Winthrop Fire Alarm Boxes and Public Safety Notices
Public safety notices list locations of fire alarm boxes across Winthrop including Box Nos 22 41 49 61 65 68 and street intersections such as Shirley Ave Ocean Ave Main and Emerson Sts Revere Street and Crest Ave plus alerts for box testing dates and alarm procedures. Also includes Library of Congress copyright notices and music publishing references unrelated to local safety.
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Revere Street
Sagamore Av Cross
Almont Streets
Revere
Winthrop St
Bowdoin
Ocean View
Main
Emerson Sts
Hermon
Lincoln Streets
Marshall Sts
Barber’s Hair Cut Exchange Reflections At Shop
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote shows a barber lamenting not getting his own hair cut at his shop. He notes barbers leave promptly, causing customers to wait if a barber is shaving another, and discusses trust and timing in a busy workplace.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Winthrop Mail Hours and collection boxes list
Post office hours set from 7 a.m. daily with multiple windows opening times and specific Sunday and holiday hours. Evening collection box route includes Magee’s corner to Pleasant and Lincoln streets with 9.15 p.m. stop. Mails close times, registered mail deadlines, and daily arrival windows detailed. Superintendent David Betcuer.
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Buandays
Magee
Pleasant
Main Streets
David Betcuer
Boston Elevated Railway announces service changes
Subject to change without notice Orient Heights to Scollay Square via tunnel 5.23 5.38 a m and intervals of 6 7 8 minutes up to noon Sunday 6 23 6 39 and intervals of 15 10 and 6 minutes up to 12 night Night service to North Ferry 12.22 12.35 1.21 2.21 3.21 4.23 am Special cars may be chartered for balls theatre receptions or excursions to any point in the system aplication to Supt of Transportation 101 Milk Room 701 Information on rates routes connections by telephone Dec 15 1906 C 8 Severayt Vice-President Omitted Monday morning.
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Orient Heights
Scolbay Square
North Ferry
Office of Supt. of Transportation
Life, truth, tears and smiles inspire manhood
A reflective passage celebrates embracing truth and beauty in tears and smiles as a lasting blessing that comforts beyond illness sorrow and death, urging self knowledge and love of what belongs to mankind.
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John Sterling
Catamount Attack Story Told In Dialect Frontier Tale
Uncle Rufus recalls a night in the woods when a wild catamount leaped onto his back and clawed. He says fear faded as thoughts of his wife and home steadied him and kept him moving toward safety despite the danger.
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Mr. White
Rufus
Puck
The Monte Carlo Visit and a Silent Wager
An American recounts an incident in Monte Carlo where a man in lavender gloves gambled with striking luck in a gold room. A croupier pushes a plaque stack as a young lady questions the gloves. The respondent says he wears them not for luck but because of a deathbed vow to his wife against touching a card.
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Monte Carlo
Monsieur
Traveling Sand Hills on the Pomeranian Coast
Large sand hills rise hundreds of yards wide and 60 to 120 feet high on the Pomeranian coast. Driven by the wind, they move eastward at 39 to 56 feet per year. Pine woods in their path cannot stop them as branches rot and trees die, leaving bare trunks that decay over years.
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Pomerania
Crowd versus solitude and playful mischief in old verse and sketches
A fragmentary clippings blend quotes on solitude versus crowds from Bacon and a Cleveland Plain Dealer joke scene. It juxtaposes reflections on friendship with a shopper and a playful family railroad game, ending with a magistrate and a familiar court exchange.
Umbrella Lost Provokes Mockery of National Figure
A light domestic episode shows Congressman and Mrs Blank returning from Baltimore. Mrs Blank discovers her umbrella missing after alighting at Washington. The husband offers the train as the culprit, while she objects noting national duties rest on men who should guard personal belongings.
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Coasman
The Mystery of Death
An anonymous meditation on death echoes the inevitability of mortality. The passage portrays death as omnipresent and unavoidable, describing it as a hammer, sword, net, prison, sea, and penalty that all must face, invoking the question of why death entered the world.
