Winthrop Fire Alarm Instructions and School Signals
Fire alarm locations listed for Winthrop neighborhoods and streets. School signals note no school for forenoon and a single session in morning, with warnings about alarm procedures and box testing times. Central and Beach station contact numbers given. Editorial quotes follow about marriage as a social remedy.
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Shirley St
Siren
Harbor View
Cottage St
Hillside
Crystal Cove
Farnbar
Tewksbury St
Shore Drive
Shirley—St
Sturgis
Ocean Ave
Pearl Ave
Mermaid Ave
Beach Road
Locust St
Grovers
Crest
Grovers and
Cliff
Floyd St
Temple and
Highland
Revere St
George Turner
Sagamore
Almont and Cross
Winthrop St
Bowdoin
Ocean View
Main and
Banks
Hermon
Lincoln
Read and
Lowell and Loring
Pleasant and
Court and Loring
Waldemar Ave
Wheelock
Sargent
Sargent St
Johnson Ave
Pleasant St
Cottage Park
Woodside
Seymour St
Washington Ave
Thornton Park
Chester Ave
Town Hall
Kimball's Factory
Quincy and
Cliff Aves
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ads and $100 Reward
A historic advertisement offers a $100 reward for an incurable catarrh case and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notice, from F J Cheney & Co and Wadding, Kinnan & Marvin of Toledo, Ohio, claims the cure is taken internally and claims testimonials and 75 cent bottles.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Oledo
All Drug
Ists
Foreclosure Sale of Winthrop Lot 28 in Block T
Under a 1906 mortgage, Florence P. Wingersky mortgaged property in Winthrop Suffolk County Massachusetts. Frank Ridlon, mortgagee, will sell at public auction on Tuesday July 11 1911 at eleven oclock A M the parcel described as Lot 28 Block T Plan of lands belonging to Winthrop Share Land Company Winthrop Mass containing 5000 square feet bounded Sagamore Avenue and adjacent lots subject to mortgage restrictions and unpaid taxes.
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Florence Perley Wingersky
nk-Rid- Ton
Suffolk
Frank Ridlon
Winthrop
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Land Company
Masas
Orence Perley Wingersky
Frank“ Ridle
Orce
Carter Pasta
County of Suffolk
W Pat Arse
County of
Winthrot
H .Tewksbury, Whitman & Breck
Cenkr
Bath
Assant
Irene M. Prance
Margaret, H. _ Crosby
Reston
Are Your Kidneys Weak Dean's Kidney Pills Ad
An early 20th century ad claims kidney weakness causes backache and general malaise. Mrs E C Tillman of Franklin Pike Lewisburg Tenn testifies that after a year of illness and weight loss she improved and was cured by Dean's Kidney Pills. The product is sold by druggists and stores for 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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E. C. Tillman
Franklin Pike
Lewisburg
Tenn
Dean
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Solving Negro Problem at Milwaukee Police Station
A sleepy foreigner in Milwaukee enters a crowded central police station seeking lodging for the night. Officers offer a shared bank space with a colored man already occupying it. The visitor declines, saying he cannot sleep in the dark beside a Black man and wants rest elsewhere.
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Chicago
Dusting Question Sparks Domestic Mystery
Mrs. Benton Holme recalls telling a chambermaid to dust this morning and later finds she has dusted, prompting the husband to wonder where the maid went in a domestic mystery.
Ade’s luncheon quip sparks fiery color joke in Chicago
George Ade complimented a famous actress at a Chicago luncheon. She wore a harem skirt in a new flame color. He asked for the name, she replied Flamme de Vesuve flame of Vesuvius. Ade replied with a playful crater remark.
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George Ade
Chicago
Humpty Dumpty Riddle Prompts Wall Standout Theory
A playful exchange asks why Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall and posits a joke about hoping to hold the situation together. The quotes suggest a light humorous tone without further context.
Curious Sleep Aid From Grape-Nuts Food
A minister describes how Grape-Nuts relieved indigestion and improved sleep after meals. He notes calmer nerves, better rest after Sabbath duties, and that the family now keeps Grape-Nuts on the table and views it essential. The letter mentions Postum Co. of Battle Creek and the booklet The Road to Wellville.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Michigan
Wellville
The Laziest Man Found at Last in Jersey County Poorhouse
John Muncia, an elderly inmate at the Jersey county poorhouse, has lay in bed for twelve years, resisting all work despite physicians declaring no infirmity. He eats voraciously, knows the calendar, and answers questions with laughter, revealing little of his past beyond a vague Indiana birthplace and Missouri and Illinois movements.
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John Muncia
Jerseyville, Ill
Jersey County
Jerseyville
Indiana
Fort Wayne
Poorhouse
John
St. Charles County
Missouri
Illinois
Elsah
Jersey
Farce dialogue on living space and remedies in comic squibs
The lines pit Willis and Gillis in a joke about raising chickens on a small lot and crowded relatives. A mock ad touts Garfield Tea as a remedy for constipation and headaches, followed by a skit about moving furniture into a new flat after it’s smashed.
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Willis
Gillis
Puck
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Teething Remedy Ad
A vintage advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children. It claims gum soothing relief for teething pain and wind colic with a 25 cent bottle price.
Knicker recalls spark debate over umpire recall use
Becker questions the recall proposal and asserts support for using it for umpires. The brief exchange centers on whether the recall mechanism should apply to officials, reflecting regional sports governance debates.
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Becker
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Winthrop Fire Alarm
Central Station
Tel
Beach Station
Chicago Record-Herald
Castoria
Ian
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Vienna
Libby
Libby, McNeill
Lloyds
Kryptok
Washington St
Boylston St
Summer St
Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge
Boston
Peres
Andrew J. Lloyd CO
A. J. Young
Shirley Street
Winthrop Office
Winthrop Beach
Winthrop Hardware CO
W. G. Grant
Magee's Cor
Portland Cement
Metropolitan Coal CO
Winthrop Sun and Visitor
C. E. Hall & Sons
Beachmont
Revere
Louis Racca
Custom Boot and Shoe Maker
R. R. Track
Central
Revere Sta
Magee
Dwinell-Wright Co's
CIA
Warner
Rochester
Manns
NN & Co
New York
M. MacDonald
Court Street
King OF
Iminard Inimeen
Fletcher
United States
Canada
McCall’s Magazine
Postal
McCall CO
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Orient Heights
Scollay Square
Gladstone Street
Milk Street
C. S. Sergeant
Point Shirley Cottage
Tafta Avenue
Floyd & Tucker
Wip
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