Boston Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad Time Table
Timetable effective November 12 1968 for Boston to Orient Heights Beachmont Crescent Beach Winthrop Lynn and stations in Winthrop with weekday and Sunday departures to various points including Winthrop Centre Battery Ingalls and Highlands. Note baggage not carried 5 to 6 35 P.M. and times not guaranteed. Signed Fe L Hoyt G T A John A Fenno Superintendent.
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Boston
Winthrop-Centre
Battery
Ingalls
A.M
Winthrop Beach
Winthrop Highlands
Winthrop Centre
L. Hoyt
John A. Fenno
Mail and Post Office Operations and Alarms Note
Daily mail collection and delivery schedule listed for Winthrop area including specific box times and sub-stations. Fire alarm procedure advised with box usage, central and beach stations contacts, and a copyright notice from the Library of Congress attached.
Boston Elevated Railway timetable notice 1908
Notice from the Boston Elevated Railway Company detailing train intervals for Orient Heights to Scollay Square and Gladstone Street routes, including Sunday and night services. Special cars may be chartered for balls or theatre parties. inquiries to the Superintendent of Transportation at 101 Milk Street. August 8, 1908.
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Orient Heights
Scollay ‘Square
Orient — Heights
Gladstone Street
Scollay Square Tunnel
Court Street
Office of Superintendent of Transportation
Milk Street
Mail Hours at Winthrop Office
The Winthrop office operates daily from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. with a Sunday morning window from 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. A money window is open daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. for payments and services.
Weary Widowhood in Bengali Life
A summary of a passage from the East Indian Mirror describing the prolonged misery of a widow after her husband’s death. It details strict fasting on every eleventh lunar day, twenty four hours without food or drink, summer thirst, living on one daily meal, avoiding meat and fish, and renouncing ornaments and luxuries as a lifelong sacrifice.
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East Indian Mirror
Impressionist Artist Seeks Title for Landscape
An impressionist painter adds final touches to a purple and blue landscape when his wife suggests a title. He asks for her idea and she proposes Home, explaining there is no place like home.
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Glasgow Times
The Same Medicine Revelation in a Conversation
A patient recalls a past prediction of imminent death by a doctor. He then asks the doctor to tell a despondent friend there is no hope, implying a grim joke about misjudgment and despair. The exchange underscores doubts about medical certainty and the power of suggestion.
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Bohemian
Weird Toilet Article Party Game Seeks Fun and Forfeits
A historical note describes a children’s game using a wooden plate and a circular tray. Players name toilet articles as roles, attempting to catch the spinning plate. failures incur forfeits, while success lets a player swap seats. A separate article discusses alleged hypnotism dangers on trains.
Amusing Skeletal Trick On Blackboard Apparatus
A Philadelphia Ledger item describes a silent magic trick with a black skeletal figure drawn on a blackboard. By pulling a hidden string connected to the figure, the skeleton appears to move as if animated, eliciting surprise from the audience.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Overheard In The Wood Shed Mischief Exchange
A playful dialogue unfolds among a shovel coal fire and poker in a wood shed. The coal denies gun handling while a humorous mishearings thread runs through the exchange about a master’s house and flues. The pets and tools share light chatter in a whimsical vignette.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Harry's Funny Answer Recounts Child's Clever Brownie Joke
A four year old child is asked how many legs he has and responds by asking about Brownie the dog. He then declares Brownie has one leg on each corner, a humorous miscount.
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Harry
Winnipeg Clergy Tale Sparks Farm Visit Laughter
A Winnipeg farmer and his wife visit church with a host who teases them about attending. After meeting the American pastor, the farmer remarks the sermon was the least like a sermon he ever heard, provoking amused reactions in Winnipeg Telegram fashion.
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg Telegram
West country farmer seeks help from Exeter white witch
A London Chronicle correspondent reports a west country farmer with strong pixie beliefs. He fears offending a fairy and travels sixty miles to Exeter to consult the white witch for misfortune averted, returning relieved yet silent on results.
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The
London Chronicle
Exeter
Violin Vane Tops Great Gonerby Church in Lincolnshire
A large fiddle and bow vane crowns the church at Great Gonerby near Grantham. The instrument was a gift from a peasant who once played an old violin to fund the church and insisted on a metal replica be placed atop the edifice, where it remains today.
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Great Britain
Great Gonerby
Grantham
Lincolnshire
Far West
Ariel
Athenaeum Club Guests Amid Renovations Injesture Remarks
Two stories recount Athenaeum club hosting during renovation by the Unit ed Service club. A distinguished guest mutters about bishops in the club after a rain hunt for his umbrella. Another guest asks for the librarian and is told he is in the dining room carving the roast beef.
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Athenaeum Club
United Service Club
Athenaeum
Clock mischief halts work as winded timekeeper disrupts
Gradgrind orders strict time rules with no one touching the clock. The foreman admits the clock wasn’t wound, causing the day to be a quarter gone with workers idle. The scene appears in London Fun as a comic misunderstanding.
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Foreman
London
Foretelling the Future and Witty Exchanges
A light exchange humor piece on laughing at own jokes and future time leaps. A joke pairing includes Mrs de Style discussing a three week old baby girl and Mrs Gunbusta agreeing time will move to twenty one years. The Sphinx and Belle offer quirks about Mr Sillicus being in a glee club theatrical society and poetry.
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de Style
Nell
Sillicus
Philadelphia Record
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Boston, Revere Beach
Lynn
R. R
Beachmont
Crescent Beach West Lynn Lynn
Winthrop
Bates Avenue
Washington Avenue
Winthrop Street
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Sunnyside Avenue
Bartlett Road
Pauline Street
Court Road
Lincoln Street
Reed Street
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Ocean View
Main Street
Revere Street
Cherry
Summit
Highlands Station
Crestwayenue
Crest Avenue
Highlands
Shirley Street
Sturgis
David Belcher
Winthrop Fire Alarm
Shirley St
Siren Ave
Harbor View
Cottage St
Hillside Ave
Crystal Cove
Farnbar
Tewksbury St
Shore Drive
Sturgis St
Ocean Ave
Pearl Ave
Mermaid Ave
Beach Road
Locust St
Grovers
Crest
Cliff
Mana Oty
Ruyu
Temple
Highland Aves
Revere St
George Turner
Sagamore Ave
Alenanét
Oraca Sta
Kyss
Cottage Park Road
Weint
Park Meter Woodside Ave
Seymour St
Pleasant
Buchanan Sts
Washington and Elmwood
Washington Ave
Thornton
Winthrop St
Chester Ave
Taen Hall
Kimball's Factory
Central Station
Beach Station
Library of Congress
Arthur P. Schmidt
Mass
Julius E. Muller
United States
Herbert Putnam
Librarian of
Congress
Thorvald Solberg
Librarian of Congress
Schmidt
J. W. Crawford
Arthur PR. Schmidt
G. W. Chadwick
Arthur P. Lehmidt
Register of Copyrights
Bird
Geo
Fred Luck
Unites States
Onston
G. P. Ritter
Arthur Schmidt
Arbert Putnam
Scotland
Margarita
Arthur P. ‘Schmidt
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Sergeant
Castoria
Kay
Lady’s Toilet
Vane
Green
Brown
White
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