Boston Elevated Railways Time Table Highlights 1914
Public transit timetable for Orient Heights Sullivan Square and Scollay Square routes. Includes specific departure times, intervals, and late night service. Notes Sunday schedules, night trains from Gladstone Street, and special car charters. Office details and contact at 101 Milk Street. M C Brush announces. January 24 1914.
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Shhenge
Orient
Scollay Square
Orient Heights
Gladstone St
Gladstone Street
Court Street
Sullivan Square
Dudley Street
Atlantic Avenue
Forest Hills
Milk Street
M. C. Brush
Real estate and help ads in Sun and Visitor
Classified listings show help wanted, apartments to let, real estate for sale, and business for sale options in the Sun and Visitor papers. Listings advertise rentals, sales, and commercial opportunities from local advertisers and brokers.
Worth Knowing Curiosities From Around the World
A roundup of quick facts shows Prague street railways cover 49 miles. Tunis exported phosphate valued at 9,216,703 dollars in 1912. Korea’s population is estimated at 14,055,869. Salvador’s national debt exceeds 11,000,000 dollars. The hunting test lasts six hours in salt water and six hours in sun. Hiram Percy Maxim earned a patent for a gas engine silencer. Britain has 117,900 miles of telephone lines. Last year receipts totaled 4,439,912 dollars. Chile has 5,722 manufacturing establishments employing 74,618 people. In 1911 Japan had 90 cotton mills with about 31,000,000 dollars invested. The United States reads and supports as many newspapers as England, France, and Germany combined. Cleveland reports over 10,000 complaints to a city hall bureau in the last year. Ocean volume, including inland seas, is about 823,800,000 cubic miles.
Notable high peaks and unusual pet tales across the west
The item notes Utahs six peaks over 13000 feet and Gannet Beak in Wyoming as the states highest at almost 14000 feet. It mentions a mink farm near Pritchard Idaho and similar efforts in Washington D C. It cites New York fire losses exceeding 200 million dollars with half from carelessness and a Railway Age Gazette claim that 47000 steel passenger cars are needed at a cost of about 614 million. It also tells of Jeremiah McCarthy and his hen that nests 15 feet high requiring a step ladder to collect eggs.
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Railway Age Gazette
Reflections on Beauty and Blame in Witty Talk
A playful, era voice riffs on vanity courage and social pieties. The speaker mocks gossip and social pretensions while praising steadiness and grit, noting the mule as a metaphor for blunt honesty and visible honor in wartime talk.
In-Shoots and Social Commentary on Modern Life
The passage comments on fault finding and money, noting pawned watches and noisy action in public life. It suggests leaders of a new political party will argue louder as their influence grows, and envisions flying oceans and crowded cars with strap-hanging.
Reading the Bible Through Dr Campbell Morgan story
Dr Campbell Morgan lecturing in Sheffield claimed the Bible can be read at pulpit rate in 60 hours or six weeks. In New York a bank manager challenged him and later said it took 40 hours. Morgan replied that he spoke of pulpit rate not banker's pace.
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Campbell Morgan
Sheffield
Doctor Morgan
New York
Manhattan Bank
Dr. Morgan
Carpenters Fall In Accident At Staging
A staged structure collapsed trapping two carpenters. One was seriously injured while the other remained unhurt and helped the injured man. A spectator exclaimed about a puffed cheek and the survivor explained it was simply tobacco juice.
Freshness Dispute at Market Ends in Odd Kindness
Mrs Jones questions a carp's freshness at the fish wife stall. The seller insists the fish is fresh, while the carp is described as flabby. In a comic twist Mrs Jones buys the fish to ease its wounded feelings, reflecting unusual kindness.
Precise patron judges luncheon in downtown eatery
A man in a downtown restaurant is described as painfully exact in his bearing and dress. After ordering he answers the manager with emphasis on being waited upon. At luncheon’s end the manager asks if everything is satisfactory and the patron replies that everything was satisfactory.
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Tom
New. York— Mail
Sidewalk Banter Sparks Billing Oddities
A roadside quip frames a comic scene where a mosquito acts like a bill collector and a duo exchanges playful exchanges about debts as passersby listen. The humorous vignette captures local humor in a brief roadside moment.
Human Rivalry and Mistrust Across Officials
A statesman challenges a rival’s confidence asking if a man who claims superior knowledge to his official peers should be trusted. The other responds that distrust grows especially when the claimant proves capable.
Man Quietly Teases Audience at Chautauqua Event
A social session in Washington recalls a Chautauqua incident where a man incessantly talks during a lecture. An enraged observer challenges him, but the reply cites entitlement from his paid ticket. A passing child reveals the offender works in a deaf and dumb asylum and claims this is his night off.
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Washington
P. Padgett
Tennessee
Chautauqua
They Passed It All Right Mrs Peck and Miss Peachblow
In a Springfield Union item Henry Peck defends an afternoon stroll with Miss Peachblow on Main Street saying they merely passed the time of day. Mrs. Peck counters by noting they paraded for two hours past many street clocks.
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Mrs. Peck
Main Street
Miss Peachblow
Henry Peck
Springfield Union
Seashore chat turns to summer heartbreak
The exchange notes a visit to the beach with a sour memory of past summer girlfriends and a sense of disappointment in the waves and company.
Just Like a Girl
A fragment from Pearson's Weekly presents a domestic scene where a woman recalls breaking an engagement after a fall out. She describes tearing up first two letters and finally mailing a third, stopping short of delivering it.
A Comfortable Calling
A visitor asks a youth about becoming a physician and the youth answers yes. The visitor notes the doctor is paid whether work is satisfactory or not. The quote is attributed to the Ladies' Home Journal.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
New Yorkers Faulty With Matches
A witty exchange notes that one in ten fires in New York is caused by matches and jokingly adds that one in ten marriages is unhappy, concluding New Yorkers are careless with matches and relationships.
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Bacon
New York
Egbert
Expression of Sympathy on stage and screen careers
A stage manager notes many good actors are overlooked for opportunities and the producer agrees adding that figures like Forrest and Booth would have benefited from chances in moving pictures.
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Forrest
Booth
Moving Pictures
Industrious Family in West Virginia Tale
A horseback traveler asks a boy what he raises on a mountain in West Virginia. The boy responds that he raises corn and potatoes, while his family raises chickens. The traveler notes the father raises Cain when he returns from the still, a line recalling rural frontier humor.
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West Virginia
Baltimore Sun
Chicago Flight Passes Through Forest Fire Scene
Two travelers aboard a Metropolitan Air flight remark on seeing Chicago from an air route. The exchange hints at an unexpected forest fire below, followed by a frustrated expletive.
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Winthrop Centre
R. R
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Washington Avenue
Thornton Park
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River Road
Bates Avenue
Winthrop Street
Chester Avenue
Buchanan Streets
Town Hall
Kimball’s
Quincy and
Forertoen
Central Station
Ckenney
Waterbury Company
Gutsay
Ian
Franklin St
Boston
Mass
McCall’s Magazine
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McCall Patterns
McCall's
McCall
W. 37Th St
New York City
Prague
Tunis
Korea
Salvador
Hiram Percy Maxim
Britain
Chile
Japan
United States
England
France
Germany
Cleveland
Utah
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Gannett Beak
Wyoming
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Bridger National Forests
Pritchard
Idaho
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Mule
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