Early 1909 Boston Area Streetcar Time Table Notice
A dated timetable lists train departures from Boston to Orient Heights Beachmont Crescent Beach West Lynn and Winthrop lines with specific times on weekdays and Sundays. It includes battery and Ingalls routes, highlands and beach connections, and notes no baggage during peak hours and that departures are not guaranteed. Officials H. L. Hoyt and John A. Fenno sign as G. T. A. and Superintendent.
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Boston
Orient Heights
Beachmont Crescent Beach West Lynn Lynn
Winthrop Centre
Battery
Ingalls
Winthrop Beach
Tian Battery
BAS
St Rosoa
Winthrop Highlands
TLOS
H. L. Hoyt
John A. Fenno
Winthrop Mail Hours and Postal Substations
Winthrop postal services announce weekday hours for stamps, money orders, and registry from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and holiday and Sunday variations. Mails dispatched and received times, sub stations at Crest Avenue and Shirley Street, street letter boxes collected daily, and a request to include street address for prompt delivery. David Belcher, Superintendent.
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Crest Avenue
Shirley Street
Washington Ave
Bates
Winthrop St
Pleasant St
Sunnyside Pleasant
Bartlett Road
Pauline Pleasant St
Court Road
Lincoln Road
Lincoln Centre
R. R
Océan View
Magee’s Corner
Revere
Cherry Revere
Summit
Crest Ave
Boston Elevated Railway Time Table Orient Heights to Scollay Square
Public notice details frequent early morning and late night services from Orient Heights Gladstone Street to Scollay Square via tunnel with specific intervals. Included are Sunday schedules, night service from Gladstone Street, and departures from Court Street with omitted Monday morning service. Special charter cars available by request. information at Milk Street office. August 8, 1908.
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Orient Heights
Scollay Square
Gladstone Street
Court Street
Office of Superintendent of Transportation
Milk Street
Winthrop Fire Alarm Instructions And Signals
Public notice listing street alarm boxes, locations, and directions for using fire alarms. Includes box testing dates, central and beach station contact numbers, and names of fire officials. Alerts no school forenoon in a current schedule and outlines step by step how to raise an alarm.
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Kimball’s
Central Station
Beach Station
Tel
F. W. F. Woollcott
H. W. Roberts, Jr
H. N. Bangs
Board of Fire Engineers
New Lodger Alarm Clock Prank Stirs Dormitory
In a Brooklyn Life item a new lodger keeps a ringing alarm clock in the next room to wake others. The fellow explains it is set to ring until a roommate wakes him. The prank prompts amused reactions from fellow lodgers.
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Brooklyn
A Marvelous Cure at the Sanitarium
A German American patient grew obsessed with forgetting English and spoke only German. He was confined in silence at a panitarium where baths were used as treatment. An attendant mixed signals and dunked him in ice cold water shouting in German, yet doctors declared him cured and he discharged next day.
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Ole
Philadelphia Ledger
Domestic Hon Joe Jefferson Story From 1892
An 1892 West Swanzey anecdote relays Joe Jefferson visiting Don Thompson as women cleaned. A hen on Den's carpeted yard is seen pecking ground items, leading to the joke that the “old girl” is getting ready to lay a carpet.
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Joe Jefferson
West Swanzey
Don Thompson
Den
Joe
New York Telegraph
Daintiness in Dough and a Maid of All Work
A west side family seeks a breadmaking maid noting that delicate hands make better bread. They reject sturdy hands as unnecessary, arguing that gentle kneading preserves the dough and yields quality loaves per their New York Globe quotation.
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West Side
New York Globe
Coquelin Defies Easy Labels as Philosopher and Philanthropist
The remarking manager recalls Coquelin as exceedingly charitable and influential for aged actors in France. He cites Coquelin’s talk on charity at the French Actors' home. He notes Coquelin’s view that many call themselves philosophers or philanthropists by narrow definitions.
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Coquelin
France
Maiden at Party Fails to Hide Shameful Flight
A coy maiden at a gathering caused chaos by shrieking running behind a door scratching a young man’s face seven times upsetting a lamp and toppling a piano stool. After a final kiss she fainted and vowed she could never face anyone again. The next day she eloped with a married lightning rod peddler.
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Helaw
Altoona
Kan
Tribune
A Strong Reason Behind Gentle Silence
A prying friend asks Mr. Meekton why he speaks kindly to his wife Henrietta. He replies: self preservation is the first law of nature, not gentleness, explaining his steady restraint.
