Boston 4 Elevated Company Transit Timetable 1914 Note
Schedule for Orient Heights to Scollay Square and related routes shows train times from 5.02 a.m. to 12.25 a.m. with varying intervals, night service details, and planned runs between Sullivan Square and Dudley Street via Tunnel. Special charter cars available at 101 Milk Street. M. C. Brush, Second Vice-President, October 15, 1914.
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Orient Heights
Scollay Square
Gladstone St
Gladstone Street
Court Street
Sullivan Square
Dudley Street
Atlantic Avenue
Forest Hills
Milk Street
M. C. Brush
Real Estate Classifieds Appear in Sun and Visitor
Readers are prompted to place help wanted and apartment to let ads along with real estate for sale in the Sun and Visitor editions. The notice emphasizes advertising space and rates for listings.
Happiness in Dancing Teases New York Mogul
Daniel G Reid, the New York capitalist, smiles at references to modern dances. A party named John Henry seeks instruction from a famed professor. After failed attempts, the professor corrects the student on footwork though John Henry insists on learning only the holds. The Philadelphia Telegraph notes the humorous exchange.
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Daniel G. Reid
New York
John Henry
Philadelphia Telegraph
Present at the Door and Etiquette at a Wedding
A wedding tale shows a nervous guest offering a gift to the bride at the church entrance. The usher pauses, reads the invitation note present at the door, and tears up with moist eyes. A second vignette recalls a street exchange about smoking etiquette with a cocky speaker and a weary reply.
Placing the Blame in a Comic Exchange
A humorous dialogue contrasts a Mayflower era chair with a Chicago factory stamp. The Antiquary laments pilgrim ancestors and the judge comments on modern warfare’s motors.
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S. Oftus
Antiquary
Chicago
Poem Sparks Banter Between Daft and Gloom
In a witty exchange, Tennyson J. Daft questions Fuller Gloom about his latest verse. Gloom answers with a sharp remark on reading it, prompting a, Judge noted, ironic interaction about perception and praise.
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Tennyson J. Daft
J. Fuller
Militant Advice in Strange Exchange Over Persistent Suitor
A mother counsels a daughter amid unwanted attention from Mr. Dumdy. The dialogue hints at a clash between restraint and assertive defense, with the mother cautioning against force yet acknowledging a potential necessity. The piece reads as a humorous moral vignette from a domestic column.
Mortuary Payment Proposal Stirring Officials
A cartoonish exchange shows two politicians debating a welfare bill. They describe a mortuary scheme where citizens pay nothing while the government covers costs. The dialogue hints at a public subsidy plan possibly funded by the state.
Fashionable Penmanship Sparks Judge’s Wry Comment
In a quip from a judge, the conversation centers on a fad for large handwriting. A daughter received an expensive paper box from a young man and used it up writing him a note of thanks. The exchange captures social fashions and a response to gift etiquette.
A Patriotic Frenchman War Breakfast Delay
A restaurant patron asks about his breakfast and the waiter explains the chef is reading war news, prompting a pause in service. The exchange reflects a lighthearted wartime moment in a dining setting.
Ananias the First Dentist and a Humorous Court Moment
A nameless dentist claims modesty over advertising and recalls a quip where a patient compares Ananias to the first dentist. The piece also cites a judge’s playful remark to witness Mr Gunn during a trial, ending with the line you can go off, you are discharged.
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Ananias
Louisville Times
Gunn
Retort Courteous Quip Cited in Courtroom Banter
Judge recalls a witty exchange where Mr Binks yields a seat to a stout old lady. The retort courteous backfires as the man argues he faced quarrelsome crowding, prompting sly commentary about politeness and restraint.
Months when girls are not fond of dress
A humorous exchange from New York Weekly quotes Professor Longhair Astrology. The hostess and Professor Longhair debate which birth months imply a lack of fondness for dress, concluding that none of the listed months indicate dislike for dress.
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Longhair
See America First Tax on My Purse
A witty exchange contrasts patriotic tourism push with personal finances. Giddings notes wartime momentum for See America First while Padsworth quips that his purse prevents travel, keeping his focus at home.
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Europe
America
Giddings
Dye
Padsworth
Afraid of Dogs and a Mission Gone Wrong
A garbled quote mentions a tense encounter at a large house where a man warned of dogs, prompting the speaker to flee. The fragment hints at fear, interrogation, and a hurried exit, with no clear names, dates, or places readable.
Unsure Sailor Recounts Logbook Survival Tale
A man questions a sailor's shipwreck claim noting doubt about his being shipwrecked while the survivor describes grabbing the log from the vessel as it sank and using it to stay afloat until rescue. The exchange centers on credibility of the reported disaster and the log kept aboard.
Overcoat Purchase Sparks Plodsworth Excitement
A lighthearted item notes Plodsworth’s plan to buy an overcoat this year, a change after five years without one. The snippet captures a humorous anticipation of a simple wardrobe upgrade.
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Plodsworth
Innovations in Everyday Devices Reported in Post
A roundup notes new patents and inventions from the United States and abroad. Items include a self masking wheelbarrow operated by leg pressure, a collapsible galvanized birdhouse, a washable handkerchief lining pocketbook, a waist mounted back rest for motorcyclists, artificial lace from cellulose, a crank driven colander, a poultry feeding trough with a metal screen, and a fare registering box attachment that cancels tickets in street cars.
World facts and figures from early 20th century records
The item lists global statistics from a historic period, noting Spain's hog population, Haiti's 1913 imports value, origin of wallpaper in China, U S cement output in 1913, a large U S postage stamp production figure, ocean volume to land coverage estimate, Chinese soybean cultivation after poppy ban, and a concrete bridge in Allentown Pennsylvania with notable material usage.
Homespun Philosophy of Old Fashioned Town Life
The piece reflects on simple country living with sayings about traffic, pride, holiday humor, manners, and small-town habits. A character named Binkley finds $2 in a vest yesterday and wonders who it belongs to. It contrasts modern behavior with old fashioned phrases about virtue and social norms.
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Binkley
Flashes of Wit on Matrimony and Belief
A compact collection of quips on marriage, friendship, forgiveness, optimism, knowledge, and self ads. The lines blend humor and social observation about fate, backers, enemies, and the nature of truth in life.
Women and Pay Equality and International Movements
California female clerks in civil service receive the same pay as men. Countess Fanny Zampini Salazar of Rome leads Italy’s women’s movement. In Pennsylvania a woman cannot mortgage real estate without her husband’s founder. Berlin women students will be sent to Columbia College in New York.
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California
Fanny Zampini Salazar
Rome
Italy
Pennsylvania
Berlin
Columbia College
New York
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Revere
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Main
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Hermon
Lincoln
Read and Jerald
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Court and Loring
Lowell and Loring
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Pleasant Street
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R. R
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Pleasant Streets
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Thornton Park
Washington and
Elmwood Avenues
River Road
Bates Avenue
Winthrop Street
Chester Avenue
Buchanan Streets
Town Hall
Kimball’s
Quincy and
Sckenney
Waterbury Company
NIRS
Franklin St. St
Boston
Elevated Company
McCall’s Magazine
McCall Patterns For Women
McCall's
Orer
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New York City
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Mr. Merchant
Ananas
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