Sells copies of the paper at many local outlets
Five cent copies of this paper are offered at Highland Drug Store opposite Highland station Boston Revere Beach Lynn Depot Totman Ham opposite Beach station near Highland station Robinsons Centre Store Jefferson and Winthrop streets Quality Shop opposite Centre station Williams Drug Store opposite Centre W A Howe Druggist Magees corner Browns Pharmacy Wadsworth Block Centre W B Thayer Ocean Spray Pharmacy Ocean Spray Winthrop News Co opposite Beach Also at the publication office 466 Shirley Street
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Highland Drug Store
Highland Station
Boston
Revere Beach & Lynn Depot
Totman & Ham
Beach Sta
Robinson’s Centre
Jefferson and
Winthrop Streets
Quality Shop
Centre Station
Williams’ Drug Store
Brown’s Pharmacy
Wadsworth Block
Centre
W. B. Thayer
Ocean Spray Pharmacy
Ocean Spray Winthrop News Co
Shirley Street
Boston Theatre Presents Top Vaudeville and Film Bill
The Boston theatre highlights first time feature pictures and the largest vaudeville shows at popular prices. For the week starting December 25, an exceptionally strong bill is provided. The Sunday night concert combines moving pictures with brand new photoplays, all New England says is the greatest Sunday show. No advance in prices and the three hour program has no repeats.
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Boston
New England
Boston Theatre
England
B F Keiths Theatre Announces Xmas Vaudeville Double Bill
For the week starting December 11 the B F Keiths Theatre offers a grand double feature with Anna Wheaton and Hares Carroll performing new songs. The Washington Square Players piece Overtones is staged with Helen Lackaye leading a large company. Muriel Window, Pistol and Cushing, the Stranded Minstrels, the Four Holloways and Maxine Brothers with Bobby join the program. Matinee daily at 2 pm, Sundays 8 pm concert.
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Boston
B. F. Keith's
Anna Wheaton
Hares Carroll
Carroll
Miss Wheaton
Minstrels
The
Four Holloways
Maxine Brothers
Bobby
We Have. R. J. S. wants to know if we have ever met the people
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports a riddle about people who never sleep yet slumber and never rise yet rise whenever they eat or dine. The piece notes contradictions in phrases like never drink but indulge and never talk but converse.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
First use of the word telegram linked to Albany journal
Frederick Seward recalls in his reminiscences how the Albany Evening Journal office may have coined the term telegram with the paper by Thurlow Weed as Warwick of his era. E P Smith is suggested as the originator, a claim debated by scholars.
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Frederick Seward
William H. Seward
Albany Evening
Thurlow Weed
Warwick
E. P. Smith
England
United States
Christian Science Monitor
How Appendicitis Prevention via Adler-i-kal Mixture
Winthrop readers are urged that several doses of buckthorn bark glycerine and Adler-i-ka mix can relieve or prevent appendicitis. The ad claims one spoonful aids constipation sour stomach or gas and promises quick relief for chronic stomach trouble. Kilbourn C Brown, a druggist, endorses Adler-i ka as easy and thorough.
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Winthrop
Kilbourn C. Brown
Adv
Old Mail Bags and a New Dye from Geranium Patches
The article notes 1,000,000 mail bags repaired in the last year at a Washington shop. It describes dust removal via large tumbling barrels and electric drives, treating four thousand bags daily, and the rise of parcel post prompting shop expansion and 250,000 bags produced in two years. It also discusses a chemist J. H. Koss of San Francisco claiming acids can dye geranium pulp into colors and fix the dye, with green, purple, red, yellow and brown shades.
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Washington
J. H. Koss
San Francisco
Cal
Koss
Ross
Unfortunate Rules For Life Advice Column
The piece urges readers to align with unfortunate people to be carried by their atmosphere and inspired to misstep. It counsels faith in setbacks, warns that luck ends, and promotes looking down and to the side with a perpetual grouch.