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Mr. Meekton
Henrietta
Washington Star
Military Valor
The quote reflects on why people revere military bravery and costly valor, questioning whether fearlessness in conflict earns admiration and reward beyond other qualities.
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Thackeray
No Such Good Luck in Nervous Shipboard Sketch
A seaside comic sketch shows a nervous old lady pleading for danger, asking if she will be drowned, while the skipper reassures her there is no danger. The exchange carries dry humor and theater patter in a London Fun style.
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London
Josephine Named Many Ways by Napoleon and Friends
The article traces how Josephine, born Marie Josѐphe Rose, was renamed Josephine by Napoleon. He re christened women in his circle, giving Marianne Elise Caroline Paulette, while Barras kept her as Yeyette. The pope misaddressed letters to Our Sister In Jesus Christ, Victoria Bonaparte.
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Josephine
Yeyette
Marie Josephe Rose
Napoleon
Manta
Marianne
Elise
Annonciade
Caroline
Paulette
Pauline
Barras
Jesus Christ
Victoria Bonaparte
Elba
Prince Eugene
Ruell
Eugene Et Hortense
Cri de
Paris
What’s the matter prompt shocks Sothern on stage
The Minnesota Journal recalls EB A Sothern’s tale of a delayed cue during a comedy. He forgot his line then misread the audience’s panic until a whispered nudge revealed the house had collapsed into convulsions.
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EB. A. Sothern
U. P
Minneapoli? Journal
Iolanthe Title Change During Dress Rehearsal
The article recalls how Arthur Sullivan and William Gilbert feared premature title leaks for Iolanthe. Rehearsals used Perola and on dress night the company switched to Iolanthe. Sullivan joked that Gilbert would not be present and singers should use any name if rattled.
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Arthur ‘Sullivan
Gilbert
Iolanthe
Peer
Perola
Tolanthe
Sullivan
Boston Post
Young’s Impromptu at Welwyn Deanery
Edward Young the author of Night Thoughts and rector of St. Mary’s Welwyn composed impromptu verses in his garden. He walked with two ladies when summoned to the house and quipped at leaving them. He said Thus Adam looked when from the garden driven and thus disputed orders sent from heaven.
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Adam
Heaven
Wife Threatens Suicide Then Feigns Rescue
A quarrel drives a young wife to pretend she would leap from an eight foot window but claims she would not have survived eight stories. The exchange shifts to a bleak note as the husband remarks some wives merely seek pity and never reach safety.
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Sto Ben Sweet
New York Press
One For Every Day Says London Globe Tramps
A London Globe snippet records two tramps debating fashion saying one man owns many outfits and another counters with his own. The exchange highlights urban deprivation and social observation in a concise, period voice.
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London Globe
The Artist and Jabber Quietly Knock in Whispered Scene
In a whispered exchange from Life, the Artist refuses to open the door to Jabber, noting a special knock he gave him to avoid mistaken entry. The Artist’s wife confirms someone is knocking and urges caution as tension builds.
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Jack
Jabber
Conversation Snippet Between Johnnie and Pa
Dialog excerpt shows Johnnie asking if his mother is blind and Pa denying it. A line from Mrs Bowyer mentions a visitor saying the mother would never see forty again, reflecting a domestic scene from the Boston Transcript.
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Johnnie
Not a Crack Shot: A Quip About Marksmanship
A man asserts his aim is truth always truth. An acquaintance retorts that he was always a poor marksman, hinting at inconsistency between words and deeds. The brief exchanges frame a playful clash of ideals and habit.
Man's Fate Lies in Character Not Conditions Mabie Quote
A quotation attributed to Mabie asserts that a man's fate depends on character rather than external circumstances. The brief line emphasizes inner virtue over outward factors.
Will Power at Monte Carlo Casino
A traveler recalls two elderly men at Monte Carlo who consistently bet 3 francs on even chances, never exceeding their goal of 20 francs each. For four months they played calmly, stopping at their fixed target, illustrating disciplined restraint amid the casino’s tempting atmosphere.
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Monte Carlo
Yorkshire
Chambers’ Journal
Family Jars. Schoolmaster to his wife
A London Scraps vignette shows a quarrel over phrasing and a quibble about a letter. The schoolmaster chides his wife for awk ward expressions and accuses her of harassing him. The wife counters with a wordplay about a letter from her father.
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Schoolmaster
Henry Jones
Sunderland
London
Moore of the Nineteenth Kansas Cavalry
Lieutenant colonel Horace L. Moore led the Nineteenth Kansas cavalry with enduring cheer and humor. He was famed for steadfast command and famed for surprising astonishment as a reputed author of one liners akin to Lincoln. A tale recalls Moore berating a returning orderly with a quip about meeting a smiley.
