Boston Elevate Transit Timetable Details and Specials
The notice lists Orient Heights to Scollay Square service times, intervals, and Sunday adjustments. It includes early morning and night schedules, service from Gladstone Street, and Court Street departures. Special cars may be chartered for balls, theatre parties, or excursions via the Superintendent of Transportation at 101 Milk Street.
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Orient Heights
Sermies Street
Scollay Square
Gladstone Street
Court Street
Office of Superintendent of Transportation
Milk Street
Room to Let Ad Featured in Sun and Visitor
Classified notice offers a room for rent advertised in the Sun and Visitor. Details are sparse but indicate available lodging with contact through the newspaper page.
Panther Fear Turns to Wolf Pursuit
A boy grows into a man as the panther he fears remains elusive until adulthood. Wolves then pursue him with fatal certainty, eventually catching him.
English As She Is Wrote Ad Sketches Dining Prices
A humorous item lists bakery and restaurant signs with misspellings such as Homg made pize and Small steak 20 Cents. Poultry Journal ad promotes Plymouth Rock hens at 1.25 dollars each. A Sedaing report notes a ceremony performed by two Jewish rabbits in a playful fragment.
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Poultry Journal
Plymouth Rock
Detecting Shortcomings Note on a Person’s Weak Points
This fragment discusses how to identify another’s failings quickly. It suggests the failings observed may differ from those the person is aware of. The text references J. Cy and A. W. Hare and hints at social observation in a community context.
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asa—Tival
J. Cy and
A. W. Hare
Tip From the Waiter Wit and Advice
A diner jokes that patience pays in a restaurant scene. The waiter responds with a sharp line about those who refuse to wait, suggesting the impatient may miss out on their service.
Boston Revere Beach and Lynn Rail Schedule
Transit notice for Boston to Winthrop and Revere Beach with weekday and Sunday departure times. Lists hourly intervals from 12.35 to 12.05 midnight and states John A. Fenno as Superintendent. Includes service gaps and repeated patterns across days.
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Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad
Boston and Winthrop
Boston
John A. Fenno
Solemn Shawnee Adoption Dance Described In Detail
A Shawnee adoption dance lasts all day and night with dancers fasting. From distant camps they arrive, faces painted, beads worn, a central bonfire lighting the grove. Leaders adopt a child, using tin pails with rubber balls to mark rhythm, and order is strictly kept.
Paris mask makers ready for Lent Carnial surge
Paris artisans toil under pressure to supply masks for the Lenten carnival. Dozens of houses employ men women and children year round with no dead season and earnings considered fair. Caricature masks including political figures are prized works of art and the industry has avoided strikes.
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Paris
We Are a Nation of Frog Eaters
The article notes frogs have become a popular dinner item with six million frogs killed annually in Minnesota. It highlights northern Western frogs as delicate and southern bull frogs as larger but less tender, and explains frog catching peaks in spring and fall while winter hunting is hindered by thick ice.
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Minnesota
Fish memory challenged by Delage experiments
Biologist Yves Delage tests show fish may lose interest in a red hook after seven catches, yet will bite again if color is changed. He argues greediness overcomes memory, as the bright disk creates a warning there after repeated exposure, causing avoidance only when the same cue is reused.
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Yves* Delage
The First Postage Stamp Discovery Claim
A French antiquary claims postage stamps were a seventeenth century French invention. He cites a 1653 Paris wall notice offering paid carriage tickets for messages between city quarters and notes tickets sold for a sou at Law Courts or college doorkeepers.
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England
Paris
Amusing indoor baseball apparatus by D J Bebon
Brooklyn inventor D J Bebon creates an indoor baseball game apparatus with a diamond layout and bases. The mechanism blends skill and chance with bases, strikes, balls, home runs, base hits and outs. When a ball reaches a base it may release other balls on distant bases.
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Brooklyn
D. J. Bebon
N. Y
Scientific American
NEAT LITTLE PARLOR TRICK FOR BOYS
A trick uses a water decanter and a dessert knife propped at the table edge. A sharp finger blow sends the knife in a half circle into the decanter or bottle. Practice with a wide mouth decanter and cover the area to stay safe.
Boiling Potatoes Softens Starch by Heat
The text explains how potatoes are a starchy food with a rigid inelastic skin. When boiled the starch grains absorb hot water and expand, causing the hard covering to burst and the potato to become soft.
