Boston Elevate Railroad Schedule Orient Heights to Scullay Square
The Boston Elevated Railway outlines summer and Sunday service from Orient Heights Gladstone Street to Scullay Square via tunnel with 4, 7, 8 minute intervals and late night runs. Morning departures from Court Street and special cars for events may be chartered. Information at 101 Milk Street Room 701. August 8, 1908. C. S. Sergeant.
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Orient Heights
Scollay Square
Gladstone Street
Court Street
Office of Superintendent of Transportation
Milk Street
Winthrop Mail Hours and Rail Schedule Notice
Public notice outlines Winthrop post office hours for money orders, registrations, deliveries, and collections with Sunday and holiday times plus street box pickups. It also lists Sub stations, mail close times, and train schedules from Boston to Orient Heights and Winthrop centers with frequent departures throughout weekdays weekends.
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Bates Avenue
Washington Avenue
Winthrop Street
Pleasant Street
Sunnyside Avenue
Bartlett Road
Pleasant
Pauline Street
Court Road
Lincoln Street
Reed Street
Centre R. R
Ocean View
Main Street
Revere
Cherry
Revere Street
Summit
Highlands Station
Crest Avenue Cor Green
Ocean Spray
Sea Foam Avenue
Shirley R. R
Cottage Street
Hillside Avenue
Shirley Street
Gove’s_ wharf
Winthrop Beach
New York
Boston
Crest Avenue
Highlands
Sturgis
Public Auction Notice of Unpaid 1906 1907 Taxes Winthrop MA
Winthrop Massachusetts announces a tax sale for unpaid taxes on several parcels. Names include Patrick W Barry Mary E Belcher Elvas E Nickerson Annie Trainor and Harold C Bartlett as Tax Collector. Properties lie along Read Street Winthrop Street Pauline Street Shirley Street with details from 1906 balances. Auction set for September 28 1908 at 2 PM at Town Hall for payment of taxes interest costs and charges.
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Winthrop
Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Elvas E. Nickerson
Pauline Street
Court of Land
Annie Trainor
Shirley Street
Fire alarm box locations and testing schedule
Notices list numerous fire alarm boxes at streets such as Shirley Cottage Harbor View and Ocean Drive with box testing dates on the 1st and 15th of each month at 9 o clock. It explains how to raise an alarm using a box and directs responders to the scene, naming central and beach stations and city officials.
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Shirley St
Cottage St
Siren Ave
Harbor View
Hillside
Crystal Cove
Farnbar
App
Tewksbury St
Shore Drive
Sturgis St
Ocean Ave
Pearl Ave
Mermaid Ave
Beach Road
Locust St
Grovers
Crest
Cliff
Floyd St
Pleasant St
Cottage Park
Central Station
Beach Station
F. W. F. Woollcott
H. W. Roberts, Jr
H. N. Bangs
Board of Fire Engineers
A. F. Coggins
The Barber and Cutting Him in Illustrated Bits
The Barber jokes with Cutting him about baldness as their hair falls out. The scene plays in Illustrated Bits with whispered lines revealing their surprising bald outcome.
Monkeys Like Scrapping and Social Ranks
A circus keeper explains monkey behavior noting they form social groups, show leadership by the strongest individuals, and react with aggression toward smaller monkeys or in crowd dynamics. He describes mutual scrapping, parent interference, and punishment methods like isolation and withholding treats to enforce discipline.
Varnish Mishap Turns Bath into Ox Tail Soup
A couple's home project leads to a kitchen mishap as a man coats a bathtub with varnish and ends up painting the tub with ox tail soup. The odor ruins dinner and sparks a comical domestic misunderstanding. Lippincott's.
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Lippincott’s
A Model Hotel Boots In Dublin tale
A writer notes in the Manchester Guardian how a hotel servant in a Dublin hotel, described as a model among 990s, found a boot lace end left inside the room. The servant quietly removed the lace from the boot holes so as not to disturb the guest and later returned with the boot and relaced it, showcasing rare honesty and care.
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Dublin
Manchester Guardian
Cheese Prices in 1502 Lincoln’s Inn Diet Rules
Law Times notes a medieval rule from Easter term 1502 at Lincoln’s Inn fixing a four pence fine for cutting cheese at meals or giving cheese to servants. Butlers must report offenders weekly under threat of expulsion from office.
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Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn
Law Times
Caution and a Test of Love in a Sharp Exchange
A conservative aunt warns that proposals require caution while a witty young woman boasts she will test the engagement ring with acid, not perfume, revealing a perilous trap in a domestic scene.
Not Very Funny
A humorous exchange quotes a young man claiming to entertain with Hamlet and a girl reproachfully reacting. The London Telegraph and Catholic Standard and Times are cited in a witty aside on conscience and sinners.
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Hamlet
London Telegraph
Catholic Standard and Times
What Kind of Man Do You Want
A brief exchange from a conversation in the St Louis Post Dispatch, highlighting a playful back and forth about describing an ideal partner. The snippet presents a humorous contrast between aspiration and description in a casual dialogue.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
To Hold Him in a Complicated Courtship
A Chicago Tribune quote reveals Nan enjoys a costly solitaire given by a fickle young man. Nan explains she compelled him to part with the expensive piece, while noting the emotional intricacies of their relationship.
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Nan
Chicago Tribune
Sad Break Hits Local Credit Man Misstep
A Detroit Free Press item notes a credit man made a poor error by telling a debtor his word was as good as his pond. The remark is described as a dumb misstep in the office.
