Local Paper Distribution Points Listed for Five Cent Copies
The Winthrop Sun and Visitor lists sale locations across Massachusetts for five cent copies. Stores include Highland Drug Store near Highland station, Totman & Ham near Beach, Robinson's Centre Store, Quality Shop, Williams' Drug Store, and Lang's Drug Store, with the office at 216 Winthrop Street noted.
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Highland Drug Store
Highland Station
Robinson's Centre
Jefferson and
Winthrop Streets
Quality Shop
Williams’ Drug Store
Brown’s
Wadsworth Block
Centre
Lang’s
Ocean Spray
Winthrop News Co
Winthrop Street
Timetable for Boston Elevated Railway 1918 service
Detailed schedule shows Orient Heights to Bowdoin Square and Gladstone Street to Bowdoin Square routes, with trains every few minutes during peak periods and night service to Devonshire Station. Includes Sullivan Square to Forest Hills and special charter options, rates, routes, and a transportation contact at 101 Milk Street Room 514, Edward Dana is Transportation Manager.
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Orient Heights
Bowdoin Square
Devonshire
Devonshire Station
Gladstone Street
Sullivan Square
Dudley Street
Atlantic Avenue
Forest
Hillss
Milk Street
Edward Dana
Emphasis and Repetition in Expressing Negatives
The passage argues that a man declaring “No a thousand times no” signals a fixed negative resolve. It notes the phrase conveys stronger force than repeating to seven million, yet only a few extreme speakers would use such excess as “thousand.” The word’s impact lies in its perceived wild extravagance and force.
Regular meals halt work on 100 foot pole project
An English engineer building a 100 foot steer pole in India faced a delay when the headman announced dinner time. Thirty native workers held firm to their meal hour, forcing the crew to endure several hours of halted progress despite desperate entreaties and threats to lower the pole.
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India
Few Persons Really Happy
A New York physician guesses only about one in a hundred truly happy. The piece notes rising use of doctors and psycho analysis, with medicine blending confession and psychology to explore subconscious drivers of happiness.
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New York City
New York Tribune
Tur keys profane holy place of Sinai legends and relics
A travel account describes how Muslim rulers near Sinai have added legends and relics to holy sites. Visitors are shown the rock of the golden calf, Moses struck rock, Elijah's feeding garden, Moses chapel, and a footprint said to be Mohammed's camel. The piece notes the mix of reverence and crude superstition in the region.
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Sinai
Moses
Elijah
Mohammed
Never Grow a Big Job by Learning to Laugh at Cracks
A character named Wagner is urged to stop being overly sensitive and self critical. The speaker notes Wagner has ability but needs self control, resilience, and a thicker skin to advance. He is advised to seek other work if he cannot shed personal hurt from setbacks.
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Wagner
Lore
Mind Supremacy Over Pain Involuntary Focused Willpower
The piece discusses enduring severe pain through a determined will and mental focus. It cites Dr. Edward H Clarke and Sir Walter Scott, noting Clarke could withdraw consciousness to work on a book during agonizing illness and Scott dictated the Bride of Lammermoor while recovering, later forgetting the writing process.
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Edward H. Clarke
Sir Walter Scott
Gargoyles of Notre Dame Haunt Paris Visitors
Visitors to Notre Dame in Paris recall the exterior gargoyles more than the interior galleries. The article describes grotesque figures staring from towers, including a terrifying gargoyle gripping a baby statue and chewing its head while the city lies below.
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Notre Dame
Paris
The Universal Art of Teaching
Ellwood Hendrick argues that teaching is the universal art and the greatest of them all, noting that everyone, in any walk of life, teaches others daily from parents to politicians and citizens strive to persuade and inform through teaching. He contends the master learns from those he guides, and that education pervades daily life across society.
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Willy Nilly
Ellwood Hendrick
The
Atlantic
First Use of Chimney Across Medieval Europe
The article notes early heating advances with chimneys appearing in private dwellings in France in the eighth century and becoming common only centuries later. It describes Polish winter heating where a room kiln was fired from outside and families slept around and atop the kiln to stay warm.
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France
Poland
Measuring Thought Experiments From Early Cognitive Studies
The piece describes experiments on mental processing speeds such as recalling a country or language when prompted by a town, naming months, and performing arithmetic. It notes that familiar stimuli speed responses and contrasts quick recognition with slower recall, including Shakespearean references and timing of motions.
Tulip Culture Craze Swept Europe in 17th Century
The article traces bulb culture from Turkish cultivation to European gardens, noting tulips entered Holland in the late 16th century and, by 1634, sparked a mania with extraordinary bulb prices. Legends like Semper Augustus sold for over $5,000, reflecting the era’s speculative frenzy.
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Europe
Holland
Mendelssohn’s Habit Of Completing Works In Mind
Edward Devrient notes Mendelssohn would not write down a composition until it lay fully formed in his head and then would perform it for his closest friends. He labored long over pieces like the Scotch and Italian symphonies and various overtures aiming to meet his ideals.
