Fire alarm box locations and schedule at Crystal Cove area
A listing of fire alarm box locations includes Shirley Ave Harbor View Avenue Crystal Cove Fawn Bar avenues Shirley Street Hose House Tewksbury Street near Crest Avenue and other streets. Box No. 22 has three ringing rounds 8 00 am 11 15 am and 12 45 pm with instructions to stand at the box and direct the department. Central Station and Beach Station contact numbers are provided.
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Shirley Ave
Harbor View Avenue
Crystal Cove
Fawn Bar
Shirley Street
Hose House
Tewksbury St
Crest Ave
Shirley St
Sturgis St
Ocean Ave
Pearl Ave
Mermaid Av
Grover’s
Crest Avenues
Cliff
Temple and
Highland
Revere Street
Geo. Turer's
Central Station
Tel
Beach Station
Winthrop Mail Hours and Operations Schedule
City post office hours open daily 7 a m to 8 p m with Sunday 9 15 to 10 15 a m. Money order window 8 a m to 6 p m. Registration window 7 a m to 8 p m. Carriers deliver at 7 30 a m 1 45 and 4 20 p m. Mails close 7 45 11 00 1 30 4 45 7 30 8 00 p m daily.
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Bates Avenue
Washington Avenue
Winthrop Street
Pleasant Street
Sunnyside Avenue
Bartlett Road
Pauline Street
Court Road
Lincoln
Reed Street
Centre R. R
Ocean View
Main
Revere
Cherry
Revere Street
Summit
Highlands
Crest Avenue
Ocean Spray
Sea Foam Avenue
Shirley R. R
Cottage Street
Hillside Avenue
Shirley Street
Gove’s Wharf
Winthrop Beach
Good Taste in Dress Reflects Character in Women
The piece argues that tasteful dressing shows restraint and practicality, not high spending. It warns against loud fashion and exaggerated style, linking vanity and selfishness to those who overemphasize appearance while praising modest, well-chosen attire.
Wet Weather Shoe Flap Keeps Melted Snow Out
A storm boot design uses a side overlapping flap that clamps over the lacing to seal the interior. The flap blocks melted snow from entering and directs it away from the stocking, solving common leakage in storm footwear.
Box Couch Dust Defense and Mrs Palmer Coin Collection
The box couch proves its usefulness as emergency bed or closet with a dust resistant fix using a kitchen tablecloth flap and yellow paper lining. Mrs Potter Palmer seeks coins medals and clasps for her expanding collection while adding porcelain and tapestries from her London house.
Snow Eaters and Chinooks Warm Winds From Mountains
The article describes foehn winds or snow eaters as warm downslope flows from melting snow in mountainous regions. It notes Wonsan Korea and the Rocky Mountains as examples and mentions arctic winds causing a climatic paradox where Greenland can be warmer than southern France during winter despite darkness.
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Wonsan
Korea
North America
Rocky Mountains
Greenland
France
Men Who Help Thieves Rechristeners of Stolen Watches
A London Standard report explains the professional rechristener who alters watch names and numbers to disguise ownership. Engravers add or modify figures and initials to mislead pawnbrokers, making stolen property harder to trace.
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J. Robins
TJ. Robinson
London Standard
Why is the Ocean Salt The Creator Made It Purify Land
A Marine Journal essay extols the ocean as a purifier and purifier by turning foul humors into health. It describes salt as a cleansing agent and the sea as a great manufacturer that digests and renders things pure. It suggests deep breathing at sea improves lungs and circulation.
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Boards of Health
Marine Journal
Grim Hungarian Epitaph of a Violent Family
A Debrescia cemetery stone reads a brutal family tale with multiple murders and suicides. The inscription memorializes Joseph Moritz Sr his sons and daughter and notes imprisonments and patricide in a stark moral plea. A local literary association funded the stone with 7500 dollars.
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Debrescia
Hungary
Joseph Moritz
Elizabeth Moritz
Wager of Battle Abolished After 1817 Case
In 1817 Richard Thornton accused of murdering Mary Ashford invoked a wager of battle in open court. He threw down his glove and challenged his accuser but the accuser declined combat and Thornton was discharged. Lord Ellenborough ruled the practice legal, prompting a field to be set. Parliament soon abolished the privilege.
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Richard Thornton
King’s Bench
Mary Ashford
Lord Ellenborough
England
Thornton
Picking on Him, A First Grade Challenge
A first grade boy once brought home perfect spelling papers for weeks, then began missing five to six of ten. When his father questioned, the boy blamed the teacher's fault, saying she moved the neighbor who sat beside him. The quote attributed to Lippincott's hints at classroom dynamics affecting performance.
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Lippincott’s
Practical advice from a misanthrope on self protection
The speaker warns against shouting murder during a night attack and instead suggests yelling fire to trigger a rapid evacuation. The quip implies social indifference to violence but prompt flight when a fire alarm is raised.
Silence and Patience Amid Domestic Dispute Quips
A Milwaukee Sentinel excerpt features a quip about choosing the outside during marital argument clashes and a biblical reassurance on divine silence and patience from Robinson. The brief reflects conversational wit and moral reflection in a newspaper quote column.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Carriere's Rise in Acceptance and Recognition
The passage traces Carriere's progression from initial obscurity to growing praise by artists, critics, the public, and the ministry of fine arts. By 1889 he earned honors and in 1890 his work shown at Salon du Champ de Mars began to be seen as sincere and technically skilled, revealing a sculptural solidity in his heads and figures.
