Boston rail timetable for Revere Beach and Lynn routes 1908
Historical timetable listing June 10 1908 train services from Boston to Orient Heights Beach Mont Crescent Beach Winthrop and surrounding stations. Details include weekday and weekend departures, intervals, last trains, and notes on baggage not carried after 5 PM. Signatories H. L. John Hoyt G. T. A. and A. Fenno.
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Boston
Orient Heights
Beachmont Crescent Beach West Lynn Lynn
H. L. John
Aris- Hoyt
A. Fenno
Winthrop Fire Alarm Box Locations and Procedures
A list of fire alarm boxes in Winthrop with cross streets and nearby landmarks. Includes procedure for sounding an alarm, box testing dates, and contact numbers for Central and Beach Stations. Names F W Woollcott chief J Larkin and A S Smith assist.
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Central Station
Beach Station
F. W. F. Woollcott
J. Larkin
A. S. Smith
Board of Fire Engineers
A. F. Coggins
Boston Elevated Railway schedule changes and special service
The Boston Elevated Railway Company publishes updated Sunday and night timetables for Orient Heights to Scollay Square via tunnel and Gladstone street to Scollay Square, with specific departures from Court street and special cars for balls and theatre parties available by application to the Superintendent of Transportation at 101 Milk street. Information on rates routes and connections is provided by phone.
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Orient
Scollay Square
Orient Heights
Gladstone Street
Court Street
Office of Superintendent of Transportation
Milk Street
Winthrop Mail Hours and Post Office Services Notice
Post office hours in Winthrop are 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays and 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. holidays, with Sundays for stamps and general delivery from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Mail dispatches occur at 8 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 6 p.m., and 9:30 p.m. Extra Revere dispatch at 3:46 p.m. Sub-stations and street letter boxes are listed with locations and collection times. The superintendent, David Belcher, requests address details to avoid delivery delays.
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International Money Order Office
Revere
Crest Avenue
Shirley Street
Washington Ave
Bates
Winthrop St
Pleasant St
Sunnyside Pleasant
Bartlett Road
Pauline Pleasant
Court Pleasant St
Lincoln Road
Lincoln Centre
R. R
Ocean View Magee’s Corner
Cherry Revere
Summit
Crest Ave
Grover Ave
Shirley St
Mermaid Ave
Shirley R. R
Ocean Ave
Tewksbury St
Crystal Cove Ave
Boston
David Belcher
Balus Balm of Gilead Described by Drugist Source
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports balu of Gilead as a fragrant drug imported from Syria. The drug grows on a low bush tapped like rubber, yielding few drops daily during tapping season and is prescribed for dyspepsia and melancholia.
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Gilead
Syria
Cincinnati Enquirer
Mind Reader's Claim Stirs Quiet Parlor Talk
In a lone parlor scene a woman accuses a man of mind reading as he insists he indeed reads thoughts. She surveys the empty sofa end, challenging his claim while the pair exchange terse dialogue about belief and truth.
The Deane Winthrop House Opens to Weekday Visitors
The oldest house in Old Boston is open weekdays from 2 to 5 pm for public tours. Visitors are asked to leave cars at Ocean Spray station. An Irish beggar asks, “Will you, ma'am, give me a drink of water,” expressing hunger and uncertainty about sleep tonight.
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Old Boston
Ocean Spray Station
Hospitality and Greed in Feysal Ibn Rashid’s Court
Two travelers recount meeting Feysal Ibn Rashid a minor Arabian ruler. The emir hosts them with lavish foods and coffee but plunders their gear, seizing watches, a revolver, compasses, and clothes while insisting on European articles. Despite the theft, the travelers note cordial meals and social talk in the fortress setting.
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Hagdad
Damascus
Captain Butler
Aylmer
Tell
Geographical Magazine
Feysal Ibn Rashid
Arabia
Feysal
Dabm
Europe
Diet and water treat rheumatism says Delineator
The article promotes a diet to reduce uric acid for rheumatic patients and suggests generous water intake and regular bowel movements. It lists Massachusetts General Hospital approved foods such as bread fish vegetables and dairy while avoiding red meat starch potatoes white bread and sugars. It also recommends hot baths and skin detox.
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Massachusetts General Hospital of
Boston
Madening Snuff on the Amazon: Pareca Use Among Tribes
On the Amazon river, several Indian tribes use pareca snuff from plant seeds. When taken in bouts the user becomes highly intoxicated, collapsing as if shot, then recovering after a time. Regular users may become excited, dancing, and singing. Some tribes also use pareca to repel ague during the wet season.
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Amazon
Plenty to Do Them
A dialogue notes money cannot buy all things while others perform tasks money cannot. The exchange contrasts personal limits with broader social efforts, reflecting on value beyond wealth.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Sightseeing in Rome in Two Busy Days
A traveler recalls a rapid tour of Rome with early starts and varied duties. The wife shops, the daughter visits picture galleries, and the narrator samples the city’s restaurants before they compare notes at night.
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Rome
Contradictory Saying Quoted Mug Note in Philadelphia Record
A brief Philadelphia Record item quotes a wise guy saying there is safety in numbers, then undercuts it by noting dangers from too many cooks. The excerpt reflects streetwise wit and newspaper style typical of the era.
