Scolley Square to Orient Heights Service Schedule 1908
Boston Elevated Railway announces varying service times from Orient Heights to Scollay Square via tunnel with morning start around 6.23 a.m. and headways of 4 to 8 minutes, extended Sunday services and night runs to midnight. Special cars available for balls or theatre parties on request at 10 Milk Street.
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Scollay Square
Orient Heights
Gladstone Street
Court Street
Office of Superintendent of Transportation
Milk Street
Winthrop Mail Hours And Postal Sub Stations Detail
The Winthrop post office lists weekday hours from 7 am to 8 pm for stamps money orders and registry with longer hours on holidays and limited Sunday service. Mails dispatch times and receptions are given for weekdays holidays and Sundays along with sub stations at Crest avenue Shir ley street and Shirley street and a long schedule of street letter boxes and pickup times. Superintendent David Belcher urges patrons to address mail with street and number to avoid delays.
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International Money Order Office
Revere
Crest Avenue
Shirley Street
Washington Ave
Bates Washington Ave
Winthrop St
Pleasant St
Sunnyside Pleasant
Bartlett Road
Pauline
Court Road
Lincoln Road
Lincoln Centre
R. R
Ocean View
Magee
Mermaid Ave
Shirley St
Shirley R. R
Ocean Ave
Tewksbury St
Crystal Cove
Fast Boston
Shore line street map of multiple cross streets in town
A long list of street intersections and place names appears, including Shirley Street with multiple avenues, Cottage Street with Tillside and others, Crystal Cove, Fallibar Avenue, U S A Wharf vicinity, Shore Drive near various streets, and several cross streets around Revere, Bowdair, Washington, and other avenues. The text also includes a school timetable and fire alarm instructions with station numbers and names.
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Shirley St
Siren Ave
Thirbor View
Cottage St
Tillside Ave
Crystal Cove
Fallibar
U.S. A
Tewksbury St
Shore Drive
Sturgis
Qeean
Pearl Ave
Mermaid Ave
Beach Road
Locust St
Grovers Uid
Crest
Grovers Iid
Clit
Floyd St
Temple
Wrightind
Quincey and
Revere St
George Turner
Sagamore
Almont and
Cross Sts
Winthrop St
Bowdoin
Ocern View
Main
Banks
Hermon
Lincoln
Read
Jerald
Marshall
Lowell and Loring Reads
Pleasant
Court and
Loring
Waldemar Ave
Wheelock St
Sargent Sts
Sargent St
Johnson Ave
Pleasant St
Cottage Park
Cottage Park Road
Woodside Ave
Seymour
Preneant
Buchanan Sts
Buchanan and
Bowdair
Washington and
Elmwood
Washington Ave
Thornton Park
Chester Ave
Kimball's Factory
Town Plan for Winthrop by George H Miller of Boston
George H Miller argues for a comprehensive town plan to guide Winthrop’s growth. He urges protecting the whole town as a unit, securing land for parks, public buildings, and streets, and coordinating private landowner agreements to preserve residential character and beauty. He warns against intruding industrial development and calls for artistic, planned integration of streets, parks, and civic centers to raise property values and quality of life.
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Winthrop
Boston
Tam
Atlantic
Chelsea
Geenpanes
Tienely Dietitians
Elfiraveter
Chanares
Roth
Aoghinee
Tins Winthrop
Iblie
Puurky
Tdeh
Eulerral
Qaan
Wilks
Jess
Tre
Simusra
di Hess
Americas
Ruan van de Hint
The Penny Postage Stamp That Sank Hobart
A penny postage stamp triggered a cascade that led to the collapse of Hobart the iron king. While agents warned of the Whitworth crisis, an un stamped letter returned by order arrived too late. Hobart, irritable and unaware, pledged more iron deals and fell into bankruptcy two days after the price drop.
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Hobart
Whitworth
England
Sheffield
Eobart
London
Telegraph
Pillsburys Memorization Test Read to Lehigh Group
Harry N. Pillsbury offered a South Bethlehem memory challenge to memorize thirty words read once. Merriman of Lehigh and Dr. Threlkeld- Edwards selected terms from science, geography, history, and culture. Pillsbury repeated the list in original and reverse order.