US Gold Reserves Close Gap With European Central Banks
The U S gold stock now lies within 50 million dollars of the combined gold holdings of the Bank of England Bank of France Bank of Germany and Bank of Russia. Four years earlier Europe’s gold reserve exceeded America’s by 608 million dollars. The U S gold money now equals 30 percent of world total, up from 22 percent in 1914.
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United States
Europe
Bank of England
Bank of France
Bank of Germany
Bank of Russia
Vast Public Land Still Open for Settlement
The nation holds 254,945,589 acres available for settlers, enough for more than two acres for every person. Some western tracts are described as oblique or edge like, raising concern about their suitability for entry and use.
Silent Mosquito With Mustache Silent Wings Alarm
Washington scientists warn of a mosquito with a mustache acting as a silencer during bites. The tale questions the old belief that only female mosquitoes sting, suggesting a playful yet surprising shift in understanding.
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Washington
Psycho-sonatology Defined By Its Inventor
The inventor explains psycho sonatology as the study of the body and soul. He has lectured in New York and spent fifteen years researching the subject, believing his knowledge has grown since he began.
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New York
Health as the natural state and cautions on medicine
The author argues health is the normal condition and criticizes routine medical intervention as unnecessary. They contend modern society overuses medicines and alters internal balance, implying a return to natural wellness is preferable to constant drug use.
Mystery of the man eating sharks in New York lore
A New York Sun snippet asks who was the man eating sharks described in tales from Raritan creeks and New York harbor and notes the improbable arrival of a sea serpent would not surprise readers.
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Raritan Creeks
New York Harbor
New York Sun
Comfort for Nonowners in Car Era
A small relief emerges for people without cars as critics note fewer cleaning duties and burdens tied to car ownership. The作者 comments on the social divide and the pressure of maintaining vehicles in the community.
Untitled fragment notes on women and charm
The fragment discusses women becoming understandable and suggests that once they are understood they will not be charming, implying a shift in social behavior and perception of femininity.
Double Bill Radiates High School Court Victory Night
Blizzard or not, over 300 fans packed the High School gym for a two game card between the Alumni and Winthrop High School. Winthrop won 30 to 24 in the first tilt with key scores from Talcott Belcher and Sheehan while the Alumni trailed 24 to 22 at halftime. In the second clash Winthrop pulled away 13 to 7 in the later period as Spin ner Verney and Ballou led the scoring for Winthrop with Anthony and Lovell producing for Alumni. Referee Snow and scorers Alexander Segal paced the evening.
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Winthrop
Winthrop H. S
Lecoris
Selberburg
BCR
Howe Houorson
Mae Neta
Belcher
Sheehan
Ginderson
Leaco UC Ae
Em Shenae A
Bartlett
Winthrop H
Alumni
Burke
Peterson
Talcott
Howe
Snow
Alexander
Winthrop High 2d
Morrison Osu
Ballou
Smtech
Ole
Belener Jenkins
Young Baker
Eerf
Lovell
Spinner
Verney
Anthony
Segal
Joke in 1916 Legislature Over Fire Chief Titles
The piece jokes about a state law affecting chief engineers in the metropolitan fire district. It notes that in 14 cities and eight towns the head of the fire dept sometimes holds both chief and chief engineer roles, raising questions who can remove such a person and who would stop him.
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Fire Department
High School Congress Debates Embargo and Arbitration
The final 1916 meeting of the High School Congress discussed an embargo on all exportation of food from the United States. The negative side, led by Christopher Conlin, Earl Hannaford, and Edward Clark, won 16 to 11. The triangular interscholastic debate will feature Revere Chelsea and Winthrop with a compulsory arbitration plan as the affirmative position.
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United States
Christopher Conlin
Earl Hannaford
Edward Clark
Richard Curran
Paul Howard
George Paro
Congress
Revere
Chelsea
Winthrop
Donald
Levin
Miskelly Magee
Howard
Conlin
Segal
Hallam
Paro
True
Daniels
Gardner
Telegraph Tales From Early Wires
The piece highlights 19th century telegram misbeliefs and anecdotes from F. E. Baine’s On the Track of the Mail Coach. It recalls a countryman who doubted a message had gone because his form remained in view and an operator’s reassurance was needed to pacify him. A woman even insisted her telegram be sealed in an envelope set to prevent reading mid transmission.
