Newspaper copies sold at multiple Winthrop area outlets
The Winthrop Sun and Visitor lists 5 cent paper outlets including Highland Drug Store opposite Highland Station Boston Revere Beach Lynn Depot Totman Ham opposite Beach Station Brown's Centre Store Jefferson and Winthrop streets Quality Shop opposite Centre Station Williams Drug Store opposite Centre Station Winthrop Pharmacy Magee's Corner Brown's Pharmacy Wadsworth Block Centre W. B. Thayer Ocean Spray Pharmacy Ocean Spray Winthrop News Co opposite Beach Station and the publication office at 466 Shirley Street.
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Highland Drug Store
Highland Station
Boston
Revere Beach & Lynn
Brown's Centre
Jefferson and
Winthrop Streets
Quality Shop
Centre Station
Williams Drug Store
Brown's Pharmacy
Wadsworth Block
Centre
W. B. Thayer
Ocean Spray
Winthrop News Co
Beach Station
Roberts Letter Sent to Winthrop Voters by Roberts
Voters in Winthrop received a circular embossed letter from Congressman Ernest W. Roberts dated June 3, 1912. The typewritten note invites public correspondence and offers congressional assistance, signed in facsimile as House of Representatives Washington.
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Winthrop
Ernest W. Roberts
House of Representative
House of Representatives
Washington
Boston R. B. L. A. R. Railways Boost Wages for 1000 Workers
The Boston Revere Beach Lynn Railway announces a wage raise for over 1000 employees. Conductors, brakemen and firemen gain $1 to $2 weekly, with engineers possibly earning more. The new scale, declared by President Melvin Adams, takes effect the week beginning Thursday. Prior averages were $22 for conductors, $14 baggage masters, $11.50 brakemen, and engineers and firemen on a sliding scale from $28 to $13.
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Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn—Railroad
Melvin, O. Adams
Sunday Base Ball Resumed at Fort Banks
Sunday baseball returned at Fort Banks after years of agitation. Access was restricted to holders of passes signed by Colonel Slaker with soldiers guarding all entrances. Fort Banks faced Fort Warren. the harbor soldiers defeated the locals 4 to 2.
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Fort Banks
Slaker
Boston Artillery District
Stimson
Fort Warren
Harbor
Wish Wynne Leads Boston Bill At B F Keiths Theatre
Next week at B F Keiths Theatre Boston presents Wish Wynne England’s prettiest entertainer plus six new novelties. Cook and Lorenz merry musical tramps and eccentric dancers show their stunts. The Six Brown Brothers, Raw son and Claire, Chapman and Berube, the Zeralds head balancers and others headline a top summer program.
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Wish Wynne
Boston
B.F. Keith's
England
United States
London
New York City
Cook
Lorenz
Eleverst
Brown Brothers
Rawson
Claire
Chapman and
Berube
Zeralds
Substitute for Rubber and Other Oddities From a Philadelphia Chronicle
A Philadelphia man claims to have discovered a substitute for rubber from waste, a prospect noted by the Washington Herald alongside remarks on rubber's limited supply. Copenhagen reports Professor Hannover’s electrical accumulator with five times the capacity using porous lead sheets. The piece also surveys school gardening, a Chicago boy’s curved wing aeroplane prize, a German toy town's $4 million annual toy trade, polar dogs’ valor and their fate, aviation arrests, kissing microbes, an office boy joke, a Kentucky electrocution quip, a tramp comet, and a Hungarian woman’s million-dollar dog estate, ending with a joke about the turkey trot.
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Philadelphia
Cathay
Columbus
Washington Herald
Copenhagen
Hannover
Polytechnic Academy
Quotations on Hope Family Duty and Legacy
A reflective collection contrasts courtesy and charm with character and duty. It muses on hope, invention, youth and aging style, plus the duties of a citizen and mother, the biases against daughters, and how society remembers great men after death.
Reflections of a Bachelor
A humorous抯 essay reflecting on gender and social behavior. It jokes about education, vacations, perspective on happiness, attire, vanity, religiosity, and the balance of strength and burden. The piece leans on satirical contrasts between men and women.
Novel patent for a baby can with head protrusion and seat
A Washington patent assigns a cylindrical sheet metal baby holder to an Evanston resident. The device features a top lid for the head, an adjustable seat, a side door for placement, air perforations, and a pivot to hold it horizontally for sleeping. It adapts to stand structures including railway car backs.
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Washington
Evanston
Ill
Snake that bites. The eye
An Indian long snouted whip snake known as Long Snouted Whip-Snake terrifies natives by striking at the eye. An English naturalist bitten in the eye confirms the bite affects only eyelids, the snake being non venomous, and the tail-like nozzle tip described as soft and harmless. The reptile targets faces and does not strike at objects.
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India
Mud fish of the Gambia River Surprises Africa
A curious African mud fish in the Gambia River grows to six feet. During the dry months through August and September it buries itself in mud to dormancy, storing fat to feed itself. When the season ends it returns to water and swims swiftly.
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Gambia
Butterfly in Self-Defense from Assam Insect
A blue four inch butterfly found in Assam imitates tree leaves to hide from predators such as birds snakes and lizards. Its extended wings resemble a leaf, aiding survival through camouflage.
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Assam
India
Household Hints From a Chicago Tribune Quote
A collection of old time tips jokes and quips about home life. The Chicago Tribune quotes advice on repairing roofs not shingled since 1891 replacing unreliable help and odd rules about householditems and lawn care.
Good Roads Proverb Reflections on Travel and Towns
A collection of wry sayings on road quality linking good roads to prosperity and social benefits. The remarks contrast smooth routes with poor surfaces, noting effects on health happiness education religion morality and even taxes and morale.
Ventriloquist Tricks Dog In Hamper Ruse
A famed ventriloquist boarded a moving train without a dog ticket for his terrier. He hid the dog in a hamper labeled Professor Jones ventriloquist. When the inspector opened the carriage door the dog barked, prompting the passenger to remark that the trick had been seen before.
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London
Passion Play in Vienna To Be Staged With Silent Jesus
The Passion Play will be seen in Vienna this year with thirty four chief roles filled by Burg Theater actors. Favored by the Imperial Board of Censors and church authorities it will be performed three times weekly as day performances. The author is believed to be F Hildebrand and Jesus will speak only the biblical words while Mary acts in pantomime.
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Vienna
Burg Theater
Imperial Board of Censors
F. Hildebrand
Jesus
Mary
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Winthrop Sun and Visitor
Tion
Winthrop Pharmacy, Magee’s Cor
Ner
Shirley Street
Roberts
Sir
B. F. Keiths’ Theatre
Chicago
Long Island
University of Wisconsin
Kentucky
Imother
Michigan
New York Press
Gambia River
Africa
Chicago Tribune
What Is
Castoria
Centaur
TY Murray Street
A. J. Young
Rel
Winthrop Office
Winthrop Beach Station
Floyd & Tucker
Notary Public Justice’of the Peach
Massachusetts Wharf Coal Company
School Street
City Hall
Winthrop St
Fort Hill
Frank P. Anthony
North Centre Street
Sargent St
T. Whitman
Channing Howard
Whitman & Howard
Civil Engineers & Surveyors
Devonshire St
Revere
Revere Street
Main St
Winthrop Hardware CO
Grant
Magee
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