Boston elevated rail time table and mail hours
Schedule shows Orient Heights to Scollay Square and Gladstone Street to Scollay Square tunnel times with frequent intervals, plus Sunday and night service details. It lists Court Street leaves and special charter cars, then Winthrop Mail Hours with post office services and sub-stations, ending with David Belcher, Supt. and site notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orient Heights
Scollay -Square
Gladstone Street
Scollay Square
Court Street
Mill Street
Bates Avenue
Washington Avenue
Winthrop Street
Pleasant Street
Sunnyside Avenue
Aig Street
Bartlett Road
Pauline Street
Court Road
Lincoln Street
Reed Street
Denie R
Ocean View
Main Street
Revere Street
Cherry
Summit
Highlands Station
Crest Avenue
Ocean Spray
Sea Foam Avenue
Shirley R. R
Cottage Street
Hillside Avenue
Shirley Street
Gove
Winthrop Beach
New York
Boston
Sturgis
David Belcher
Boston Revere Beach Lynn RBEB timetable October 1908
Train schedule lists departures from Winthrop Centre Winthrop Beach and Highlands to Boston via Battery Ingalls and multiple intermediate stations. Includes weekday and Sunday times with frequencies from early morning to after midnight. Governing disclaimer notes departure times not guaranteed and no responsibility for delays. H. L. Hoyt G. T. A. John A. Fenno Superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Winthrop Centre
Battery
Ingalls
Winthrop Beach
H. L. Hoyt
John A. Fenno
Winthrop Fire Alarm Box Locations and School Signals
A historical notice lists fire alarm boxes by intersection in Winthrop with instructions for giving an alarm. It details school signals at box 22 four rounds, and a schedule noting no school forenoon and reduced hours, plus test dates on the first and fifteenth of each month at 9 oclock. The document names officials including F W Woollcott chief and board members with locations for central and beach stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley St
Siren Ave
Harbor View
Cottage St
Hillside Ave
Crystal Cove
Farnbar
Tewksbury St
Shore Drive
Sturgis St
Ocean Ave
Pearl Ave
Mermaid Ave
Beach Road
Locust St
Grovers
Crest
Grovers and
Cliff Jrves
Floyd St
Temple and
Highland
Revere St
George Turner
Opp
Sagamore Ave
Almont
Cross Sts
Winthrop St
Bowdoin
Ocean View
Main
Banks
Hermon
Lincoln
Marshall Sts
Pleasant
Court and
Loring
Waldemar Ave
Wheelock
Sargent
Central Station
Beach Station
W. F. Woollcott
HW. Roberts
List of Letters at Winthrop Post Office Week Ending October 17
The Winthrop post office release shows letters awaiting pickup for the week ending October 17. Names include Kathaleen Allen, Harry Biggs, Frances Christopher, Mabel Currie, E B Drinkwater, Henry Denison, R A Deming, George Dondale, Arthur Games, William Hewins, Mollie McCullough, Mary McGillvary, Flora Page, Ida Smith, Forest Tufts, Frank Turner, H E White, Frank Wood, N L Willet, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop Post Office
Kathaleen’ Allen Harry Biggs
Frances Christopher
Mabel. Currie
E. B. Drinkwater
Henry L. Denison
R. A. Deming
George Dondale
Arthur R. Games
William Hewins
Mollie McCullough
Mary C. McGillvary
Flora Page
Ida H. Smith
E. Tufts
Frank Turner
H.E. White
Frank C. Wood
N. L. Willet
Suit for damages mentioned in casual encounter
In a snappy exchange, As cum questions Dingley about his odd attire. Dingley, tired in football golf and riding clothes, explains he plans to ask Boxley for his daughter, framing his outfit as a suit for damages.