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Philadelphia
Paul Jones and the Duchess of Chartres Gift Exchange
The Duchess honored Paul Jones with a watch after their luncheon in France. Jones boasted of someday laying an English frigate at her feet, and two years later he fulfilled part of the promise by presenting her with Captain Richard Pearson’s sword from the Serapis after the Bonhomme Richard victory.
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Duchess
Chartres
Paul Jones
Captain Jones
France
Britain
Mme. de Chartres
Richard
Paris
Lorient
Richard Pearson
Noted by a Tourist on Travel Oddities and Customs
The writer describes stamp shortages and surprising rates abroad, and details cultural quirks in Cairo and Constantinople. Observations include mosques requiring shoe removal, dogs on sidewalks, sacred animal life, and mispronounced identities as tourists drift from Kalamazoo to North America.
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America
Itt
Cairo
Wereldpostvereeniging
Constantinople
Kalamazoo
Mich
Michigan
United States
States
Suscany
North America
Delineator Magazine
The Kingfisher and the Karmattan Winds
A reflective piece contrasts kingfisher behavior with mythic patience, detailing the bird’s swift dives and shimmering plumage. It also explains the Karmattan period winds from Africa, bringing haze and severe drought that withers plants and dries skin.
Doctor chases patient with cucumbers in London humor
A doctor waiting for patients decides to seek them out in a market. He follows a cucumber buyer to his home, spends hours waiting, and at midnight the man emerges asking for cucumbers rather than a doctor. The man dismisses the doctor, shouting wants more cucumbers.
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Mahomet
London
The Brides Linen Room And A Grooms Duty
A newspaper quip notes that a groom elect should prepare a linen room to store linens for his wife. It mocks the idea of a bride’s mother guarding the purse and lists large quantities of towels napkins sheets, reflecting old domestic expectations.
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Atchison Globe
Couldn't Forget It The Lost Chord Joke
Silas laments a missing cord of wood and recalls his futile attempt to forget it. His friend asks if forgetting helped, and the judge quips about church on Sunday and the choir singing The Lost Chord as the moment he left the service.
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Silas
Luncheon Debate at Boarding House
In a humorous exchange from Puck, characters argue over lunch and luncheon terms. One asserts no dinner at midday, another asks about lunch, and a quip clarifies luncheon as distinct from lunch, highlighting social language differences.
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Puck
Cure For Lonesomeness Winner Reveals Bold Hope
A redheaded girl is a winner and the man who wins will not be lonely. He will soon learn if he has drawn a terror angel or a cyclone and superb set.
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Haltimore Sun
Learned concealment and silly display quoted by Houssaye
A quip from Houssaye contrasts hidden erudition with showy display. It notes the learned man hides knowledge and the foolish man parades it, highlighting wit about intellectual pretension.
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Houssaye
Odd Jobs On Warships And Extra Pay Tactics
Sailors boost earnings with tailor work, sewing repairs, and embroidery for officers. Barbers, gun crew prize money, and submarine boat pay add income. Signalmen, coxswains, and messmen receive extra allowances, while laundering and ship letters from a descriptive yeoman provide 50 cents to $1 per copy sold to crew.
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John R. Cox
National Magazine
Description of gout as a minister’s plight and a physician’s analogy
A well known English minister who died recently suffered greatly from gout. A friend asked what gout is like, and the minister replied with a vivid simile comparing rheumatism to a vise gradually tightening.
New Pastry Cook Hinted by Wandering Visitor
A brief Yonkers Statesman item quotes a woman asking a wandering visitor if he was there recently and the reply recalls a new pastry cook having joined the household, suggesting a change in personnel at the back door scene.
The Surer Way Dialogs on a Cause
A Louisville Courier Journal snippet shows a debate over persuading a person to support a cause. The exchanges frame influence tactics as a test of motive and trend becoming a popular fad.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Aman’s Luck Shaped by Uncounted Fortunes
A New York Press line reflects on Aman’s fortune as luck proves pivotal, suggesting the luckiest outcomes come when not counting on luck, a paradoxical nod to fate and chance in daily life.
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Aman
New York Press
Star Gazing and A Christmas Tale Fragments
A Victorian style note explains star groups called constellations with the North Star and the seven bright stars of the Great Bear as guides. It then shifts to a holiday anecdote about Edith age ten and a doctor who defines a diagnostician as a good guesser in a playful Christmas scene.
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Androgeda
Edith
John
New York
Man Claimed By Cake Promise From Roadside Lady
A Washington Star item quotes Plodding Pete recounting a tale in which a woman along the road promised a cake if he would haul an armful of wood. He delivered, and she kept her word, giving him a cake described as poap.
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Mike
Pete
Washington Star
When It Started Captain and Engineer Debate Timing
A brief Chicago Tribune exchange recalls a joke about when a boat starts. The captain says the word will be given and the passenger notes a long running misconception about the starting mechanism.
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Chicago Tribune
The Banyan Tree's Mighty Shelter Across India
A passage notes a banyan tree offering shelter to a regiment of 1000 men. It mentions an Indian banyan with 400 main trunks and over 8,000 smaller ones, illustrating vast, interwoven canopy and roots.
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India
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Harbor View
Cottage St
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Revere St
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Waldemar Ave
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Woodside
Seymour St
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Washington and
Elmwood
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Chester Ave
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Kimball's Factory
Boston Elevated Railway Company
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Munn & Co
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Balu
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Queer Hospitality
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Karmattan
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