Boston Elevated Railways schedule Orient Heights to Scollay Square
Boston Elevated Railway Company releases a transit timetable from Orient Heights to Scollay Square via tunnel with morning and night service intervals, special late runs from Gladstone Street, and notes omitted Monday mornings. Applies August 8 1908 and offers chartered special cars for events.
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Orient Heights
Scollay Square
Gladstone Street
Superintendent of Transportation
Milk Street
Winthrop Mail Hours and Sub Stations Detailed
The Winthrop post office hours list daily openings for the indoor offices and mail services. It lists delivery times, collection slots, Sunday and holiday schedules, street box collection times, and the locations of sub stations for stamps and money orders.
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Bates Avenue
Washington Avenue
Wirthrop Street
Pleasant Street
Sunnyside Avenue
Bartlett Road
Pauline Street
Court Road
Lincoln Street
Reed Street
Centre R. R
Post Office
Winthrop Street
Ocean View
Main Street
Revere Street
Cherry
Summit
Highlands Station
Crest Avenue Cor Green
Ocean Spray
Sea Foam Avenue
Shirley R
Cottage Street
Hillside Avenue
Shirley Street
Gove
New York
Boston
Crest Avenue
Sturgis
Timetable for Boston to Winthrop Highlands and Crescent Beach
Public notice of May 28 1906 weekday and weekend train departures from Boston to Orient Heights Beachmont Crescent Beach West Lynn Lynn and all Winthrop stations. Schedules show multiple daily departures with frequent intervals and via Highlands Ingalls and other branches. The timetable notes departures may vary and the company bears no responsibility for changes. H L Hoyt G T A John A Fenno superintendent Winthrop tax sales.
Notices of Taxes Due and Public Auction in Winthrop 1908
The collector of taxes for Winthrop Massachusetts announces that unpaid taxes for 1906 and related charges will be offered at public auction on September 28, 1908, at two o'clock p.m. at the Town Hall. Parcels listed include properties on Read Street Winthrop Street Pauline Street Atlantic Street Crystal Avenue and Shirley Street with specific owner names and balances due.
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Winthrop
County of
Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Fire Alarm Box Locations and School Signals Notice
A long list of fire alarm box locations and street intersections is provided for Winthrop. The notice includes a duty schedule for school signals at Kimball's Factory and directions for giving an alarm, with testing dates on the 1st and 15th and emergency contact numbers for Beach and Central stations.
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Shirley St
Siren Ave
Harbor View
Cottage St
Hillside Ave
Crystal Cove
Farnbar
App
Tewksbury St
Shore Drive
Sturgis
St. Ocean Ave
Pearl Ave
Mermaid Ave
Beach Road
Locust St
Crest
Grovers
Cliff
Floyd St
Temple
Highland
Revere St
George Turner
Sagamore
Almont
Cross Sts
Revere
Winthrop St
Bowdoin
Ocean
View
Main
Banks
Hermon
Lincoln
Marshall
Pleasant
Court and
Lpring
Waldemar Ave
Wheelock St
Pleasant and
Sargent Sts
Sargent St
Johnson Ave
Pleasant St
Cottage Park
Woodside Ave
Seymour St
Buchanan
Washington and Elmwood
Washington Ave
Thornton Park
Chester Ave
Kimball’s
Central Station
Beach Station
H. W. Roberts, Jr
H. N. Bangs
AF. Coggins
Clever Bean Game for Kids on a Painted Board
A simple pine board 10 by 18 inches is divided into two colored halves with circles about two inches wide. Two six inch darts with feathers and needles are used. Softened beans are placed in each circle and a thread attached to the king bean. Players sit opposite each other to play.
Bean bag misdirection game with king beans and darts
The article describes a bean counting dart game where players aim at each other’s beans on a divided board. Players may threaten the king bean to mislead opponents, scoring up to 110 to win. Small felt counters can replace beans for durability.
