Boston Elevated Railway Time Table Cambridge Division
Boston Elevated Railway timetable lists routes from Arlington Center through Adams via Harvard Bridge and West Boston Bridge with numerous departures from early morning to late night. Night and Sunday service details include Adams, Harvard Square, City Point, and Roxbury connections with frequent intervals and specific streetcar paths.
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Arlington Center
Adame GQ
Geacon
Adams
Harvard Bridge
West Boston Bridge
Ifrom
Arlington
Arlington Heights
Adama
Harvard
East Cambridge
City Point
Subway
Broadway
Brookline ST. Cor. Mass. Ave
Park
Cottage Farm
Scollay
Bor Wat
Essex St
Scallay Oq
Bonday
Scallay Sq
Adams Oq
Mate St
Harvard Square
Adams &Q
River BT
Post Office
Goulston &St
F. M. NO
Cambridge
Dudley &T
Washington ST
Roxbury
Harvard Sq
Dudley Bt
Dudley
River S&t
Pearl ST
Roxbury Crossing
Mount Aubern
Huron Ave
Newton
Watertown
Hanover ST
Wight
A. M. Newton
MT. Auburn ST
North Cambridge
Seudebwat
Prospect
Prospect ST
Riverside
Erbgeant
Scrap Book A Phenomenon and Other Short Items
Scrap Book recounts a preacher’s joke defining a phenomenon with a cow on a thistle and a singing bird. It also notes Irish patriots Michael Doolan and Patrick Murphy as examples. A classroom tale contrasts worms versus sparrows with a humorous misstatement about sparrows.
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Michael Doolan
Patrick Murwee
Humorous Fragments on Luck Belief and Daily Life
A collage of aphorisms and anecdotes moments include Teutonic pluck, a bulldog metaphor, and a Holmes quote. Jokes mix with observations about consistency and truth. A tale recounts a blood circulation riddle and a Wright brothers misheard kitchen anecdote about beef tea.
Specimen Swap Tale From School Day
A mother asks about school, the child recounts nature study and bringing a cockroach in a bottle. He boasts of many more specimens ready for daily demonstrations for the teacher.
Unnamed Father Wonders at Crib Cost in Joy
Soon after his first baby was born a wife finds him by the crib gazing at the child. She weeps with emotion as he murmurs it is incomprehensible how they can build such a crib for nine cents.
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Bridget Flinnizan
Wirral
Bridget
Lippincoutt
Known by His Friends A Drunkenness Case
A forlorn man brought before a magistrate for drunkenness and disorderly conduct speaks of human cruelty. He is cut off with a 30 day sentence. The judge dismisses as part of a broader, restless critique of society. The fragment references literary figures and municipal lists.
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Terron
Poe
Muntem
Lippincett’s
Potatoes Share Riddle Sparks Schoolroom Teasing
In a family of five children with four potatoes the mother seeks equal shares. A pupil breaks the silence with a clever pun Mish the potatoes sir prompting laughter as the classroom giggles at the mispronounced solution.
The Noble Two
The colonel of a Scotch regiment contemplates modern uniforms after a vote among soldiers. A sergeant surveys the men about adopting trousers and a new outfit, returning with most refusing the change. The colonel exclaims Noble two, proud ancestors, and praises two loyal men.
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Bonnie
Scotland
They Were Agreed. A Quip on Education and Cremation News
A dialogue from a newspaper page contrasts rural schooling with urban manners. A summer boarder jokes that many men are fifty and have never planted corn. A man dies and is cremated per his widow’s wishes, prompting old time humor about cremation.
Prince Edward Asked About Perkin Warbeck
The young prince replied that Warbeck claimed to be a king's son but was not. He said Warbeck was the son of respectable parents who pretended to be royal.
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King Edward
Prince Edward of Wales
Perkin Warbeck
Warbeck
Names on the Kin List Sparkled by Quarrel
In a bustling scene a couple copies male names from the local population while a wife notes her husband’s industrious effort. Pat OLeary confronts Mike Leebie who defends the list and vows to strike names off as tensions rise over alleged insults.
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Regorra
Pat O'Learyy
Pat
O'Leary
Mike
Moltke
Not Frightened by the Warning in Domestic Dialogue
A household exchange reveals a tense dynamic as a mistress warns of replacing a servant if a future incident repeats. The servant counters that the workload already taxes two people, highlighting strain and balance of power in the domestic setting.