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Detroit
Waking a Deaf Person and the Wish to Be Called
A New York Sun quotation discusses waking a deaf guest who cannot hear alarms. It notes ringing or knocking are futile and jokes about tying a string to the wrist through a keyhole as a primitive method. The piece imagines a clever device for waking the deaf as a path to fame and hotel clerk gratitude.
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Perso
Lateliers
New York Sun
The Mullahs of India and Their Sacred Role
A discussion on the title mullah used across the east for religious leaders. It notes the honorific adorned by “mad” in a divine sense, the sanctity of mullahs, and the Ulima code that injuring a mullah demands the aggressor’s death as atonement.
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East
Turkey
Greatest Danger to Swimmers Warned by Guard
A Philadelphia Bulletin report quotes a life guard who says drowning often results from water inhalation rather than cramps. He explains that swimmers can suddenly inhale spray into the windpipe, leading to rapid, fatal consequences, while swallowing water is not deadly.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Ice and Mice in Idlehurst Tale of Folk Remedies
A Sussex village tale notes old folk cures for lung inflammation using shot and milk and sparrow shot used by farm workers for brown lungs. A doctor orders ice on a sick boy’s temples and the quip claims the mice are dead, signaling belief in the remedy’s effect.
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Idlehurst
Sussex
England
Tommy
Lancashire Lad in Army Misconduct
A young Lancashire lad joined the army and at headquarters faced his commanding officer next morning. After standard preliminaries the recruit began to speak and was told to be silent. In a break with etiquette he replied in verse to the adjutant, claiming he was speaking to a chap in the chair.
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London
Why Men Were Sent to Congress Asked by Boy
Popleigh recalls a child’s question that stumps him as he tells Singleton the morning’s difficulty. The Chicago News quote frames a moment of perplexity at parental inability to explain political decisions.
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Popleigh
Singleton
Congress
Chicago News
Quip on Maps and Women Cited by Houston Post
A brief humorous exchange notes a map claiming to understand women, then counters that it never married one. The Houston Post caption frames the joke as a wry aside from a newspaper page.
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yWell
Houston Post
Fragmented Dialogue On Marriage And Discipline
A dialogue fragment contrasts Dawson and Spenlow about marriage and behavior. Susie’s toy clutter in the kitchen prompts a harsh parent scene with threats to discipline. The exchange includes snippets about perception of character and propriety.
Parceling Out de People
A humorous Augusta Georgia Chronicle anecdote recalls two boys dividing fish near a graveyard. An aged man overhears and fears a devilish fate, prompting a comic chase with a parson and deacon as they urge him back to the graveyard to correct his fright.
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Parson
Deacon
Pellmell
Augusta Ga
Penguin Battles for Mates in Antarctic Duels
The article describes male penguins fighting for mates in regular duel grounds. Combat centers on the shot flipper as the main weapon, with feathers and blubber forming shields. Blows are intense but rarely fatal, though penguin strikes can draw blood on human hands.
How Models Shape Pictures in Artist’s Eye
The artist praises his model shopgirl whose pose inspired the centerpiece of his latest work This kiss He notes models offer hints that turn stiff poses into masterpieces and recounts a medical student assisting the shoot The piece underscores models as sources of motion mood and abundance in art.
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New Orlean Times-Democrat
Burman Bull Racing Kingpin Holds 25000 Rupee Asset
A Burmese sportsman owns a prized bull in Burma's popular sports. He declined an offer of 10,000 rupees and values the animal at 25,000 rupees. The bull reportedly yields 12,000 to 15,000 rupees in annual income and is guarded by four men to prevent tampering. Other Burmans favor boxing but the sport is said to lack true adherence to Queensberry rules.
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Burma
Queensberry
Calcutta
Statesman
The Wrong Lady
A small group of youths in the Argonaut anecdote taunts a shopgirl with flirtatious remarks. One older boy warns the others that persistent harassment could bring a "wrong lady" who will confront them, implying retaliation for their behavior.
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Argonaut
Parthian Shot Echoes in Courtroom Exchange
A terse courtroom dialogue opens with a speaker insisting he must discharge his brother despite kinship while expressing sorrow for their mother. The reply softens the moment noting the long, strained bond and the judge presiding over the exchange.
Pay to wed in church after second prayer Sunday
Establishes that Pay, a keeper, will marry. note that he was prayed for in church for the second time last Sunday, as reported by the London Mail.
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Secon
Londom Mail
Raising the Ante
A divorce filing story is told with a Georgia applicant claiming a spouse costs him a million fish to marry. The court hears remarks revealing humor and frustration as the defendant pleads for relief from the marriage.
Wanted the Earth in the Browne Town Exchange
Browne asks if a man truly desired the earth, Town confirms a passenger to a first voyage aboard an ocean liner as the exchange unfolds.
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Browne
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Boston Elevated
David Belcher
Revere Beach
Lynn R. R
Beachmont Crescent Beach
Bath House
West Lynn
Lynn
Winthrop Centre
Ingalls
Winthrop’ Beach
H. L. Hoyt
T A. John A. Fenno
Robert P. Murphy
Albany
Broadway
College Inn
Musto
Patrick W. ‘Barry
Read Street
Victor P. Fors
Mary E. Belcher
Michael H. Shute
Harold C. Bartlett
Winthrop Fire Alarm
Bears
Astoria
Boots
Mullahs
India
Dawson
Chin
Spenlow
Susie
Rochefo
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