Five-Cent Paper Topics on Sale at Local Stores
The paper items are marketed at multiple Boston area outlets including Highland Drug Store opposite Highland station Boston. Revere Beach Lynn Depot. Totman Ham near Highland. Robinson's Centre Store Jefferson and Winthrop. Quality Shop opposite Centre station. Williams' Drug Store Centre. W A Howe Druggist Magee's Sorner Brown's Pharmacy Wadsworth Block Centre Lang's Drug Store Ocean Spray Winthrop News Co opposite Beach station and at 216 Winthrop Street office of publication.
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Robinson’s Centre
Jefferson and
Winthrop Streets
Williams’ Drug Store
Brown's
Wadsworth Block
Centre
Lang’s
Ocean Spray
Winthrop’ News Co
Beachestation
Winthrop Street
Boston Elevated Railway Time Table 1918
Oriented schedules for Orient Heights and Gladstone Street routes to Bowdoin Square and Devonshire Station, with frequent intervals, Sunday variations, and night service. Special cars may be chartered. Transportation Manager Edward Dana notes rates and connections from 101 Milk Street. June 1, 1918.
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Orient Heights
Bowdoin Square
Devonshire
Gladstone Street
Milk Street
Edward Dana
Abu Bakar Caliphally Advocates Mercy in War
The piece cites Gibson's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire via Savannah News, portraying Abu Bakr as temperate and principled. It notes his guidance to Mahometan generals to avoid injustice, protect civilians, respect covenants, and refrain from desecrating fields or cattle. It contrasts this with German Kultur, which it says promotes might and blood and abrogation of sacred covenants.
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Gibson
Abu- Bekr
Savannnah
Syria
Kultur
Nan Robins Seeks New Start In City After Musical Loss
In a penniless city, Nan Robins tries to rebuild her life after ending musical studies. She borrows a neighbour's sewing machine, repurposes a violet waist into a new garment, and meets Tom Burns, who offers her piano work with an agency.
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Nan
Mammie Chloe
Chile
Nan Robins
Mrs. Burns
Miss Robins
Mrs Burns
Iregoy
Betty
Tailors Plan End of Trousers Cuffs Amid Fashion Shift
Reported plan to stop making cuffs on trousers reflects a trend spurred by fashionable young men rolling up pants in rain in London. The note suggests cuffs are ornamental and questions their value to women challenging ornamentation by the lovelier sex.
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London
Warns Against Slaughter of Heifers and Cows to Prevent Meat Famine
A government warning urges saving cows and killing bulls to avert a century of meat shortages. The message argues global surplus pressures and calls for drastic action. It also notes a denial by M Stephane Lauzanne regarding French aviators at a funeral inside German lines and references changes in trade names to nickel silver.
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Stephane Lauzanne
Guynemer
Americans Urged to Fight with Earnestness in War
A wartime remark urges the United States to match the intensity of German, French, and British commitment to victory. The speaker notes many Americans have not yet adopted full effort, warning that the war could be lost otherwise.
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United States
American bravery lists rise as home front backs soldiers
The article notes growing lists of Americans cited for bravery overseas and stresses pride in servicemen and in the home effort. It describes soldiers and engineers as versatile, wielding a shovel or machine gun with equal fluency in battle front reports.
Dove of peace fades in a chaotic message
The fragment suggests a misprint or garbled text about a dove of peace and a messenger pigeon, hinting at disrupted correspondence or editorial confusion in the excerpt. The readable bits imply a struggle between symbolic peace and delivery of a message, with unclear identities or events.
Naming of America A Case of Publicity and Error
The piece recounts how Amerigo Vespucci was credited with discovering the mainland and how the name America spread after a 1507 decision by the University of St Die. It notes Columbus and John Cabot preceding Vespucci, yet the world adopted the name in Cosmographiae Introductio, and that St Die’s house remained a tourist site at the outbreak of war.
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New World
America
Amerigo Vespucci
Florentine
Seville
Spain
The
Medicis
Columbus
Vespucci
University of St. Die
Lorraine
Sud
Martin Waldseemuller
John Cabot
Hades
St. Die
North
South America
Hawaiian national dish poi goes modern in Hawaii
Hawaii develops modern sanitary poi production with five Hilo factories turning out several tons daily. The taro bulb paste now ships to the United States reaching markets as far as New York City. Poi aids hospital diets and may gain wider appeal amid war demand for substitute foods.
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Hawaii
Hilo
United States
New York City
No Lazy Man's Place in Hawaii Say Rotarian Rediscovers Work
S S Paxson of Honolulu, former Philadelphia Rotary leader and head of a large car company, rejects the lazy paradise image of Hawaii. He notes little difference in nocturnal life and travel pace compared to mainland and urges against romanticizing a laid back approach.
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Hawaii
S. S. Paxson
Honolulu
Philadelphia
Rotary Club
United States
Pneumatic Safe Aims to Save Sea Vessels
New York steamship underwriters and officials authorize tests of a pneumatic safe claimed to float, resist fire and theft, and protect thousands in a sinking. The designer plans to lock himself inside as it is lowered overboard to prove it works, with potential adoption on American oceangoing vessels.
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New York Steamship
Britain’s Baby Army in Italy born from weary veterans
British troops in Italy were nicknamed The Baby Army by surprised Italians who mistook seasoned veterans from the Ypres salient for fresh arrivals. The label arose from the contrast between their war-worn appearance and the young image expected from new troops.
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Britain
Italy
England
Marksmanship Depends on Muscular Steadiness
Arthur I Gates of Teachers College New York reports in the Journal of Applied Psychology that tests show the most accurate marksmen have near perfect muscular control. Minor distractions anxiety and autosuggestion do not disturb their aim.
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Arthur I Gates
Teachers
College
New York
Journal of Applied Psychology
Also Mentioned on This Page
Winthrop Sun and Visitor
Herbert E. Emerson
Massachusetts Press Association
Republican Editorial Association of Mass
Boston
Revere Beach
Lynn Depot
Totman & Ham
Beach Sta
Highland
W. A. Howe
Magee’s
Sorner
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Western Newspaper Union
San Francisco
Aeq
Indianapolis News
Europe
Herbert C. Hoover
United States Grain Corporation
Dove of Peace
Psschger
East Boston Savings Bank
Ainsley R. Hooper
Meridian Street
J. B. Tewksbury
Prop
Fremont’st
Winthrop
McKenney
Waterbury
Mass USA
Burn C. Brown
Rexall Drug Store
Winthrop St
Wadsworth
Herbert.e.emerson
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