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Ascum
Dingley
Boxley
Philadelphia Press
Mortgagee Sale of Winthrop Lots Nine to Ten and Seven to Eight
Foreclosure of multiple mortgages on Atlantic street parcels in Winthrop Suffolk County Massachusetts to be sold at public auction October 26 1908 at 3 p.m. Parcels nine ten seven and eight lie on a 1907 plan and are bounded by Atlantic Linden streets and neighboring lots with taxes and incumbrances outstanding. Two hundred dollars must accompany the bid. sale terms vary. Katherine L. Branagan assignee holds the mortgage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur F. Stafford
Sr. Bayard Thompson
Suffolk
Atlantic Street
Winthrop
County of Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Frederick H. Gowing
Boston
Mass
Linden Street
Tewksbury
Katherine L. Branagan
School Street
Probate citation for Sarah Marden estate in Winthrop
Commonwealth of Massachusetts cites heirs and interested parties to appear October 22 1908 in Boston probate court over last will and testament of Sarah Marden decedent. Executor Samuel Bartlett Shapleigh of Boston seeks letters testamentary and publication is required weekly for three weeks in Winthrop Sun and Visitor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Marden
Winthrop
Samuel Bartlett Shapleigh
Boston
Suffolk
Winthrop Sun and Visitor
Robert. Grant
Esquire
Arthur W. Dolan
Register
Fumigation and Household Precautions for Contagious Disease
Practical guidance on using sulphur fumigation for diseases like scarlet fever and diphtheria. Steps include sealing the room, stuffing cracks, protecting furnishings, burning sulphur, and maintaining moist conditions. Warns against improper use and suggests washing woodwork after fumigation and burning contaminated items.
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Board of Health
Needlework Notes On Buttonholes Hats And Embroidery
The article describes new vertical and slanted buttonhole cuts to secure buttons, a hem insertion trick using a calling card to hide stitches, revived hand embroidery on waists, a taupe satin waist with brick red floral festoons, and inventive gealing wax hatpins with vivid colors molded by wearers, raising curiosity about hatpin materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Would You Mind Showing Us One of Them
A chauffeur ferries tourists through the residence district while a portly dowager admires the so called Oliver Wendell homes. She asks to see one, recounting her hearing of the mansions as the tour proceeds.
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Metropolis
Nabob
Oliver Wendel
San Francisco
Resigned on flare of dismissal threats at work
A reader notes a tense exchange with a boss warning Willie to leave or be kicked out, leading to the speaker resigning. The notes reference a teacher, Washington’s farewell and a comic strip line about conscience and wealth as not always neighbors, cited from illustrated bits and the New York Sun.
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Willie
A Sailors Christening Folklore From Harper's Weekly
A Harper's Weekly writer recalls Bishop Potter performing a christening in a Massachusetts fishing village. A nervous father holds his infant girl but turns the child toward the font with awkward confusion. An aged mariner shouts guidance, humorously instructing to head her up to the wind.
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Bishop Potter
Massachusetts
Harper’s Weekly
Throw Em Down Babies
A father muses on why babies drop or throw objects, noting the delight in others picking them up. He recalls his child Mycy who enjoyed a rubber toy, now despising it when free, dropping it instantly with laughter, hinting at a psychological trigger someday.
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Mycy
The holy grail as vessel not blood in Spenser notes
In a quoted passage a claim about the holy grail as the blood of Christ is corrected. Thomas Warton is cited noting the grail is the vessel not blood, though legends say it contained Christ’s blood. Armoric legend and Villemarque describe the jewel as a diamond from Satan’s crown, with great as old French meaning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Warton
Spenser
Joseph
Arimathea
Satan
Michael
M. de Villemarque
Percival
London
A Poor Defense Ruse About Wine and Water
A lawyer recounts a valet accused of drinking wine. The master suspects dilution, while the valet denies drinking, denies filling, and claims adding brandy to keep strength. The exchange highlights a comical misdirection about honesty and deception.
Two Great Orators in Classical Contrast
A compilation notes Demosthenes superior to Cicero as an orator. It contrasts their methods, with Demosthenes’ careful prep versus Cicero’s extempore style, noting neither relied on manuscripts. The piece also quotes various eighteenth and nineteenth century remarks and reflections on language and restraint.
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Demosthenes
Cicero
New York American
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Boston Elevated Railway Company
Winthrop Mail
Boston, Revere Beach
Lynn
Beachmont
Crescent Beach
Bath House West Lynn
P.media Ingalls
A.M
Winthrop Highlands
Winthrop Fire Alarm
Commonwealth. OF Massachusetts
Ireland
Los Angeles Times
Flanders
Louis van Berghem
France
Charles the Bold
Charles
Nancy
Andrew Jackson
Tennessee
Smith
Old Hickory
Jackson
St. Paul
E. H. Sothern
Lyons
Sothern
Claude Melnotte
Virginia Harned
Pauline
Beausant
Claude
Arthur Lawrence
New York World
Johnny
Washington
New York Sun
Erudite
Friene
Henrii
Thaen
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