Winthrop Post Office Mail Hours and Box Collections
Post office hours weekdays seven to nine pm seven am to ten am on holidays and closed Sundays Special Delivery mail only. Carriers deliveries at seven forty five am ten fifty am two fifty pm with six thirty pm and nine pm collections on weekdays. Several street boxes not collected at nine pm listed by location. Saturday evening boxes collected one half hour earlier. D Belcher superintendent.
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Arriers
Temple
Highland Avenue
Grover and Cliff
Quincy and Cliff
Cottage Park Road
Johnson Avenue
Court Road
Lowell
Maple Street
Main
Pleasant Street
Main and
Hermon Street
Hermon
Opp
Winthrop
Ocean View
Magee’s Corner
Revere
Cherry
Summit
Brown’s Drug Store
Winthrop Highlands
Grover
Crest
Locust
Beach Road
Ocean Spray
Shirley Corner
Mermaid
Sea Foam
Shirley R. R
Shirley
Ocean Avenue
Sturgis
Tewksbury
Crystal
Cove
Cottage Avenue
Hillside
Washington Avenue
Bates
Chester
Post Office
Centre R.R
Pleasant and
Sunnyside
Bartlett Road
Pauline Pleasant
Lincoln
Road
Town Hall
D. Belcher
New Lock Drops Bolt Inside Door For Strong Security
An inventor Julius Grossmann of New York patents a bar and lock system called Jimmy. The device oper ates from outside by turning a key to drop a bolt into door hasps, making it nearly unpickable and resistant to burglars. The mechanism allows outside locking without lifting the latch and can be disconnected from the latch if needed.
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S. Jimmy
Julius Grossmann
New York
Yale
Submarine Cables and Their Laying Across Oceans
England leads in submarine telegraph cables with some German production. Cables come in two mile sections tested for resistance, then placed on ships for laying. Over forty steamers repair and lay cables, with Atlantic runs taking about a week. The Colonia, the largest cable ship, completed a 13 day link from Penzance to Bay Roberts.
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England
Germany
Penzance
Cornwall
Bay Roberts
Newfoundland
Colonia
American Review of Reviews
Champion Mean Thief Strikes City Welfare Station
The so called meanest man stole the scales from the city health department welfare station at Violet Street playgrounds. Twenty mothers with babies were unable to weigh their infants and could not obtain milk orders until a later group used borrowed scales. The welfare station serves underfed and scantily nourished babies.
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Violet Street
City Health Department
Los Angeles Times
Father of Thirty-one in Savona Names Candido Son
Anastasio Chelotti, a Savona newsreader, celebrated his thirty first child Candido. He, now sixty, said he married at twenty one and again before forty, adding nineteen and now eight of his sons are married. One son died in Libya yelling Viva Savoia.
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Anastasio Chelotti
Savona
Italy
Candido
Chelotti
Libyan
Population and industry of Federated Malay States
The Federated Malay States have an estimated population of 1,117,000. The chief industries are rubber cultivation and tin mining. Much territory remains wild and open to capital exploitation.
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Federated Malay States
Earning a Trousseau Ends in a City Romance
Lizzie Holt, a country girl in a New York store, accepts harassment from her elderly employer Simmonds who offers stenography lessons and favors in exchange for affection. After resigning, she starts anew with Marshall’s, then meets Simmonds and a motherly aunt, learning he sought to help her and buying a much finer trousseau.
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Simmonds
Lizzie
Trousseau
George Robbins
Simmond
Bill
Haffney’s
Lizzie Holt
Mr. Simmonds
George
Marshall's
Miss Holt
Herman
Holt
Lucile
New York
Suburban Lawn Mower Song Signals Seasonal Start
The line about the lawn mower song hints at the arrival of warm weather in the suburbs. Residents anticipate routine yard maintenance as spring lasts.
Periscope on Land Diagram Explains System Works
A diagram illustrates how the land based periscope system operates enabling precise observation. It shows the mechanism to bring select field parts under accurate surveillance and control.
Periscope Designs From Submarines and Land Warfare
The article outlines simple two mirror periscopes for land warfare and compares them to submarine periscopes. It details a four part optical system by Howard Grubb including a reversed telescope, a magnification two telescope, an erecting prism, and a magnification three telescope with a fixed eyepiece and bearing scale. The design allows horizontal viewing, adjustable magnification, and distance estimation from object size.
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S. D. Chalmers
Messrs. Goerz
Berlin
Howard Grubb
Trench Lines Stretch Across Europe in War Chronicle
The article compares European trenches to a continuous line from Washington to San Francisco and back, noting vast sacrifices by U S forces and civilians. It describes hundreds of miles of opposing trench lines from Switzerland to the North Sea, with fronts varying from three to fifteen miles as autumn waned and major fighting paused.
