Paper Sale Locations Listed for Winthrop Readers
Copies of this paper are on sale at several local spots including A. T. Kangness opposite Highland Station, Boston. Revere Beach and Lynn Depot Boston. Winthrop Beach News Co. opposite Beach Station. JH Totman’s News Agency at Jefferson and Winthrop Streets. Brown’s Pharmacy in Wadsworth Block Centre. Ww Ocean Spray Pharmacy. Elizabeth Rippay’s variety store opposite Centre Station. and at the publication office in Lewis Block, Washington Ave.
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A. T. Kangness
Highland Station
Boston
Revere Beach
Lynn Depot
JH. Totman
Jefferson and
Winthrop Streets
Brown's Pharmacy
Wadsworth Block
Centre
Ww. B. Thayer
Ocean Spray
Océan Spray
Elizabeth Rippay
Variety Store
Centre Station
Lewis Block
Washington Ave
Building law revisions urged after Chelsea fire
Albert W. Cobb argues Winthrop must revise its building laws after the Chelsea catastrophe. He warns of wooden flats and fire-prone districts spreading across Main Street Pleasant Street and beyond, urging a public hearing and a town meeting to adopt rational revisions based on the inspector’s recommendations.
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Chelsea
Orient Heights
John E. Beck
Winthrop
Main Street
Magee
Meadow
Winthrop Beach
Lewis Lake
Carnet
Ocean Spray Station
Cottage Hill
Pleasant Street
Washington Avenue
Main
Pleasant Streets
Centre
Meadow District
Beach District
Highlands
Point Shirley
Court Park
Winthrop Sun and Visitor Advertises Entertainments
The Winthrop Sun and Visitor promotes upcoming entertainments with notices of events and performances to attract local audiences. It highlights staged shows, concerts, and social gatherings likely to draw residents to enjoy ongoing cultural offerings.
Abolition urged of penny fire menace in town
Charles Welsh laments penny fire hazards in Ongiocee. He argues common sense demands abolition, accusing selectmen and health boards of inaction and questions state health authority and jurisdiction. He calls for vigorous public opinion to spur action.
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Winthrop
Boards of Health
State Board of Health
Charles Welsh
Easter Monday at Keith's Theatre Features Alice Lloyd and Coterie
Easter Monday and Patriots' Day bring a standout Keith's bill led by English comedienne Alice Lloyd renowned in New York. The lineup includes Charlotte Parry in The Comstock Mystery, The Three Rubes in a droll skit, Town Topic Tickle Talkers, Great Scott balancing act, Ethel McDonough, Black and Jones, Rennier and Gandier, Deodato illusions, Henry and Young sketch, Sam Stern, and new Kinetograph examples.
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Will Finld
Keith
Alice Lloyd
New York
Vesta Victoria
Miss Lloyd
Marie Lloyd
Keitt’s
Charlotte Parry
Rennier and Gandier
Comediennes
Deodato
Henry and Young
Sam Stern
Rarest of Trades The English instrument maker explains torture devices
An English craftsman in Birmingham describes his job making torture devices for export to Siam and China. He boasts seventeen years creating racks thumbscrews searing irons and other contrivances while noting some examples cost hundreds of dollars. He claims Siamese and Chinese orders have long funded his workshop.
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Siam
China
Birmingham
New York
Sanson Letters Reveal Sympathy for Louis XVI in Paris Gaulois
Three letters by the executioner Sanson are printed in Paris Gaulois. One fully quotes him denying rumors he sold Louis Capet’s hair and asserting no relics were taken. The other notes Saison’s private sympathy for the king and cites Sanson’s religious resolve at his death in 1806.
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Sanson
Paris Gaulois
Louis Capet
Cambridge Men Debate Women’s Colleges in Early Era
In historic Cambridge discussions on women’s higher education, Arthur Clement Hilton and peers debated establishing women’s colleges. Hilton supported the move, arguing degrees would progress women from artists to spinsters of art and then to MA.
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Cambridge University
Arthur Clement Hilton
Hilton
Saybis
Robert Edgecumbe
Drink Slow and Do Not Mix Your Liquor, Lord Cockburn Admonition
In a London Illustration extract, Lord Cockburn recalls a counsels on drinking from an era when dining rooms were locked and claret flowed freely. He notes that upper-class excess was common, with a politician dismissing a drunk coachman as overly intoxicated for a servant, while the esteemed bookish tone reflects on restraint and social norms.
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London
How to Introduce a New Queen Bee in a Hive
A beekeeper replaces an unproductive queen by removing the old one and leaving the colony queenless. A new queen is placed in a wood and wire cage filled with honey sugar, set atop the frames, and finally released after the bees accept her scent.
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London Globe
Ridiculous First Editions Cited for Variant Page Errors
Mr George Somes Layard discusses readers who prize early editions of works like Dickens American Notes Disraeli Lothair Burns poems and Washington Irving Sketch Book for minor typographical quirks such as mispaginations misprints of names and misplaced titles highlighting the allure of rarity over content.
