Tilton Class M B Church Spring Calendar
The Tilton M B Church class schedules April to June include vestry and social meetings on Mondays, Indies night banquet at Crest Hall, and Sunday talks at First Church by Hon George F Washburn and Hon George H Carter. Dates span April 13 to June.
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Tilton
M. B. Church
Crest’ Hall
First Church
George F. Washburn
Boston
George H. Carter
Chelsea
Jane
The Paragraph Pulpit on doubt as a guiding beacon
The piece argues doubt is not a devil but a welcome visitor and refining fire guiding truth. It contrasts newborn truth with destructive fear and urges respecting doubts as harbingers of truth rather than threats.
Talking Dog and the Guarded Roadside Tale
A humorous tale recounts a farmer's dog Ponto who aids a wounded hound and later foils a highwayman. Despite the danger the dog protects the narrator only by restraining the robber's grip before fleeing with instinct, not by heroic action.
Ferret Seen as Best Weapon in Rat Crusade
A London correspondent argues the true cure for rat trouble in Britain lies with the ferret. He praises well bred, healthy ferrets kept in a kennel and fed on grain, capable of flushing rats from wheat stacks and buildings, while noting the rat is cleverer than guns and traps.
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London
Great Britain
Limitations In Naming The Hundred Best Books
Clement Shorter argues in Immortal Memories that naming a hundred best books for a general audience is impossible. He notes temperament and intellect shape reading taste, giving examples like Imitation of Christ and readings by Thackeray and Eugene Sue.
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Clement Shorter
George Eliot
Thackeray
Eugene Sue
Meeting After Four Years In Broadway Eatery
In a Broadway restaurant two young women who had not met in four years sit silently. One has grown stout and the other fears she would not recognize her former friend. The heavier woman asks what the other is thinking. she replies her expression is the same, just more of it.
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New York Globe
Gateside scare and scaffold fall headline
An Irishman nearly decapitates his hat mistaking a gate post for an enemy. A prankish remark saves his head. A reporter covers a scaffold fall where a workman survives a long drop with severe shocks and bruises. The interview reveals the worker’s vertigo is described as a thirty five foot fear.
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London
Pearson
Scarecrow Scares Crow That Seized Farmer’s Corn
In a northern England tale a farmer’s scarecrow terrifies crows to the point one crow returns with the corn it had carried to its nest three days earlier. The incident appears in London Tit-Bits.
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England
London
Conversation at the concert ends with questions about a policeman
A talkative man at a concert muses on being alone in the world and what one would do. The dialogue shifts to a nervous, grateful tone as Peggy asks if a policeman has ever seen a baby, prompting a punchline.
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Peggy
Birthday Candles Trigger Political Feud Tale
The Chicago Inter Ocean recounts a child birthday tale where a senator’s daughter and a congressman’s daughter compare candles on their cakes. The ten year old notes eight candles on her cake, prompting jokes about political stature and family status.
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Chicago
Mary
Napoleon Rewards Soldier for Quick Wit
Napoleon paced before his quarters when a common soldier picked up and returned his dropped glove. The soldier, misreading the title captain, was bold enough to ask which company. The general promised a commission that night, recognizing the man’s composure and potential.
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Napoleon
Napoléop
Coaching Days Echoed by a Wet Ride Tale
A humorous anecdote from the St James Gazette recalls a coach trip between Edinburgh and Berwick. A passenger, soaked by rain through a roof hole, complained to the guard who retorted with a dry Scottish line about many others unhappy with the same hole.
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Edinburgh
Berwick
St. James’ Gazette
Mortgagee's Sale of Winthrop Properties in 1908 Foreclosure
Notice of public auction by Francis A Hunt assignee to foreclose Edward B Wadsworth mortgage to Francis H Richards executor. Two parcels in Winthrop Suffolk described as lots 175 and 72 73 on Plan of Cottage Hill with specified bounds and areas 4120 and 7800 square feet. Sale set for April 27 1908 at 1215 PM. Requires payment of taxes and subject to restrictions in deeds and unpaid assessments. Boston April 2 1908.
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Edward B. Wadsworth
Francis H. Richards
Henry ©. Richards
Suffolk
Francis A.hunt
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Winthrop
Cottage ‘Hill
Great Head
Mass . H
Harbor View Avenue
Prospect Avenue
William B. Rice
Francis A. Hunt
Boston
Foreclosure Sale of Winthrop Property in Wadsworth Case
Public auction to foreclose a mortgage on two cottage lots in Winthrop Suffolk County Mass on April 27 1908 at noon. Parcels 178 and 174 bounded by Harbor View Avenue lot 175 and Greenhill Path totaling about 7 acres shown on March 1888 plan. Assignee Orrin R Dickey proceeds subject to unpaid taxes and sale terms announced at bidding.
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Edward_B. Wadaworth
Abbie A. Austin
Suffolk
Orrin R. Dickey
Winthrop
County of Suffolk
Greenhill
Great Head
Mass
Edward B. Wadsworth
Boston
Mase
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Winthrop Centre
All Soul’s Church
Frank S. Barrett
Photographig Studio
E. F. Rogers
Lewis Block
Winthrop Beach
Louis Racca
Custom
Washington Ave
R. R
Central
Revere Sts Magee’s Corner
E E. J. Bishop
Banks Street
Albert W. Richardson
Josephine Louise Richardson
Winthrop Street
ORPC
Board of Selectmen
Selectmen’s Room
Town Hall
Brendan J
Asb O'Cioce
Brendan J. Keenan
William Sanby
Wesley A. Gove
Young- Kanebiter
Pitkes
Ponto
Ponte
Illustrated
London Newan
Sun
Wortgagee
Railroad Street
Revere
Columbia Square
Suburban Gas and Electric
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Brussels
Washington Street
Adame Sq
Joel Goldthwait & Co
Delight Furniture Polish
Notary Public Justice OF the Peace
Massachusetts Wharf Coal Company
School Street
City Hall
Winthroo
Centre
Winthrop Delivery
Kilby Street
East Boston
Marginal Street
Mathrop
Floyd & Tooker
McCarty & Co
Winnisimmer
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