Sale locations for Winthrop Sun and Visitor copies
Copies of this paper, at 5 cents each, are on sale at several outlets including A. T. Bangness opposite Highland Station in Boston, Revere Beach and Lynch Depot, Winthrop Beach News Co. opposite Beach Station, J. H. Totman's News Agency at Jefferson and Winthrop Streets, Brown's Pharmacy in Wadsworth Block Centre, W. B. Thayer Ocean Spray Pharmacy, Elizabeth Rippay variety store opposite Centre Station, and the Lewis Block office on Washington avenue.
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Keiths Amusement Empire Opens 1908 Boston Season
B F Keith launches the Boston Theatre Stock Company and linked venues the Boston Bijou and Keiths with Sotherns If I Were King. The trio forms a city wide entertainment complex with top stock casts, vaudeville and moving pictures drawing over 125000 weekly patrons. Opening night fills the theatre to capacity as new stars are welcomed and the company receives a standing ovation.
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Th’s
B. F. Keith
Boston
Sothern
Old South Meeting House
Faneuil Hall
Bijou
Keith
United States
Keith’s
Boston Theatre
Boston Theatre Stock Company
Kellh's
Atlantic
Pacific
Mr. Keith
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A short classified offer promotes a yearly subscription for two dollars. The message emphasizes saving money and securing a full year of service.
Zeke de Lussan to Head Keith’s Theatre Week of November 9
Vaudeville stages feature Zeke de Lussan the grand opera prima donna famed for Carmen interpretations. Joe Hart presents Bathing Girls with a large costumed cast and strong comedic spice. Charles E Evans and Company perform a sketch It’s Up to You William, marking Evans long standing popularity in Boston vaudeville circles.
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Zeke de Lussan
Keith's
Miss de Lussan
Boston
Ideal Opera Company
Carmen
America
Joe Hart
Mr. Hart
Bathing Girls
Charles E. Evans
William
Evans
Hoey
Hoyt
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall heads Boston Theatre bill
The Boston Theatre plays Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall in a Paul Kester dramatization. Frank Losee stars in one of his greatest hits with Miss Gordon in the title role and a melodrama set in Derbyshire during Elizabeth I. The stock company promises strong parts for many cast members.
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Boston Theatre
Frank Losee
Paul Kester
Dorothy ‘Vernon
Haddon , Hall
Charles Major
Miss Gordon
Dorothy Vernon
Dorothy
Sir John Manners
Derbyshire
Queen Elizabeth
Mary
Queen of Scots
Playhouse
Haddon Hall
Trolley Boarding Lessons at Brooklyn High School
Miss Jeanette Trowbridge of Eastern District High School in Williamsburg has built a gymnasium trolley car to teach twelve girls per class how to board and alight safely. The device, with side grips and a running board, trains proper exit and entry to reduce daily accidents. The instructor funded the platform herself and seeks district support for wider adoption.
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Brooklyn
Jeanette Trowbridge
Eastern District High School
Williamsburg
Trowbridge
Miss Trowbridge
Australia to Advertise For Emigrants in UK Press
The Australian government plans emigration bureaus like recruiting offices with examinations and land certificates for accepted migrants. It notes Australia’s high wages and low unemployment, contrasts with England’s 1,000,000 unemployed, and describes a daily meal allowance and supposed idle lifestyle among the unemployed used to argue for migration.
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Board of Trade
Commonwealth of Australia
United Kingdom
Australia
Europe
London
England
Theatrical Notes on New Klaw & Erlanger Productions
Pauline Phelps and Marion Short develop A Kentucky Boy in rehearsal as a new field for stage use. Lillian Russell tours Boston in Childfire with director Joseph Brooks and a strong company. Lewis Carroll’s Hunting of the Snark is praised as a pinnacle of humor. The Skipper and Nemo productions are noted alongside a reference to ancient lex diconaria storks law.
