Observant Citizen Shares Local Notes and Plans
The column details a bear den project at Franklin Park with a four foot diameter trunk forty feet long hauled on wheels. It also reports on reader letters about Cambridge tube fare, civic concerns from Mrs Glendower Evans and Senator Lafollette, a note on civil service for Wakefield police chief James J Pollard, and memories of Boston figures, plus plans to fill McMorrow Pond in Franklin Park and nearby mentions of local marriages and Russian era topics.
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Franklin Park
Cambridge ‘‘Tube
Cambridge
Harvard
Central
Kendall
Park
Scollay
Adams
Haymarket
North Station
Battery
State
Rowe's Wharf
South Station
Beach
Dover
Northampton
Dudley
Egleston
Forest Hills
West Roxbury
Harry G. Campbell
Beach Street
Wollaston
McMorrow’'s
Naturally Woman I Quarrel Over a Dime in Saloon
A brief exchange reveals a quarrel about a ten cent coin spent in a saloon. The humorous dialogue features Nat urally Woman accusing, Proud Pete denying reckless spending and a lob ster palace reference.
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Pete
How She Lost Him by Edith W Kelso
A tale of Marion Merlin and Arnold Adams shows money and class divide driving choices. Marion delays marriage for wealth while a coworker manipulates Arnold, leading to a doomed union with Annie’s secret love and a child. Between fault and fate, all three reflect on what might have been.
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Arnold
Marion
Arnold Adams
Marion Merlin
Annie
Critics’ Take on Washington and English War Errors
Chicago News questions praising leaders of the past noting Washington’s alleged lack of genius and English strategy errors. It argues contemporary writers glorify folly and that common readers will remember Washington beyond learned opinions.
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Washington
Cornwallis
Gage
Wisdom
Lincoln friend Blanchard dies a Brockton pauper
Leander W. Blanchard 75 a boyhood friend of Abraham Lincoln died today at the City Farm as a pauper. He split rails to support his widowed mother and spent years in Kansas before statehood. He moved to Brockton 25 years ago and kept a gun for protection on his farm work.
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Brockton
Leander W. Blanchard
Abraham Iincoln
Blanchard
Kansas
Mind Reader Percy Pettipate Exposed as Faker
Comic exchange shows Percy Pettipate failing to read Miss Dill's mind. Pettipate admits he cannot make anything of it, highlighting the joke’s premise of a con artist mind reader.
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Percy Pettipate
Miss Dill
Holliston Woman Awarded 2000 From Railroad Lawsuits
Mrs Sylvia E Mann of Holliston secured two thousand dollars in a Superior Civil Court verdict against the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company. The suits claimed 3000 dollars for fire damage to land near Metcalf station and 1000 dollars for a cow killed by railroad cars, with an additional administratrix claim of 300 dollars for her deceased husband, Richard S Mann.
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Sylvia E. Mann
Holliston
Superior Civil Court
East Cambridge
Pratt
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company
Mann
Railroad Company
Metcalf Station
Richard S. Mann
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Glendower Evans
Boston
Senator Lafollette
Edmund S. Rousmaniere
St. Paul’s Church
Sherman
Francis Bartlett
Museum of Fine Arts
Court Square
Sidney Bartlett
Benjamin R. Curtis
Henry W. Paine
William G. Russell
Edward D. Sohier
Benjamin F. Thomas
Josiah G. Abbott
Hutchins & Wheeler
George O. Shattuck
Bartlett
Plymouth
Samoset
James J. Pollard
Wakefield Police Department
Civil Service
Robert C. Erb
Erb
Charles E. Ober
Blodget & Co
Panama
Avery
Dedham
New England
Dartmouth
Wilson S. Sherman
Chauncy Street
Jamaica Plain
Doria Cesaire Favrea
Ruth Alma Thaneuf
West
St. Anselm’s
Marlboro
Frances ‘Taft
Wellesley
China
Tientsin
United States
Charles Morse
Naturalization Court
Nationalization Court
Citizens’ Court
George E. Stickney
Old Colony Trust Company
Europe
Stickney
Essex County
Deale
NEAS
Boston Stor
Washington Street
Washinton Street
Washington St
Friends Silver
W. B
Weingarten Bros
New York
Edith W. Kelso
Hancock Street
Upham’s Corner, Mass
Chicago News
Roba
N. K. Fairbank Company
Lincoln
C.f-Hovey & Co
Balbriggan Union
American Hosiery Company
Norfolk
H.obst & CO
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