Orient Heights to Scollay Square Service Schedule 1908
Boston Elevated Railway issues a transit timetable for Orient Heights to Scollay Square via tunnel with morning and night intervals. Service from Gladstone street to Scollay Square operates 5.40 a.m. and follows a set pattern to midnight with additional night departures from Gladstone Street. Special cars may be chartered for events from 101 Milk Street. Information on rates and routes available by telephone. August 8, 1908. C. S. Sergeant, Vice-President.
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Orient Heights
Scollay Square
Gladstone Street
Gladggone Street
Court Street
Office of Superintendent of Transportation
Milk Street
Winthrop Mail Hours and Post Office Service Details
Daily post office hours and key services listed for Winthrop with opening times for offices, money orders, registrations, deliveries, and collections. Includes street letter box collection times, sub stations for stamps and money orders, international money orders, and mail close and arrival schedules. David Belcher, Supt.
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Bates Avenue
Washington Avenue
Winthrop Street
Pleasant Street
Sunnyside Avenue
Bartlett Road
Pleasant
Pauline Street
Court Road
Lincoln Street
Reed
Centre R. R
Post Office
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
Sturgis
David Belcher
Boston to Winthrop Beach and Highlands Schedule
Public timetable for weekday and weekend trains from Boston to Orient Heights Beach Mont Crescent Beach Bath House Winthrop Highlands and Winthrop Beach with multiple departures from early morning to after midnight. The notice notes these times may not guarantee exact departure and disclaims liability for delays.
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Orient Heights
Beachmont Crescent Beach
Bath House
West Lynn
Highlands
Ingalls
Winthrop Beach
Tax sale notice for Winthrop parcels 1908
Public auction planned at Winthrop Town Hall on September 28 1908 at two oclock for unpaid taxes of 1906 and related costs on several parcels. Names include Patrick Waggarty E Belcher Elva E Nickerson Annie Trainor and Annie Trainor and locations on Read Street Winthrop Street Pauline Street Shirley Street with lot references and plan numbers.
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Winthrop
County of
Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Patrick W.garty
Read Street
Victor P. Fors
E. Belcher
Winthrop Street
Michael H. Shute
Elva
Nickerson
Pauline Street
Court of Land
Annie Trainor
Shirley Street
Grasshoppers Save Utah Crops In Novel Fair Tickets
The article recounts a Utah county disaster when plagues of grasshoppers devastated crops. Farmers then staged town entertainments where admission was a half bushel of grasshoppers, dead insects serving as tickets. The scheme drew 150 participants and helped protect the harvest.
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Utah
Winthrop Fire Alarm Box Locations and Procedures
The notice lists fire alarm boxes around Winthrop with intersections and streets, notes 65 to 493 Kimball's Factory, and records 133 calls. It also states school signals box 22 four rounds and gives alarm procedures and test dates on the 1st and 15th each month.
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Shirley St
Siren Ave
Harbor View
Cottage
Hillside
Crystal Cove
Faunbar
Tewksbury
Ocean Ave
Shore Drive
Sturgis St
Pearl Ave
Mermaid Ave
Locust
Crest
Grovers
Cliff
Floyd St
Temple
Highland
Revere St
George Turner
Sagamore
Almont
Cross Sts
Winthrop St
Bowdoin
Ocean View
Main
Banks
Hermon
Lincoln
Marshall
Pleasant
Court
Waldemar Lpring Roads
Wheelock
Sargent
Sargent St
Johnson Ave
Pleasant St
Cottage Park
Cottage Park Road
Cottage Park Hotel
Woodside Ave
Seymour St
Buchanan Sts
Washington and
Elmwood
Washington Ave
Thornton Park
Winthrop
Town H St
Chester Ave
Kimball’s Factory
Central Station
Beach Station
F. W. F. Woollcott
H.W. Roberts, Jr
Hi. N
Throwing Stones and Girls Limited by Anatomy
A Chicago News note explains that girls cannot throw stones with the same free arm motion as boys due to a larger lower set collar bone. The physician author cites physical differences, acknowledging rare exceptions but asserting girls cannot match boys in this long range throwing.