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Pauline Phelps
Marion Short
Klaw & Erlanger
Lillian Russell
Boston
Liberty Theatre
New York
Joseph Brooks
Miss Russell
Lewis Carroll
Joseph Cawthorn
Billy B. van
Harry Kelly
Little Nemo
New Amsterdam Theatre
Harvard Professor Says Marrying Low Incomes Is Wrong
Harvard economics professor Thomas Nixon Carver argues in a special article that men earning under 800 a year should not marry, claiming such unions harm the nation. He links low wages to larger family growth and argues immigration and births will depress the standard of living.
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Harvard
Thomas Nixon Carver
Department of Eonomics
Harvard University
Railroad Tie Farm Seeks Famine Solution
The Pennsylvania Railroad pioneers a plan to curb a famine of railroad ties. A large tract of the company land at Morrisville near Trenton is set aside for a forest reservation to supply timber.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Morrisville
Trenton
And They Both Had Wheels In A Vehicle Marriage
A fragment notes a marriage described as a vehicle union. It contrasts a woman praised for graceful carriage with a man noted for college status, set against Chicago references and sporadic names Neys. The passage reads as a clipped, era tone slang piece with incomplete details.
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College Wach
Chicago
Neys
Misplaced Sympathy Over Almanac of World Events
A Frenchman mourns each date from an almanac listing world events. He laments anniversaries from Bayard’s death in 1524 to Musset, Caviagnac, Joan of Arc, Marat, Beranger, Napoleon’s St Helena exile, Dieppe bombardment, and the Saint Bartholemew massacre, dying after a fever on the 22nd.
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Crape
Chevalier-Bayard
Bayard
Alfred de Musset
Caviagnac
Joan of Arc
Marat
Beranger
Napoleon
St. Helena
Dieppe
St. Bartholomew
New York Sun
Eloquence of the Welsh A brief English view in Wales
A Chicago News anecdote portrays a Welsh speaker boasting that Welsh conveys exact meaning without gestures. The Englishman in the tale is urged to learn Welsh while noting Welsh eloquence versus English as a dialect.
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Wales
Chicago News
Beginning of Fife Wheat in America
A century ago David Fife a Scotch settler from Otonabee Ontario sent seed wheat to Scotland. A vessel from Danzig carried fall wheat that grew in spring after sowing. Three surviving heads showed rust resistance and became the seed of a new spring wheat variety.
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David Fife
Otonabee
Ont
Glasgow
Danzig
America
Agnes Co. Laut Fn Outing Magazine
Pet cock enjoys mirror gazing and tea visits
A London Spectator correspondent notes a pet pea cock that spends long periods looking at his reflection in windows and a looking glass. The bird enters the room with tea, seeks bright objects, and nudges closer if not spoken to, behaving like a well behaved child.
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The
London Spectator
Lost Charm of the Wayside Inn
In Blackwood's Magazine a critique laments England inns once celebrated in Harrison’s era now degenerate to necessity visits. The author mocks Stephenson for the Manchester to Liverpool line, suggesting it ruined wayside inns and the craft of cooking.
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England
Harrison
Stephenson
Manchester
Liverpool
Blackwood’s Magazine
Iceberg Fears Dismissed By Calm Ocean Liner Captain
A frightened lady aboard an ocean liner asked the captain about collision dangers. He replied that the iceberg would move on as if nothing happened, leaving the passenger reassured by his calm, reassuring answer.
Weather Scrapes Streets in Unsettled Preseason
Inquirer records a brisk morning exchange about the unsettled weather. Mrs Hashley notes the bold bill as Mr Skinner prompts discussion of the volatile conditions.
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Skinner
In a Bad Way Doctor Warns About Eating Worry
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote notes a doctor advising against eating when worried. The reader counters by asking if constant worry means never getting food. The exchange highlights anxiety affecting appetite and access to meals.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Couldn't Scream. A kiss kept silent by fear and family
A fragment compares fear of screaming to being overheard by a mother in the next room. It then jokes a riddle: a farmer gathers what he sows, while a dressmaker sows what she gathers.
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Mamma
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Gabler
Shoninger
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Winthrop Beach
Winthrop Hardware Company
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Magee’s Corner
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