Winthrop Fire Alarm District List and School Schedule
The notice lists locations in Winthrop including Shirley Ave Harbor View Avenue Cottage and Hillside avenues Crystal Cove Fawn Bar avenues Shirley Street Hose House Tewksbury Street near Crest Avenue and others along Revere Street Main Street Emerson Street Hermon Lincoln streets Pleasant Sargent and Johnson avenues Cottage Park Road Woodside Avenue and Seymour Street plus Washington and Elmwood Avenues and Town Hall Box No 22. It details a school signal schedule with three rounds at 8 00 am 11 15 am and 12 45 pm and alarm procedures for firefighters. Central Station and Beach Station contact numbers are provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Shirley
Shirley Ave
Harbor View Avenue
Crystal Cove
Fawn Bar
Pleasant
Sargent Streets
Sargent Street
Johnson Av
Pleasant Street
Cottage Park Road
Cottage Park House
Woodside
Seymour St
Buchanan Streets
Washington and
Elmwood
Washington Av
Thornton Park
Winthrop St
Chester
Town Hall
Pauline Street
Kimball’s Factory
Central Station
Tel
Beach Station
Winthrop Mail Hours and Street Box Collections Schedule
Office hours run 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily with morning and afternoon time slots. money orders and registration available daily. Carrier deliveries at 7:30 a.m., 1:45 p.m., 4 p.m.. collections at several times, Sundays limited. Street letter boxes collected nightly. multiple box locations listed with connected mail flows and sub stations for stamps and money orders. Mails close and arrive times shown for daily, Sundays, and holidays.
Boston Elevated Railway schedules and special car notices
Boston Elevated Railway Company announces service intervals for Scottay Square tunnel routes from Gladstone Street and Orient points, with morning and afternoon schedules, night service times, and Sunday intervals. Special cars may be chartered for balls or theatre parties at 101 Milk Street Room 701. information by telephone or the Supt. of Transportation. May 2, 1908.
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Orient
Scollay Square
Gladstone St
Scottay Square
Court St
Soene
Office of Supt. of Transportation
Milk Street
Boston Revere Beach Lynn R R timetable February 1908
Time table lists weekday and Sunday departures for Boston to Wood Island Harbor View Winthrop centers Highlands Ingalls and Winthrop Beach stations with frequent intervals and note that stated times are not guaranteed and delays not the company’s responsibility. Signed H L Hoyt G T A John A Fenno Superintendent.
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Highlands
Ingalls
P. m
Winthrop
Via Pienso
A. m
Winthrop Beach
M. Viaingalls
The Angry Girl and Her Tempers
A reflective piece on how anger harms women and friendships. It warns that a hot temper rarely leads to good outcomes, leaving lasting regrets and social disrepute. The text contrasts brief storms with lasting damage from repeated rage and loss of perspective.
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Co . Jefferson
Clothes For Voyage On Shipboard Dress Guidance
The article advises practical neat attire for sea travel emphasizing comfort over fashion. It recommends a half worn tailored suit or lightweight shirt waist with a wrap, small hat secured with a chiffon veil, modest shoes, loose gloves, and linen collars. Include a steamer rug and a simple white shirt waist for day and evening wear.
Homemade hair dye and tooth powder from household items
The article outlines a natural hair coloring method using potato parings boiled in water and applied with a comb, plus a rubbing polish with alcohol and olive oil for shine. It also describes a tooth powder recipe with areca nut char and bone powder, plus optional essential oils. A foot care lotion with boracic acid spray and a scented starch powder for stockings are included.
Quotations From Baltimore Chronicle Fragment
A fragmented OCR style excerpt presents a dialogue heavy with quotation marks about an artist named Jover praising a subject for copper hair and a business lover taking stock. The wording is garbled and lacks clear event or context.
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Jover
Bathing Prince and the Martha Gunn Tale
A Brighton royal tale recalls George IV's childhood dipped by Martha Gunn in the sea. An 18th century anecdote recalls the swift rescue by Thomas Smoaker who warned against letting the heir drown. A separate Chicago anecdote jokes about 17 600 mourning hatbands in a store inventory.
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Prince
George IV
Brighton Palace
Brighton
George the
Martha Gunn
Thomas Smoaker
Thomas
Chicago
Ohio
Boston Globe
Misfires of Young Idea
A collection of quirky assertions notes air has weight in a barometer about fifteen pounds per square inch and mercury rising thirty feet if a hole is bored. It also gives odd definitions and facts such as a cuckoo changing forms and the earth’s rapid spinning causing dew. University Correspondent.
The Lords and the Senate in Historical Perspective
The piece contrasts the British Lords as an ancient aristocratic remnant sustaining the monarchy alongside a democratic Commons. It also notes the U S Senate as a product of a constitutional compromise between Nationalists and States' Rights factions, preserving state equality.