Parson Questions Tommy on Black Eye
The Parson asks how Tommy got the black eye and admonishes him for fighting. Tommy explains he was in a fight and notes he warned another boy yesterday that fighting is wrong.
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Tommy
Small Boy’s Silence Sparks Parental Frustration
A mother recalls teaching politeness as her child Gerald told her to be quiet in front of company. She wonders how to proceed as the boy demands she stop speaking, fearing her efforts have failed.
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Gerald
Reflections of a Bachelor and Mary Gaunt on Africa Paradise
A humor essay reflects on bachelor life and social pretensions with witty maxims about wages, marriage, and parenting. It notes New York Press quotes about men and women. Mary Gaunt reports African life as paradisiacal, highlighting perceived child cruelty and female contentment in West Africa.
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Mary Gaunt
Enormous Loss by Fire Across United States
Fire losses and the cost of fire prevention in the United States amount to 450 million dollars annually, more than the annual production of gold, silver, copper and petroleum combined.
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United States
Winthrop Fire Alarm Box Locations and Procedures
List of fire alarm boxes across Winthrop with street intersections and numbers. Includes school signals box 22 and instructions for giving an alarm, box operation, and firehouse contact details Central Station 72-3 and Begeh Station 72-1.
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Washington and Elmwood
River Road
Bates Ave
Winthrop St
Chester Ave
Bowdoin and
Buchanan Sts
Town Hall
Kimball’s Factory
Quincy and
Cliff Aves
Petition to abate nuisance in Winthrop land joins health board
The Board of Health of Winthrop is petitioned by residents to abate a nuisance land described as wet and stagnant. The notice sets June 4 1912 at 8 pm for a hearing on abatement methods and cost sharing under Chapter 75.
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Board of Health of
Winthrop
Town of
Boston
Revere Beach
Wyccarview
Main
Harvard and
Franklin Streets
Shirley Street
Board of Selectmen
Board of Health
Boardd of Health
Albert B. Dorman
Edward J Grainger
John Flanagan
Rosca
Winthrop Board Seeks Garbage Collection Bids
The Winthrop Board of Health invites sealed bids for town garbage collection and disposal for two years. Bids due June 3, 1912, will be opened at the Town Hall. A prize equals half the bid amount may be awarded. The board reserves the right to reject any bid.
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Board of Health of
Winthrop
Board of Health
Town Hall
Albert B. Dorman
Edward J, Grainger
Wintbra
Bs Heals
Finthrop
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Boston Elevated Railway Company
Potters Garage & Stable CO
Shirley Park
Ckenney
Waterbury Company
LPL
Ithaca
Tes
AI Franklin St “Baston Massi
Wirthrop
The
Sun
New York Press
Winthrop Fire Alarm
Triton Ave
Triton Pathway
Shirley
Tafts Ave
Harbor View
Terrace
Cottage St
Hillside Ave
Crystal Cove
Farnbar
Shirley Stand Beacon St
Tewksbury St
Shore Drive
Shirley St
Sturgis St
Cutler Sts
Dolphin Ave
Seafoam Ave
Mermaid Ave
Beach Road
Locust St
Grovers
Crest
Grovers and
Cliff
Floyd St. Temple
Highland Aves
Revere St
Dean Ave
Sagamore Ave
Almont and
Cross Sts
Revere
Winthrop Sts
Bowdoin
Océan View
Banks
Hermon
Lincoln
Read and Jerald
Marshall Sts
Pleasant
Lincoln Sts
Court and Loring
Lowell and Loring
Waldemar Ave
Wheelock’St. Pleasant
Sargent Sts
Sargent St
Johnson Ave
Pleasant St
Cottage Pk
Cottage Park Road
Cottage Park
Orlando Ave
Woodside Ave
Seymour St
Winthrop Centre
R.R
Buchanan and
Pleasant Sts
Washington Ave
Thornton Park
Cwo
Begeh
David Floyd
Frank W. Tucker
Willi W. Thompson
Lewis A. Wallon
Jase C. Nelson
Grace A. Mygee
F. Belcher
A. EL Whittenore
Cue W. Souther
As Nugent
Touls AL Radeh
W. HH. Bainbridge
Bloomfields
E. Jennings
Itnasell Gardner
J.S. Briggs
Treorge
Ss. G. Googins
George S. Tolman
John W. Pepper
John I. Rich
M. B. Tewksbury
F.C. Wales
Health Department
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