Town finances and appropriations 1908 audit note
A committee presents town budget figures for 1908 including salaries for selectmen clerks and officers, department costs, debt servicing, and a recommendation to refund the remaining balance of 123 299 after applying the 1908 appropriations. The report cites expenditures from January 2 to March 5 1908 totaling 25 494 55 and notes the need to cover via 1908 department allocations.
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Park Department
Hills
Washington Avenue
Somerset Avenue
Almon E. Whittemore
Otto J. Hintze
Executor's Notice for Charles H. Perkins
David Floyd, of Winthrop, appointed executor of Charles H. Perkins late of Winthrop Suffolk County exercising bond and trust. All creditors must present demands and debtors must pay to the executor at Winthrop on March 14, 1908.
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Charles H. Perkins
Winthrop
Suffolk
David Floyd
Fuses Are Made to Blow Out in Travel
A New York Times note urges calm when electrical fuses blow in electric cars and trains. It says jumping is natural for nonprofessionals, but trained electricians keep their nerve. panic is worse than the fuse’s interruption, and safety rests in orderly conduct and patience.
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New York Times
Language Mixups and Quick Wids in Historic Odds
A zigzag tour through anecdotes from German and English miscommunications and clever wordplay. Tales include German bidders at an auction misreading nods as bids, a governor impersonator in Arkansas, Butler vs Confederate oath, grammar puzzles from Youth's Companion, artist accuracy lapses, and a Missouri senator’s photo check prank.
Terrestrial odds at Hotel Cecil in London
A bemused New York Press item recounts an American party at the Hotel Cecil ordering six Maryland terrapin with bones. the waiter replies terrapin with grand sherry but not bones, prompting further banter and a pivot to goras en brochette.
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Cecil
London
Paris
Maryland
New York Press
Highlander wins raffle bicycle but laments wasted ticket
In a Dundee Peoples Journal note a Highlander wins first prize a bicycle from a raffle. On hearing the news he quips that buying two tickets would have been wiser since one ticket would have sufficed. He treats the win with practical humor rather than elation.
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Dundee
Funeral of My Chief Inspires a Lesson in Punctuality
An old London Telegraph remark notes the speaker rushing to the funeral of his chief, joking that nothing angers him more than lateness. The quip underscores the ironies of duty and ceremony in historical press language.
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London
Telegraph
Prevent the Ships
Quoted aphorisms from the Baltimore American appear amid a note that Lake Huron hosts over 8,000 stands, claimed as a record for the lake. The fragment blends social reflection with regional trivia about the lake’s stands.
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Baltimore American
Lake Huron
London Thaughts of a Crown and City Contrast
A historical anecdote narrates James I demanding a £20,000 loan from London's corporation. The king threatens to move courts to Winchester or Oxford and desert Westminster, while the lord mayor replies the Thames will remain, comforting merchants of London.
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James James
Menage
James
Winchester
Oxford
Westminster
London
Thames
Garrick Ponders Vowel Name At Tyburn
London Saturday Review recalls David Garrick observing a crowd at Tyburn awaiting a criminal execution. He asks a companion the prisoner's name and learns it begins with V, prompting Garrick to muse which vowel it represents, noting there are several and that it is not U.
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David Garrick
Tyburn
Garrick
London Saturday Review
Fragmented quotes and ad hoc captions from papers
A collage of brief quotes and clipped phrases from Philadelphia Press Henry’s letters Second Mother Pack Supply Minister and Jewish Ledger. The items juxtapose jokes proverbs and compact diary like lines across identities and contexts.
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Henry
Pack
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Francis Pratt
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