Winthrop Fire Alarm Box List And School Signal
A detailed list of fire alarm boxes and associated streets in Winthrop, including Shirley Avenue and Harbor View areas. It describes signal timings for school days, box operation rules, and instructions to stand at the box until the department arrives, with bell codes for alarms and central Beach Station contact numbers.
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Winthrop St
Chester
Town Hall
Pauline Street
Kimball’s
Mons Do Elock
Central Station
Tel
Beach Station
Winthrop Mail Hours and street box schedule
Postal office hours from seven to eight daily with Sunday hours. money orders and registration services available daily. Carrier delivery times, box pickup at nine thirty p.m., multiple sub stations listed with stamp and money order services, and daily mail close and arrival times including Sundays and holidays.
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Bates Avenue
Washington Avenue
Winthrop Street
Pleasant Street
Sunnyside Avenue
Bartlett Road
Pauline Street
Court Road
Lincoln
Reéd Street
Centre R. R
Ocean View
Winthrop
Main
Revere Street
Cherry
Summit
Highlands
Crest ‘Avenue
Green
Ocean Spray
Sea Foam Avenue
Shirley R. R
Cottage Street
Hillside Avenue
Crest Avenue
Highlands Station
Shirley Street
Sturgis
Boston Elevated Railway timetable changes and special cars
Schedule details for Orient Heights to Scollay Square and Gladstone Street to Scottay Square with morning and night intervals. Special cars may be chartered for balls, theatre parties, or excursions. information and rates available from the Superintendent of Transportation at 101 Milk Street Room 70. dated Feb 1, 1908.
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Orient ‘Heights
Scolla Square
Orient Herents
Gladstone St
Scottay Square
Court St
Office of Supt. of Transportation
Milk Street
Boston Revere Beach Lynn R R Timetable Notice
This timetable lists train departure times from Boston to Wood Island Harbor View Winthrop and surrounding stations with varied frequencies by station and day, noting that times are not guaranteed and delays are not the company’s responsibility. Official: A. L. Hoyt G.T.A. John A. Fenno Superintendent.
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Boston
Wood Island
Harbor View
Winthrop
A Happy Family Menagerie in London Society
A London society column mocks a West End party titled A Happy Family Menagerie. A young woman pretends to be a cat while others imitate animals with human foibles, described as a grand display of brainless diversion and silliness.
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London
Londo
West End
New Silk Slippers Made From Dresden Ribbon
The article describes making stylish slip on slippers from Dresden ribbon lined with cotton batting and sewn to a sole. It explains shaping the outsole with a V wedge, shirring for folds, and disguising seams with bows. It notes alternatives using paper for patterns and decorative rosettes to hide seams.
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Dresden
Health and Beauty Tips From Old Newspaper Column
Instructions on cuticle training for nails and home remedies for hair with sage and green tea. Child feeding posture and infant spine massage to ease gas. Neck and chin toning exercises described with step by step motions and repetition guidance.
The Necessary Snub in Washington Society
A review of social snubs in the capital highlights sharp verbal rebukes at official functions. The piece notes mostly women as initiators, with a broader point on social codes, manners, and the delicate power within elite circles.
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Washington
Chicago
Candlelight Tea With Old Fashioned Charm
A young matron hosts twelve friends for a candlelit tea to share anecdotes of olden times. Guests wear bits of vintage finery and display heirlooms such as samplers, bead purses, buckles, combs, and fans while candles illuminate the dining room with antique silver and china.
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Dresden
Housewife Hints From a Bygone Digest
Practical kitchen and home tips cover cooking tricks with milk and squash pie, cleaning with oil and ink, care of carving tools, and quick rust fixes. Notes on saving cooking water, silver polish with whiting and ammonia, and household organization with a wall mail box. Cautions on plumbing traps avoid rock salt to prevent brass damage and porcelain glaze deterioration.
Young Folks A Sport In Which Accurate Throwing Counts For Much
A noted pastime pits younger and older players in a bean bag tossing game. Two nested pans with small holes serve as targets while a copper rivet holds them together. Players stand at one end of a hallway and compete from the opposite end for accuracy and interest.
Arrangement of pans and games for a party
The text describes a party game where players toss bags into small and large pans earning marks for successful hits, with sides alternating turns. It continues with a humorous anecdote about Sir John Millais noting a fisherman who swears while fishing, illustrating local coastal gossip and a bishop’s reaction to swearing.
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Philadelphia
John Millais
England
Millais
London
Faithful Stub Guards Burning Home Until Master Returns
A dog named Stub stayed inside a burning house to protect his owner's apartments until firemen finally saved him. The master arrived as the roof collapsed. Stub bounded out and was quickly comforted. The tale also notes a common speech error about negation and the placement of only and not.
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Stub
Chicago News
Old Man Rain and Old Mis Wind Return in Fractured Ballad
The text sketches a surreal scene with Freddie answering his mother about a closed door while night brings a personified Old Man Rain and Old Mis Wind to the window. Rain staggers down the lane with a ragged train as Wind tears at a fraying shawl, repeating a haunting refrain.
St Patrick and the Roosters Tale From Sligo District
A legend from Count Sligo recalls St Patrick charming snakes and provoking a host of roosters. The people hid their birds to curb his progress, prompting the saint to curse the roosters that have not crowed since, according to exchanges and local lore.
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St. Patrick
Count Sligo
Mysterious Fourteen Link In French History
The piece notes a recurring fourteen in French events from May 14 155 to 1715. It cites Henri IV’s 155 year, the 1610 assassination of Henri IV at Rue de la Ferronnerie, Louis XIII’s death in 1643, and Louis XIV’s rise and death in 1643 and 1715, arguing a symbolic pattern centered on the number fourteen.
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France
Rue de la Ferronnerie
Henri Ir
Henri TV
Ravaillac
Henri
Louis XIII
Henri IV
Louis Niv
The Doctor at Sea Quackery Provokes Parlous Plight
A veteran naval surgeon recalls a young medical crank who claimed sea water cured all ills and ordered large doses to patients. When a man fell overboard a captain asked the reason and a tar replied that the doctor had fun to his medicine chest, prompting a bustle aboard.
Advice to a Wife by James Russell Lowell
A fragmentary dated aphorism advises a young bride to defer to her husband while offering agreeable guidance. It reflects 19th century gender norms with emphasis on yielding the husband’s authority in married life.
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James Russell-Lowell
Thirst For Knowledge On Violin Makers Stradivarius Compared
In Chicago Tribune style non sequiturs the piece juxtaposes a reader asking for violin maker differences with editor text about the value gap to Stradivarius. It also contains maxims on life and hope attributed to Dr. Chalmerr.
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Weill
Chicago
Tribune
Dr_Chalmerr
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Point Shirley
Shirley Ave
Harbor, View Avenue
Crystal Cove
Faun
Hose House
Tewksbury St
Crest Ave
Shirley St
Sturgis St
Ocean Ave
Pearl Ave
Mermaid
Grover’s
Crest
Cliff
Temple
Highland
Geo Turnel's
Sagamore
Cross
Almont Streets
Pleasant
Lincoln Streets
Waldemar Ave
Wheelock Street
Pleasant and
Sargent Streets
Sargent Street
Johnson
Boston Elevated Railway Company
C.S Sergeant
Boston, Revere Beach
Lynn R. R
A. m
Ingalls
Winthrop Beach
P. m
A. L. Hoyt
G. T .A. John
A. Fenno
Health and Beauty
Mamma
Freddie
St. Patrick and the Roosters
Doctor At Sea
Popley
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