Winthrop Fire Alarm Box No 22 Schedule
A Kingston style listing of alarm box locations in Winthrop with a detailed schedule for three rounds of signaling at Box No 22. It includes times 8:00, 11:15, and 12:45 for different school periods and instructions to stand at the box when alarms ring. It notes how to respond to alarms with two and three blows and the testing dates on the 1st and 15th of each month. Central and Beach stations are given contact numbers.
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Central Station
Tel
Beach Station
Winthrop Mail Hours and Sub Station Locations
The Winthrop post office operates 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, Sundays 9.15 to 10.15 a.m. Money orders and registration windows have set hours. Mail deliveries occur at 7.30 a.m. 1.45 p.m. and 4.20 p.m. daily, with additional Sunday times. Street boxes collected at 9.30 p.m. daily. Sub stations 95 Crest Ave opp Highlands, 144 Shirley St, 56 Shirley St car. Mails close times and arrival times listed. Supt. is Davi Betcuze.
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Bates Avenue
Washington Avenue
Winthrop Street
Pleasant Street
Sunnyside Avenue
Bartlett Road
Pauline Street
Court Road
Lincoln
Reed
Centre R. R
Ocean View
Main
Revere Street
Cherry
Summit
Highlands
Crest Avenue
Green
Ocean Spray
Sea Foam Avenue
Shirley R. R
Cottage Street
Hillside Avenue
Shirley Street
Sturgis
Davi Betcuze
Dainty Perfumes for Linen and Personal Scents
Practical guide to making subtle fragrances for clothing and home linens. It describes blending cedar wood, lavender, benzoin, cloves, and cinnamon for sachets, plus potpourri recipes with lavender, rose leaves, orris root, and salt. It notes aging in jars and hints at sandalwood and rose geranium blends for body linen.
Household notes offer tips on everyday maintenance
Practical household advice covers broom care and storage, cookbook page keeping with elastic bands, tin ware mending with brown paper and flour paste, toe padding with chamois, reusing window shades, hair care through brushing, and a tea bag variation using cheesecloth.
Apple Dumplings Cookery Guide Poem
An instructional verse describes making apple dumplings with dough like butter biscuits. Roll thin, place a apple, add butter cinnamon and sugar, seal, prick, bake slowly, finish with a hard sauce and serve hot for a prized dish.
Embroidered Eyelet Stockings Offer Thrifty Glamour
The article shows how to transform plain silk stockings into decorative pieces with eyelet work. Use floss to match shades, add lace inserts carefully to avoid fraying, and consider monograms or flowers for gifts. Silk stockings can cost 1 to 2 dollars, providing inexpensive stylish options.
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Christus
Living Room Wall Treatments with Denim and Indian Prints
Recommendations for living room wall decor favor quiet backgrounds in russet brown or green denim with a bright frieze or plain contrasting color. Avoid chintz or cretonne, suggest denim or grass cloth with stenciled designs, and advise testing stains on sample wood before matching wall colors.
Household Hints for Stoves Dishes and Carpets
A teakettle with bottom removed serves as a heat cover for irons on gas stoves. Rub an aluminium kettle with kerosene soaked flannel, then wash rinse and polish. Borax water softens baked-on dish residue. Use newspaper on ironing boards as a pad. A faded carpet can be repurposed by painting it with a thick first coat of yellow ocher and subsequent coats for a durable finish.
Varieties of canna plants bloom with vibrant colors
The canna shows remarkable variation from orchids to gladiolus like hues. Foliage ranges green to deep purple, with spikes bearing many flowers. Originally red, cultivars now include pink, rose, scarlet, lemon, and other orchid-like varieties. Roots must be reset yearly but may be saved indoors. Inside window boxes perk up in hall rooms, while sun is essential for living rooms in winter.
The Pessimist Steals Cheer From Friends
The passage defines the pessimist as a mental house robber who depresses others with gloomy talk and complaints about ailments. Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s lines warn that such talk harms the cheerfulness of friends and leaves both speaker and listener poorer.
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Ella Wheeler -Wilcox
Almond Meal Skin Care Tip
A short note recommends almond meal to keep skin smooth and white. It suggests using it in place of soap or rubbing on hands when almost dry.
The Dublin Ape and the Royal Visit
A Dublin story recounted by St James Gazette about a famous ape that adored the principal of an establishment. After a royal visitor distracted the host, the ape sulked and declined health, showing a last gesture of reconciliation before dying from consumption.
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Grant-Duff
Dublin
Coventry
St. James
The Wrong Goldsmith Evening Tale Turns To Confusion
A political speaker recalls a heckler named Harry Loff in a courtroom style parody of Goldsmith. The audience member challenged the barked verse and struck a nearby man after mistaking the allusion for the dead poet. The scene ends amid a brief mêlée and clarifications.
