Winthrop Fire Alarm Box Schedule and Instructions
The notice lists fire alarm boxes and locations in Winthrop including Shirley Ave Harbor View Avenue Cottage and Hillside avenues and more. It gives drill times School Signal Box No 22 with rounds eight oclock and eleven fifteen twelve forty five schedule and instructions to stand at the box until the department arrives and three blows for a second alarm. Central and Beach station contact numbers are provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Shirley
Shirley Ave
Harbor View
Cottage
Crystal Cove
Faun Bar
Central Station
Tel
Beach Station
Winthrop Mail Hours and Sub Stations
Post office hours listed daily and Sundays with money order and registration windows. Deliveries at 7 30 a m 1 45 and 4 p m. Collections at 7 30 11 00 1 30 4 90 and 6 p m daily with Sunday times. Several street letter boxes and Sub Stations detailed for stamps and money orders.
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Bates Avenue
Washington Avenue
Winthrop Street
Pleasant Street
Sunnyside Avenue
Bartlett Road
Pauline Street
Court Road
Lincoln
Reed Street
Centre R. R
Ocean View
Main
Revere Street
Cherry
Summit
Highlands
Crest Avenue
Green
Ocean Spray
Sea Foam Avenue
Shirley R. R
Cottage Street
Hillside Avenue
Shirley Street
Gove’s Wharf
Winthrop Beach
New York
Boston
Avenue
Shirley Streets
Shirley
Sturgis
KORM
Tax Liens and Land Holdings Collected by Harold C Bartlett
Collector Harold C Bartlett lists tax liens and property holdings for 1906. Entries name Patrick Healy Peter Healy James Maguire Mary Maddocks John McCormick George Monahan Otis Neale heirs Charles Saunders Annie Trainor Edward Wardwell John B Whelan Fannie White George Wood and properties on Beal Street Park Avenue Coral Avenue Shirley Street Summit Avenue Sea Foam Avenue and Woodside Park with assessed taxes ranging from 6.19 to 122.13 dollars and descriptions of land areas in Suffolk Deeds libros and plans.
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Winthrop
County of
Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
William E. Cassidy
Shirley Street
Frances A. Colby
William K. Young
Frances
A. Colby
William K.ete
Susan M. Crandall
Samuel G. Irwin
Cottage Park Road
Charles 8. Davis
Patrick Healy
Peter Healy
Beal Street
Main Street
James Maguire
Mary A. Maddocks
Park Avenue
Libro
John McCormick
George F. Monahan
Coral Avenue
Otis S. Neale
Charles W. Saunders
Summit Avenue
Annie’ Trainor
Edward J. Wardwell
Sea Foam Avenue
John B. Whelan
Irwin Street
Fannie F. White
George H. Wood
Woodside Park
Robert A. Sproule
James W. Peterson
Ocean View Street
Catherine B. Rowe
Mermaid Avenue
Miriam J. Smith
Suffolk Eds
Anna C. Whitehead
Jornton Park
Michael F. J. Cassidy
Willard Welsh
Florence A. Chaney
Cliff Avenue
The Spanish royal standard and its complex heraldry
The flag’s design blends symbols from León, Castile, Aragon, Sicily, Austria, Burgundy, Flanders, Antwerp, Brabant, Portugal, and France. The description traces each quarter and its quarters within the royal standard, noting a shieldless top layer atop a mosaic of historic arms and markings.
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Charles the Bold
Geoffrey
Barcelona
Aragon
Leon
Castile
Sicily
Burgundy
Flanders
Antwerp
Brabant
Good Cause For Tears
A medieval sultan had all mirrors removed to spare himself his face. He glimpsed a reflection and wept, as did his vizier. The vizier sobbed longer, claiming the sultan sees his face but briefly, while the vizier must endure it daily.
Conductor Fred Jones Meets Drunk Passenger on Train
Fred Jones, a Boston and Maine conductor, faced a drunken passenger refusing a ticket on a Boston to Plymouth run. After failed reasoning, Jones offered three choices: show a ticket, pay fare, or walk. The passenger hiccuped and replied with a crude insult suggesting self-harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Jones
Boston and Maine Railroad
Boston
Plymouth
Inshallah Promise Used to Shield Breach of Faith
A Gibraltar shopkeeper explains how Moors use the Arabic phrase Inshallah to excuse delays or breaches. A purchaser agreeing to pay in sixty days tries Inshallah for a lower price, but the merchant insists the price remains $2 with a later $2.50 if delayed.
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East
Gibraltar
Inshallah
Rare musician prefers cooking to music in royal tale
A Dutch violin prodigy once visited Edward VII as Prince of Wales. Asked if she loved her Stradivarius, she admitted she did not worship the violin, and when pressed she revealed a passion for cooking, saying she would be an excellent chef. The anecdote, cited by the New York Tribune, contrasts artistic love with culinary passion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fanny Kenitite
Holland
Edward VII
Prince of Wales
New York Tribune
Fine Old Woman and the Wager on Age
In a moment of wit Mrs. Siddons tells a gentleman she is seventy eight, prompting his exclamation that he has lost a wager. The actress explains that when a lady of uncertain age is asked her real age she should add ten years so the questioner departs with admiration for a fine old woman.
Woman's Backache and Female Organ Health Remedy
A 1910s style health notice asserts backache signals feminine organ distress and promises a quick remedy to restore normal female health. It links nervousness headache and loins pain to the need for prompt treatment.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Women
Letters from Mrs Will Young of Rockland Maine and Mrs Augustus Lyon of East Batey describe backaches pains and fatigue being relieved by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad promotes the product as a standard remedy for female complaints claiming decades of use and thousands cured.
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Will Young
Columbi Ave
Rockland
Lydia E. Pinkham
Augustus Lyon
East Ban
The Cruel Lie and Disraeli’s Unpardonable Sin
In a shadowed exchange a young disciple asks Disraeli for the unpardonable sin. He replies that a lie is not the worst sin but the cry lie itself, while the brutal instinct to wound remains unforgiven and stains the moral horizon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Disraeli
Vistor
Horiz
Dubious Compliment Sparks Tangled Story Fragments
The text presents a muddled dialogue about elegance and danger a Turkish pasha and his wife are described with flustered flattery. It juxtaposes a Sheridan quip about wanting the last word and a fainter moral about pride and doom within a garbled narrative fragment.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Winthrop Fire Alarm
Hose House
Tewksbury St
Crest Ave
Shirley St
Sturgis St
Ocean Ave
Pearl Ave
Mermaid
Grover’s
Crest Avenues
Cliff
Temple and
Highland
Geo. Tweers
Sagamore Av Cross
Almont Streets
Revere
Winthrop St
Bowdoin
Emerson Sts
Hermon
Lincoln Streets
Marshall Sts
Pleasant
Waldemar Ave
Wheelock Street
Pleasant and
Sargent Streets
Sargent Street
Johnson Av
Cottage Park House
Woodside
Seymour St
Buchanan Street
Washington and Elmwood Ave
Washington Av
Thornte Park
Chester
Town Hall
Kimball’s Factory
Fred Hays
Somerset Avenue
D. B. Hoar
William H. Dunbar
Tae H. Matthews
Levi J. Wood
River Road
John F. Eddy
Nahant Avenue
Annie KE. Kelley
Elmwood Avenue
Michael J. Kelley
Center Street
Norah Kelley
Annette
C. Wood
Ocean Avenue
William H Beeching
Bor
NEW England Telephone
Sheida
Sheridan Ways
Sheridan
Probate
Winthrop Sun & Vsito
Coluymns
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