Oak Grove Farm Co announces summer milk delivery plan
Oak Grove Farm Co states it will supply milk to Ocean Spray, Great Head, Point Shirley, Winthrop Highlands, Beachmont and Cottage Park residents from May 1. Price is 7 cents per quart delivered in glass jars with pure milk and creamland churned butter as specialties. Delivery continues until Oct. 1. Orders may be mailed to the Boston office or left at local markets.
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Ocean Spray
Great Head
Point Shirley
Winthrop Highlands
Beachmont
Cottage Park
Boston
Francis N. Belcher
Winthrop
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Spray View
Boston, Winthrop and
LA. Nichols
Suffolk
Groceries and Provisions at Ocean Spray Cash House
An early 20th century-fashioned notice from W. Goodrich of the Ocean Spray Cash Provision and Grocery House near Shirley Street Station advertising square pricing and Boston prices on all stock. The letter promises first class goods and seeks a liberal patronage from customers.
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Shirley Street
Boston
W. Goodrich
Estate of Francis Neicher administrator named Belcher
George G Belcher is named administrator of the estate of Francis Neicher in Winthrop on August 12 1585.
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George G. Belcher
Francis Neicher
Winthrop
Newspaper masthead notice
Friday edition notice credits Mrs S E Cowell as editor and directs business communications to the publisher at 8 Change Avenue. The line up lists 8 Change Avenue as the publisher address and identifies the Cowell publishing house.
Advertising Rates And Notices From The Reading Paper
Rates listed for various ad spaces such as one inch space one fourth column one half column and full column per year with a 10 percent surcharge for shorter periods. Reading notices priced at 10 cents per line for first insertion and 9 cents per line for subsequent insertions. A minimum charge of 69 cents applies. The paper guarantees adherence to these rates.
Removal of Vastror Office and Local Currency Notes
The Vastror office moves from 71 Oliver Street to Change Avenue between 96 State Street and 13 Faneuil Hall Square, continuing job printing and tag manufacturing at the new office with low prices and guaranteed good work. Winthrop customers receive special attention. Mire Les Cowell signs the notice. Also noted are remarks on woman suffrage gaining ground in London papers, bank counterfeit alerts in New York, and a summary of historical U S coinage changes including the 20 cent piece and other denominations with dates.
Luminous Jobs and a Paparazzi Marriage Note
A quirky notice discusses street lamps earning a penny each to light and extinguish at night. It laments no rush about publishing on a fixed date while a Surat newspaper explains its dull week due to the editor’s involvement in his son’s marriage ceremony.
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Txprv
Surat
Machines replace hand labor in nail making ends era
The article notes a shift from skilled labor to machines in nail production, claiming a child can operate the machines that now tilt out 300-minute nails and produce 1000 per minute in some grades. It recalls the Knights of Labor edict condemned by the Papal See in 1884 and a Vatican missive reaffirming bishops to sever ties with the order.
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Knights of Babor
Canada
United States
Vatican
Pilgrims From Troy Begin Auriesville Pilgrimage
Last Sunday 1500 pilgrims from Troy New York started for Auriesville where a shrine was dedicated August 15 188. The shrine honors a Jesuit priest and a novice who died nearby. A chapel will soon cover the shrine as solemn services are planned. Modern car routes replace the old barefooted march.
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Troy
N. Y
Auriesville
United States
Order of the Jesuits
Winthrop Locals Highlight Maps Real Estate Plans
Mr. David Floyd develops a town map designating every lot, by a Philadelphia firm, to aid business and homes. Stover hires Nickson of Boston as clerk. Mrs. Cowell and Mrs. Paine visit, others travel to Moosehead Lake and Cottage Park. Real estate interest grows with a planned board of trade and Dr. Hull starting improvements on Pleasant street. A new avenue will be laid out with 54 lots planted with trees.