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House of Lords
House of Commons
Commons
Senate
United States
No joke about a vase ends in mispronounced punchline
An American and a German exchange lines about humor and boasts of American wonders. The American lists mountains waterfalls and tall trees to claim grand sights. The German responses escalate with agreement. The exchange ends with a misheard punchline about a vase titled as a ‘Hie.’
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America
Boston Correction Turns Porterhouse Into Pricey Joke
Bilkins recently moved from New York to Boston. The other morning he visited a butcher and asked for a porterhouse. The proprietor urbane ly replied that they are not giving anything away this morning, delivering a humorous correction from Harper's Weekly.
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Boston
Bilkins
New York
Butcher's
Harper’s Weekly
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth
A fragmentary aphorism on truth telling and sincerity notes that fear and anger alter honesty and wisdom. The speaker implies restraint and measured response when honesty is required, reflecting a Tacitus quotation ethos about virtue and perception.
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Tacitus
Quote on mosquitoes and malaria in local discussion
A farmer dismisses the claim that local mosquitoes carry malaria noting they are not a threat. The exchange hints at persistence as a path to success and mentions an odd proverb about a hen sitting on a china egg as an exception.
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Corntessel
Washington
Housekeeping Tips For Summer Health And Comfort
Advice on preventing summer health risks in homes. Emphasizes reducing heavy curtains and rugs, using light fabrics, and moth prevention for winter clothing. Recommends cleaning drains weekly, flushing disposal systems, and ensuring safe disposal of waste in areas lacking sewer systems.
A New Cookbook Autograph Project From Friends
A Woman's Home Companion piece explains making an autograph cookbook by soliciting favorite recipes from intimate friends. Collect recipes, bind sheets into a book with vellum or leather covers, and add initials for a personalized gift that showcases each contributor's cooking.
Sewing Tips and Baby Apparel Details
Sewing tips advise threading the needle before cutting to avoid knots. Baby bibs feature cross stitch with coarse embroidery cotton showing animal and bird designs. Describes circular skirts with godet patterns and front points, plus a linen skirt and a small white linen baby coat trimmed with lace and blue forget-me-nots.
Cleaning Suede Gloves Method from Historic Notes
The guide instructs patting suede gloves on the hands then brushing with fuller's earth using a small brush. It notes alternatives using powdered alum or alum equal quantities mixed with earth and mentions an old nail or tooth brush as an excellent tool.
Nature and a Woman's Work
A historical feature extols traditional remedies from roots and herbs used by Indians and early physicians. It credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a potent, widely recognized treatment for women's ailments, contrasting old practices with modern acknowledged cures.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Officers Travel Funds and Embarrassing Advances
A tale from Lippincott's Magazine recalls a Navy officer sent to Sitka to join the Bering patrol who lacked funds for travel. He appealed to the secretary of the navy, was ordered to proceed, and finally received travel money by telegram after reaching Harrisburg.
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United States Treasury
Navy
New York
Sitka
Secretary of the Navy
Harrkburg
Harrisburg
Lippincott’s Magazine
Spoon Men of Yale and the Class of ’71
Yale for years honored by the wooden spoon the top class vote for the most popular man not the highest scholarship The last spoon man was Robe B Lea of Nashville Tenn class of 1871 He later died in Paris The piece notes a public performance the wooden spoon exhibition and a casual gambling remark from the Philadelphia Ledger.
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Yale
Hartford Co
Robe B. Lea
Nashville, Tenn
Paris
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Winthrop Fibre
Shirley Street
Hose House
Tewksbury St
Crest Ave
Shirley St
Sturgis St
Ocean Ave
Pearl Ave
Mermaid
Grover’s
Crest Avenues
Cliff
Temple and
Highland
Revere Street
Geo Twner’s
Revere
Sagamore
Cross
Almont Streets
Bowdoin
Ocean View
Main
Emerson Sts
Hermon
Lincoln Streets
Marshall Sts
Waldemar Ave
Wheelock Street
Bates ~Avenue
Washington Avenue
Winthrop Street
Sunnyside Avenue
Bartlett Road
Court Road
Lincoln
Reed
Centre R. R
Cherry
Summit
Crest Avenue
Green
Ocean Spray
Sea Foam Avenue
Shirley R. R
Cottage Street
Hillside Avenue
Gove’s Wharf
Highlands Station
Sturgis
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Severant
Revere Beach
Lynn R. R
Wood Island
Harbor View
Winthrop Centre
H.L. Hoyt
G. T
John A. Fenno
Ina Teimper
Health and Beauty
Senate and Lords
Noa
Philadephia Ledger
Probate
Tae
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