Return from Europe and the afterglow of travel
A humorous look at travelers recently back from Europe, noting the high stakes of popularity for a month and the long road to regaining friends. It contrasts well traveled talk with skits of boastful or shy reacclimation and the temptations of sharing travel tales.
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Europe
Rome
London
Scotland
Naples
Normandy
Seine
Eiffel ‘Tower
Ber
Hoboken
Swimmers Cramp Not Chief Drowning Cause Expert Says
A Chicago News expert refutes cramp as the main drowning factor. Only abdominal cramps are truly fatal, arms and leg cramps are painful but usually nonlethal. A drowning swimmer cannot tread water and raise hands. if he endures pain and keeps his head, he can often escape.
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Chicago News
Guessing Song About Numbers and Sand
A cryptic verse describes a vast group that governs the sea by numbers and acts as a faithful record of travel. It warns against mischief and secrets and invites lawful play, with mentions of shaping the material into monuments and forts. The note signs off with Nicholas.
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Nicholas
Domestic Living Habits in a Widow’s House
A woman with single beds uses honeycomb mattress spreads bought by the yard and hemmed. Cream white madras curtains endure washing, trimmed with ball fringe. Rugs cover most rooms for easy outdoor weekly cleaning by a single maid. Another woman has luncheon served on a tray in the sitting room. A mourning family outfitters their maid with light cotton white and black dresses to match perpetual mourning.
A Photography Hint For Amateur Cameras
A fixed focus camera should aim to place principal objects at a distance that renders them well without stopping down the lens. Foreground matter should not spoil sharpness, and with good weather and subjects an amateur can create excellent pictures even with no prior experience. The joy of recording holiday incidents may make a camera a lasting companion.
Salt Improves Tenderness and Flavor in Boiled Vegetables
A passage notes that cooking one portion of vegetables in pure water yields inferior, tasteless results while salted water enhances tenderness and flavor in cauliflower cabbage potatoes peas beans and most vegetables. It adds salt raises boiling temperature aiding cooking and even helps drive insects from vegetables in cold water.
The New Figure in Paris Corsetry Draws Backward
A Paris corsetmaker creates a drastic low waist silhouette that hides the bust and hips. The body is swathed in fabric from under the arms to the hips with tight folds below the hips to impede movement. Designers pad waists to match hips, reversing typical ideals and favoring a morbid, corseted look.
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Paris
Madame
Mademoiselle
Della Robbia
Florence
Italy
Liberty
Meteor
Merveilleuse
Do It Well No Matter Task Says 19th Century Advice
A call for girls and women starting careers to embrace every duty with excellence. Emphasizes that all tasks from sweeping floors to painting should be done to the best of one's ability, viewing ordinary chores as opportunities for learning and equal in honor to higher achievements.
Fun as a Necessity in Life and Health
A Success Magazine passage argues humor and fun are essential, not luxuries, reshaping physical and mental vitality. It claims after a genuinely funny play one feels renewed, with tired faculties cleared and renewed energy for thinking and living.
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Success Magazine
The Same Old Story Apropos of the Baby
An old physician known for brusque manners treats a baby with castor oil despite the mother's protest that it is an old fashioned remedy. The doctor insists the remedy is suitable, using the term captor oil and adamant about its efficacy in a humorous exchange.
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Boston Elevated Railway Company
A.m
Boston, Revere Beach
Lynn
Rk. B
Beachmont Crescent Beach Bath House
West Lynn
Winthrop Centre
Highlands
Ingalls
Winthrop Beach
Winthrop Highlands
Tbs
Teere
Via
H. L. Hoyt
John A. Fenno
Patrick W. Barry
Read Street
Victor P. Fors
Mary E. Belcher
Michael H. Shute
Elva E. Nickerson
Court of Land Registration
Elizabeth B. Tewksbury
Atlantic Street
Crystal + avenue
Trainor
Shirley Éet
Harold C. Bartlett
Robert P. Murphy
Winthrop Fire Alarm
Jack Frost
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