Observant Citizen Highlights Local Talks and Events
The Observant Citizen notes Senator Jonathan Bourne will address the Boston City Club on Popular vs Delegated Government at Ford Halls next Thursday evening with Robert Luce as toastmaster. Also covered are firemen tiptoeing past the Children’s Hospital, protests over theater bans, floral tributes to Margaret Anglin, crocuses on Beacon Street, a threatening black hand letter to Ned Burgess, Revere police reserve expansion, and fitness runs at Frederick W. Lincoln School.
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Ford Halls
Jonathan Bourne
United States
Oregon
Boston City Club
Bourne
Robert Luce
Questions Council Over Poll Taxes
A veteran journalist questions Boston City Council overstepping powers on abolishing the poll tax. He cites Chapter 12 section 1 of Massachusetts Revised Laws, which requires a $2 poll tax on every male above 20, citizen or alien, asking what role the council has here.
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Sir
City Council
Boston
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
United States
Love and Timely Wisdom for a Young Couple
A 17 year old seeks advice from Mildred Champagne about engagement to a 19 year old. the expert warns engagement is a life contract and urges waiting a couple of years due to immaturity and risk, suggesting the girl reconsider marriage plans for now.
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Miss Champagne
Daily Post
Mary
Through Clouds to Sunshine in Hetty and Neal Love
Hetty yearns to return home to Neal as she recovers in the mountains. Neal, overworked, falls and nearly dies, but Hetty learns he has survived, and their bond deepens as she awakens to his care and gratitude reaffirming their lifelong love.
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Neal
Hetty
The Life We Live Walt Mason Poem
A reflective poem by Walt Mason on the varied rhythms of life. It contrasts toil and rest, joy and sorrow, love and deceit, with a resolve to endure. The speaker rejects rushing the world toward an end, affirming life’s mixed pleasures and pains.
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Walt Mason
Bust and waist guidance for classic feminine form
Describes a sculptural approach where the bust remains flexible and hips are gently flattened toward elimination. The waist is not pinched narrow to preserve classic lines and proportion in the overall silhouette.
Scalloped Cheese Bread Bake From Household Recipes
A cheese and bread bake recipe yields an ample dish for four, layering grated cheese on buttered bread with eggs and milk, baked like a bread pudding. Included are two fruit desserts with apples, sugar, eggs and cinnamon baked with crust.
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E. H. Dodge
High Street
Whitman
H. B. Crosby
Lexington Street
East
Boston
Mayor Nominates Seven Department Heads for Reappointment
Mayor Fitzgerald submitted to the Civil Service Commission the reappointment list of seven department heads led by John J. Murphy and Charles Logue. Also named were Edward P. McSweenery William F. Kenney William M. Murphy James W. Dunphy and Max E. Wyzanski with additional reappointments of Samuel H. Purgin and Robert S. Peabody already announced.
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Fitzgerald
Civil Service Commission
John J. Murphy
Board of Assessors
Charles Logue
Edward P. McSweenery
Board of Consumptives’ Hospital
William F. Kenney
William M. Murphy
Bath
James W. Dunphy
Max E. Wyzanski
Samuel H. Purgin
Board of Health
Robert S. Peabody
Board of Park Commissioners
Relics of Revolution Lost in Warwick Fire
A Warwick blaze destroyed St. Bar nabas Episcopal Church and the Artillery Company's Hall. Property loss about 8000 dollars, but the firings flags and pictures from the Revolutionary era were ruined. Relics include two guns captured from Burgoyne by a guards company.
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Warwick
R. T
St. Barnabas Episcopal
Burgoyne
Postpone Hearing On Lowell Shooting
Nicholas Pachi ouros charged with murdering John Germanakos on March 16 appeared in Lowell court but was remanded to jail for one week while police search for alleged participant Nicholas Paparas. Witness Marie Louka was held on a $500 bond for appearance next Friday.
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Lowell
Nicholas Pachiouros
John Germanakos
Nicholas Paparas
Marie Louka
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