Winslow Sun and Visitor paper sale locations listed
Copies of this paper, at 5 cents each, are on sale at A T Rangness opposite Highland Station Boston Revere Beach Lynn Depot Boston Winthrop Beach News Co opposite Beach Station J H Totman News Agency Jefferson and Winthrop Streets Brown's Pharmacy Wadsworth Block Centre W B Thayer Ocean Spray Pharmacy Ocean Spray Elizabeth Rippay variety store opposite Centre Station Also at the office of publication Lewis Block Washington Ave
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A.T. Rangness
Highland Station
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Depot
Boston
J. H. Totman
Jefferson and
Winthrop Streets
Brown’s Pharmacy
Wadsworth Block
Centre
W. B. Thayer
Ocean Spray
Elizabeth Rippay
Variety Store
Centre Station
Lewis Block
Washington Ave
Houdini Tops Boston Vaudeville With Astonishing Feats
Houdini headlines Keith's week as the greatest drawing card in vaudeville. He performs submerged in a galvanized iron can and promises more mysteries, while a strong bill features the Elmnore Sisters and a string of acclaimed acts.
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Houdini
Keith
Boston
Bill
Elmnore
Kate
May
Goleman
Bankers’ Theatricals Fame
A Little Spring in Tombstone Canyon Poem
A rough dusty canyon hides a small spring whose waters refresh travelers. The poem urges kindness to others, noting how a simple spring inspires hope, selflessness, and cheerful acts despite pollution and hardship.
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Tombstone Canyon
Oddities and Anecdotes Bring Flavor to Daily Life
A collage of quips and vignettes covers Thackeray oysters jokes Longfellow supper tales and Grandma’s heaven banter. Brief items include a misfit loafer found by a train a magpie nest marriage poem translations a barrister’s murder defense and graft humor.
Prince George IV Bathing Portraits Then and Now
A tale recalls George IV as a child in Brighton with Martha Gunn the bath woman and a companion portrait of Thomas Smoaker who tended the bathing machines. An insurance story from Chicago and Ohio ends with a quip about mourning hatbands and the grease on hats.
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George IV
Brighton Palace
Martha Gunn
Thomas Smoaker
Thomas
Chicago
Ohio
Boston Globe
Misfires of a Young Idea and Odd Facts
A collage of oddities and erroneous statements. It mocks scientific misstatements and playful definitions, noting improbable weights in barometer air and fantastical notions such as a horse power, a butterfly turning to a moth, and the earth’s axis rotation.
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Tew
Conservatism and origin of governing houses in Britain and U S
The British House of Lords preserved ancient aristocracy while the House of Commons rose with democracy. In the United States, the Senate emerged from a compromise between Nationalists and States Rights factions, balancing state equality with representation.
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House of’ Lords
House of Commons
House of ‘Fords
Senate
United States
Voice care and odd medical tales aired in print
The article discusses vocal gargles used by opera singers and orators to clear mucous and smooth the voice. It recounts medical oddities including a Glasgow patient swallowing pins, and an anecdote about the Comte de Corbières and a humorous conscience fund exchange.
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New York Press
Humorous Prose Snippets and Quips From Various Papers
A collection of brief humorous excerpts and anecdotes including banter about soldiers returning from war and aging, witty exchanges about travel and literature, dialect humor about saving money, and light domestic jests. The items reflect period cartoonish humor and social observation with named newspapers cited.
Tall Trees Joke Echoes Across Language Gap
An American and a German trade quips about humor and boasting. The American extols America’s mountains waterfalls and towering trees. The German challenges the joke, calling it a lie.
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America
Boston Correction and Porterhouse Request
Pilkins, recently moved from New York to Boston, visited a butcher shop one morning. He asked for a porterhouse, but the proprietor urbane ly replied that nothing is being given away this morning.
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Boston
Pilkins
New York
Butcher's
Harper’s Weekly
Fear and Wisdom in Truthful Speech
The passage asserts fear does not speak truth, and true sincerity requires wisdom to be allowed. It notes that those prone to anger at truth should not be surprised if they do not hear Tacitus.
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Tacitus
Unknown fragment hints at disease and farm life
Incoherent OCR fragment shows a farmer dismissing mosquitoes as malaria carriers, mentions Washington Star and a road to success. The text is garbled with stray punctuation and broken phrases, making it hard to extract a coherent news item or event.
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Winthrop Sun and Visitor
Winthrop Beach News Co
Keith's Theatre
Sophie F. Ives
Winthrop
Thackeray
William Dean Howells
Longfellow
Cambridge
James Russell Lowell
Lowell
Ethel
Grandma
Patrick Doyle
Doyle
Patrick
Lady Maccabee
Confucius
The
Orient Review
Turtledove
London
Baltimore American
Atchison Globe
Trollope
Brighton
George the Third
Senate and Lords
Needles and Pins
Comte de Corbieres
Louis XVII
M. de Corbieres
Corbieres
Boston Post
Pat
Begorra
Noah
Genoa
Henry Drummond Wolff
Bulwer Lytton
Judy
W Dove
Bee
Columbus
Colombe
Sir Edward
Cassidy
Philadelphia Press
Houston Post
Ildred
Mildred
Mamma
Corntessel
Washington. Star
What Is
Castoria
Alfred Tewksbury & Co
Herrick’s
Educato
Golden Rule
Beacon
Wadsworth
Winthrop Centre
Gabler
Shoninger
Ludwig & CO
Winter & Col
Baus
Liberal
Blake the Piano Man
Washington St
Oxford
Chas. F. Totten
Winthrop Beach
Mass
Frank P. Anthony
North Centre Street
Sargent ‘St. Winthrop
W. G. Grant
Magee’s Corner
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