Winthrop Fire Alarm Box Locations and Procedures
A historical list describes fire alarm boxes across Winthrop including Shirley Avenue Harbor View and Grover’s avenues. It details Box numbers times for school signals and procedures for ringing alarms, plus contact numbers for Central and Beach Stations.
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Point Shirley
Shirley Ave
Harbor View Avenue
Cottage
Crystal Cove
Faun Bar
Shirley Street
Hose House
Tewksbury St
Crest Ave
Shirley St
Sturgis St
Ocean Ave
Pearl Ave
Mermaid
Grover’s
Crest Avenues
Cliff
Temple and
Highland
Revere Street
Geo Tower
Winthrop Mail Hours and Postal Details
Office hours run daily from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. with registration and money orders available during those times. Carrier deliveries occur at 7:30 a.m., 1:45 p.m., and 4 p.m., with collections at several morning and afternoon times plus Sunday sessions. Sub stations and stamp sales are listed at Crest avenue Highlands station Shirley street and other local points. Mail closes and arrives times are specified for regular, Sunday, and holiday schedules. Davi Burouse, Supt.
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Bates Avenue
Washington Avenue
Winthrop Street
Pleasant Street
Sunnyside Avenue
Bartlett Road
Pauline Street
Court Road
Lincoln
Reed Street
Centre R. R
Ocean View
Main
Revere Street
Cherry
Summit
Highlands
Crest ‘Avenue
Green
Ocean Spray
Sea Foam Avenue
Shirley R. R
Cottage Street
Hillside Avenue
New York
Boston
Crest Avenue
Highlands Station
Shirley Street
Sturgis
Lee
Davi Burouse
Boston Elevated Railway Company Schedule Notice 1908
The Boston Elevated Railway Company lists transit schedules from Orient Heights to Scollay Square via tunnels with morning and night intervals, special cars for balls and theatre parties, and contact details for the Superintendent of Transportation at 101 Milk Street Room 701. Also notes alternate services from Gladstone Street and Court Street with specific departure times.
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Orient Meights
Scollay Square
Orient Herouts
Gladstone St
Scoutay Square
Alt
Court St
Office of Supt. of Transportation
Milk Street
Boston Revere Beach and Lynn R R Schedule February 1908
Train times listed for weekdays Sundays and via Highlands Ingalls and Winthrop sections. Stations include Boston Wood Island Harbor View Winthrop Centre Winthrop Beach Highlands and Highlands via Highlands with service to many beaches and towns. Note states schedule shows departure times not guaranteed and company not responsible for delays. Authorities listed Hoyt T A Fenno superintendent.
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Boston
Wood Island
Harbor View
Winthrop
Highlands
Ingalls
A. m
P. m
Winthrop Beach
Simple Whirligig for Funful Play
A brief children’s craft describes making a toy whirligig from a porcelain egg dish and cardboard figures. Glue small cutouts to the dish, place on a larger plate, and give a gentle swing to make the inner plate spin. If the outer plate isn’t curved, add water to the base to help rotation.
Spin Plate Game with Figures and Scoring
The inner plate floats and spins easily. Players aim by placing a figure outside as a goal. Figures inside bear numbers and when the plate stops the figure opposite the goal sets a player's score. The highest count wins the game.
The Great Bell of Moscow and a Birthday Trick
The text describes the 1653 Moscow bell weighing 198 tons never hung in a tower, later cracked and turned into a chapel in the Kremlin. It also explains a math trick to deduce birth month and age from a sequence of multiplications and additions.
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Kremlin
Moscow
Russia
Luminous beetles and old Bible words in a simple prayer
An ancient belief from the West Indies describes glowworms lighting readers at night and serving as lamps. The piece notes most words in the Lord's Prayer are Anglo-Saxon in origin and traces changes from 1611 to modern wording.
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West Indies
South America
Santo Domingo
Chicago News
Oddities About Insects and Their Behavior
The honeybee carries a comb in the foreleg between the tibia and tarsus used to cleanse the antennae, protected by a spine at the fore tibia. The mouth aids in grooming the body, especially when a comb is present. Cockroaches extend long antennae through the mouth at times.
Alice Hurried From Garden After Sting and Fire Hunt
A girl named Alice rushed in from the garden crying and holding her finger after a bee sting and exclaiming she burned herself while hunting a bug in a dramatic household incident.
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Alice
A Fish Mystery of Monthly Samoan Fish Swarms
The London Standard describes a tropical fish phenomenon at Samoa where millions of tiny fish swarm yearly on an exact October day. The event lasts a day or two, tops, then the lagoon returns to calm until the next year's arrival. The cause and origin remain unknown to naturalists.
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Tropics
Samoa
London Standard
Armenian history marked by long Turkish rule and diaspora influence
The Armenians have endured centuries of foreign domination from Assyrians to Turks. Today their peak activity lies outside Armenia, notably in Constantinople and Smyrna where Armenian business talent dominates commerce, including the oriental rug trade.
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Armenia
Constantinople
Smyrna
Levant
East
How Sandy Fooled Sandy
An elderly man in a village near Glasgow breakfasted on porridge and saved fuel by cooking a week’s worth on Saturday. One morning the porridge tasted salty and cold, so he bribed himself with whisky. He ate the spoonful to win the drink and smugly poured the whisky back, declaring victory over the old rule.
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Sandy
Glasgow
Dundee Advertiser
Hair in hotel meals prompts proprietor’s witty reply
A hotel guest protests rotten service citing hair in ice cream honey and apple sauce. The proprietor explains hair in ice cream from shaved ice and honey hair from a comb and jokes the apples were Baldwin apples.