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Harry Loff
Mr. Loff
Goldsmith
Loff
Physician’s Whisky Dose Confusion in Irish Tale
A doctor prescribes an ounce of whisky three times daily to an Irishman. Days later the man appears heavily drunk, prompting the wife to explain she interpreted one ounce as sixteen drams, and Pat has been taking that amount regularly, not realizing the measurement error.
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Pat
Dochter
London
Beauty of Inequality and Diversity in the Universe
Alexander Campbell argues that beauty and happiness arise from inequality and diversity. The text extols variation in mountains, worlds, minds, and faces, asserting that difference across sexes, conditions, empires, nations, and families drives action and pleasure in multiple forms.
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Alexander Campbell
The Jewel of Forgiveness
A brief meditation on forgiveness as a healing act and its social cost. The speaker notes reconciliation absolves weaknesses and remembers the archangel who never felt anger, while forgiveness transforms wound into a pearl.
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Richter
Importance of the Engineer in Social Progress
The engineer, in the broadest sense, will grow ever more essential to social progress. Society’s future well being will depend largely on his labors and inventiveness, more than those of any other class.
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Cassier
Visiting Us Protests Protect Our Guests
A witty exchange plays out between a New Yorker and a Chicago guest. The New Yorker sneers about hog killing time, while the Chicago visitor retorts that they protect their guests and invites the writer to visit.
Harmless Then Mother and Son-in-Law Quip
A light exchange from Fliegende Blatter portrays a mother commenting on her daughter's cooking ability and the future son-in-law noting it is not crucial as long as she does not attempt it.
A Bird Puzzle From The St. Louis Republic
In a childlike question Jamie asks why birds seek worms when they could lay eggs and eat them instead. The piece reflects simple natural curiosity and playful language from a reader in the St. Louis Republic.
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Jamie
St. Louis Republic
Boston Elevated Railway Schedule Notice
Orient Heights to Scollag Square via tunnel. Morning service intervals six to eight minutes until noon Sunday June 23. Night service to North Ferry with specific times. Special cars available for balls and excursions at 101 Milk Street Room 701. Superintendent of Transportation to provide rates and connections by phone. Vice President omitted Monday morning.
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Orient HebuTs
ScoLiag Square
North Ferry
Office of Supt. of Transportation
Milk Street
A Lesson In Language From A Mr Malaprep
A humorous abroad tale recounts Mr Malaprep visiting Europe and praising Rome and its churches but bungling terms. He jokes about the Sistine Chapel and vaccines while mispronouncing beggars, saying he refused pennies to avoid a bad prestige.
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Malaprep
Europe
Rome
New York Times
Dinner talk reveals bashful man and lively reader
In a dinner scene a bashful man is drawn out by a woman who asks about books. He expresses strong interest in Hugo and says he has read several of his works, admitting he has only read three of Ninety Three. A separate anecdote follows about a possum dish priced high at a crossroads hotel. Another quip features a minister, a mother, and a child discussing guardianship in a court case.
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Hugo
Hlave
His Ground
A brief London Opinion quip on marriage and affection contrasts a partner’s devotion with reluctance to wed a much older suitor. The exchange highlights affection for the beloved’s presence versus practical obstacles to union.
No Hindrance Exchange Scene and Social Note
A brief exchange shows a man asking for the next dance and a woman declining due to engagement. The dialogue shifts to marriage and social odds. The text notes a trend that many Japanese pursue their father's profession, implying inherited work patterns in a concise social observation.
A Matter of Business
The Winthrop Sun and Visitor notes many locals, lodges, churches plan entertainments for charity or worthy goals. They will print suitable reports if notified or if tickets are received, but charge for preliminary announcements with admission fees based on space used. Rates are low but apply to all groups.
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Treasuries
Winthrop Sun
Gentlemen's Cafe and Moorish Room Advertises Rooms
A historic notice promotes the heart of 500 Rooms 300 Bath Room European Plan Cuisine in a Gentlemen's Cafe with a Ladies Restaurant and Moorish Room. It offers single rooms and suites with or without bath starting at 1.00 per day, inviting readers to request a booklet from ROBERT P. MURPHY.
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Robert P. Murphy
Why do women insist on matinees for crying
A reader questions why women attend matinees to cry and ponders whether men seek out pok games for fresh financial worry. The dialogue contrasts gendered motives and anxieties in a terse exchange.
Twenty Minutes Wait At Rail Carriage Told Sharp
A traveler challenges a railway restaurant tender about the wait time. The attendant clarifies the traveler had only twenty minutes to eat before the train departed. The exchange ends with the train already gone.
Joys of Absence in Bermuda Roads
A Bermudan life note states pedestrians have right of way on all roads. Carriages horses and bicycles must halt for the man on foot as mornings are spent reading letters and afternoons answering them.
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George
Lyn Life
Bermudan
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