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Pillsbury
Harry N. Pillsbury
Bethlehem
Merriman
Lehigh University
Threlkeld- Edwards
Mr. Pillsbury
Cockney Etymology and Theaters Told in Faded Text
A fragmented historical note traces the origin of cockney from sound and speech in London and the Bow Bells, mentions a theater incident with a toll collector and guards, and notes a banker’s remark on disinterested friendship. It adds a remark about English dog proverbs totaling over six hundred.
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Minshen
Aaker
London
Corne
Catel
Mongoose Defeats Cobra in Lethal Encounter
An eyewitness recounts a dramatic confrontation between a four foot cobra de capello and a bold mongoose. The mongoose dodges fatal strikes, presses the battle, and finally delivers fatal bites to the cobra’s head and body, while avoiding the venomous fangs and wounds.
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Rudyard Kipling
Rikkitik
Rikki
Ceylon
Destruction of Royal Assassination Weapons Dictated by Tradition
The article explains that after royal assassination trials the weapon is destroyed to prevent public display and break superstitious fears. Since 1852 the metal parts are dissolved in nitric acid while wooden handles are burned, a method adopted after Merius failed to burn the blade of his dagger in Isabella II’s attempted assassination.
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Isabella of
Spain
Merius
Distinctions of Chinese Caste in Self-Inflicted Deaths
The text explains how misconduct by a mandarin is punished by self destruction, with rank determining method. Those with peacocks feather may choke with gold leaf, a distinguished death, while those with red button rank use a silken cord. It notes caste-based death customs across centuries.
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China
Market tips lead to poor investments warns Dustin Stax
In a Washington Star exchange, Dustin Stax recalls advising against investing after urging tips on the market. He says the tips performed badly, and he is glad he did not invest any money himself.
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Dustin Stax
Washington Star
Tough Meat Exchange Elicits Witty Customer Banter
A Buffalo Express clipping captures a dealer quip to a customer after a tough night. The exchange features the customer urging to run alone and the dealer remarking the memory will fade once payment is made. The dialogue reflects streetwise humor and casual market banter.
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Sid
Buffalo Express
Fame and the Family Riddle in a Humorous Exchange
A playful dialogue fragment asks what fame is as a father explains the concept to his son. The scene hints at household roles with a joking tone and a mock Greek chorus style headline.
Shoe Sizes Explained by Fashion Experts
The article explains why hat and shoe numbers differ and how shoe sizing arose from a fixed European scale set by a Frenchman. It details that shoe numbers refer to an old standard, with three and seven eighths inches as zero and a one third inch increment per size, making exact sizing complex for individuals and dependent on foot build. It notes hat size calculation via inner brim dimensions and head circumference.
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Europe
América
Asfords Worten
Boston Globe
Burned Paper Money and the Government’s Stance on Redemption
The Chicago Tribune argues that un mutilated silver and any gold coins remain redeemable at face value from federal and subtreasury windows, while destroyed paper currency is treated as a loss to the holder. It notes fire destroys vast amounts of legal tender and that the government bears no obligation to redeem ashes of notes.
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United States
Dent
Chieiso Pribune
Pope as witness in Atterbury treason trial cited
The London Standard recalls Pope and Garrick as poor speakers in the 1723 House of Lords defense of Bishop Atterbury. Pope admitted he could not speak well in public and struggled to recount stories to twelve friends, yet he claimed he could tell a tale to three with ease.
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Pope
Garrick
Hay
Atterbury
House of Lords
Spence
Rochester
Bromley
London
Standard
The Lost Company
A sharp faced woman opens the door to a ragged wanderer who laments hunger and loneliness. He says he has not eaten for so long he cannot cast a shadow, describing how even shadows crave company on his journey along the red.
London Tit Bits Quip Reflects on Newborn Look
In a wry line, Muggins notes his baby’s resemblance and asks if he looks like him. He resolves to tell his wife softly, acknowledging his own plain appearance and humor in a London Tit Bits style.
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Muggins
London
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Boston Elevated Railway Company
David Belcher
Wintilbor Fire
Central Station
W. F. Mroniiett
J. Larkin
A A. Smith
Board of Fire Engineers
A. F. Coggins
George H. Miller
Miller
Society
Ard
Ameren
Blighis
COBRA
Little Willie
Hicazo News
Airessinjimede
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