Real estate boom eyed for Winthrop Highlands expansion
Mr GC Stanley builds a cellar for Mr Hutchitts house and Mr J F Wackingtin buys Jon Summit avenue with 200 feet of land to accelerate growth. Prominent owners plan new houses, drawing attention to rising prices and a possible spring boom in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GC. Stanley
Ht. Hutchitts
J F Wackingtin
Eagens
Anon Lily Surroyndwibog
Thy
Npe
Pleasant St
Woodside Ave
Winthrop
Mass
Wm. Wood
BEACHMONT PLANS FOR CHURCH CONSTRUCTION AND EVENTS
The Beachmont community advances a new church foundation with a daily work schedule and a larger building planned. Attendees report rising permanent residency and a social season boosted by the Hephata cafe and music. A reorganized school program and a Sunday school concert are scheduled, inviting all residents to attend services at 10 45.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worle
Ney
Houge Ewilbbe
Wathley
School Street
Boston
Wisdom and caution from a noisy week in Worthington
The excerpt blends aphorisms on character, sincerity, and patience with a local diary of public life. It notes mischief from drunken crowds on Crescent Avenue, critiques open law violations, and reports a band concert committee meeting with financial tallies and a promised detailed account to subscribers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Revere Journal
Crescent Avenue
Albert Fitzemeyer
Crescent Avetus
Sanmer Street
M. E. Jeffers
Treas
Levin
The Origin of Salt and Ocean Salinity Explained
A Cornhill Magazine extract discusses how salt in inland seas formed and how early oceans carried mineral content. It outlines a cooling earth trapping salts, gypsum, and salts from evaporation, with notes on atmospheric development and the planet’s early conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Cornhill Magazine
Popular Science Notes On Seeds Falls and Language
A compilation of science items covers seed vessels in New Zealand birds secreting a sticky substance, evidence against decapitation causing immediate death, Niagara Gorge erosion estimates, winter seismicity in Japan, Formosian fetish practices, sunlight effects on plant alkaloids, tannin formation with light, and a Canadian bilingual language outlook by Professor Rivet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
Vulpian
Paris Academy of Medicine
Lyell
Niagara River
Pr. Knott
Seismological Society of
Japan
M. Girard de Qialle
A. Vogel
Bavaria
Scotland
Canada
Rivet
University of New Brunswick
Pianos and Piano Makers in Baltimore Fact Box
A Baltimore newspaper item explains piano making as a multi department craft with about 600 workers. Wages vary by task from $1 to $1.50 daily for heavy labor to $10 to $31 per week for skilled roles such as finishers, varnishers, and sound board and action makers. Many workers are imported from Germany and New York. most are paid by piece-work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Baltimore
New York
Poston
Baltimore American
Waking Up the Wrong Passenger Origin Story
In 1839 the pioneer John Oldershaw rode a Buffalo to Chicago coach. To drink regularly he was awakened hourly, but a fellow passenger pretended to be him, sat in his corner, and swapped hats. The ruse lasted all night, ending with Oldershaw suing the company and winning $15,000 after ten years in court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John Oldershaw
Buffalo
John
Chisago
Washerwomen of Normandy at Etretat described
A Normandy letter to the Memphis Avalanche tells of Etretat’s washerwomen who use a subterranean stream that fills cisterns at high tide and reveals a natural wash tub at low tide. The stream, known as La Fontaine, creates a hidden water source. cloth is washed on a beach corner and dried with stones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etretat
Memphis
Book note hints at a completed annal listing
A brief OCR fragment mentions a ten page book and a claim of a best book for an annal. The readable text is sparse, but suggests a summary or catalog note rather than a full article. No clear person, place, or organization is identifiable from the fragment.