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George Somes Layard
Disraeli
Lothair
Mgr. Catesby
Capel
Robert Burns
Edinburgh
Duke of Roxborough
Sir Walter Scott
Barronnet
Liskeard Police Court Laughs and a Councillor’s Dust Bins
A magistrate in Liskeard police court heard a police witness describe a drunken man being locked up after refusing to leave. In another court a solicitor faced a pointed question about his presence. A Cornish town councilor tangled his phrases while debating the town dust bins.
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Liskeard
English Illustrated Magazine
A Fair Jury Verdict Splits Costs Between Parties
In a past suit between father and son before an Indiana justice of the peace a six member jury after three hours’ deliberation returned a verdict finding for neither side and stating each pays half the costs. The verdict was noted as unusually fair and widely satisfying to both parties.
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Indiana
Farmhand payroll dispute from Chicago News
Dialogue reports workers unpaid as Lazy Lewis hired a man and paid none while Tired Thomas suspects feigned illness. The exchange notes the farm’s inability to settle wages, ending with the claim that no one was paid.
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Lewis
Thomas
Chicago News
Broke the Charm in London Opinion Cartoon
A London Opinion caption depicts a child being threatened with a clockwork engine for revealing a dreadful red nose. The exchange features a quiet boy and a teasing adult, reflecting satirical tone about public figures or appearances.
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London
Weather in London Haunts the Narrator in Fog
Narrative line recalls a man pursued by fog in London, describing how the weather loomed and closed in on him as he wandered, a vivid fogbound scene from the Philadelphia Press.
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London
Philadelphia Press
London Joke On Rainy Dining Witty Exchange
A London diner jokes about rain and soup after a waiter serves goop. The customer remarks it tastes like rain and asks for thicker soup, capturing a light London Tatler style moment.
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Jove
London Tatler
Death by own action in Paris tale of a Frenchman
A Paris linked suicide story recounts a Frenchman who devised an elaborate method using window weights six flatirons a kitchen knife and a balloon to lift and decapitate himself. The body and head were found days apart eighteen miles from Paris revealing the method.
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Paris
Rue Nitot
Old Maps Exhibit at Louisiana State Museum
The exhibit features antique maps of Louisiana from New France to the Gulf of Mexico, showing wild imagination by European geographers. Some maps place the Mississippi with a graceful bend near the Louisville and Nashville railroad route toward Florida, and mark a mysterious land of the men enters near English Lookout and Bay St. Louis.
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Louisiana
Louisiana State Museum
Canada
New France
Gulf of Mexico
Virginia
Carolina
Pacific
Italy
Holland
France
Mississippi River
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Gulf
Florida
English Lookout
Bay St. Louis
New Orleans
Western man seeks owner of old street boy painting
A western man visited J. G. Brown's studio claiming to have modeled as a street boy in a New York scene. He prospered westward and offered 25 000 dollars for the group picture, but Brown could not locate the canvas. New Broadway Magazine notes the tale and the artist's inability to sell the work.
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J. G. Brown
New York
W. Howard Standish
New Broadway Magazine
Humorous Tales and a Shotgun Oculist Anecdotes
A Tennessee congressman recounts Mose the darky philosopher and his money from jail versus work pay. A successful oculist tests his shotgun barrels by shooting a bush target, finding one barrel accurate and the other misaligned due to strabismus and astigmatism.
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Tennessee
Darky
Mose
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The Cost For Repairs
A quote from the Philadelphia Ledger questions why a car was sold citing high repair costs. The seller describes the car as first rate and reliable, but notes expenses for repairing people or objects it had run over, implying a problematic incident influenced the sale.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Clock Stop Question in Disorderly Charge
A police judge questions a man charged with being disorderly asking if a clock he dashed into a cellar stopped and if it went through to China, implying disbelief at the claim. This exchange frames the quiet humor of a courtroom moment.
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China
Modern Facilities
A brief quip from the Louisville Courier Journal contrasts Rip Van Winkle with modern times noting the absence of public libraries in his era and implying progress in contemporary facilities.
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Rip van Winkle
Louisville
Also Mentioned on This Page
Winthrop Sun and Visitor
Winthrop Beach News Co
Albert W. Cobb
The
Keith’s Theatre
Louis XVI
Castoria
Cage
Queen Bee
What Is
Astoria
Mpany
Murray Street
Alfred Tewksbury & Co
Herrick’s
Educato
Beacon Falls
Wadsworth
Winthrop Centre
Wissner, Schoninger, Krell
Ludwig
Winter
Schubert, Shultz and
Cote
Blake's Piano
Washington St
Hoston
Balzac
Chas. F. Totten
Winthrop Beach, Mass
Garden Tools
Leeds
Winthrop Hardware Co
Revere St
Frank P. Anthony
North Centre Street
Sargent St
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