Boston Revere Beach Lynn Weekday Beach Line Schedule 1909
Timetable shows trains from Boston to Orient Heights Beachmont Crescent Beach Winthrop and Lynn with weekend variations. Service notes include departure times, via Battery and Ingalls, special Sundays, and caveats about baggage not carried on certain trains. The document lists stations, routes, and cautions on schedule accuracy and service limitations.
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Bynes Wie
MOM
Joan A
Penno
Winthrop Mail Hours and Substations Listed
The notice sets weekday post office hours from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. with holiday and Sunday schedules for stamps money orders and registry. It lists mail dispatch times from 8 a.m. to 9.30 p.m. and city sub stations at 45 Crest Ave 132 Shirley Street and 478 Shirley Street. Street letter boxes are collected daily and certain collection times are given. Carriers deliver at 7.30 a.m. 1.30 p.m. and 4.10 p.m. with a request to address mail with street number to avoid delays.
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International Money Order Office
Revere
Crest Avenue
Shirley Street
Washington Ave
Bates
Winthrop At
Pleasant St
Sunnyside
Bartlett Road
Pauline Pleasant St
Court Road
Lincoln Road
Lincoln Centre
R. R
Winthrop St
Ocean View
Magee’s Corner
Cherry Revere
Summit
Crest Ave
Grover Ave
Shirley St
Mermaid Ave
Shirley R
David Belcher
Boston Elevated Rail timetable Orient Heights to Scollay Square
Time table for Orient Heights to Scollay Square via tunnel with 5.23 a.m. start and regular intervals through the day, Sunday adjustments, plus night service. Includes Gladstone street to Scollay Square departures, specific morning and late-night leaves, and notes on omissions and special cars available by application to the Superintendent of Transportation at 101 Milk Street Room 701. Information on rates routes and connections offered by telephone.
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Orient Heights
Scollay Square
Orient ‘Heights
Gladstone Street
Court Street
Office of Superintendent of Transportation
Milk Street
Winthrop Fire Alarm Instructions and Locations
School signals box 22 with four rounds. No school forenoon at 7 45 a m. One session 11 15 a m. No school afternoon 12 45 p m. Directions for giving alarm when fire is discovered. Go to nearest box open door pull down hook. Two blows then one round. Three blows second alarm. 133 calls. boxes tested on 1st and 15th monthly at 9 a m. Central Beach stations contact numbers. Fire department officers listed.
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Shirley St
Siren Ave
Harbor View
Cottage St
Hillside
Crystal Cove
Farnbar
Tewksbury St
Shore Drive
Sturgis St
Ocean Ave
Pearl Ave
Mermaid Ave
Beach Road
Locust St
Grovers
Crest
Cliff
Floyd St
Temple
Highland
Revere St
George Turner
Sagamore
Almont
Cross
Revere
Winthrop St
Bowdoin
Ocean View
Main
Banks
Hermon
Lincoln
Marshall
Pleasant
Court
Court “and” Loring” Roads 51. Waldemar Ave. and Wheelock St. 62 Pleasant and
Sargent Sts
Sargent St
Johnson Ave
Pleasant St
Cottage Park
Cottage Park Road
Cottage Park Hotel
Woodside Ave
Seymour St
Pleasant and
Buchanan Sts
Washington and Elmwood
Washington Ave
Thornton Park
Chester Ave
Town Hall
Kimball’s
Central Station
Beach Station
F. W. F. Woollcott
H. W. Roberts, Jr
H. N. Bangs
Board of Fire Engineers
A. F. Coggins
Worse Than His Own
A London Tatler tale about a northern gentleman who offers a laborer, Mat, an old suit. Mat explains he kept the suit at home to mend, leaving him in ragged clothing while touring the estate with visitors. The exchange ends with the laborer preserving his best clothes for repairs.
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England
Mat
London
When Baseball Was an Infant Industry
Will Irwin in Collier's recalls early baseball’s rough origins. Players wore no masks or gloves, catchers stood near batters on base, and pitchers risked injury with unrefined throws. The sport’s rudimentary rules and frequent errors shaped a game defined by hit and miss natural force.
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Smith
Times
Dicky Pearce
Will Irwin
Collier's
Child Applies Subterfuge Over Stolen Flowers
In a London Tit-Bits item, a family scene unfolds as papa discovers damaged flower beds and a whisper of a small thief. Mabel deflects questions with playful misdirection about a monkey while admitting to taking the flowers, then excuses her apology with a change of subject.
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Papa
Mabel
London
Safeguard Your Property With Careful Title and Insurance
A Philadelphia Inquirer note urges careful handling of personal property including recorded title deeds, up to date insurance, and sole access to the strong box. It warns against leaving securities with a broker whether conservative or not, stressing the difficulty of acquiring assets and the need for strict protection.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Britain’s Greatest Precipice at St Kilda Quoted
A Newcastle Journal correspondent discusses the drowning of three bird catchers at St Kilda and describes Conagher as the British Isles’ deepest precipice, rising 1,220 feet from sea level. The piece notes wild fowls nesting there defy sportsmen and hunters.