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Columbus Dispatch
Reverent Russians Cross Themselves On Sacred Streets
The London Chronicle notes that most Orthodox Russians remove hats and cross themselves when passing churches or shrines. It describes intoxicated travelers staggering past sacred places and friends aiding a drunken companion by performing the sign of the cross from a carriage.
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London Chronicle
The Turning Point Emerson Quote
The passage presents Emerson's view that envy is ignorance and imitation is death, urging a man to take responsibility for his own education and toil. It emphasizes that despite a world full of good, personal growth comes only through diligent effort on one’s own allotted ground.
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Emerson
Lobbyist Silent After Praise From Congressman Hearing
A Philadelphia Press excerpt quotes a friend praising a lobbyist’s work before a congressional committee while the lobbyist gloomily replies that it was nothing but praise. The exchange underscores tension around lobbying during the hearing.
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Boxley
Congressional Committee
Philadelphia Press
Quite the Reverse
Osmond and Desmond exchange lines about money and pursuit, contrasting who chases whom over wealth and status. The dialogue hints at social tension and reputations in a terse, witty exchange.
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Osmond
Desmond
Stoicism and Life Reflections on Honeymoon Aftermath
Brief vignette contrasts stoicism with marriage aftermath. A child asks about stoicism and the parent replies that it is the after effects of a honeymoon, framing philosophy as a coping lens for life.
Taking the Husband's Name in Wedding Customs Through Time
An overview of wedding traditions from Rome to Christian era outlines the ring ceremony, veil origins, and veil customs, the friend of the bridegroom role, shoe throwing, rice symbolism, and the practice of wives taking husbands' names beginning in Roman times with Julia of Pompey as an example.
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Jacob
Leah
Rachel
Ruth-tv
Julia
Pompey
Julia of
Aches of the Past and Hidden Illnesses of Great Minds
A medical musing wonders how unknown ailments of past icons altered history and character. It suggests eye disease in Milton and digestion in Mary Queen of Scots might change our view, while gout in Robespierre or toothache in Pharaoh could have shifted events.
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Milton
Charles II
Queen Mary
Robespierre
Household Hints From An Old Recipe Box
Melted butter makes a good substitute for olive oil in salad dressing and some cocoa flavors may improve with a pinch of cinnamon. Do not iron ribbons, sponge with gasoline or ether to wrap around a bottle, and mend torn book leaves with white tissue over paste. Dry vegetables before cooking by soaking jessel in cold water. sweet oil removes finger marks on furniture, paraffin on oiled wood. Do not iron silk directly, cover with a damp cloth. Frying fish benefits from drying, rolled in a clean cloth before cooking.
Cleaning Bugs and Hangings
Cleaning bugs and upholstery hangings requires sawdust and ammonia. Soak sawdust with ammonia, rub the mixture into draperies or rugs with a whisk broom, then hang to dry and air. The dirt is removed quickly.
Handwriting and signatures reveal character not morals
The Boston Globe notes clear handwriting often comes from nonwriters while authors show hurried, idiosyncratic writing. Obscure or freak signatures are easy to forge, while the safest signature is plain everyday writing, reflecting temperament without revealing moral character.
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Boston Globe
Wanted His Dues Over Ax Grindstone Charge
An Indian reservation man unsettled after breaking his ax handle. A generous farmer repaired the handle and sharpened the blade at his own cost. The man then offered 25 cents for turning the grindstone, prompting a cross cultural exchange and questions about the charge.
The Other Way
A young man asks the father to marry his daughter, claiming weeks of acquaintance. The father questions the suitor’s knowledge of the girl, while noting the suitor has seen her only a couple of times over a year. The exchange centers on judgment of character and suitability.
A Poet's Slip in a London Notes on Queries
A correspondent uncovers a Kipling misquote in Last Chantey lines as a slip from Kipling. The passage swaps barracoon for picaroon, the former meaning slave pen and the latter rogue, sparking commentary on textual accuracy.
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London
Kxiplir
Kipling
Driver Catches Large Cobra on Avontuur Rail
A motorist at Gamtoos captured a live cobra after grabbing its tail and jerking it free on the Avontuur line. The snake, about four feet long and three inches in diameter, was placed in a tin.
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Avontuur
Africa
Gamtoos
Facts Versus Terms
A brief quotation exchange notes a mock dispute over health and imagination. Pye complains of a toothache while another dismisses it as imagination, sparking a concise, humorous dialogue about perception and reality.
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Boston Transcript
Horrible Suspicion and a Serious Proposition
A Philadelphia Ledger snippet portrays a tense exchange where a young man asks for a daughter’s hand and a father questions the family’s support. The line hints at social judgment and potential consequences in a traditional courtship.
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Scott
Philadelphia Ledger
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Winthrop Fire
ALARA
Sagamore Av Cross
Almont Streets
Revere
Winthrop St
Bowdoin
Hermon
Lincoln Streets
Pleasant
Wildemar Ave
Wheelock Street
Sargent Streets
Sargent Street
Johnson Av
Cottage ‘Park Road
Cottage Park House
Woodside
Seymour St
Buchanan
Washington and Elmwood
Washington Av
Thornto Park
Chester Ave
Town Hall
Kimball’s
Yu Clork
Central Station
Tel
Beach Station
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Chaxer
C. 8
Sunextant
Boston, Revere Beach
Lynn R. R
Winthrop Centre
H. L. Hoyt
John A. Fenno
Mary
Mareh Plutarch
Probate
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