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Mendelssohn
St. Pat
Edward Devrient
Shovels and Sense in Eliphalet Marston’s Business Spirit
The tale from Miss Rosalind Richards’s A Northern Countryside centers on Eliphalet Marston, founder of a shovel factory, who upholds quality and sound business ethics. His son urges modern advertising, but Eliphalet’s legacy endures through the single honest shovel praised by a Chicago dealer as the true American standard.
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Rosalind Richards
Eliphalet Marston
Eliphalet
Chicago
Marston
Marston Plains
State of
CUSTOM FOR CUSTOMS SAKE AT ST BARTHOLOMEW
The London Morning Post reports a Good Friday custom at St Bartholomew the Great in West Smithfield. Sixpences are dropped on a flat tombstone by Corporal W H Irons for 21 widows aged between eighty five and sixty to collect. The fund's origin is uncertain though Butterworth's gift preserved the practice for decades. Deputy Turner conducted the ceremony for 30 years until his death last year.
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St. Bartholomew-the-Great
West Smithfield
W. H. Irons
R. E
Butterworth
Deputy Turner
London Morning Post
Extraordinary Tafgai skull fuels primal civilization debate
Professor Wood-Jones of London argues the Tafgai skull found in New South Wales in 1889 predates European ancient skulls and suggests humans bred dogs before apes. The mineralized human bone lies with extinct pouched animals and dingo bones in the same stratum, implying a boat arrival of Talgai man with family and dogs to Australia, then island isolation later.
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Wood-Jones
University of London
New South Wales
Australia
Captain Cook
Greet About the Northern Lights Recalled in Scottish Tale
The piece recalls a Scots folk view of the aurora borealis as the devil's rainbow seen six times in July 712 and tied to a great wind that ruined corn. Walter Lunny and others recount fear and warnings as the Quharity floods follow, washing away crops and wool.
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Scotland
Walter Lunny
Dominic
Laddie
How to Use the Telephone Tips
Telephone experts advise keeping half an inch between mouth and transmitter to ensure clear transmission. They warn that holding the phone too close or far distorts sound and reduces clarity, noting proximity affects signal quality and overall intelligibility.
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Popplar Mechanics Magazine
Inventor of Shorthand System Teaches Chinese Tones
The inventor of the system of shorthand in China is hailed as a genius. The language has no written vowels or consonants and one syllable can have nine tones and as many meanings. Despite the difficulty the system can reach 140 words a minute. Schools for teaching shorthand are being established nationwide.
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China
Never give up trying to better your best
A Pennsylvania Grit excerpt urges readers of all ages to keep striving and aiming to materialize thoughts. It emphasizes wooing away craven life ideas, facing the young man’s task, and replacing freshness with good judgment through effort and practice.
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Pennsylvania
Dyes and their origins in late 19th century chemistry
The text notes that in 1868 Lightfoot produced aniline black and in 1873 Croissant and Britton introduced the first sulphur dye. It credits a French chemist with the method for preparing a bright yellow dye for animal fibers and explains the dye’s selective detection of hemp, flax, and cotton in woolen goods, as it does not color vegetable fibers.
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Lightfoot
Croissant and
Brittonpiere
France
Moralist on happiness urges thinking of others
The Moralist says happiness lies in thinking about others while a pessimist named Sid laments owing money and feeling gloomier. The Birmingham Age Herald records the exchange with a tone of wry humor.
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Sid
Birmingham Age- Herald
The Papyrus Plant and the Origin of Paper
Mrs Williams recounts how papyrus gave rise to the word paper through papyros and how Herodotus used bublos leading to biblions and the Bible. The piece notes the Greek roots biblio and related terms linked to books.
Africa's Big Population Facts Highlight Africa Stature
The article notes Africa covers a quarter of the earth’s surface and holds about one eighth of humanity. It states blacks double every 40 years and whites every 50, with 43 languages spoken and few written, and one missionary per 133000 people.
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Africa
Ohio
Philadelphia Train Sparks Cheer at Lancaster Station
A New York drummer waiting for the 7:38 train to Philadelphia at Lancaster’s quaint station greeted the conductor’s announcement with a wide cheerful smile. The Evening Public Ledger notes the moment captured Friday morning as the Philadelphia train made its first stop.
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Philadelphia
Lancaster
New York
Hvening Public Ledger
To Keep Cheese Fresh
Cheese preservation tips suggest rubbing the cut surface with a warm knife and wrapping the cheese in oiled paper or in cheesecloth wrung from salt water.
Ten popular flowers in Japan listed
The article highlights ten favored Japanese flowers including apricot, cherry, chrysanthemum, iris, lily, morning glory, peony, plant, quince, and the ubiquitous wisteria. It notes these blooms are well loved across regions and seasons in Japan.
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Japan
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Winthrop Sun
Norbert E. Emerson
Massachusetts Press Association
National Editorial Association
Republican Editorial Association of Mass
Boston
Revere Beach & Lynn
Totman & Ham
Highland
W. A. Howe
Magee’s Corner
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Mount Sinai
Gargoyles of
the Universal Art
East Boston Savings Bank
Winthrop Storage CO
J. B. Tewksbury
Prop
Fremont ST
Winthrop
Office
Mskenney & Waterbury CO
Tranklin
ST Cor Congress
Bosion Mass
USA
Kilburn C. Brown
Ph.d. Inns
Rexall
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