Anthrop Post Office Hours and Box Collections
The Anthrop post office opens for post office business weekdays from 1 am to 9 pm and holidays 7 am to 10 am. It is closed Sundays except for Special Delivery mail. Carrier deliveries occur weekdays at 7:20 am 10:50 am and 2:50 pm with 6:30 pm and 9 pm collections. Several boxes are not collected at 9 pm and a list of street boxes is given. D Belcher, Supt.
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Postal Savings Depository
Temple
Highland Avenue
Grover and Clif
Quincy and
Cliff
Cottage
Park Road
Johnson Avenue
Court Road
Lowell
Maple Street
Main
Pleasant Street
Hermon Street
Hermon
Winthrop Corner
Ocean View
Magee's
Corner
Revere
Cherry
Summit
Brown's Drug Store
Winthrop Highlands
Grover Corner
Crest
Locust
Beach Road
Ocean Spray
Shirley Corner
Mermaid
Sea Foam
Shirley R. R
Ocean Avenue
Sturgis
Tewksbury
Crystal Cove
Cottage Avenue
Hillside
Washington Avenue
Bates
Winthrop
Chester
Post
Centre R. R
Pleasant
Sunnyside
Bartlett Road
Pauline Pleasant
Lincoln
Read
Town Hall
D. Belcher
Sun and Visitor Small Ads Rent or Sell Classifieds
Classified section offers options to rent houses or flats hire spaces sell furniture or set a room. Readers can find housing listings and item sales in the daily classifieds section.
Thorium Supply Disrupted by War Effects
The article notes thorium, key in gas mantles, mainly from Germany, is cut off due to conflict. Scientists warn of serious mantle shortages as stocks run dry, prompting reuse of ash to reclaim thorium. Meanwhile tungsten lamps rise as gas mantle substitutes for lighting.
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Germany
Scientific American
Pittsburgh Without the H in Early Name Record
In 1758 General Forbes noted the fort as Fort Duquesne now called Pittsburg omitting the H and Bancroft cites Washington guiding Armstrong to the meeting of rivers as Pittsburgh became the name, a tribute to William Pitt amid the Westward claim. Napoleon’s tobacco monopoly began after a court remark by his tobacco merchant wife.
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Pittsburgh
General Forbes
Denny
Pennsylvania
Fort Duquesne
Pittsburg
Bancroft
Washington
Armstrong
Forbes
William Pitt
America
Allegheny
Ohio
New Zealand Bill Seeks Bible Reading in Public Schools
A bill before the New Zealand House proposes a referendum at the next election on Bible reading in public schools under teacher supervision without sectarian teaching and optional religious instruction by a minister or substitute chosen by parents. If passed, the issue goes to voters and results shown in 1915.
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Bible and
New Zealand Schools
New Zealand
House of Representatives
Wit and wisdom doodles from multiple newspapers
A collage of quips and aphorisms from the Albany Journal Deseret News Omaha Bee Toledo Blade Memphis Commercial Appeal Philadelphia Inquirer Milwaukee Sentinel Florida Times Union Milwaukee Sentinel, noting insights on pride thrift temper sarcasm manners and social shifts with scattered remarks on caricatured modern life and elopements.
Flower names traced to botanists and place origins
Flower Lover's Dictionary lists how anemone and others derive names. Anemone is an Indian word meaning wild flower. Kalmia, Fuchsia honor botanists Kalm and Fuchs. Magnolia from Magnol. Poinsettia from Poinsett. Wistaria from Professor Wistar. Vernonia named for Vernon. Claytonia for John Clayton. Comptonia for Bishop Compton. Cardiopterum halicacaba is known as puff vine or love vine.
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Claytonia
John Clayton
Comptonia
Bishop Compton
Popular Lies Predicaments In a Humorous Life Note
A humorous Life collection presents witty exchanges about baby crying at night essential surgery praise and fitting shoes. The quotes feature clever responses on relationships, self worth, and everyday miscommunications. Each line hints at social expectations and clever retorts from a past era.
Just Thoughts on Money, Marriage and Gossip
A collection of witticisms about money, trust, women, men and social behavior. The quips critique greed, rumor, and self-importance, linking financial attitudes with marital and personal reputation.
Telltale Wands and the Illusive Vengeance Plot
A disreputable Austra lian city hides a tale of a doctor turned pharmacist who accepts a dangerous assignment. A veiled client orders a corrosive that removes skin, testing loyalty with a staged accident and two hidden pursuers. Years later she reappears as confidante, revealing a broader murder mystery and shared flight.