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Telegraph
F. E. Baine
Black Diamonds and Their Qualities Described
The article explains genuine black diamonds are more valuable than ordinary white diamonds but not suitable for ornament. They appear dull gray to black, opaque, and lack crystalline form. Size ranges from half to 500 carats and they are among the hardest substances, found in irregular pieces.
The Brotherhood of Man sermon critique and call
A Unitarian service discussion promotes the Brotherhood of Man as central to Christian teaching. The minister condemns creedal divisions and historic religious oppression while urging churches to place brotherhood above doctrinal forms and national prejudice to heal humanity.
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Brotherhood of Man
Jesus
Resignations of Miss Agnes Ryan and Mr Henry Stevens at Woman's Journal
Miss Agnes Ryan and Mr Henry Bailey Stevens retire as editors of the national suffrage weekly Woman's Journal and Suffrage News. Ryan, a Boston University graduate, began in 1910 and helped build the paper. Stevens, a Dartmouth graduate, long served as clerk and director attendee. The couple wed in 1915 at Romance Hill Hooksett New Hampshire and kept their journalism.
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Agnes Ryan
Henry Bailey Stevens
Woman's Journal
Suffrage News
Miss Ryan
Womatt's-dourtrat Corporation
Julia Ward Howe
Stevens
Catherine Wilde
Boston University
Suffrage Journal
Dartmouth College
Hooksett
N.H
Woman’s Journal
Lucy Stone
Henry B. Blackwell
Mark Twain Early NY Years and Four Dollar Pay
The diary notes Mark Twain first came to New York lodging at a mechanics boarding house on Duane Street. Albert Bigelow Paine records he disliked the fare, missing hot bread and biscuits of the South. Twain worked in a Cliff Street printing shop near his future publishers Harpers and earned four dollars a week in Wildeat money.
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Mark Twain
New York
Mechanics
Duane Street
Albert Bigelow Paine
Cliff Street
The
Harpers
Tiger Superstitions in India Reveal Ghosts and Courage Beliefs
Indian folklore attributes a killed man’s ghost riding the tiger to warn and guide new victims. Providence allegedly provides a tiger daily rations of one rupee. If a tiger kills a calf worth six rupees, it is forbidden another victim for five days. Eating tiger flesh is said to grant courage after singeing whiskers to prevent the spirit from haunting the feeder.
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India
Jis
Real Estate Transfers Listed For Sagamore and Nearby Streets
Summary of transfers shows Bevis Mary E and Minnie Lynch on Summit and Revere streets Sagamore area. Moir Craward B and Maude I Fish on Lpring road. Orcutt William G trustee on Woodside avenue and Bartlett road. Power Edgar F and John Tonge for Birch road. Wise Phillip and Emanuel M Gladstogfe on Hawthorne avenue and Winthrop shore Drive.
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Bevis
Mary E
Minnie L. Lynch
Summit Avenue
Revere Street
Sagamore Avenue
Moir
Craward B
Maude I. Fish
Lpring Road
Advertised Letters in Winthrop Post Office Week Ending Dec 11 1916
List of letters remaining in the Winthrop post office for the week ending December 11 1916 includes A Ard Waldo E Bowen Victor Brown Ruth. Postal officials urge recipients to claim promptly.
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Winthrop
Waldo E. Bowen
Victor, Brown
Ruth
Advertising Promise Trades for Results in Paper
A list of names appears in an advertising pitch promising results from advertising in the paper. The notice urges starting campaigns to gain trial and conviction of the target audience.
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Woodside Avenue
Bartlett Road
Pon Sens
Joe ‘Green
Frank Gillespie
Walter
Kehew
Walter E. Johnstone
Ruth ‘Morgan
Andy
Castori
Centadr Company
York
Castoria
the Centaur Company
New York City
Winthrop Storage CO
J. B. Tewksbury
Prop
Fremont ST
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