Winthrop Fire Alarm Listings and Copyright Notices
A long list of streets around Winthrop including Point Shirley and Cove avenues, with fire alarm box details and instruction to stand at the box until the fire department arrives. Also contains multiple Library of Congress copyright notices for White-Smith Music Publishing Company with renewal details for several musical works.
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Central Station
Beach Station
White-Smith Music Publish
White-Smith Music Publishing Co
Boston
United States
Herbert Putnam
Librarian of Congress
Thorvald Solberg
Register of Copyrights
Library of Congress
White Smith Music Publishing Company
Mass
E. H. Bailey
Boston, White, Smith & Company
White-Smith Music Publishing Company
Eben H Bailey
Hie Smith Music Publishing Company
Boston Mass
Eben
H. Bailey
Glass C
C. A. White
C. White-Smith Music Publishing Co
T. P. Ryder
White-Smith Music Publishing Comy
H A. White
Whippoorwill
G. White-Smith Music Pub. Co
Tnam
T. D
Herbert Pu
Chas. Dmith
Itnam
White- Smith Music Publishing Company
Romeo Grandardi
Chas D. Blake
White-Smith Music Pub. Co
T. Moore
E. McLaughlin
Librarian of
Congress
Chas
D. Blake
White-Smith Music Pub
Wm. Gooch
O. A. White
Italian Version By 8. Strini
Winthrop Mail Hours and post office schedules
Open hours from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily with Sunday and holiday variations. Money order, registration windows, and carrier delivery times listed. Evening mail and box collection routes specified along with holiday closings and mail arrival times. Superintendent David B Escuer signed.
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Sandays
Magee
Pleasant
Main Streets
David Bescuer
Boston Elevated Railway time table 1906 notice
Boston Elevated Railway Company announces changes to the timetable with morning trains to Scoutay Square via tunnel and night service to North Ferry. Special cars may be chartered for balls theatre or excursions, rates and routes available by phone or at 101 Milk Street Room 701. December 15 1906. Omitted Monday morning.
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Scoutay Square
Norrh Ferry
Ofion
Leisure in ancient Greece shaped citizen education and life
Our word gchgo derives from a Greek term meaning leisure. In ancient Greece, men's education came less from books and more from lectures on philosophy, the public assembly, theater, games, and the law courts where most leisure time was spent.
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Greece
Lay of the Lost Minstrel and Art Gallery Quips
A scrapbook column quotes Mark Twain praising the Black minstrel show and a New York Press critique defending public access to galleries. The piece contrasts the vanished Black person show with opera and notes changing attitudes toward umbrellas in galleries. It also cites a New York Review excerpt and remarks on Wagner and royal academy exhibitions.
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Billy Rice
Billy Birch
David
Wambold
Backus
Birch
Aind
Mark Twain
North American Review
London
Paris
New York Press
Coincidence Link Across Time Revealed in Genealogical Find
A renowned traveler and public figure nicknamed A B receives a catalog from a secondhand bookseller on May 6. His clerk buys a rare book, and the title page reveals his father's name and a May 6 1886 birth address in Ireland. The discovery marks the twenty first anniversary of the book passing to its current owner.
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Ireland
A. B
St. James
Ozone Origins and Japans Adopting Gloucester Boat
Ozone forms in upper air from ultraviolet sun rays and descends with rain. Gloucester fishing boats impress Japanese shipbuilders who plan to copy the American dory and rowing lines, replacing light junk for seafaring craft.
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M. Henriet
France
Atlantic
Seaboard
High Finance Quote From Secret Service Chief
John E. Wilkie, chief of the secret service, notes that high finance is not limited to Wall Street. He recounts a thrift example where a treasurer clerk raffled 25 cents for 2 cents a share to attend a ball game, netting a small profit after car fare and a newspaper.
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Wall Street
John E. Wilkie
Secret Service
Treas
Ban
Saturday Evening Post
Beyond the Alps Lies Italy A Kansas Girl's Quiet Rebellion
A Topeka Capital note quotes a Kansas graduate rejecting grand claims about future women. She doubts poetry or essays on woman’s fate, jokes about grammar and grocery math, and says she aims to marry a capable farmer who can manage eighty acres and many female relatives.
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Alps
Kansas
Italy
Missouri
Topeka
Uzor
Reading by halves: print heads rely on upper letter shapes
An old printer notes readers focus on the upper halves of letters in headlines while lower flourishes fade. He demonstrates that covering lower halves still allows word recognition, whereas masking the upper halves makes words unreadable, especially with Roman headline type.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Dueling In Old Creole Days and New Orleans Culture
Louis J. Meader notes in Century how dueling shaped New Orleans social order, with famous figures like Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson, and many less prominent participants. The practice permeated life, leaving tombstones as silent witnesses in creole cemeteries to a romantic yet deadly era.
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Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson
Alexander Hamilton
de Witt Clinton
Stephen Decatur
New Orleans
Louis J. Meader
A Fish Story from Nanaimo Wharf
A load of about fifteen tons of herring was left at Johnston's wharf in Nanaimo during noon. While fishermen dined, as many as ten thousand sea gulls devoured the fish on one side causing an imbalance and the boat toppled spilling the rest into the water.
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Johnston's Wharf
Nanaimo
Shangha
Mercury
A Watter of Business and Community Entertainments
The Winthrop Sun and Visitor invites reports of local society, lodge, and church events for treasury or charity aims. For preliminary notices with admission fees a charge is made based on space used, with low rates reflecting a business necessity.
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Winthrop Sun
College Inn Advertisement at Albany Highlighting Rooms and Dining
The notice promotes the College Inn in Albany offering 500 rooms and 300 baths under European plan. It touts a gentlemen’s cafe and ladies’ restaurant with Moorish room, single rooms and suites with or without bath from $1.00 per day. Booklet available from Robert P. Murphy.
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Robert P. Murphy
Old Tools From Cotton Mills and Pine Pollen Tales
A reminiscence describes scavenged screwdrivers made from worn cotton spindles and spit dies repurposed into wedges. It also notes pollen from pine forests drifting far offshore, forming yellow coatings on distant lakes and being mistaken for sulfur showers, as told by St. Nicholas.
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Agult
St. Nicholas
Purely Chance in Knicker-Do You Consider Poker S of Chance
The excerpt presents a witty exchange between Purely Chance and Knicker Do You, noting how luck factors into games of chance and how perception of risk varies in domestic discourse.
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Harper
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Winthrop Fire
Point Shirley
Shirley Ave
Harbor View Avenue
Cove
Faun Bar
Shirley Street
Hose House
Tewksbury St
Crest Ave
Shirley St
Sturgis St
Ocean Ave
Pearl Ave
Mermaid
Grover’s
Crest Avenues
Cliff
Temple and
Highland
Revere Street
Geo. Turner’s
Sagamore Av
Almont Streets
Revere
Winthrop St
Bowdoin
Ocean View
Main
Emerson
Hermon
Lincoln Streets
Marshall Sts
Waldemar Ave
Wheelock Street
Sargent Streets
Sargent Street
Johnson, Av
Pleasant Street
Cottage Park Road
Cottage Park House
Woodside Av
Seymour St
Buchanan Streets
Washington and
Elmwood
Washington Av
Thornton Park
Chester
Town Hall
Pauline Street
Kimball’s Factory
Timor
East Indian Islands
Winthrop
Boston Elevated Railway Company
High Finance
Bo Tae Ees
Coealthe
What Is
Castoria
Lleddt
Centaur
Murray Street
New York
Albany
41St Street
Broadway
College Inn
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