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Horace L. Moore
Kansas Cavalry
Lin
Business Sense of Adirondack Nun Prompts Charity Scheme
A noted Adirondack nun famed for business skill inspires a winter charity tale. A neighbor family faced starvation and received flour pork and wood from locals who could not fully help. The man arranged wood cutting by noncontributors and paid with half the pork and flour, illustrating clever resource use.
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Adirondacks
Lippincott’s
Admirably Equipped Cardinal Mezzofanti Dies at 75
The famed Italian linguist who died at seventy five spoke over fifty languages. He entertained English friends with Yorkshire dialect and delighted French or German visitors with their patois. Lord Byron exclaimed he should have been custodian of the tower of Babel.
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Cardinal Mezzofanti
Yorkshire
Lord Byron
Tower of Babel
Traveler asks breakfast time in Greenland hotel
A traveler at a Greenland hotel asks the clerk when breakfast is served. The clerk quips that breakfast runs from half past March to a quarter to May, reflecting the region’s extended winter darkness and short summer mornings.
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Greenland
Harter's Weekly
After Dinner Speak Burlesque At Ex Change
A brief quip describes Bliggins as a speaker who pretends to resist an after dinner turn then proves unable to be refused. The exchange uses humorous banter to mock the reluctant orator in a social club setting.
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Bliggins
The Quarrel Between Ferdy and Call Tonight
A brief dialogue from the Louisville Courier-Journal hints at a quarrel and a plan to avoid contact. Ferdy is said to spend the evening behind a tree across the street rather than call.
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Ferdy
Louisville Courier-Journal
General John Fremont Buried at Rockland Cemetery
General John C. Fremont, known as the Pathfinder, is buried in Rockland Cemetery Nyack on the Hudson, honoring the 19th century explorer and military leader.
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John ¢. Fremont
Path- Onder
Rockland Cemetery
Nyack
The
Hudson
American pilgrim rises through London theatre circles
The piece recounts a youth who becomes Sir Henry Irving's dresser at the Lyceum after a recommendation by Clarkson. The master showman is exacting about makeup and stage gear, and the dresser defends his work when accused of misusing wigs, insisting the item resembles the human head in spirit.
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London
Henry Irving
Irving
Lyceum Theater
Clarkson
Sir Henry
Character of the Montenegrins in Exile and Prison Tales
London Chronicle recounts Montenegrin patriotism and harsh exile culture. Stories cite a messenger sent from prison to Austrian territory with 3000 florins for the bank who returned, and a Russian intercession request at Cattaro for release. A Hussite quip acknowledges prison as a fact of life, while a guard observes prisoners as they exit, with volunteers covering rifles during absences.
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WJ. Stillman
Cattaro
Prince Nicholas
Cetinie
Breakfast Banter Sparks Weather Talk in Chicago
A new boarder jokes that his hometown had a weather prophet after a string of seasonal comparisons. The comedian remarks that a steak looks cold as winter, coffee feels like November, and the landlady resembles a March day, with others noting her cold, stormy demeanor.
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LT O
Shi
Lincoln's Slim, Precise Speeches and Writings
J A Edgerton praises Abraham Lincoln as a master of concise, carefully chosen words. He notes the clarity of the eve of departure speech and the Gettysburg Address, comparing Lincoln's craft to carpentry where every word fits its place. The essence lies in the soul behind the words.
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Lincoln
Washington
Gettysburg
J. A. Edgerton
Insanity Plea Cited In Lighthearted Exchange
A witty exchange unfolds as a young man admits kissing a woman and claims it was impulsively insane. She questions whether discretion allows a man to kiss, and the dialogue wraps with a light verdict that avoids jury involvement.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Bazaar Plaque Question Prompts Quip From Pretty Booth Host
An old gentleman at a church bazaar asks what the plaque costs. The pretty girl in charge replies one guinea and blushes, saying that’s what the boys all tell her. The exchange captures a lighthearted moment at the sale.
Indestructible Color in Fry's Magazine Verse
A short mock warning on color permanence from Fry's Magazine asserts that indestructible yellow floral dye resists sulphurous fumes. It contrasts with a temporary purple tint produced by a heartsease flower and fumes, claiming yellow persists despite efforts to destroy it.
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Fry’s Magazine
Remembered. In His Will He Directs Debt Collection
A Boston Transcript note recalls an uncle who, in his will, directed executors to collect all loans he had made to his relative. The remark questions whether the uncle remembered the borrower, highlighting the familial financial ties and executor duties.
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Boston Transcript
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