Observant Citizen notes from Roxbury and beyond
A Roxbury school dispute on porpoise versus dolphin prompts a teacher’s column about local life. Items include trips to Panama, Kansas City exposition ideas, church progress, Civil War veterans, horticultural curios, art club growth, and various Boston-area goings-on.
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Roxbury
Boston
Commercial Club of
Kansas City
Hiram M. George
Roger Wolcott
Mattapan
Judge Bumpus
Harry Green
Greenwood
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Illinois
Kansas
The Queer Craft Arrives in Port
A curious vessel moors in a room as a poet laments and calls for a nurse and milk. The scene centers on a daughter and a strange crossing of unknown waters, rendered in playful, dreamy verse.
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Newington
Simple dessert and bread recipes and Rexall Orderlies ad
A set of old fashioned recipes including a sugar eggs milk vanilla flour bake method for a cake and a banana custard pie with meringue, plus a yeast bread method. Also a Rexall Orderlies advertisement touting a bowel regulator for the aged with store locations and price points.
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F. P. Tupp
Borden Street
New Bedford
BE. M. Collins
Snowstret
Fitchburg
Floor Walker doubts 99-cent guitars will sell well
Salesgirl jokes that shoppers may fall to pieces if the guitars are mishandled, reflecting light humor about low price instruments and customer response.
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General Electric Company
Lynn
Boston
East Boston
Charles P. Granfield
Washington, D. C
Walker
EKOC
Richardson
Ames Street
Winter
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Panama
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John H. Hardy
Commander Hosley
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Portsmouth
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Brookline Hebrew Association
Henry Hornblower
Boston Art Club
L. Loring Brooks
Brooks
State House
West Roxbury
Thomas W. Lawson
Beacon Street
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River James Kelley
Mr. Lawson
Temple Street
West End
North Station
Kir
Howard W. Lang
State Street
Europe
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Mr. Lang
Burgess, Lang & Co
Lang
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