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Luis de Granada
Old Scots Tale of Frugal Farmhouse Puts Trust to Test
A Glasgow Times diminutive tale tells a stingy couple who allow a servant one match each morning. When the match fails, the servant seeks another. A whispered plan between the couple follows with the wife asking if the servant should risk her with John. John replies they must risk her and seek sight of the one she had last night.
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John
Janet
Glasgow Times
One Ring and Another in Pugilism and Marriage
A dialogue noting boxing and wedding rings as connections. A follower of pugilism asks when rings first linked to fighting and Henpeck replies that the link might date to the Christian religion, confusing boxing rings with wedding rings in a humorous exchange from the Philadelphia Press.
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Henpeck
Philadelphia Press
Fractured humor in a hospital intermission scene
A playful exchange from a hospital intermission depicts illness as a two party struggle with a doctor as a mediator who may strike at either the disease or patient. The scene includes a mother asking a crying child if he is done and the child replying he is only resting, not finished.
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Tommy
Forcing Business in London Tit Bits Excerpt
Bystander declines cough lozenges while Coster verbally pressures him to buy. Coster insists and taunts the bystander with a fight over merchandise for black eyes. The scene in London highlights shopkeeper aggression and street bargaining.
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Coster
London
A Matter of Business in Local Societies
A large number of local societies lodges and churches plan entertainments for charitable aims over upcoming months. The Winthrop Sun and Visitor will print suitable reports if notified or if tickets are received, but preliminaries with an admission fee will be charged according to space used.
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Winthrop Sun
College Inn Ad Promises Economy Rooms and Rathskellar Fun
In the city banner ad the College Inn promotes 500 rooms and 800 baths under a European plan with a Moorish room and ladies restaurant. Prices start at $1 per day for single rooms or suites, with or without bath, promising life, music, and a homey feel at Albany’s Rathskellar under The Albany.
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College Inn
Albany
New York
The Force of Habit
A humorous anecdote about snoring and a hotel roommate who used a shoulder tap system to curb the habit. The tale ends with the sleeper waking to a tapping routine that continued through the night and into morning, illustrating the stubborn nature of habit.
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Winthrop
Point Shirley
Shirley Ave
Harbor View Avenue
Crystal Cove
Faon Bar
Shirley Street
Hose House
Tewksbury St
Crest Ave
Shirley St
Sturgis St
Ocean Ave
Pearl Ave
Mermaid Av
Grover’s
Crest Avenues
Cliff
Temple and
Highland
Geo. Turner’s
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
Central Station
Tel
Beach Station
Library of Congress
White -Smith Music Publishing Company
Boston
Mass
E. H. ‘Bailey
White
Smite
United States
Herbert Putnam
Librarian of
Congress
Thorvald Solberg
Register of Copyrights
White-Smith Music Publishing Company
Eben H Bailey
Bummer
Chas. Blake
Erith Shuse Publishing Co
Librarian of Congress
White- Smith Music Publishing Company
Chas D. Blake
White-Smith Music Pub, Co
T. Moore
E. McLaughlin
White, Smith & Company
White-Smith Music Publishing Colony
Boston Mass
Eben
Bailey
A. White
C. White-Smith 7 Music Publishing Co
T. P. Ryder
Chas. D. Blake
C. White
D. Blake
Wm Gooch
A. _ White
Whippoorwill
White-Smith Music Pub. Co
Jis
Corgica
Maby
C. A. White
S. Strini
White-Smith Music Publishing Com
Ags
A. W. Holt
White-Smith Music Publishing Co
Arthur P. Schmidt
H. M. Dunham
Arthur_P. Schmidt
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Severayt
Gambler
Bacon
Bobby
Papa
What Is
Castoria
Cenune Castoria 4Wa
THE
Centaur Company
Murray Street
New York City
41St Street
Broadway
Robert P. Murphy
New York Globe
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