On Sale: Winthrop Lunax Visitor Paper Vendors
Five cent copies of Winthrop Lunax Visitor are advertised at multiple Boston area outlets. Locations include A. T. Bangness opposite Highland Station, Revere Beach and Lynn Depot Boston, Winthrop Beach News Co opposite Beach Station, J. H. Totman’s News Agency Jefferson and Winthrop Streets, Brown’s Pharmacy Wadsworth Block Centre, W. B. Thayer Ocean Spray Pharmacy, Ocean Spray, Elizabeth Rippay variety store opposite Centre Station, and Lewis Block office publication on Washington Ave.
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A. T. Bangness
Highland Station
Boston
Revere Beach
Lynn Depot
J. H. Totman
Jefferson and
Winthrop Streets
Brown's Pharmacy
Wadsworth Block
Centre
W. B. Thayer
Ocean Spray Pharmacy
Ocean Spray
Elizabeth Rippay
Variety Store
Centre Station
Lewis Block
Washington Ave
Keith's Theatre Next Week Promises New Year Vaudeville
Keith's will feature Eva Tanguay The Cyclonic Comedienne headlining New Year week with songs including I Don't Care and a new George Ade farce Maree Covington Mrs Peckham's Carouse The Mayor and the Manicure. Eugene Jepson leads, supported by the Max Tourbillon Troupe the Sandwinas Dillon Brothers Quinlan and Mack and Gene Hughes with Suppressing the Press and the $1000 prize sketch.
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Keith
Eva Tanguay
Comedienne
Mies Tanguay
Boston
George Ade
Maree Covington
Eugene Jepson
Jepson
America
Max Tourbillon
Sandwinas
Europe
Dillon Brothers
Quinlan and
Mack
Gene Hughes
Lost sense and the pituitary body in human evolution
The text argues humans once had six senses, noting the pituitary body as a tiny brain mass behind the nose. It posits unknown lost senses may have aided dark navigation or spiritual communion, or failed as a substitute for vision, smell, or hearing as better senses developed.
Mirrors as Detectives in Retail Shops
An interior decorator notes mirrors in stores serve to detect shoplifters. Watchers focus on reflections rather than patrons, enabling discreet observation. A thief warded off by a mirror tapping on the shoulder is directed to the office, per New York Press.
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New York Press
Where the Flowers Came From
A New York settlement worker recalls a poor neighborhood teacher who received daily flowers from a ragged pupil. One boy, Jimmy, sent mauve orchids, wilted but costly, and asked about their source. He explains his father is an ash man.
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New York Settlement
Jimmy
Snappy retort at the dinner table over teaching hours
A quarrel erupts at a New York table as a man complains about teachers and scheduling while a schoolteacher calmly suggests a change, provoking amused smiles from others. The exchange highlights contrasts between work loads and vacations in teaching versus other jobs.
The Dynamite Ships of Canvey and a Flaming Hazard
A crew-managed danger near Canvey Island tested the silence of the dynamite ships. A cargo boat caught fire and drifted toward the explosives twice, narrowly avoiding catastrophe as it burned to the water’s edge beyond reach of the mines. The stay-at-posts witnessed two grave openings and closings without panic.
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Canvey Island
Essex
Ireland
Army
Missed the Towpath
A five year old inland girl asks about the sea after her mother’s New York visit. The mother describes the ocean as water and sky, while the child wonders if there is a tow path to reach it.
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New York
New York Times
Ambiguity Lesson From East Side Student
A teacher recalls how Russian children grasp words quickly and illustrate meanings. She shares a classroom moment when a student offered a grimy example to the word ambiguity, saying Mamie Rose sat on a rack. The anecdote ends noting east side children need explanations only once.
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Educational Alliance
Mamie Rose
East Side
New York Sun
The Lady and Her Dog in Fry's Magazine
A humorous reflection on men who pretend authority in their homes yet serve their dogs. The piece warns readers not to disparage a lady’s dog, even a monstrously ungainly mongrel, to avoid making enemies.
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Fry’s Magazine
Delicate continental cheeses shift tastes in Paris
A Paris chef notes that taste in cheese has become more refined on the continent with cream cheese favored now over cooked varieties. He recalls a Petit Riche anecdote where a patron mistook a cheese for bread, and a separate tale shows a merchant deceiving a buyer by exploiting an elephant’s flaws, revealing the buyer’s lack of animal familiarity.
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Paris
Petit Riche
Baptiste
Scott
Cincinnati Enquirer
Persevering Traveler Wins Over Stubborn Merchant
A persistent commercial traveler recovers from a tearful rejection when he resubmits his card and later learns the merchant had destroyed it. The boy returns two pence and the note These cards are two for threepence. The traveler secures the interview and later becomes a valued customer of Mr B. in a western paper tale from the London Mail.
