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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1909
Page
7
Weekday and Sunday train times from Boston to Orient Heights Beachmont Crescent Beach Winthrop Lynn and stations in Winthrop with frequent departures to late evening. Includes Winthrop Centre Ingalls Battery schedules and baggage restrictions. Officials Hoyt and Fenno sign off.
Orient Heights to Scollay Square and Orient Heights to Scollay Square via Tunnel list early morning to midnight intervals. Sunday service times include 6.21 and late-night departures from Gladstone street. Special charter cars available. inquiries to Superintendent of Transportation, 101 Milk Street, Room 701. August 8, 1908.
Winthrop post office hours for weekdays 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. holidays 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Sundays stamps and general delivery 9.30 to 10.30 a.m. Mails dispatched on weekdays at 8 a.m. 11 a.m. 2 p.m. 5 p.m. 9.30 p.m. Revere extra 3.45 p.m. Addresses sub stations at 45 Crest Ave 132 Shirley St 478 Shirley St. Street boxes collected daily at 9.36 p.m. plus other holiday and Sunday times. Carriers deliver 7.30 a.m. 1.30 p.m. 4.10 p.m. Superintendent David Belcher urges including street numbers on mail.
A historical notice lists numerous street corners and avenues in Winthrop as fire alarm points. It also provides school signals timing and instructions for giving an alarm when a fire is discovered, directing to nearest box and how to operate it.
Eighteenth century Europe faced a beggar crisis in Bavaria and other German states. Military units were deployed to arrest and punish professional beggars. In Cologne a city of about 40 000 people nearly 10 000 paupers were recorded.
A reader cites a humorous remark about a sonnet titled The Charge of the Light Brigade. Rondeau Rimer mocks the piece while paying a monthly gas bill, joking that the meter is wrong as a setup to the cashier.
A missionary laments that in China life is valued lightly. He claims wealthy individuals can hire others to die for them, and many poor men earn a living by serving as substitutes for condemned victims.
A fragment depicts a couple arguing about necessities and luxuries. The husband explains returning home late in a taxicab as a necessity, reflecting household tension and modern urban life.
Copyright filing notes a 1909 Boston musical work by C A White titled In memory of our fallen heroes Decoration day The Voice of Peace for male voices registered in Library of Congress with owner rights claimed under U S copyright laws.
A humorous anecdote from Youths Companion about a librarian and a schoolteacher misunderstanding cataloging. A request for Iremeth eus Unbound yields no unbound books. The Gold Bug is found under Entomology after a lesson in misclassification. A Western club president also seeks Poe and is directed to Mechanics or Horology in the card catalog.
Page anecdotes describe a bustling bank telephone room where a single talkative caller delays others, followed by a feature on Roumania's crown princess Marie of Edinburgh running a 25 million toothpick factory near Bucharest. She plans quill pen ventures as European fashion trends revive grandmotherly customs.
A terse adage warns that constant exertion dulls tools and temper. It argues a housewife sustains efficiency by regular change and recreation, lest duties wear her down.
Working people in England use savings clubs across shops pubs and schools to accumulate funds for the festive season. Withdrawals begin in December as banks often pay out large sums to clubs, with deposits reaching substantial totals and careful cash distribution among members.
Easter Island spans forty seven square miles, volcanic in origin, with extinct craters and over fifty carved statues up to seventy feet tall. Remains include stone houses and undeciphered incised tablets. Population plunged from polyandry and emigration to 160 by 1860s. many were taken by Peruvians in 1863 for labor. Since 1888 Chile has used the island as a convict station.
In Act II Wilkins laments partnership losses and half profits while Tilkins prods him to run affairs. The scene shows prior failure and later wealth, with a moral about a partner's ruinous influence as London Scraps notes.
The Westminster Gazette notes that fear of premature burial led famous individuals to arrange bodily interventions by doctors. Harriet Martineau willed funds for head amputation, Lady Burton for heart piercing, Edmund Yates for jugular severance with a fee, and others like Berkeley Lytton Andersen and Wilkie Collins took precautions.
Elzena, four, learns vaccination in kindergarten and asks if promotion will come on her arm or leg. The mother reassures as the new experience is explained and passed. The anecdote from the New York Times captures a child’s innocent interpretation of school milestones.
The piece notes that in Germany asparagus is tender and flavorful because the outer skin is peeled from each stalk before cooking. It claims peeling is essential for quality and can be done quickly with a sharp knife, though it seems slow at first, and it is worth the effort per Good Housekeeping.
A fragment from the Louisville Courier Journal notes the irony of predictions, with voices debating whether anyone truly foresees the unforeseen and who claims to have been right.
Dialogue shows Hawkins asking about a doctor and Robbins hoping for release. Puck comments on silence and social shunning, reflecting attitudes toward illness and communication in the piece.
A Victorian note recalls hidden wealth in a double bottom of a grand four poster bed at the Blue Boar. Richard II slept there after Bosworth Field, later Elizabethan hosts found ancient gold coins concealed within the bed, some dating to Richard II’s era.
The Osage in earlier Missouri migration days crossed the Neosho region during a hot trek to southern Kansas. An Indian rider slid into deep water, muttering Wugh Neosho meaning water pocket, and the stream name endured with that meaning in Anglicized form.
In a Little Rock bound smoker, Atkinson boasts about a hard daily routine and simple meals of corned beef and corn bread as the key to lifelong health. A stranger interrupts asking what crime he has served for, per the Minneapolis Journal.
A nostalgic Bengali English advertises a traveling Indian circus with acts including horse tricks, a clown, a lady on horseback, a rubber-like bending performer, a trapeze routine, and a wire-walker described as a professor, promising grand displays and audience laughter.
Berkey asks his wife if she told anyone a night earlier secret while she replies she did not realize it was a secret. The exchange highlights curiosity and playful misunderstanding in a domestic setting reported by the Boston Globe.
Visitors toured Kew Lunatic asylum in Victoria. One observer glanced at a clock and asked if it was correct. A patient nearby retorted that it wouldn’t be right inside the asylum.
An orator warned that the worst enemy of any cause is a double in the form of half a truth. The newspaper paraphrased the remark as a double eye in the stripe of half a tooth.
A fragment from a Boston Transcript item uses archaic dialogue about a man addressing a woman and mentions Eve, reflecting a conversational aside rather than a full narrative. The text is partially legible and presents a dated tone without clear names or events.
A brief exchange contrasts a single new start with a broader effort. One speaker claims reform begins with small steps while another argues even a complete reset would not guarantee decency. The dialogue highlights skepticism about personal change.
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