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David Floyd
Winthrop
Philadelphia
Stover
Nickson
Boston
John Cowell
New York
E. Pond
Hermon Street
Fred Noyes
Moosehead Lake
Real Estate Board of Trade
Hull
Town
Pleasant Street
Local notices and accidents fill town paper pages
The column lists land sale conditions, residents traveling for camp meetings and vacations, a runaway carriage crash near Nickerson's shop with minor injuries, visitors staying with the Wentworths, a bishop's mission visit, and church and hall services. A death near Great Head follows a paralysis and brain bleed, with a potential funeral on Saturday. Additional items note petitioned school site changes and local family travels along the Merrimac.
Illumination and Fireworks Shine Over Winthrop Harbor
Crowds gathered Monday evening to celebrate Mr. Lovering securing a $2300 government survey of Winthrop harbor aiming to dredge a constant accessible channel. Washington avenue lit with home open houses and bonfires. Great Head and Spray displayed lanterns and fireworks. Boston Cadet Band played at Cottage Park before dancing at the club house. rain shortened the festivities but the scene remained a grand display across the town.
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Lovering
Winthrop Harbor
Winthrop
Washington Avenue
Samuel Tewksbury
Thornton Park
Great Head
Boston
Cottage Park
A QUERY. TO M. J. MESSER.
A poetic plea wonders by what power the reader knows the speaker's thoughts. The speaker credits a spirit and imagines wandering by water and sky while dreaming of home and heaven as ships sail by. The verse recalls leaving pleasant scenes and vows not to forget Old Shirley.
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Shirley
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Eorge E. McCarthy
M. I
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Winthrop, Mase
StoGa
Charles A. Buswell
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P* A
Washington ST
Walter Lawton
Cor
Main and
Pleasant Streets
Winthrop, Mass
Durant
Japan
Fremont Street
Main Street
Winthrop Bridge
Mass
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineers
Ayd
T. Whitman
EC. Breck
J.T. Whitman
N.B
Revere
W. F. Wyman & C
Edwin F. Dunham
Carpenter & Builder
Main
Winthrop Streets
K.tewksbury
Beacon Street
Charles Street
S H. Griffin
Winthrop St., Winthrop
Real Latate
G. Irwin
Herman St
Wixtonor, Mass
Tonsorial
John W. Carle
Harr Daessino LaLoor
Alfred Tewksbury
Wexturer Centre
Walter C. Jenckes
Watchmaker and Jeweller
Crest Ave
Wadsworth
Madison Avenue
A. W. Richardson
Read's Block, Winthrop
Revere Water Works
Winthrop Division
McNeil Bros
Bowdoin and
Revere Streets
Winthrop Junction
East
Boston Land Co
Congress St
Conservatory of Music
Fremont ST
MR. and
Mrs. Munson
Mrs
Fred Dorman
Cire Corrace
Syren Street
Point Ghirléy
Solomon of Old
Read’s Block
P. B. Stock
Crystal Lake Porter
Alford St
Charlestown
Bottling Department
Batterymarch St
Telephone
W. Snelling
Winthrop Sts
OAK Grove Farm CO
Ruggles Street
Hammiton’s Bakery
Great Heap Brown’s Market
Winturo
Geo. E. Joscelyne
Administrator's Sale
S. E. Cowelt
Cowell
Change Avenue
Eo Heeman
Dole
Fertilizer CO
Commerce St
Nat
Wales
Lathrop
Treas. W. Nl
Common Sense Fertilizer Co
G. EB. Joyne
Vastror
Oliver Street
Change
Faneuil Hall Square
Mire
Les Cowell
London
Mohawk Valley National Bank
Congress
Panama Canal
M. de Lesseps
Republic of
France
J. R. Brown
Read's Block
Pauline ST
Orix Sundats
Wade
George Paine
Hamilton Camp Ground
St. John’s Mission
Knights of Honor Hall
Capt. Atwood
Pass
Marion Tewksbury
Hamilton
Nickerson
Susan
Eleanor Beers
Natick
Reginald Wentworth
Buchanan _street
Bishop Paddock
St. John's Mission
Phillips Brooks
Bijou Hall
Mary Ei. Hodges
McCarthy
Z. T. Paul
Haverhill National Bank
James Lee
Haverhill
Sadie Lee
Leslie Grant
Merrimac River
M. J. Messer
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