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Mr. B
Origin of Right Handedness
Dr. Cunningham of London says right handedness is ancient and arose through natural selection. It stems from left brain superiority, not the right arm, a structural trait inherited from parents. Left handedness results from transfer or reversal of brain hemispheres, akin to shifts seen in other organs.
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Cunningham
London
The Conductor Praises The Stout Woman For A Safe Exit
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer segment a conductor watches a stout woman alight from a car. He notes her steady exit, joking that though she may be stout and untidy, she knows how to get off safely. The slim man follows as she calls him by name George.
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George
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Simple Minded Kurds Description
A traveler portrays Kurds of Asia Minor as unsophisticated and gullible in secular matters, yet honest and direct in wrongdoing. He recalls a muleteer who admits past desertion and robbery willingly, then asserts change through marriage and faith.
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Asia Minor
Khazar
Praise for Earl of Dunmoore Ends With Humorous Dinner Tale
A Boston man praises the late Earl of Dunmoore as tall robust and kind noting his fault was an aristocratic obsession with correctness in all things. He recounts a Beacon Street dinner story about a self made man and a wife asking about diamond studs at a banquet with a witty retort.
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Boston
Earl of Dunmoore
Lord Dunmore
Beacon Street
George
New Orleans
Oysters Spark a Witty Dinner Barbs Exchange
Mr. Travers, a famed New York wit, meets a garrulous Englishman at dinner. The Yank notes the guest’s long talk and quenches the quarrel with a quip about whether oysters possess brains. The Englishman pushes back, insisting the shellfish may know how to shut up.
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Travers
New York
States
Gladstone
Dilke
Salisbury
Churchill
Blue laws of Connecticut said to be forged in history
The claim asserts that Samuel Peters, a Tory exiled after the Revolution, invented Connecticut blue laws and published them in London in 1781 as General History of Connecticut. The piece notes there is no such code in Connecticut or New England and calls the book fabrication.
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Connecticut
Samuel Peters
London
New England
New York American
Protein sources for blood and muscle nourishment
The article explains protein's role in forming blood muscle bone and brain and outlines accompanying fat starch and sugar needs as body fuel. It lists lean meats fish eggs cheese gluten flour and beans and peas as protein sources referenced by London Answers.
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London
British English on tariffs in rail travel humor
A brief quip contrasts an Englishman asking the fare to Boston with a railroad clerk who deflects, noting no time for politics as the joke turns on tariff talk. The snippet echoes New York Weekly whimsy about travel costs and language.
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Boston
New York Weekly
Dentition and Fair Play Reflections From 19th Century Texts
The excerpt notes two ideas: that African tribes have notably white teeth due to diet and climate, and that they care for dental health with remedies. It also cites a Manchester Guardian remark praising the instinct of fair play and giving everyone a chance as a strong human trait.
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Manchester
England
Guardian
Movement creed hinges on society's readiness says Lecky
The quote notes that a movement succeeds more by society's predisposition than by argument strength or advocate prowess. It argues that public receptivity shapes outcomes, underscoring the social basis of reform and change.
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Lecky
The Fault Forsakes an Old Friend in Jest
A fragment from the Cleveland Plain Dealer features a playful exchange about a default verdict and a line urging to Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him, reflecting wit and old world phrasing.
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Solo
A Tragedy in Six Acts From An Egyptian Tone
A fragmentary piece titled A Tragedy in Six Acts emerges from the Egyptian Standard. It parodies British civilizing efforts in Africa by a young Egyptian from Tanta, outlining acts from missionary work to weaponry, media, sports, and the death of an aborigine, ending with a band playing Rule Britannia.
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Africa
Tanta
Poor Consolation in Society Gossip Fashions
A fragmentary dialogue shows a society woman lamenting her misery on her receiving day while her husband quips that misery loves company. The overheard exchange includes a child named Jottie and Aunt-Goodby with a cold and a playful offer of a kiss, ending abruptly before a payoff.
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Goodby
Jottie
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Herrick’s
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Beacon Falls
Wadsworth
Winthrop Centre
Wissner, Schoninger, Krell
Ludwig
Winter
Schubert, Shultz and
Cote
Blake's Piano
Washington St
Chesterfield
Fair Play
Yassir
McNeil Bros
Crawford Range
Winthrop Street
Winthrop, Mass
Chas. F. Totten
Winthrop Beach, Mass
Frank P. Anthony
North Centre Street
Sargent St
Winthrop
T. J. Mahaney
Carpenter and
Court Road
BOST
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