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Boston News Notes and Curious Local Details
A collage of small-town happenings from Boston includes two men stealing goldfish with an ash sifter and fleeing with a squirrel, local officials pondering disappearances, and a warning that Public Garden patrols will tighten. A moving picture from a Boston theatre intrigues city editors, while Chairman EllisSport of the school committee now wears round spectacles. Historic ship Lightning’s record day is recalled, and a Worcester teacher tests a pupil with a spoof question about saying three easy words. Harvard’s Reisner draws big Lowell Institute crowds as water purification in the Philippines echoes Boston glass window fashion. Beacon Hill strolls reveal relics of a bygone plant craze that helped Boston’s fame.
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Boston School Committee
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