Boston Elevated Railway time table 1915
Schedule lists Orient Heights to Scollay Square and Orient Heights to Scollay Square Tunnel trains with frequent intervals and nightly service. Notes include Sunday hours, special late trains from Gladstone Street, and service between Sullivan Square and Dudley Street via Tunnel and Atlantic Avenue. Contact Superintendent at 101 Milk Street for rates and chartering specials. M. C. Brush announces April 17, 1915.
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Orient Heights
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Gladstone Street
Sullivan Square
Dudley Street
Atlantic Avenue
Forest Hills
Milk Street
M. C. Brush
Classified Help Wanted and Rentals Inquiries
Readable notices indicate help wanted ads, apartment rentals, rooms for let, and house or land for sale. The page compiles short classified items seeking workers, housing, and property listings with varying details.
Wit and Wisdom from Luke M'Luke Sayings on Life and Manners
A collection of humorous quips on pride, marriage, wealth, and social foibles. Observations include a man bragging about his dog, the old dinner pail, inner and outer needs, vanity, and the absurdity of waiting for wealth. The piece remains light and pointed about human folly and social manners.
Facts Told With A Smile In A News Clipper
A collection of quirky newspaper notes from New York and Sandusky. It cites finger bowl water depth at five-eighths inch, dining room bell failures at 96.7 percent, a Sandusky woman lawyer once not called Portia, an actor denying his company is “like a big family,” and hustlers stopping 131,419 men on the street last week without purchases. It adds clubreader magazine holders shield text near the binding and chorus personnel on programs remains a debated point.
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New York
Good Meals Not Frequent Dinner Party Anecdote
Henry Sydnor Harrison recalls a hotel lobby dinner story where a guest named Brown defends his abstinence from vices. He admits smoking a cigar after meals but claims he does not smoke more than once a month on average.
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Brown
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Parson Advises Kid On Project With Quick Wit
A chronic bore stops a minister on the sidewalk and asks about his daughter’s project. The minister, in a rush, replies to consult a chiropodist, delivering a dry, humorous punch line.
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Tip
Parson
Noted Quip Sparks Debate on College vs Indians
A satirical exchange features a thinker claiming college students resemble Indians in song and yell, prompting a puzzled response from the dense party and a witty retort by the C5t.
Elopers Blocked by Tree Sleep in New Guinea
A playful notice suggests elopement is hindered in New Guinea as eligible girls sleep in trees to avoid elopement. Ladders are removed after they retire, and Patrice notes airplanes have not yet reached the country.
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New Guinea
Patrice
Fixing the Limit in a Family Question Exchange
A father questions whether the suitor can support a family as the young man clarifies his plan to provide for his future wife. The dialogue emphasizes cautious financial expectations in a potential marriage.
Billy Sunday Sermon on Reform and Gospel Truth
Billy Sunday urges conversion through Jesus Christ and the Gospel. He decries mixed temptations of whisky and religion, notes church members fail to welcome strangers, and argues personal purity leads to societal purity.
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God
New Arrivals Clash Over Plankville Rail Dump
A new arrival condemns Plankville as a dump while a depot lounger concedes the town bears a railroad dumping issue. The exchange highlights local tensions around industrial pollution and community limits.
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Plankville
Louisville Courier-Journal
The Fishing Craze Cartoon Exchange
A humorous cartoon exchange notes a garden’s poor promise as worms in the soil evoke memories of fishing tackle. The dialogue playfully contrasts garden digging with the lure of fishing, reflecting lighthearted rural wit.
Worth Thinking Over Happiness and civic duty
A reflection on prudent public discourse urging steady, thoughtful expression and development of faculties. The author argues happiness is not final and stresses brightening others lives and respecting others’ affairs to avoid cluttering the press with needless notices.
How to Add to It in Cutting Costs
A lawyer questions a client seeking guidance on reducing household expenses. The woman explains her husband instructs frugality and asks for practical strategies to trim spending without sacrificing essential needs. The exchange aims at prudent financial adjustments.
Belts and a Napoleonic Brazen Line
A witty exchange notes Napoleon’s Waterloo belt measuring 42 inches and Wellington’s gift belt as a sharper jab on girth and prowess. The quip underscores comic contrast between personal display and strategic esteem from the era.
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Wellington
Sufficient Reason and Hawker’s Gentleman Question
A fragment discusses Hawker being called a gentleman and Nowitt challenging the claim. It notes Hawker’s insistence that he is a gentleman and Nowitt’s persistent denial of that assertion.
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Hilon
Hawker
Idea of Domestic Economy
An elderly African man brings his ailing wife to a dental parlor and negotiates the cost of sedation. The dentist offers gas for about fifty cents, while the man asks for a cheaper dime option, commenting on the expense.
Impressed by It in London Tit-Bits Quip Duel
An exchange between a lawyer for the defendant and a plaintiff turns on a sarcasm filled claim about being struck by something resembling a motor car The plaintiff counters that the object resembled a motor car and that it forcibly struck him The remark highlights courtroom wit and a bizarre incident described in the periodical.
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London
Puzzler Quips About Greats and Weekly Wages
A humorous exchange notes that Alexander the Great Peter the Great Adolphus the Great and Bismarck drank more than the speaker. The wife jokes about buyers for Goldbury and Vladimer paying $30 a week in a Town Topics item.
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Alexander the Great
Peter the Great
Adolphus the Great
the Great Bismarck
Goldbury
Vladimer
Nothing Overlooked Landsman on Shipboard Training
Onboard the training ship a dialogue confirms thorough schooling and taut rigging as a sailor attests to the readiness and discipline aboard the vessel.
As Good as His Word
A dentist explains his pricing after a sign promises painless extractions. He charges one dollar when a patient feels pain, insisting his painless method is free only in theory and that he applies fees once pain occurs.
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Bostom Evening Transcript
Waiter Requests Advance Payment For Lamb Chop
A traveler in a rush asks for a lamb chop before it is cooked. The waiter says payment in advance is needed as the traveler might leave before it is ready. The exchange ends with the implication of service timing and fare.
Reading Shakespeare in a Bustling Era
A Louisville Courier Journal item notes a brisk literary scene with readers unsure if they have kept up with Shakespeare as new works flood the market. The exchange highlights a fondness for reading and the pressure of constant new releases.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Footpad Encounter Shocks Local Poultry Reporter
An alleged comic narrator recalls facing a footpad last night who made him look foolish. The poultry reporter asks for details as the speaker asks the culprit to surrender.
A Profitable Suit
A Boston Evening Tran script quotes a mock courthouse exchange about a successful lawsuit. The speaker boasts of winning damages and nearly enough to pay the lawyer, underscoring the thin margin of profit in legal victories.
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Boston Evening Transcript
Theory Proved and a World of Past Existence Talk
A dialogue explores belief in past lives citing a woman who claims to be born 26 years ago and has at least four years of prior existence. The exchange probes memory, identity, and metaphysical possibility.
Reading News Daily Keeps Hobbs Up to Date
In a brisk exchange Dobbs notes he reads six bulletins daily to stay informed, while Hobbs agrees words must keep pace with the times. The dialogue underscores the habit of consuming multiple news items to follow current events.
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Hobbs
Dobbs
Last Resort in Edge City Editorial
A clipped quotation signals a public dispute pushing readers toward decisive action. The piece frames frustration with stalled solutions and hints at a drastic step or policy shift to resolve ongoing contention.
Dreadful Suspicion in Rivulets of Courtship
In a clipped dialogue the man urges steadfast engagement while the woman warns of potential manipulation by her father. The exchange hints at social pressure and family influence on marriage plans.
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