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Britain
Newcastle Journal
St. Kilda
British Isles
Conagher
Child’s confession after breaking brick with father’s watch
Marion sobs confessing to her mother she broke a brick in the fireplace by pounding it with her father’s watch. The mother questions how it happened and offers a calm remedy, reflecting a moral lesson from Success Magazine.
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Marion
Success Magazine
Poetry Debate Sparks Turkish Den In Garret Era
A Washington Herald exchange centers on poetry and place as a young speaker argues poetry must be heartfelt, while a man of letters counters that real poetry is tied to a garret. The reply notes a Turkish den added to a shared home.
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Washington Herald
Quite Warm. A Humorous Exchange About a Bangs Household
A brief quip recalls a hot time in the Bangs household with a wife who boils over and serves a roast. The note ends with a light Irish proverb praising a fine day at eight.
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Bangs
Baltimore American
Water Cure for a Cold Often Cited in Old Texts
The article urges drinking cold or hot water in half hour intervals when a cold starts and stresses total fluid intake over temperature. It cites an old physician’s remedy of eating a salt herring before bed to induce water consumption and notes the need strong will to drink freely for relief.
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Philadelphia Press
Hanged for Violating Smoke Law Terse Fire History Notes
E H Blake spoke to surveyors on Warming and ventilation and recalled curious facts about house fires and smoke. He cited past laws and a 1306 capital offense for burning coal in London and referenced Tower records of executions over coal use.
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E. H. Blake
Surveyors’ Institution
Richard Bryrchett
Blake
London
Tower
London Graphic
Greatness Not Free From Shame in History
The piece notes that brilliant leaders such as Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and Napoleon achieved unmatched fame yet faced lasting misery. It argues that even the greatest conquerors faced humiliation or death at their peaks, reflecting on the limits of power and fortune.
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Alexander
Hannibal
Caesar
Napoleon
Value of a trained mind over material wealth
Orison Swett Marden questions whether money can compensate for a narrow mind. He asks if lands, stocks, and daily bread measure the worth of an intellect and the capacity to appreciate life’s meaning and civilized lessons, arguing that a broad, disciplined mind holds greater value.
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Orison Swett Marden
Success Magazine
Optimistic Wife Says She Could Do Better Next Time
A Houston Post quotation centers on a wife who remains optimistic in a conversation about remarriage. The exchange underscores her confidence in finding a better match should her husband leave, reflecting humor and social attitudes of the era.
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Houston Post
Triumphs of Travel
A Kansas City Journal anecdote comparing a traveler who toured Venice in a single day to typical visitors who spend a week there. The remark highlights exceptional speed and bragging rights as a humorous travel feat.
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Venice
Kansas City Journal
The Horse Kicker Conundrum Across Papers
A jumble of quips from The Washington Star and Boston Transcript hint at a misfired purchase and odd literary asides. Terms like kicker and feed mix with playful exchanges while references to poets and microbial perfumes color the fragment.
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Sirius Farker
Washington Star
Manx banknotes and odd banking lore from the Napoleonic era
The Liverpool Post recalls a curious period after the Napoleonic wars when private issuers flooded the market with small value promissory notes. Trade thrived, money moved freely, and many private individuals printed notes from five shillings to sixpence. A Peel Castletown judgment collection shows dozens of such cards, many worthless, ultimately tied to a dramatic sack ride that ruined most of the notes.
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Liverpool Post
Castletown
Peel
Rercuer
Glenfaba
Piisowskis
Louis
Clearing the Atmosphere in a London Supper Row
Dramatic critic J. Comyus Carr recalls a clash over a play "Charles I" staged at the Lyceum under Mr Bateman. At a Westminster club supper the manager boomed in dispute, then quipped that the plays are not made to please Carr, ending the moment with a sharp rejoinder.
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J. Comyus Carr
Charles
Lyceum Theater
Comyus Carr
Misplaced Servants Readily Replaced at Dinner
A farmer’s wife, troubled by servants, is told a servant fears blindness. She notices the girl claims better sight after seeing through the meat at dinner. The mistress asks, and Bella explains she can now see the plate through the meat, implying a practical joke or trick.
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Bella
London
Dore Proves Identity With Sketch During Swiss Trip
Gustave Doré lost his passport on a Swiss tour and, in Lucerne, asked the mayor for an audience. He sketched a potato sellers scene, signed it, and the mayor acknowledged the passport was valid but kept it and offered the ordinary form.