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Europe
Washington
San Francisco
Army
Navy
National Guard
United States
America
le Roi Albert
Napoleon
Switzerland
North Sea
Batmen in Military Service Explained by County Palatine Engineers
The Manchester Guardian notes that a batman is a military term for the driver or manager of packhorses. A bat horse carries officers’ luggage and the bat refers to a pack saddle, a French word linked to a proverb about discomfort at the saddle.
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County Palatine Engineers
Manchester Guardian
Copenhagen Advances as Baltic Free Port Leader
Copenhagen demonstrates its ability to keep the title London of Scandinavia with Europe’s only free harbor. The city shows banking strength and a growing influx of American merchants who once operated through agents and branches in other continental ports.
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Copenhagen
London
Scandinavia
Europe
A.Journalistic Color Scheme Reference
A colorful line from the Philadelphia Ledger ponders why some papers attract readers while others are yellow. The editor sits in a brown study musing on media appeal and public interest in journalism.
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Philadelphia Ledger
The Peach Trees and a Woolly Dog Tale
A man recalls Tweedle the useless dog and a neighbor girl. Years pass as they miss each other, then the man returns to find the girl, now widowed, and realizes his love as she contemplates a new life beside the peach trees. He ends with the line that life truly begins, as Tweedle’s memory anchors their reunion.
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Mrs. Briggs
Tweedle
California
Montclair
Eleanor Gordon to Headline at B F Keiths Theatre Boston
Miss Eleanor Gordon the popular Boston stock actress headlines a week at B F Keiths Theatre sharing honors with O Hara the Irish comedian New sketch written for Rose Coghlan features Gordon with a strong company Fiske O Hara joins Gordon in a line up including Kluting's Animal Entertainers Stewart and Donahue Kronold La France and Bruse Miss Campbell and Samoyna the Japanese aerialist provide additional acts.
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Eleanor Gordon
Boston
B. F. Keith
O’hara
Fiske O'Hara
Andrew Mack
Chauncey Olcott
Charles Ahearn
Stewart and Donahue
Hans Kronold
Public Auction Notice of Winthrop Mortgage Foreclosure
A mortgage sale of Max and Fannie Fleishman to Angelo Tucci dated February 26 1915 will occur at 3 PM on June 28 1915 on Pauline Street Winthrop Mass. Assignee Alpdprt Friedberg with 200 cash deposit. balance subject to a 5875 Beaver Pees lien and unpaid taxes and liens. George Fine attorney 4 Chelsea Street East Boston. June 3 1915.
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Max Fleishman
Fannie Fleishman
Angelo M. Tucci
County of
Suffolk
Pauline Street
Winthrop
Pauline — Street
Read
Porter
Richardson
Albdprt Friedberg
George Fine
Chelsea Street
East
Boston
Foreclosure Sale of Winthrop Premises</T>
By power of sale in a 1912 mortgage Jacob W. Berman to George C. Thurston the Winthrop property with fixtures will be sold at public auction on June 29 1915 at 3 20 PM. The parcel on Forest Avenue forms Lot No 2 on Whitman and Howard plan dating 1901 and contains 3620 square feet. Asset subject to first mortgage of 9000 second mortgage 3200 unpaid taxes and assessments. Mortgagee George C. Thurston. attorney H L Wadsworth Boston.
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Jacob W. Berman
George C. Thurston
Suffolk
Winthrop
County of Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Forest Avenue
Reddy Street
Winthro Shore Drive
Sal Forest Avenue
Whitman & Howard
H. L. Wadsworth
Court Street
Boston
Mass
Mortgagee's Sale of Real Estate in Winthrop Mass
Public auction to sell the Winthrop property tied to the 1910 mortgage held by Joseph F. Jenckes. The parcel on Fremont and Jefferson streets totals 2,011 square feet with the described bounds and improvements. Sale to occur June 21, 1915 at 2 PM in Boston, with terms and taxes to be announced.
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William A. Purdy
Martha A. Purdy
Jooob, Jenckes
Suffolk
Winthrop
Fremont and
Jefferson Streets
Jefferson Street
Hathaway
Fremont
William H. Smith
Joseph F. Jenckes
Boston
Mass
H. EB. Ruggles
Old Uth
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Winthrop Post Office
Sun & Visitor
Wand
Oie
Probate
The
Sun & Visiter If
Bureglar
W. G. Chapman
Siz
B. F. Keiths Theatre
Castoria
Chasean Tyler
Wesley Tyler
Winthrop Centre
James B. Johnstone
Johnstone and Tyler
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