Paper on sale at multiple Winthrop area outlets
Copies of this paper, priced at 5 cents, are available at Highland Drug Store opposite Highland Station, Revere Beach and Lynn Depot Boston, Totman and Ham opposite Beach Station, Brown's Centre Store at Jefferson and Winthrop streets, Quality Shop opposite Centre Station, Williams Drug Store opposite Centre Station, Winthrop Pharmacy Magee's Car Brown's Pharmacy Wadsworth Block Centre, W. B. Thayer Ocean Spray Pharmacy, Ocean Spray, Winthrop News Co opposite Beach, and at the publication office 466 Shirley Street.
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Highland Drug Store
Highland Station
Boston
Revere Beach
Brown's
Jefferson and
Winthrop Streets
Quality Shop
Centre Station
Williams Drug Store
Brown’s Pharmacy
Wadsworth Block
Centre
W. B. Thayer
Ocean Spray
Winthrop News Co
Shirley-street
Letters Remaining at Winthrop Post Office for Week
List of letters remaining at the Winthrop post office for the week ending June 29. Names include Mrs Marion Allen, Mrs Louise Knights, D Frank Lord, Nute Nan, Mr and Mrs L A Newenham, E F Ordway, Mr and Mrs John Real, John A Soule, Ernest Swan, Ronald Watt, and two others.
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Winthrop Post Office
Allen
Marion
Knights
Louise
Lord
D. Frank
Nutenan
L.A. Newenham
Ordway
Real
Meistersingers to Star at B F Keiths Theatre Next Week
The Meistersingers from Boston will headline a two act summer show at B F Keiths Theatre with the Harvard Schubert and Weber male quartets. The troupe follows last season’s six week run that drew music lovers from New England and brought a second engagement. Also on bill are Mac Donald and Donovan Irish characterization Mosher Hayes and Mosher bicycle comedians from the London Hippodrome Barnes and Robinson and Li da McMillan Company in a comedy sketch Ramsdell trio acrobats and more to be announced.
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B. F Keith
Harvard
Boston
New England
Keith
Mac Donald
Donovan
Mosher
Hayes and
London Hippodrom
From the Pencil's Point Humorous Observations
A collection of wry aphorisms on marriage, luck, fate, and social manners. The jokey lines critique modern love, female aspirations, and the roles of men and women with playful sarcasm and dated tone. Abstract reflections mix wit about photography, miracles, and household life.
Man's Pet Aversions in Daily Life Observed
An onlooker at a wedding, a wet nurse to a rubber plant, waiting for a train, and other scenes reveal the average man's aversions. The piece notes discomfort with social courtesies, fashion, and public attention as he wheels a baby carriage or listens to another tell his story.
England's disappearing forests threaten wood supplies
England once famed for its forests now has only fragments in preserved woods and parks. It notes that available timber falls far short of national needs, with supplies severely reduced and hard to obtain.
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England
Old Records Filed After Century of Exposure
Washington reports a plan by Commissioner Davenport to preserve about 600 000 Revolutionary War documents. Special filing cases and linen envelopes will protect these records from time and handling, preventing loss to historians genealogists and the public. A new wing at the court building may cost 220 000 to avoid renting external storage for patent copies.
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Washington
Davenport
Republi
Pension Bureau
Federal
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Patent Office
Patent Office Swamped by Vast Patent Stock
The Interior Department voices concern over the huge accumulation of patents stored in the patent office building. Printed patents would stretch 69 000 miles if laid end to end and form a ten foot square mass reaching the Washington Monument. Shelf space would require 19 miles of shelves and two miles of stacked cases nine high. Officials worry about future placement as stock grows.
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Patent Office
Washington Monument
Baltimore
Interior Department
Government Coal Land Policy Involves Vast United States Lands
A United States Geological Survey report notes federal holdings exceed 90 million acres including coaloilandwater power lands. Since 1906 lands under coal and other resources have been withdrawn from entry pending study and classification. The 1909 coal land scheme classifies 40 acre tracts by coal quality and value, with prices from 10 to over 400 dollars per acre depending on access and coal grade.
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United States
United States Geological Survey
Congress
Agriculture Prospects Rise in Panama Canal Zone
A Department of Agriculture report says canal completion and the withdrawal of 9,000 temporary workers will boost zone agriculture. It notes Europeans and Americans favor Irish potatoes and garden produce, not tropical vegetables, but opening the canal to commerce and steamship service may create profits from tropical fruits and expand demand for fresh produce for passengers and crews.
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Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Department of Agriculture
Ill-fated Maine mast reaches Washington for memorial
The Maine’s main mast is in Washington City and will be erected as a monument over Maine victims’ graves in Arlington cemetery. The Leonidas delivered a 60 foot mast with a 2 foot diameter and a 10 foot top for six rapidly firing guns. The four ton relic, from Havana, comes with two six inch guns, an inch gun, powder cans, torpedo tubes and shells to be shared as mementos.
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Maine
Washington City
Arlington Cemetery
Leonidas
Havana
Plan to recover wet gas could light towns with liquefied fuel
Federal Bureau of Mines outlines a plan to convert wet gas from oil fields into a liquefied, high pressure illuminating gas. Delivered in steel canisters, it could provide affordable lighting for small towns hotels and country estates and serve lighthouses and distant public works lacking gas systems.
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Federal Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Crows Hold Court Like Public Justice, Attacking One
Harper's Weekly describes crows forming a moral court in Scotland and the Faroe Islands with gatherings that end in the death of a singled-out crow. An Indian officer witnesses a Palaver before a crow is judged and struck, then the group disperses.
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Scotland
Faroe Islands
India
Harper’s Weekly
Naming a Baby Rodent Sparks Outrage in Zuba Creed Tale
In a bright domestic anecdote from The Youth's Companion, Mrs. Zuba Creed contemplates naming her infant Rodent after overheard chatter about rodents. Miss Lucy West protests, explaining the term refers to gnawing animals, prompting Zuba to reject the name and joke about naming the baby Beelzebub with a possible nickname Bub.
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Zuba Creed
Lucy West
Zuba
Miss Lucy
Tony
Alice
Pendennis and Warrington Triangle on the Pier Joke
A quip about Hooker returning from fishing triggers a witty exchange. Warrington confirms being on the pier and jokes that Hooker had no fish nearby but he himself was lying about the fish in a light seafront moment.
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Pendennis
Warrington
The New Woman Dialog Shapes a Witty Exchange
A college encounter features a young man claiming to breathe vows from a heart while a damsel counters that true breath comes from the diaphragm. The playful back and forth highlights gendered wit and flirtation within campus speech.
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Henry
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Magee
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U.S
What Is
Castoria
the Centaur Company
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New York City
Totten
Shirley Street
Winthrop Beach
Floyd & Tucker
Justice OF the Peace Agents
Massachusetts
Wharf Coal Company
School Street
City Hall
Winthrop
Winthrop St
Fort Hill
Frank P. Anthony
North Centre Street
Sargent St., Winthrop
T. Whitman
Channing Howard
Whitman & Howard
Civil Engineers & Surveyors
Devonshire St
Revere
Kolodny
Revere Street
Main St
Winthrop. Hardware CO
Grant
Magee’s Cor
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