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Chicago News
The Barber and Cutting Him Exchange Jokes
A comic exchange unfolds with a barber and Cutting Him discussing hair loss. The barber teases baldness while Cutting Him swears secrecy before revealing their hair fell out, in a joke from Illustrated Bits.
Mr Funny Looking Puppet Idea From A Cardboard Model
A Philadelphia Ledger snippet describes making a comical cylinder figure from a 10 by 7 inch cardboard piece. Glue edges, add two arm cutouts, draw a face, cover the base with muslin, insert a marble, and set on a slanted table to roll for silliness. Also features quick Riddles and a Time joke.
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Mr. Bunny
Philadelphia Ledger
Pride as a Virtue Guides Personal and Professional Life
In a discourse on pride, the piece argues that a balanced pride—dignity and self respect—fuels success in work and social settings. It cautions against haughtiness and vanity while advising practical attire and frank, capable conduct. includes a dialogue about a fishing trip and marital banter.
The Art of Compliment and social grace
The piece argues compliments remain a social craft. It warns against mimicry and fashionable conformity while urging graciousness, thoughtful words, and considerate gestures as keys to friendship, happiness, and pleasant social life.
Housewife Hints for Cleaning and Kitchen Tips
Practical tips for household care including copper kettle cleaning with bath brick and paraffin, garnish substitutions using celery or Brussels sprouts, preventing teapot spouts from dripping with butter, separating warm glass tumblers in suds, worms in apples from cold water soaking, checking picture wires for rust, replacing heavy picture cords, and avoiding sun damage to mirrors to protect mercury.
Injunction Sought Amid Domestic Trouble in Kansas City
A Black woman, upset over her husband’s infidelity and alleged polygamous ties with other women, appears in court seeking an injunction rather than divorce or legal separation. The judge probes for the relief sought, and she clarifies she wants an injunction to curb the alleged harassment.
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Kansas City
Kanse City Independent
Mary Was Spoiled In A Philadelphia Home
A doctor from a West Philadelphia children's home recounts a single mother returning with her five year old daughter after a year in care. The child Mary acts spoiled, demanding fruit and a bath first, refusing breakfast, and dabbing water with her fingers at meals, shocking the mother.
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West Philadelphia
Hom
Mary
Philadelphia
Unpleasant Duty Reveals Clergyman’s Wife Lacks Clothes
A spokesman asks the congregation to name a member lacking good clothes. Reverend Mr. Lastly, in a brave but somber moment, admits the person in question is his wife, highlighting concern over appearances and poverty.
Playing Goethe Three Ways
A humorous exchange about a Chicago woman visiting Julia Dean and confusing Gert with Goaty then Goaty. The quip ends with a misidentification of the famous German author Goethe. Published in the Somerville Herald.
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Chicago
Julia Dean
Gert
Gerty
Somerville Herald
His Modest Request
A man asked Thackeray for 5 shillings to convert into 20 000 pounds. He claimed to know a young woman with £20 000 who would marry him if he asked, but he had pawned his teeth and needed the 5 shillings to redeem them for a proper proposal.
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Maria
Marthy
Mr. Meek
Thackeray
Woma
Mery
Doctor Loses Confidence in Patient Cited in Debating Why
A quoted debate from Lippincott’s notes the doctor has lost confidence in Smith, prompting questions on trust and communication between patient and physician. The fragment hints at a medical counseling dispute and concerns about reliability.
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Smith
Farry
Lippincott's
Books and Titles Reflect The Nation’s Taste
An excerpt notes how the era treats books and titles with pride and pretension. It cites Swift and a New York remark on life’s meaning, suggesting social emphasis on rank over understanding.
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Boston Elevated Railway Company
C. S. Sergeant
Revere Beach
Lynn
Reb
Winthrop Centre
HL. Hoyt
G. T John A. Fenno
Gane
Robert P. Murphy
HOTEL
Albany
41St Street
Broadway
College Inn
Winthrop Fire Alarm
D& Funny Maniein
Jonathan Swift
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