Fire Alarms and Public Notices from Winthrop Area
A compilation of fire alarm locations and street junctions in Winthrop including Shirley Avenue, Harbor View Avenue, Cottage and Hillside avenues, Ocean Avenue, and related streets. Also notes Hose House, schoolhouse, factory, and town hall points, with alarm procedure instructions and box testing dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Shirley
Shirley Ave
Harbor View Avenue
Crystal Cove
Faon Ba
Shirley Street
Hose House
Tewksbury St
Crest Ave
Shirley St
Sturgis St
Ocean Ave
Pearl Ave
Mermaid
Grover’s
Crest Avenues
Cliff Avenues
Temple and
Highland
Revere Street
Geo. Towers
Sagamore
Cross
Almont Streets
Revere
Winthrop St
Bowdoin
Ocean View
Main
Emerson
Hermon
Lincoln
Marshall Sts
Pleasant
Lincoln Streets
Waldemar Ave
Wheelock Street
Sargent Streets
Sargent Street
Johnson Av
Pleasant Street
Cottage Park Road
Cottage Park House
Woodside
Seymour St
Buchanan
Washington and Elmwood
Washington Av
Thornton Park
Chester
Town Hall
Pauline Street
Kimball’s Factory
Post Office Schedule and Mail Arrivals Notice
Office hours daily from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. with Sunday and holiday variations. Money order window 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Registration 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Deliveries at 7:30 a.m. 1:45 p.m. and 4:20 p.m. Collections at 7:30, 11 a.m., 1:30, 4:20, and 6 p.m. daily. Evening box collections at 9:15 p.m. from listed streets and areas. Mails close and arrive times detailed for daily, Sunday, and holiday schedules. David Bexcuer, Supt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandays
Magee
Main Streets
David Bexcuer
Boston Elevated Railway timetable change notice
Subsection change without notice for Orient Heights to Sullivan Square via tunnel with morning 5.23 5.38 and 6 minute intervals until noon Sundays with additional times 6 23 6.39 and 15 10 and 6 minute intervals until midnight night service to North Ferry with several late arrivals. Special cars may be chartered for balls theatres or excursions. inquiry at 101 Milk Street Room 701. December 15 1906. Omitted Monday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Orient Helihits
Scoluay Square
North Ferry
Office of Supt. of Transportation
Milk Street
The Wily Arab of Tripoli Steals a Camel Bell
An excerpt recounts a camels theft in Tripoli described by C. W. Furlong from Tarper's. A nimble thief clips the bell from the rear camel and rigs it to the next, slipping away as the lead caravan threads a narrow street. The tale blends caution with lively detail of desert city life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Library of Congress
White- Smith
Music Publishing Company
Boston
Mass
Romeo
Chas. D. Blake
White-Smith Music Pub. Co
Tripoli
Allah
Allah Ursel el Allah
C. W. Furlong
Tarper
Guns of Burrisaul mystery in the Ganges delta
A mysterious booming known as the guns of Burrisaul echoes in Burrisaul station within the Sundarbans delta. The loud noise occurs during the rainy season from the south and remains unlocated in origin though hypotheses include monsoon surf affecting the Bay of Bengal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burrisaul
India
Sunderbands
Ganges
Bay of Bengal
Pronunciation shifts in English rhyme for girl and dialect notes
A London correspondent discusses how the word girl should rhyme with pearl in modern English. He notes changes from historic rhymes with dwell and gell to the now common gairl, observes authorial spellings like gurl in Thackeray, and suggests fewer writers spell peculiar pronunciations today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gell
Willkins
Gairl
Gal
Gurl
Thackeray
Wedding Faux Pas at Village Church
A village church wedding failed when a youth and a fake groom appeared at the chancel. The bridegroom admitted he was not the right man and revealed the real groom was hidden at the bottom of the church, too ashamed to come forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lodge
Church Family
A Matter of Business for Local Societies
A large number of local societies lodges and churches plan entertainments during the next few months for charity or other worthy ends. The Winthrop Sun and Visitor will print suitable reports if notified or if unusual tickets are received but requires fees for space used. rates are low but business needs apply to all groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasuries
Winthrop Sun
Albany Inn Promotes Rooms and Dining in City Heart
The Albany presents a fireproof 300 room hotel at 41st Street and Broadway with a European plan. It offers single rooms and suites with or without bath from $1.00 per day, and features the Gentlemen's Cafe, Ladies' Restaural, Moorish Room, and lively social spaces under The Albany Rathskeller. Music and college inn gathering noted to attract patrons.
Masks of philosophy and morality in Schopenhauer
The text notes how people wear masks for various aims including philosophy morality and humility. It contrasts men and women in mask usage and asserts many masks hide industry commerce or speculation. It also mentions merchant honesty and lists cliffs around Beachy Head Holyhead and Greens Orme and St Catherine's tele graph height notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schopenhauer
Beachy Head
Coa
Beach Head
Holyhead
Gre. Orme’s Head
St. Catherine A Tele
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Winthrop Fire
ALARA
Central Station
Beach Station
White-Smith
C. D. Blake
Stan
White-Smiith Music Publishing Co
United States
Herbert Putnam
Librarian of
Congress
Thorvald Solberg
White Smith Music Publishing Company
White-Smith Music Publishing Company
Eben H Bailey
Register of Copyrights
White-Smith Music Publishing Comp
Boston Mass
Eben H. Bailey
C. A. White
O. White-Smithsz Music Publishing Co
Becopany
Mae Mass
Chas. Blake
Dmith Music Publishing Co
Librarian of Congress
White- Smith Music Publishing Company
Menance
T. Moore
E. McLaughlin
Boston, White, Smith & Company
White-Smith Music Publishing Compass
Bath Depany
A. W. Holt
White-Smith Music Publishing Co
Galveston Bay
C. F. Holder
Florida
Gether
Wort Gaid
Tie
Cit
New York Sun
Whippoorwill
Fiat
Lowe
White-Smith Music Publishing C Company
D*blake
Wm. Gooch
White-Smith Music Publishing Colony
Musica
O. A. White
S. Strini
Sheridan
Sheridan Wade
Pitt
Themistocles
Athens
London
Dawson
Spenser
Porson
Paradise
Macaulay
John Fiske
Almos
Harvard
Caesar
Rubicon
Italy
Cisalpine Gaul
Alps
New York American
Charlotte Cushman
Bank of England
Pearson’s
Winthrop
Sunezast
What Is
Castoria
Centaur
Albany 41St Street
Broadway
New York
Robert P. Murphy
College Inn
Albany
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