Dairy and farm services ad for Oceanpray area
A local dairy offers five cent milk cans seven cent quarts with morning and evening delivery. Fresh milk and calves for sale, plus new Milch cows. Dealer in wood by cord and seed, sand loam gravel and manure. Gardening and property work including lawn care, tree planting, and drainage. Cesspools cleaned, tank wagons, and enameled pipe available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ocean Pray
Winthrop Highlands
Cottage Hill
Narrow Gauge Division Trip Details From Boston Line
Schedule note from the Boston Revere Beach and Lyn Railroad lists departures from Atlantic avenue depot for Winthrop Junction and Island Point Shirley at 6.50 and 8. Co 9 10 11a M5 12 w.3 1 2 3 4 5 76 6.80 7.80 P.M. on Wednesdays and Saturdays with 11.15 P.M. service. Buske, Manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Boston, Revere Beach
Lyn
Atlantic Avenue
Winthrop Junction
Winthrop
Ocean Spray
Shirley Street
Great Head
Island Point
Shirley
Cottage Ill
Point Shirley
Cottage Hill
George & Collins
Magee’s
Main St
Pr. M. George & Collins
Trains from Boston to Winthrop Junction and Return
Boston Revere Beach and Lynn R R lists daily and Sunday schedules for trains to Winthrop Junction with departures from Boston at many times, and return trains from Winthrop Junction to Boston. A workingmen’s train operates on weekdays.
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Beachmont
Bank 5
Smd
Wim
Wiscasset, Me
BP. A. Clark
Winthrop Avenue
IE. J. Soule
Tess Uy
Words OF
Warren T. Butler
Ebenezer Jeffre
W. A. Roundy
Florence Brookloure
C.F. Snow
I. Thurston
H. Mayo
Leighton
W. Hall
J. Hambro
Howard
I. A. Howland
Re. Nall
Sawyer
G. F. Goodridge
M. Frank
HL. Isaacs
Cohen & Bornstein
Hartford
Henry Weigel
Great Ribferty
Fred Kacip
Fa Mine
B.L. Picard
G. C. Davis
Fred Boynton
Louis Congdon
J. C. Barrett
A Fitzmeier
F. Littlefield
F. B. Loomis
Gookin & Curtin
G.F. Roach
A.C. Blethes
C.sisson
I.E Hoyt
J Lloney
G Saldwin
J. E. Lappen
John Young
Marshall A. Michell
L Holmes
Winting
Pray
Bristol Crowell
Joel Orne
John Davenport, Jr
Sherman & Son
the Visitor
Popular Science
Normandy
Resa Puisaep
Tx 1863
Hollis R. Gray
Washington St
Walter Lawton
Main and Pleasant Sts
Winthrop, Mass
C. M. Chase
Crest
SS. G. Irwin
Hlertian St
Wisturor
Cutler Street
Crest Avenue
Briggs Wadsworth
Sall
Faneuil Hall Market
Centre Street
Fh. T. Underhill
Hanover Street
Dr. Chas, A. Buswell
Winthrop St
COMER
Washington Street
Isag
Winthrop Bridge
Saratoga Street
East
Deeer Bowes
Cor
Winthrop Ave
Summer Street
Athe Depot
Tie Revere
Hibers
Jj. C. Davis & Co
Geo. E. McCarthy, M.D
Winthrop’St., Wixthror Mass
Orriez
Carence
GEO
P. Rowell & Co
Newspaper Advertising Bureau
Spruce St. Printing House
H. O. Floyd
Shirley St
E. F Cutter
Madison Ave
S. H. Griffin
Winthrop Street
Edward Macee
Main Street
Sea Shore
Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn
H.T. Whitman
Devonshire ST
E.joscelyne
Revere Street
Winthrop Depot
Fairbanks & Neale
Belfast
Jamaica
New England
Sheboygan
Wisconsin
C. Borely
Howard Atheneum
Howard St
CRVI
Fairbanks
OTIS
NEALE
Londres
D. F. Flagg. & CO
OFAKC
Blackstone St
Woodside
A.J. Bamfard
Milkt St
George. H. Wood
J. H. Butterick
A. P. Buske
Revere Beach
Lynn R. R
Town Hall
Winthrop and
Pleasant Streets
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad
Charles N. George
AL AL
Orange Mass
Union Sq.ny
Ill
St.louis
Atlanta
Ryton
Edwin F. Dunham
Winthrop ‘Sta
J Everett Burrill
Madison Avenue
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