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Marie
How to Teach Sister to Swim FP
A humorous overheard exchange among two boys about teaching a girl to swim ends with a punchline about pushing her off the deck. A second anecdote notes a teacher asking students to imagine Plymouth, with a late pupil asking if a hen or rooster should be drawn.
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Hopkinson Smith
Clarry
Plymouth Peck
Willie
Senator Joke Turns On Temperance Lecturer Tale
A dinner tale recalls a Maine temperance lecturer in Ellsworth who aimed at moderates. An Ellsworth man grumbles he carries a small load and the lecturer quips that the speaker should have tried harder, hinting at sharper points in the lecture.
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United States
Maine
Ellsworth
Jim
Wireless Money Lending on the Track Revealed
In a Bohemian excerpt the practice of money lending at American racecourses is described. A broker, inconspicuously dressed, loans cash against jewelry. The deal unfolds publicly after a discreet sign, with repayment and premium tied to race results, and the lender regains the jewelry.
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Rosa
Goas
C.F. Peters
Bohemian
Local tableaux vivants offend Nelson death scene
In Little Plowboro the village schoolroom hosts tableaux vivants by locals to mark Nelson's death. A friend of the naval hero’s defender interrupts the curtain, joking the scene should be shown again, suggesting Nelson’s fate while the crowd reacts.
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Little Plowboro
Sars Pearson
Nelson
Stratford quarrel over Shakespeare and Burns ends in confusion
In a Stratford on Avon hotel smoking room an Englishman proclaims William Shakespeare the world’s sole poet while a Scotchman defends Robert Burns. As tempers flare a confident commercial traveler intervenes and asks who is Shakespeare Burns to settle the dispute amicably.
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Stratford-on-Avon
John Bull
William Shakespeare
Donald McPherson
Robert Burns
Shakespeare Burns
London Telegraph
Crowded Out by Time Unfolding at Tea Party
A speaker, aged fifty-six, declares she is thirty-five, inviting a matching claim from another guest twenty-six, while a seventeen year old joke about being “not born yet” highlights playful confusion over age and time during a tea gathering.
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Tam
Ethel
The Smallpox Devil in Su Matra Coastal Customs
Natives of the west coast of Sumatra object to vaccination and continue rituals for the smallpox devil. They offer fowl and buffalo liver and heart with yellow rice, placed in a ship model, carried in procession, and launched into the sea per the Singapore Free Press.
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Sumatra
Sen
Singapore
Skrappy Comic Exchange Sparks a Matrimonial Mix-Up
A humorous cartoon caption shows Mrs Skrappy accusing her husband of being an aun fool while he defends their marriage. The dialogue plays on marital banter with a blundered spelling joke and illustrated confusion.
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Skrappy
Mrs. Skrappy
Apprentices Examination for Ananias Club Members
Preliminary rites for joining the Ananias club described in a Chicago Post excerpt. The text mixes humor and formalities as potential members undergo scrutiny and ritualized steps.
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Ananias Club
Chicago Post
With a Little Help in a Cannibal Scene
A comic exchange features a missionary scolding and cannibals sighing about dry wood. The line captures a humorous clash of cultures with a touch of ironic calm amid claimed savagery.
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Puck
Rainfall Averages Below and Above Expected Levels
Report notes varying rainfall with the southern area at about twenty six inches and the northern region at thirty seven and one half inches. Data contrasts indicate localized moisture differences across the region.
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DR. J. Leq
Boylston Street
Reycroft the Florist
Massachusetts Ave
Cor
Browkline Street
Max Eeezer
Bow St
Quincy
Frank Facey
Prospect Street
Allied Printing Trades Council Lake
THE
Sentinel
D. B. Shaughnessy & Son Book
Cambridge Street
Institute
East
Mass
Boston Elevated Railway
Johnny
Johny
Ladies’ Home Journal
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Bors
Orville
Victur Wright
Dayton
Freire
Orville Wright
Elli
Stella
Simeon Tord
New York
Inman Squas
George E. Everett
Hampshire ST
Cunningham Bros
Centr Tel
Il SQ
Cambridge Gas Light Company
Geo. W. Gale Lumber Go
Oliver D. Clary
N. E
S. H. Harrington
WM. H. Wood &C
Brooks & Conley Real Estate and Insurance
Massachusetts Avenue
M. F. Barry & CO
Elston Building
Inman SQ
George H
Columbia
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