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Gustave Dore
Switzerland
Lucerne
M. Gustave
Dore
Thornley described as a brutish husband after scandal talk
A Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet recalls Jack Thornley as a 'perfect brute' since his marriage. The remark follows a night when his wife discussed the Verifast scandal and he appeared unusually quiet then slept through the conversation.
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Jack Thornley
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Nearing the Limit in a Cornish Mine Cage
An old woman descends in a mine cage and asks a miner if the rope is safe. The miner replies the rope lasts six months and will be renewed tomorrow, a grim joke about safety in the Birmingham Mail item.
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Birmingham Mall
The Real Trouble
A humorous exchange in a Chicago News item shows a diminutive applicant arguing she is not too small to be a nursemaid while a lady cites the children are too large. The dialogue highlights social quirks and class tastes in a city vignette.
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Chicago News
Press Agent Praises Beauty in Gushing Slogan
A Louisville Courier Journal snippet shows a press agent complimenting a woman's beauty with grand language and her witty reply about resisting such rhetoric. The exchange highlights lurid publicity talk and flirtation within a historical newspaper tone.
Return of the Prodigal in Quoting Street Verse
Excerpted lines recount a prodigal son returning home as kinfolk react with distress and blunt honesty. The Atlanta Constitution quotes a rural frontier scene while Beaconsfield stresses blunt candor as a guiding virtue.
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Yander
Atlanta Constitution
The Bible Quotation Bluff at Crowfoot Ranch
In a morning worship circle at a minister’s home Jim Bulstoke from Crowfoot ranch stumbles to recall scripture and finally offers God made the world while Curley makes a faltering bluff about shores and recreation in a humorous scene from frontier life.
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Queister Anther
Jim Bulstoke
Crowfoot Ranch
Jim
Curley
Shores
Last English King Fights at Dettingen Battle
The 1748 Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria saw British Hanoverian and Hessian forces under King George II face Marshal Noailles and French troops. The allied victory made it the last battlefield action by a reigning English monarch. The king led from the front in a red coat, narrowly escaped capture, and was aided by the 22nd Regiment noted for wearing oak sprigs in memory of the defense.
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Dettingen
Bavaria
George II
Marshal Noailles
Oudenarde
London
Regression to the mean in offspring of exceptional parents
The article notes a tendency for children of extraordinary parents to regress toward the average, a phenomenon termed filial regression. It cites Galton and a London hospital, applying it to physical and mental traits, and mentions Peargon’s view that distinguished parents are ten times more likely to produce distinguished offspring. It also references Darwin, the Pitts, and Alexander the Great as exceptions, and notes criminal offspring tend to be less vicious than a father but still below the average.
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Galton
London Hospital
Peargon
Ely
Darwins
Father
Soins
Pitts
Philip
Alexander the Great
Bishop Wins Respect Through Wardrobe Change
In Stepney, Dr. Winnington Ingram faced unpopularity and even police protection requests. A telling remark from a local woman, about his white shirt, led to a wardrobe switch to gray and a more open rapport with parishioners, marking a shift toward closer community ties in London.
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Stepney
Winnington Ingram
London
London Graphic
Codex Sinaiticus Ancient New Testament Manuscript
The Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest complete New Testament manuscript, was published at the expense of Alexander II of Russia after the Crimean War. Found in the Convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai by Mischendorf, it is generally dated to the fourth century.
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Alexander II
Russia
St. Catherine
Mount Sinai
Mischendorf
New York
Ican
Ham With Jelly Toast Recipe Adaptation
A Boston Post recipe instructions melt butter in a pan add jelly or acid jelly, season with pepper, then sauté thin ham slices. Boil once and serve promptly on toast. A simple, savory quick dish from the era.
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Boston Post
Simple Remedy for Thirst Advice from Doctor Now
The text mimics a London Punch style quip advising a remedy for recurring thirst. It suggests eating an apple whenever craving whisky and soda, though the speaker notes a patient might object to eating dozens of apples.
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London
The Eternal Motorist Satirical Snippet
A brief humorous exchange mocks social pretensions in a Smart Set style aside. Mrs Gossip jokes about her husband’s ailment locomotor ataxia while ee Parvenu dismisses cheap cars and brags of an imported vehicle.
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Ee Parvenu
Household Hint and Aphorisms Quiz Table Etiquette
Brief collection of maxims and a whimsical judge quote about table etiquette. Includes a caution about leaving a baby with jam at the table and two aphorisms from Judge and Aesop about leadership and truth.
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Winthrop Highlands Week
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Peiselealae
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Boston Elevated Railway Company
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Munn & Co
Scientific American
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Washington, D. C
Winthrop Fire Alarm
McCall
United.States
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Imall Direct
McCall's Magazine
McCall CO
George, Monro Grant
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Queen’s College
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Boston Transcript
Louisville Courier-Journal
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