. Mrs Souther of Boston takes Sprague Cottage on Cottage Park road for the season. A Jessie Poole Walsh recital at Wadsworth Hall on May 19 with 25 cent tickets. Numerous residents travel, move, or host guests. A Go on Cheer Alliance annual meeting elects officers and plans picnics and sales. A Revere baseball field opening May 28 features the Newtowns versus Crescent Fields. Various church social events and community gatherings describe a busy Guinthrop schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogers
Freeoil's Hardware and Variety
Wadsworth Hall
Jessie Poole Walsh
E. O. Eldridge
Betcher Street
Mra Phillips
Harwich Port
Fred B. Jordan
Roy
Winchester
A. W. Belcher
Winthrop Street
Boardman
Edward Madd N
Buchanan Street
Ome
Dark Harbor
Litchfield
Hermon Street
Brockton
Plymouth and Bay
Unitarian
B. H. Haines
Boston
Oottage Park Road
Haines
Alliance
Jane
Unitarian Church
H. A. Haynes
Beacon’ Street
Rutland Street
New Winthrop Hotel
Haynes
Rebekah Lodge
Winthrop Notes and Society Roundup Silent Summer Plans
Quinthrop Neuis Mrs Dougal McDonald visits sisters in Madison and Springfield as Rev Tilton’s pulpit duties rotate. Trade improves after three months travel. lookahead to hotel Crest Hall summer music with Miss Mabel Going and a three member trio. D A R elects officers with Hortense Hay as Regent and thanks Ella Libbey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret J. Magennis
Boston Traveler
Park Street
Roxbury
Summit Avenue
Winthrop
Shirley
Wave Way Avenue
Sea Foam Avenue
Messrs. Block and Jacobs
East Boston
C. T. Noble
Crest Hall
Gertrude Coghlan
Mabel Going
Boston
Chromatic Club
Professional Women’s Club
Harriet K. Litchfield
Revere
Jennie Hilarade
Hortense Dudley Hay
Nora Johnson Barber
Ida M. Whitman
Caroline V. Paul
Annie M. Webber
Martha G. Swift
Mary L. Colton
Alice M. Downs
Carrie N. Walsh
Town News and lore from Winthrop to Dahomey
Mr John McCarthy and family sail to New York for the North of Ireland voyage aboard the Columbia. Mrs Charles F Nickerson leaves Bowdoin Street for East Orange New Jersey to visit her son. Property sales reported by Floyd and Tucker include Belcher to Connant in Boston and Atwood to Johnstone near the high school. The article then profiles Werda Dahomey temple of serpents where priests guard thousands of snakes and death awaits intentional serpent killings. an American observer notes cork limbs boost buy for artificial limbs makers who value self fitted comfort and experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McCarthy
Bowdoin Street
New York
Columbia
Ireland
Charles F. Nickerson
Alfred Tewksbury
Atlantic Street
Charles J. Nickerson
East Orange
N. J
Floyd and Tucker
Orlando F. Belcher
Albert F. Conant
Boston
Orlando Avenue
Cottage Park Hotel
Main
H B. Tewksbury
Joseph Anderson
Caroline
Atwood
James B. Johnstone
Waldemar Avenue
Werda
Kingdom
Dahomey
New York Sun
Majestic Theatre to Open The Land of Dollars with Ezra Kendall
Ezra Kendall opens at the Majestic Theatre Monday May 18 in George Ade's comedy The Land of Dollars. Kendall’s fan-making talent and Ade's wit promise lively humor without profanity. Ben Gridley, a wealthy seeker of health, pursues joy through generosity as the plot unfolds with well drawn characters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ezra Kendall
Majestic Theatre
George Ade
Kendall
America
Ade
Ben Gridley
Boone Portrait in Oil and Admiral Wit Tale
A fragment from the Strand Magazine recalls an English admiral's irony over bureaucratic reports and a civilian lord misreading a nautical chart. It then tells of Chester Harding's sole life portrait of Daniel Boone, painted in 1820 at Marthasville Missouri with Boone resting against a bed while Harding worked, now housed in Kentucky’s state capitol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiralty
House of Commons
London Strand Magazine
Boone
Daniel Boone
Chester Harding
Boston
Missouri
Flanders Callaway
Marthasville
Warren County
James E. Welch
Aikman Welch
Gamble
Harding
Pioneer
State
Frankfort
Kansas City Stary
The Glass Snake and the Slowworm Legend
The London Globe notes a legend about the slowworm or glass snake that supposedly breaks into pieces with each fragment living on. In truth the timid reptile when captured tenses its muscles and becomes very rigid, but only the head and tail survive such an ordeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Globe
Deaths MacDonnell In Winthrop May 9
Samuel A MacDonnell aged 46 died in Winthrop on May 9. Survived by family and friends. Funeral arrangements to be announced by the local undertaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macdonnell
Winthorp
Samuel A.macdonnell
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Winthrop News
Dew House
Somerset Avenue
Locust Street
Ocean Spray Station
Avenue A
Beach
Stafford
Cliff Avenue
Winthrop Highland
Argyle
Grover Avenue
Winthrop Highlands
Vine Avenue
Thornton
Shore Drive
Wm. Colton
Cottage Park Road
Iver Johnson
Colton
Plummer Avenue
Revere Street
Wadsworth’s Hall
Winthrop Centre
Point Shirley Cottage
Ocean
Tufts Avenue
Floyd & Tucker
School St
Endicott
Sri
Guinthrop News
Arthur
Denham
Plymouth
Freeman’s Hardware and Variety Store
Freeman's Hardware and Variety Store
Rideout
River Road
Ralph W. Shorey
Cottage Hill
J. W. Tewkesbury
Washington Avenue
Michael Grimes
International Sunshine Bulletin
N. Y
Massachusetts
Trinity Church
W. A. Farnsworth
Plummer Street
Farnsworth
Society
Beachmont
Revere Beach
Newtowns
Crescent Fields
Nelson, Oyr
Kimball
Fisher
Everett
Edward Kenney
Young Peoples’ Societies
Congregational
Baptist
Methodist
Helen Young
Mark Nesmith
Dorothea Smith
Harvey
N. Stanley
Martha Jenkins
Quinthrop Neuis
Mrs. Dougal McDonald
George Floyd
Madison Avenue
George Fiske
Springfield
A N. Dean
Pauline Street
8. K. Coffin
Esther
China, Me
0. W. Davison
Lincoln Street
Charles Ide
Baltimore
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Washington
Lydia H. Tilton
Majestic’ Theatre
Cliff House
Massachusetts Bay
J. Pope & Son
Ocean View Hotel
Bobrien
Cottage Park
Winthrop Mass
Winthrop Beach
Mass
Young’s Hotel
Geo. A. Cabot
Winthrop’ Hotel
Robert N. Chapman
Lawrence C. Wadsworth
Winthrop, Revere, and
Chelsea
Henry W. Savage
Pemberton Square
Railroad Street
Columbia Square
Suburban Gas and Electric
Winthrop Sun and Visitor
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