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Carriere
Ministry of Fine Arts
Salon du Champ de Mars
The Herrings Heads and Bach’s Miracle Tale
A London Academy note recounts Johann Sebastian Bach as a young man who, destitute on a journey, found herring heads outside an inn containing coins. This miracle enabled him to return to Luneburg to hear the Hamburg organist Reinken, illustrating Bach’s early faith in wonders.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach
Hamburg
Reinken
Luneburg
London Academy
What Barbers Must Know from the Times-Democrat
A barber laments being looked down on while noting the vast scope of modern barbering. He argues barbers must master shaving, cutting, beard care, facial massage, singing, wigmaking, dyeing, and various lotions, tonics, and depilatories.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Rice In the Salt
A New York Press note explains a trick to keep salt dry in humid weather. Heat a teaspoon of rice, place it in the salt shaker, and the rice absorbs moisture making the salt flow freely. Twenty grains of rice suffice for a small shaker.
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New York Press
A Peripatetic Investment
A Frenchman attempted a scallop plantation on a New England beach placing thousands of scallops in shallow water. The next day all the scallops had fled, proving the creature’s swift, active movement once grown.
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New England
Literary Club Night Recalled With Humorous Verse
A humorous exchange shows a wife scornfully accusing her husband of reciting poetry at a late literary club. He recalls the scene with a wry line about chips that pass the night, reflecting playful banter from the Baltimore American.
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Baltimore American
His Cleverness
A witty exchange about ambition and laziness contrasts climbing to the top with choosing a lowly place at the bottom where space is abundant. The dialogue frames cleverness as contentment or strategic retreat.
Note Declares Drugstore Request in Sharp Quotation
A drug store proprietor received a curt note written in an angular feminine hand demanding a product name spelled as glisserine instead of vasseline. The missive ends with a plain assertion and a dismissive tone.
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Vasseline
An Exacting Trainer Behind Long Distance Winner
A Chicago Record-Herald quip notes Spriggins won a long distance walking match. The joke reveals his trainer was his ten month old baby, implying fate guides the willing and stubborn effort.
Boston Elevated Railway timetable notice 1906
Timetable subject to change without notice shows service from Orient Heights to ScoLlay Square via tunnel with start times 5.23 and 5.38 a.m. and frequent intervals up to noon, late night service to North Ferry, and options to charter special cars for balls or excursions. Details available at 101 Milk Street, Room 701. inquiries by telephone. Boston Elevated Railway Company vice president listed.
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Orient Heights
Scollay Square
North Ferry
Office of Supt. of Transportation
Milk Street
Crocodile Tears and the Old World Myth
The St. Louis Republic notes that the phrase crocodile tears stems from travelers who narrated a fable about crocodiles lamenting their prey. It cites Sir John Mandeville in Travels (1499) describing so called cokadrilles, serpents with four feet and long bodies that lurk in water by night and attack men by day.
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Sir John Mandeville
St. Louis Republic
Me and My Father in the Village Emporium
A commercial traveler enter the village grocer shop and asks for Mr. Brown. A fourteen year old boy behind the counter claims to be Mr. Brown, prompting the traveler to realize he is in an era of young men.
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Mr. Brown
London
Ideals Prompt a Man to Renew Resolve
A Brooklyn Eagle excerpt shows a young man declaring ideals and a woman rebuking him. She accuses him of falling short, saying she saw him as ambitious, while he apologizes and resolves to aim higher. The exchange centers on personal growth and social expectations.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Child helps in housekeeping cited by Mrs Smith
A dialogue from Harper's Bazar shows Mrs Smith praising her five year old daughter as a reliable helper who informs the cook when guests are coming. Mrs Randall questions the child's contribution. The exchange highlights domestic tasks suited to a young child.
A Matter of Business
A notice from the Winthrop Sun and Visitor explains that local societies lodges and churches plan entertainments in the coming months for charity or treasury funds. It states reports can be printed if notified and that admission events incur space-based charges, with low rates reflecting a business obligation.
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Treasuries
Winthrop Sun
College Inn Albany Promises Dining And Rooms Below
In downtown Albany a cafe and lodging advertises 500 rooms at 1.00 per day and up. The European plan lists rooms with bath and suites, plus a Moh he Moorish Room. The ad touts popular prices, life, and a booklet from College Inn under Rathskeller near The Albany.
Passport Demand Sparks Dramatic Caucasus Scene
A German woman in the Caucasus faced a police demand for her passport as she lay ill. Her husband, claiming it was twenty years old and useless, argued the request was ill timed. The officer insisted dying without a passport was not acceptable, but she survived.
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Caucasus
Conference Talk on Turkey and Contingent Action
In a Norristown Pa Times discussion a piece conference debate centers on assigning representatives to negotiate and act in a plan to partition Turkey. The exchange features a British voice urging action and a cautious Russian stance on containment.
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Bette
Cotention
Turkey
Norristow
His Big Score Beguiles Golf and Billiard Markers
A witty quip contrasts golf and billiards as a caddie frets over a score. The line questions whether fifteen or sixteen is correct, ending with a drunken remark that shifts the reader to a humorous misread of roles.
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People’s Journal
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Sagamore Av
Almont Streets
Winthrop St
Bowdoin
Emerson Sts
Hermon
Lincoln Streets
Main and
Marshall Sts
Pleasant
Waldemar Ave
Wheelock Street
Sargent Streets
Sargent Street
Johnson Av
Cottage Park Road
Cottage Park House
Woodside
Seymour St
Buchanan
Washington
Elmwood
Washington Av
Thornton Park
Chester
Kimball's Factory
Winthrop
New York
Boston
Highlands Station
Sturgis
Davi Batcuss
Robinson
A. M. Hagerma
Lydia E. Pinkham
A. M. Hagermann
Bay Shore
L. I
J. T. Whitman
Winthrop and
Fort Hell
Boston Elevated Railway Company
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Albany
41St Street
Broadway
Robert P. Murphy
College Inn
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