Boston Elevated Railway Time Table
Timetable for Orient Heights to Scollay Square via tunnel and Orient Heights Gladstone Street to Scollay Square via tunnel. Details include morning and Sunday departures, intervals ranging from 3 to 8 minutes, night service times, and special charter options. Office contact 101 Milk Street Room 701 for rates routes and connections.
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Orient Heights
Scollay Square
Gladstone Street
Ie Story
Court Street
Milk Street
Room to Let Advert in The Sun and Visitor
A brief notice seeks a room to rent and invites readers to place advertisements in The Sun and The Visitor. It references housing needs and the local paper as a channel for listings.
Facts Worth Knowing From History And Science
A compilation notes that eggs contain 14 percent albumen. New York adopted capital punishment by electricity in 1889. Greenwich Mean Time was adopted in France and Algeria since March last year. Sovereigns were first coined in Henry I's reign, valued at 22 shillings. In Fontainebleau forest nearly 8 000 vipers were killed in one year. Belgium is the most densely populated nation with 636 inhabitants per square mile. Oxygen makes up one third of the solid earth nine tenths of water and one fifth of the atmosphere. Newfoundland census shows 242 000 people an increase of ten percent in ten years.
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Belgium
Newfoundland
Period for a bore Read by Maine lumber camp traveler
A New York traveling salesman is humiliated in a Maine forest village when a lumberman hands him a card bearing a large black circle and offers a period to end his talk. The gag ends with the man departing, leaving the New Yorker dazed as the crowd chuckles.
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New York
Maine Forest
George
Wash
Country
East River
Pennsylvania Station
Singer
New Yorker
Through the Clouds All Weariness Forgotten on Aerial Sail
Elizabeth Roy recounts a trip aboard a flying machine described in Leslie's Weekly. Passengers let go the ropes and rise sixty miles an hour above the Rhine forest and Black Forest toward Karlsruhe and Strasbourg. The scene shows astonished crowds, dejected fear forgotten, and postal cards mailed from the ship to friends below.
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Rhine
Black Forest
Freiburg
Heidelburg
Karlsruhe
Strassburg
Elizabeth Roy
Leslie’s Weekly
Bach Place in Music
Bach defined modern organ technique and developed the piano playing system using all fingers, shaping contemporary keyboard practice. The composer’s approach highlights hand technique and finger independence that influenced instrument playing across eras.
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Bach
Boston Revere Beach Lynn Railroad Schedule Note
Train times from Boston to Revere Beach and Lynn shown with frequent departures. Regular service runs every ten to fifteen minutes through the day and into late evening with Sunday intervals and midnight last runs. Officially signed by John A. Pennow, Superintendent.
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Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad
Boston
Payg
Afam
Iohn. A.penno
Tramp Trapped by Night in Tree After Fake Dog Planted
A tramp stealing cherries hid in a tree when the owner tricked him with a large stuffed dog placed at the base. The dog did not move as dawn came, and the tramp admitted he climbed the tree to escape the faux canine. The owner revealed the ruse.
Stop Finger-Print Taking Sparks New NYC Policy
After an mistaken arrest of a young woman accused of pocketbook theft in a department store bus, the New York police were ordered not to fingerprint prisoners until conviction. The mayor's office is believed to have issued the directive though not printed. Detectives call it a handicap despite unfortunate missteps.
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New York
Rogues’ Gallery
New Order
Astrology as history and folly across civilizations
The text traces astrology from ancient Chaldeans to Greeks and Romans and notes its vogue in sixteenth century Italy and France. It explains its decline with scientific progress and cites Shakespeare calling astrology the excellent foppery of the world, while acknowledging it as a widely believed but dubious “fact.”
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Italy
France
Means and social chasms bridged by skillful players
Quotations describe Mrs. Gaddy and her daughter as notorious climbers who gain access to good houses through their playing ability. The text notes that bridge and whist help span social gaps and connect people across classes.
New Woman In China Advances In Voting Rights
The Christian Herald notes China’s dramatic shift toward gender equality in political rights with a new republic allowing women an equal ballot share. Restrictions apply equally to men and women, requiring property and literacy, while women push to gain education and broader rights.
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China
Christian Herald
Had His Reasons. Parishioner cites objections, wife found in church
A rural clergyman confronts a parishioner who explains his absence from services with three strong objections. He dislikes speaking and singing, and most importantly he says the church is where he found his wife. The exchange is recounted with a humorous twist. The item also includes brief jokes about medical mishaps and a quip about the discovery of iron.
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William
Philadelphia Bulletin
London Paper
Pointed Paragraphs of Wit and Everyday Observations
A mosaic of pithy lines on manners and humanity mentions a misused cigarette habit, beauty and marriage clichés, work strikes, and the humor of everyday misjudgments. It cites a Milwaukee chicken loss, a photo coupon offer, and an English education report on female teachers.
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Hoston
Winthrop Fire Alarm Box Locations and Procedures
A list of fire alarm boxes by location across Winthrop followed by school signals and alarm directions. It includes box numbers and cross streets such as Triton Ave, Shirley St, Harbor View, and Cottage Park, plus test dates on the 1st and 15th at 9 am and rules for giving alarms and number of blows for responses. It notes Central and Beach stations with telephone numbers and the instruction to wait for firemen when possible.
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Triton Ave
Triton
Shirley St
Tafts
Harbor View
Terrace
Cottage St
Hillside
Crystal Cove
Faunbar
Beacon St
Tewksbury St
Shore Drive
Sturgis
Shirley
Cutler
Dolphin Ave
Seafoam
Mermaid Ave
Beach Road
Locust St
Grovers
Crest
Grovers and
Cliff
Floyd’St
Read and Jerald
Main and
Marshall
Pleasant and
Lincoln
Court and Loring
Lowell and Loring
Waldemar Ave
Wheelock St
Pleasant
Sargent
Sargent St
Johnson Ave
Pleasant St
Cottage Park Road
Cottage Park
Orlando Ave
Woodside Ave
Seymour St
Winthrop Centre R. R
Buchanan and Pleasant Sts
Washington Ave
Thornton Park
Washington and Elmwood
River Road
Bates Ave
Winthrop St
Chester Ave
Bowdoin and
Buchanan Sts
Kimball’s Factory
Winthrop ‘St
Quincy and
Cliff Aves
Commonwealth of
Town Hall
Said
Winthrop
County of
Suffolk
Winthrop Tow
Annie Trainor
Shirley Street
Harold C. Bartlett
Jl At
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Boston Elevated Railway. Company
A. m
Algeria
Henry 1
Fontainebleau
Potter’s Garage and Stable CO
Shirley Park
Kenney & Waterbury Company
Evedkic
Franklin St
The
Sun
Tramp
Jimmie
Pathfinder
Chicago News
Milwaukee
John “Huckbody
Wausau
Tel
Beach Station
Margaret A. Flaherty
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Edgar F. Power
Martell
Brown
Herbert FE
Saugus
County of Essex
Winthrop Jr
Sid Edgar’ F. Power
William P Rich
Newton
Middlesex
Commonwealth
Chase and Sanborn's Employees Mutual Savings Association
Middlesex South District
Teres
Towel
Mass
George T. Sleeper
Atty
Leslie A. Spinney
Nellie Blanchard Spinney
Winthrop Sun
Robert Grant
Arthur W. Dolan
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