Signposts of Progress in Early 20th Century Industry
The survey highlights industrial growth with the steel trust spending 750000 a year on safety devices, over 100000 cloak makers in New York, Belfast selling 1902 tons of thread to the US, and Canada trading nearly 40 percent of its export business with the United States. It notes a Philadelphia phonograph device reducing metallic sounds and estimates lightning electricity value at 29 cents per thousandth of a second. It also mentions the parcel post link to Asia and Jamaica’s varied timbers. An 1910 census records 2152433 wage earners, 45.2 percent of all workers, across corps of carpenters, salesmen, seamstresses, and domestic servants.
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New York
Census Bureau
Army Corps of Carpenters
Curious Condensations Of Nitrate, Paving, and Trade
The report notes 135 Chilean nitrate works with 16 controlled by Americans, Russia and Leeds pioneered wooden block paving, and 40,000 people work in Leeds clothing. France ships 2,400 tons of candied fruit worth 800000 dollars yearly. Two thirds of the world beet sugar supply comes from beet. German child labor defines age thresholds with schooling. London Statist cites Mexico capital at end 1913 about 481,875,950 dollars. Many Sicilians from Palermo emigrate to the U S each year, with most returning later.
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The
Statist
London
Mexico
Science Notes on German Dirigibles and Industry
German passenger dirigibles carried 10 291 persons on regular trips last year without a single fatality or injury. A Philadelphia ice cream factory uses electrical machinery to produce 10 000 quarts daily. Since 1907 Klondike gold output rose yearly, reaching 5 225 2365 dollars in 1912. Atlanta installed four largest gas chandeliers, each 10 680 candlepower from 15 lamps.
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Philadelphia
Klondike
Atlanta
Optimistic view on money lending and virtue
The text argues most borrowers repay loans and asserts there are more decent people than dishonest ones. It notes dishonesty may seem widespread but harms only a few, and if virtue were as rare as vice it would attract as much publicity.
Tangoed Proverbs In the smart set style a tango themed aphorism
A playful collection of tango inspired sayings about dance life and social wit attributes. It blends advice about timing nerves and social performance with a wink at aging and daily routines and is attributed to Addison Lewis in Smart Set.
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Addison Lewis
Ancient South American dental artistry impressed archeologist findings
An American Anthropologist article notes Dr. Marshall H. Saville’s discovery of gold and jade inlays in pre Columbian skulls from Ecuador and Mayan areas. He highlights gold disks in incisors and a transplanted lateral tooth, suggesting advanced dental work possibly aided by coca anesthesia.
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South America
Belles
Marshall H. Saville
Columbia University
Central
Mexico
Atacames
Esmeraldas
Ecuador
Saville
American Anthropologist
Man Arrested For Stealing His Own Pigs
A San Mateo rancher, Fred Marsh, is jailed on a petty larceny charge after health officials seized his pigs for observation. The pigs later disappeared and Marsh faced accusations of stealing his own livestock, challenging the idea that a person cannot steal what is rightfully theirs.
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San Mateo
Cal
Fred Marsh
Halfmoon Bay
Marsh
Washington Post
Johnson and Napoleon Echoed in Paris Reverence
The report notes the high pedestal given to boxing icons. During Jack Johnson’s first Paris visit reporters crowded him and one account recalls his silent moment at the Invalides before declaring with conviction that “Ah! He also was a great man!”
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Jack Johnson
Napoleon
Paris
the Invalides
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Anthrop
Sun & Visitor
Varene
Easa
Sony
Firmeno
Ars
Probate
the Sun & Visitor If
Pers
Albany Journal
Deseret News
Omaha Bee
Toledo Blade
Memphis
Florida Times-Union
Milwaukee Sentinel
Philadelphia Inquirer
Flower Lover’s Dictionary
Kalmia
Kalm
Fuchsia
Fuchs
Magnolia
Wistaria
Professor Wistar
Vernonia
Ironwood
Vernon
F. G. Rice
Kansas City Star
W.G. Chapman
Australia
Shad
Steel ‘Trust
New York City
Belfast
United States
Canada
British Oceanography Expedition
Clara’ 8. Butler
Cleveland
Berlin
Asia
Jamaica
Department of Agriculture
Chile
Russia
Leeds
England
France
Palermo
Science
la Piedra
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